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- Version.Txt Version history for Restore
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- Last updated by Roedy Green 90/10/13
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- Version History:
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- Version 1:
- - not released to the public
- - restored all files ignoring the filespec
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- Version 2: released Christmas 1986
- - /P /Q /S options.
- - allowed you to select files to be restored.
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- Version 3: released to Charware subscribers Jan 28 1987
- - fixed bug when restore had to handle 10 or more diskettes.
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- Version 4: released to BIX March 5 1987
- - fixed bug RESTORE A: C:*.*/S in root directory did not work.
- was treated as RESTORE A: C:\\*.*/S instead of C:\*.*/S
- - fixed bug. Originally all disks in the backup set were
- checked to makes sure they were created on the same day
- to make sure they were part of the same set. Because backups
- can be created with the /A option, it is possible each diskette
- in the set is part of a different set. Thus the check was
- removed.
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- Version 4.1: released May 8 1987
- - version number now prints as part of the "Screwed up" message
- - RESTORE.TXT documention separated from ASM source code
- - change mailing address
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- Version 4.2: released July 9 1987
- - beeps when wants disk
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- Version 4.3: released April 9 1988
- - change of mailing address in banner
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- Version 4.4: released December 24 1988
- - change of mailing address in banner
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- Version 5.0: released March 4 1989
- - very limited distribution
- - added support for DOS 3.3 through DOS 4.01
- - this was a major rewrite that took many times
- longer to write than the original. For this
- reason Version 5.0 is not Charware, but rather
- ShareWare.
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- Version 5.1: released May 24 1989
- - more friendly, simpler, less technical error messages.
- - fancier prompts.
- - tidier source code.
- - bug fixed that restored a file fragment when you inserted
- the wrong diskette.
- - avoid reprompting entire prompt when input bad.
- - Abort Retry Ignore keystrokes no longer echo.
- - / options no longer picky about leading space.
- - warning message if source not A: or B:
- - warning message if target not C: through G:
- - fancier banner, with pause
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- Version 5.2: released July 26 1989
- - add extra blank line ahead of insert disk prompt
- - extra information on site licenses
- - separate registering text.
- - now assembled with Optasm
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- Version 5.3: released 1990 February 5
- - there are bugs in DOS 2.0 and 2.1 that can
- interfere with Restore.
- - changes to Default_Subdir now account for the
- DOS bug when DOS gives mixed upper and lower
- case for the current directory and when DOS
- sometimes give directory names that are
- too long.
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- Version 5.4: released 1990 August 3
- - better explanation of registration in banner.
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- Version 5.5: released 1990 October 13
- - new documentation warning that RESTORE cannot restore
- to a different directory.
- - new docs on how to handle problem of a restoring a backup
- when you don't know what is on it.
- - better heading in the docs
- - now works on LANS, no more IOCTL calls on hard drives.
- - ^ now accepted as valid character in a filename.
- - You can now assemble RESTORE in a way that makes it
- more suitable as an install program for multi-disk
- software packages.
- - Some versions of DOS and some cachers have a bug that
- they fail to notice when you change the diskette in a
- floppy drive and thus give the program data from the previous
- diskette instead of the current one. To bypass this
- bug I added a disk reset just prior to each diskette
- swap. The symptom is that the program claims diskette
- 1 is in the drive, and demands diskette 2, when in fact
- you have already inserted diskette 2.
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