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- List of new features - SysNL v3.14 (10/10/90)
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- SysNL v3.14 was originally intended to be a prelude to v3.20, introducing
- a few options and code fragments for their evaluation and usage in a later
- version. However, the diff merger bug prompted me to release it early. Not
- all features are documented; but hopefully most will work.
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- Bugs
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- o Some versions of SysNL v3.12 had a bug in the CRC option, causing it to
- always return a "Bad list CRC" value.
-
- o The pruner would end adding a net prematurely if there was an error entry.
-
- o SysNL would not merge diffs with day number extentions greater than 255.
-
- o The compiler would not add the string specified with the ADDTOLL verb.
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- New Features - Compiler
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- o Different lists did not compile at the same speed, due to Turbo Pascal's
- array indexing algorithms. Now all lists have been sped up, and all are
- compiled at the same speed.
-
- o The compiler now has some 80386-specific code to speed up operations.
-
- o The output format has been changed from Xlatlist<tm>-style to more of a
- ParseLst<no_tm>-style display.
-
- o Compilation speed has been increased slightly.
-
- o The ADDTOLL verb now works properly.
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- New Features - Editor
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- o Error checking the list has been sped up greatly.
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- o MAKE mode can now process an infinitely large nodelist.
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- o Buffer sizes can now be adjusted, and include files can be ignored, for
- faster processing.
-
- o The C)ompile option is disabled if you do not specify a node to send the
- compiled list to.
-
- o The update file generator now supports the ^aMSGID kludge line.
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- New Features - Misc.
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- o SysNL/Setup has been rewritten with more menus to make things easier to
- understand.
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- o PATCH mode has been integrated into SysNL/Setup.
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- o SysNL/Setup's EXE code has been compressed using the LZEXE file packer,
- (C) 1989 Fabrice Bellard.
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- o The pruner now calculates the CRC of the pruned nodelist.
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- o No pruner output file is created if nothing is written to it.
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