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- DF:
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-
- Rewrote sort routines. They're now MUCH faster (at least 3x --
- not counting time to read from disk) For the technically
- inclined, the existing bubblesort was replaced with a quicksort
- algorithm.
-
- Sorts can now be done in ascending or descending order
- Alt-N,E,S,D,T or Cntrl-N,E,S,D,T. Plus logical secondary sorts
- (Extension when primary key is name; Name otherwise) now take
- place automatically. Ascending and descending order can also be
- specified on the command line with + or - suffices to the sort
- letter.
-
- Sorts in attribute order (T) added.
-
- Drive table allows movement between drives by pressing left and
- right arrows.
-
- F11/F12 keys added to main menu. F11=Re-mark (equivalent to F6
- followed by F7). F12=Secondary main viewer
-
- Disable mouse switch added. Plus (for those of you who had been
- given the patching information on how to disable the mouse
- previously), disabling the mouse now skips ALL the mouse code.
- This may help to correct some mouse incompatibilities some
- people ran across.
-
- DF now software initializes the mouse rather than hardware
- initializing it. This gets DF started a bit more quickly.
-
- Added RShift-F11/F12 to user-defined pool.
-
- Added Secondary Create Archive key (RShift-F10) -- default is for
- ARJ.
-
- Increased length of user-defined command lines.
-
- Function of numeric keypad <Enter> and main keypad <Enter> keys
- may be swapped.
-
- Increased SmartViewer line length. Increased number of
- SmartViewers. Multiple extensions per SmartViewer command-line
- plus single-character (i.e. ?) wildcards in extensions.
-
- Pause and refresh switches added for SmartViewers.
-
- Added new parameters in user-defined command lines
-
- Eliminated dir checks from user-defined command lines (i.e. a
- directory is now treated just like a filename)
-
- Added configuration file option. It is now no longer necessary
- to modify the executable DF file. This is particular interest
- to those who run virus software in the background to detect
- writes to executables. If a file called DF.CFG in xxx.COM's
- directory (where xxx.COM is the name of DF.COM), it will be used
- automatically. Else, the parameters stored within xxx.COM are
- used. Alternate .CFG files can be specified on the command-line
- using the /C switch. .CFG file checking can be turned off with
- DFCONFIG setting.
-
- Lots of large disk and large directory display problems fixed.
- Also, most directory and disk sizes are now displayed with
- comma separators to make them easier to read.
-
- Cluster size for Dir size floppy estimates changed to 1024 bytes
- (from 512 bytes).
-
- Alt-F toggles file only (i.e. no directories) display
-
- "Graceful degradation" when the number of files in a directory
- exceeds DF's limit (512 to 1000 or so files depending upon max
- memory, TSR's etc.)
-
- Help screen modified to reflect changes and increase consistency.
-
- It is "believed" that the snow problem is fixed. There was a
- logic reversal problem and the display is now slower with
- snow-checking on but I don't have a "snowy" old IBM CGA to
- actually test on.
-
- Bug with last character of a user-entered command line being
- chopped off fixed.
-
- X-Ray Viewers:
- --------------
-
- ZOO SmartViewer written as addition to the XRAY viewers (ZR,
- etc.).
-
- Delete a file option added to SmartViewers ('D'). (Can be
- disabled with patch)
-
- DFCONFIG:
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-
- DFCONFIG extensively rewritten to handle DF changes and relinked
- with new versions of user interface libraries.
-
- Context-sensitive help added.
-
- "Print registration form" option added.
-
- Fixes in libraries allowed me to put back in the up/down cursor
- movement on the data-entry forms
-
- Other:
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- Documentation extensively rewritten.