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- ESS-Code 6.1: N E W F E A T U R E S & B U G F I X E S
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- Please note that this list of new features and bug fixes is in
- chronological order; new information will appear at the end of the
- list.
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- [ESS-Code 6.0: June 16, 1994]
-
- * * * I M P O R T A N T N O T I C E ! * * *
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- As a direct result of the growing investment of time and effort
- placed into this application, ESS-Code is now a SHAREWARE product.
-
- Users who register ESS-Code will receive a disk with the latest
- version of ESS-Code (optimized), and a registered (optimized,
- personalized) version of MasterBrowse (which also includes MasterPrint,
- AutoDate, ACC-Pad, ShadowTerm II, and a coupon for a free catalog from
- Suzy B's Software and a $3 credit toward the purchase of a disk from
- the Suzy B's Software collection).
-
- The continued development of ESS-Code depends _solely_ on user
- contributions; if no such contributions are received, this
- application will not be developed further.
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- For more information on registration, please read the "Registration"
- section of this manual.
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- NEW FEATURE: ESS-Code now supports MIME-Encoding/MIME-Decoding. The
- MIME conversion method is rapidly replacing all other
- conversion methods; it is not as fast as some, but it
- generates very compact output and is extremely
- reliable. The MIME conversion method is supported on the
- UNIX, Amiga, Macintosh, IBM, and Atari computer
- platforms.
-
- NEW FEATURE: ESS-Code now has an expanded command line interface; the
- previous command line interface is still present (for use
- as an installed application). The new method consists of
- eight possible commands; the commands are not case
- sensitive, but the commands and arguments must appear in
- exactly the order shown below:
-
- -uue [source] [destination file]
- -uud [source] [destination file]
- -btoa [source] [destination file]
- -atob [source] [destination file]
- -ship [source] [destination file]
- -unship [destination file] [source] [source] [...]
- -mime [source] [destination file]
- -unmime [source] [destination file]
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- For control over the segment size, use the "SEGSIZE"
- environment variable. If ESS-Code is called in
- command line mode, it will set the segment size
- according to the value in that environment variable.
-
- NEW FEATURE: The entire ESS-Code manual is now available at any time
- from within ESS-Code (if the ST-Guide accessory is
- installed). By making the online help external, the
- overall program size is reduced and the quality of the
- online help is vastly improved. If you want to move the
- "ESSCODE.HYP" file out of the ESS-Code directory, you
- must define the "ESSHELP" environment variable; it should
- contain the full pathname of "ESSCODE.HYP".
-
- ST-Guide is available on many FTP sites, commercial services,
- and public access bulletin board systems. If requested,
- a copy of the ST-Guide archive can be placed on the disk
- sent to registered users.
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- [ESS-Code 6.1: June 29, 1994]
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- NEW FEATURE: ESS-Code can now handle MIME-Encode/MIME-Decode requests
- from the operating system, or when ESS-Code is called as
- an installed application. Valid extensions for a
- MIME-Encoded file are ".M", ".MIM", & ".MIME" (case
- sensitive).
-
- -Michel Forget
- Electric Storm Software
- June 29, 1994
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