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- For those people upgrading to version 1.9 from version 1.8, the new features
- are as follows. For single floppy drive systems, there will no longer be an
- icon for drive B. To change floppies within ST Tools, simply take one floppy
- out of the drive, put a different floppy into the drive and press the shift key
- while clicking on the icon for drive A. This will cause the program to re-read
- the directory tree. Function List FAT entries has been changed to List/Edit FAT
- entries to indicate that you can now edit the FAT entries being displayed.
- This function will write to both copies of the FAT on disk. Also the Start/Goto
- selector has been added to the List/Edit FAT entries function. This will make
- it easier to navigate through disks with large FATs. Two options have been
- added to the disk optimization as well as a bug fix. The first option is to
- not delete zero length files. In version 1.8, these were always deleted. The
- other option is to move the directories to the front of the disk. If this
- option is selected, then all directories will be moved to the front of the disk
- in the order they are listed in the directory tree window. This is thought by
- some people to make disk access more efficient. The bug fix has to do with
- Volume labels. Since these are zero length files, they were deleted by the
- optimizer in version 1.8. Now, even if the delete zero length files option is
- selected, these files will NOT be deleted. Finally, two functions were added
- under the File menu. The first is Touch file(s). With this function you can
- Touch a file, which will set the Archive bit and update the file Date/Time.
- These are used by most incremental backup programs to determine if a file should
- be backed up. The other function is Undelete file(s). If after deleting a file
- you change your mind, you can use this function to undelete the file. This will
- only work if the file was contiguous and you haven't overwritten any of the
- file's clusters with another file.
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