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- REVISION HISTORY
- ----------------
-
- Version 1.1
-
- Like most programmers, I can't resist adding just that one extra
- feature. So STACK didn't make it further than a few of my friends
- before I added the following "improvements":
-
- - Commands can now be deleted from the stack using the
- TAB key.
- - The function keys which can be programmed have been
- extended to include Shift-F1 to Shift-F5.
-
-
- Version 1.2
-
- Less than a week after I gave some friends a copy of STACK, I sort of
- promised that I'd stop changing it, at least for a while. But
- you see there was this bug, and while I was there .... Anyway, here
- are the changes in Version 1.2:
-
- - Fixed a bug with insert so that STACK didn't stay in insert
- mode between commands.
- - Fixed TAB (delete) command.
- - Esc now closes the window (just for you Dave).
- - Dropped dedicated support for function keys F11 and F12.
- It just wasn't worth maintaining two versions.
- - Modified "copy current command to function key" so that it
- optionally added a carriage return depending on insert
- mode.
- - Added facility to allow current copy of function keys to
- be written back to disk (this one's for you Lyell).
-
-
- (The documentation has been updated to include these changes.)
-
-
- Version 1.6
-
- (Don't embarass me and ask what happened to versions 1.3 to 1.5)
-
- Version 1.6 is essentially a bug fix, although it does contain one
- useful enhancement (developed for one of those missing versions and
- has been well tested by now).
-
-
- GOOD NEWS FIRST - The enhancement is the ability to join several
- commands together using the caret (^) character. For example, instead of
- the following sequence of commands:
-
- C:\>CHDIR \DBASE
- C:\>DBASE
- C:\>CHDIR \ {after you've finished with dbase}
-
- you could use
-
- C:\>CHDIR \DBASE^DBASE^CHDIR \
-
- Both of these sequences produce the same result, but the latter can be
- copied to a function key and saved. I use this feature primarily to
- replace small batch files.
-
-
- THE BAD NEWS - Users have reported two problems with STACK, and I have
- only been able to fix one in this version. The problem I was able to
- fix relates to modifying STACK on disk. Several people reported that
- after using Ctrl-End, the modified version would no longer load from
- disk. It turns out that if you press Ctrl-End twice, it destroys the
- structure of STACK.COM. This has been fixed, and STACK will also
- display a message to confirm a successful update.
-
- The problem I have been unable to fix has to do with displaying the
- windows. A few people have reported that after they modified STACK,
- it no longer displayed the windows, although it worked OK otherwise.
- Since it has occurred with only a few users, I suspect that it is hardware
- dependent. I have been unable to duplicate the problem, and so I haven't
- had much luck investigating it. I am in the process of rewriting STACK, and
- I will include a more sophisticated customizing facility which may alleviate
- the problem.