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- ActaeOn V2.00 Copyright 1989,91 Jon Clempner
- The Shareware Hard Disk Manager
-
- The distribution disk or archive should contain the following files
-
- ACTAEON.EXE - The main program
- ACTAEON.OVR - Overlays
- ACTVWGIF.AGV - GIF File viewer
- ACTAEON.DOC - The documentation
- ACTAEON.HLP - The help file
- READ.ME - This file
- ORDER.FRM - Registration form
- SHAREW.TXT - Definition of Shareware
- VENDOR.DOC - Info for potential vendors
- SSI.DOC - Information about the publishers
-
- For registration details see ACTAEON.DOC or print out the file
- ORDER.FRM
-
- If you have a printer you may print out the manual by typing the
- following DOS command:
-
- COPY ACTAEON.DOC PRN
-
-
- RELEASE HISTORY
-
- Version Release Date Reason for Release
- ======= ============ ==================
-
- V1.10 24/06/1989 Original release
-
- V1.20 06/08/1989 Fix bug in New Directory function.
-
- Add user configuration of colors, Bell
- On/Off, and no of display lines.
-
- Add context sensitive help.
-
- Add graphic characters to tree display.
-
- Show number/size of tagged files.
-
- Number of Drives now more accurate.
-
- Ctrl-Tag prompts for filename filter.
-
- Show processor type and number of floppies
- in Information display.
-
- Copy now works on read-only files.
-
- V1.30 22/11/1989 Add DOS Shell and user defined commands
-
- Add Global display option
-
- Context sensitive help improved and
- extended to menus
-
- Co-proc detection improved
-
- Cosmetic changes/improvements
-
- Mouse support extended to Help and all
- menus
-
- Add sub-directory only option
-
- Ctrl-C now works in Directory mode
-
- Bug in displayed volume name after Log
- drive now fixed.
-
- V1.31 07/01/1990 Display lines in config menu fixed if no
- EGA or VGA Adaptor.
-
- V1.52 07/04/1990 Mouse support dramatically improved including
- scroll bars, mouse selection of files,
- directories and commands.
-
- Zoom mode introduced
-
- User defined commands improved.
-
- Context sensitive help extended
-
- Xplore for text string introduced
-
- Use of overlays (using EMS if installed)
-
- Function of Shell modified and Ctrl-Shell
- introduced (see docs)
-
- Amount of EMS installed (if applicable) added
- to information display
-
- Minor cosmetic improvements.
-
- V1.53 30/04/1990 Use of /s fixed
-
- Naming of overlay file made more flexible
-
- 79th Column cleaned up when mouse not
- installed and switching between Zoom and file
- mode
-
- Ctrl-K D now exits from editor
-
- When Shelling to DOS, current DOS directory
- is made same as highlighted directory
-
- V1.54 30/08/1990 Screen display when doing a MOVE while in
- Zoom Mode has been fixed.
-
- V1.55 07/09/1990 Entering Zoom Mode when less than 3 files
- were in directory caused runtime error
-
- Spurious 'Mouse dropping' was left when switching
- between 25 line mode and 43/50 line mode
-
- Deleting last file in left hand column while
- in Zoom mode left part of highlight bar
-
- V1.56 19/10/1990 File order is now saved in the configuration
- file correctly
-
- V1.57 03/11/1990 Rename directory added
-
- Escape on 'Confirm each delete' now aborts
- delete
-
- Ctrl-Copy now continues after 'N' to
- overwrite
-
- /S when in root directory fixed
-
- Drive name added to path display
-
- V1.58 08/11/1990 If the number of directories was exactly the
- same as the number of lines in the directory
- window and a mouse was being used then ActaeOn
- failed with runtime error 200. This has been
- fixed.
-
- V1.59 10/11/1990 If a file was Moved from one directory to another
- and the file already existed in the destination
- directory and 'Y' was replied to Overwrite? then
- ActaeOn failed with runtime error 005. This has been
- fixed.
-
- If it was attempted to copy a file to itself
- (Destination directory same as Source directory) and
- 'Y' was replied to Overwrite? then ActaeOn would
- truncate the file to 0 bytes. Copying a file to
- itself is now disallowed.
-
- If a both buttons (or centre button) on the mouse
- was pressed to tag a directory when the mouse cursor
- was below the last directory then memory would
- become corrupted requiring a reboot. ActaeOn now
- tags the last directory.
-
- V1.60 12/11/1990 Mouse clicking on Rename directory after the 'N'
- resulted in New Directory.
-
- Clicking on the C of CTRL with the mouse did not
- select Control mode
-
- V1.61 09/12/1990 When selecting a User Defined Command with the
- ALT key which has a %Pn"text" parameter the input
- field was not initialised.
-
- V1.63 14/01/1991 Added 'sticky' ALT key to select user defined
- commands with a mouse.
-
- Added extra response to Overwrite? prompt in
- CTRL-Copy when file already exists in destination
- directory. It is now possible to reply 'A' (All)
- which will overwrite all files in the destination
- directory. This was added to ease the backing up of
- tagged files.
-
- Pressing ESC at the Overwrite? prompt now aborts the
- CTRL-Copy function.
-
- Added 'Perform' option. It is now possible to
- perform the currently selected file if it is an
- executable file
-
- Added 'Remove user command' option to configuration
- menu.
-
- Added facility to change file attributes.
-
- Added ability to edit new files. Ctrl-Edit prompts
- for a filename that will be created.
-
- Ctrl-Copy when in Zoom mode did not clear display of
- tag markers when copy finished. This is now resolved
-
- Some command line parameters when starting ActaeOn
- caused a machine crash. This has been resolved.
-
- Default colors for Mono displays are now readable.
-
- Added 'Output' command allowing the printing of file
- lists, directory tree, tagged files etc.
-
- Resolved problems with %P in User Defined Commands.
-
-
- V2.01 02/09/91 Added Browse file. Currently supports ASCII, Hex, Zip,
- LZH, GIF, and DBase (DBF) files. Browsing of Zip files
- requires PKUNZIP to be on the PATH or in the current
- directory. Browsing of LZH files requires LHARC to be
- on the PATH or in the current directory.
-
- Info display now distinguishes between 8088, 8086 and
- V30 processors
-
- Xplore now automatically invokes Browse with the cursor
- positioned on the found text.
-
- Auto-Browse mode (Activated with Ctrl-B while in file
- mode) allows the scrolling through the file list
- showing the first page of the file in the directory
- window.
-
- If a tagged file was edited the total tagged size was
- not correctly updated. This is now fixed.
-
- Limits on number of files and directories have been
- increased to 7200 and 512 respectively.
-
- Added 'Jump' command which jumps to the next tagged
- file.
-
- Fixed errors when selected Sort option in Global mode
-
- Pressing ESC at the Save File prompt when exiting the
- editor now returns to the editor.
-
- ActaeOn does not now beep when pressing PgDn in the
- directory window when not on the last directory.
-
- Added Tag by Size, Tag by Attribute, Tag by Date
- and Tag Branch options
-
- Pressing the Left arrow key while in directory mode
- now goes to the current directory's parent.
-
- Fixed error when deleting last file in a directory
- while in Global mode.
-
- Directory tree is now sorted into alphabetical order
-
- Zoom display was cleared while Ctrl-Delete when
- confirming each delete.
-
- Renaming a file in Zoom mode did not update the
- displayed file name.
-
- When loading Actaeon the current DOS directory is
- now highlighted.
-
- Add ability to specify number of columns in Zoom
- Mode. Pressing 2, 3, or 4 while in Zoom mode will
- adjust the number of columns accordingly. Level of
- detail (Name, Size, Date) varies according to the
- number of columns.
-
- Added fast drive logging. Multiple drives may be
- logged, making subsequent logging of that drive
- faster. Xplore will optionally search all logged
- drives.
-
- Pressing SPACE while in directory mode now toggles
- the 'tagged' state of all files in the directory.
-
- Information display now shows the amount of free
- EMS and XMS memory.
-
- 4DOS users can now perform .BTM files and include
- them in User defined commands.
-
- Versions not listed in the above release history are beta test
- versions and are not for general distribution.
-
-
- KNOWN ERRORS
-
- If you have a Logitech mouse with a version of the driver less then
- version 4 then the mouse cursor disappears after line 25 if in 43/50
- line mode. You need to upgrade your mouse driver to fix this.
-
- The information display does not currently distinguish between 386 and
- 486 processors.
-
- It should be noted that any non-trivial software product may contain
- bugs. If you find any then let me know and I'll do my best to fix them.
-
- UPGRADE NOTES
-
- Users upgrading from versions of ActaeOn prior to 1.52 should delete
- their ACTAEON.CFG and ACTAEON.CDF files before running the program.
-
-
- MANUAL ADDITIONS
-
- A command line switch has been added so that ActaeOn reads only
- the current sub-directory and its subordinates. To invoke this
- option simply type
-
- ACTAEON /S
-
-
- You may rename ACTAEON to something shorter (ie ACT) as long as you
- also rename the help file (.HLP), the overlay file (.OVR), the
- Configuration file (.CFG), the Command Definition File (.CDF), and the
- Output Definition File (.ODF).
-
- The latter three are created after selecting options in the
- Configuration menu or the Output menu. So for example to have ACT as the
- program name you should
-
- REN ACTAEON.EXE ACT.EXE
- REN ACTAEON.HLP ACT.HLP
- REN ACATEON.OVR ACT.OVR
- REN ACTAEON.CFG ACT.CFG (if applicable)
- REN ACTAEON.CDF ACT.CDF (if applicable)
- REN ACTAEON.ODF ACT.ODF (if applicable)
-
- VENDORS
-
- Commercial disk vendors should see the file VENDOR.DOC
-