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Version 2.1

A fairly major bug cropped up where machines without mice would get
into the mouse loop and lock up.  This has now been corrected.

A minor bug in the Program Exec Menu has also been fixed.  Inserting
the % sign in the exec line in combination with change directory
would fail.  Program Exec now inserts fully qualified pathnames into
the command line.

Steven C. Lee
August 10, 1989


PKZIP 1.0 arrived, and was not compatible with PAKVIEW.  PakView has
now been replaced with Swiss Army View which is currently in version
0.7.

Steven C. Lee
September 9, 1989


At Steve Turner's request, added ability to let Copy Directory continue
unattended when it encounters a directory that matches the one being
copied.  You will have to answer Yes to that question once, then it will
churn right along.  This makes it easier to use for regular backup on
the same disk set, since you don't have to sit at the keyboard and
keep answering Yes !

Previously, if you attempted to Quit while in a drive that's not there
anymore (as in REMOVABLE) SAS would crash to DOS forcing you to put a
disk in the drive or reboot.  Now, if you quit to a drive that's not
there, you will be warned and dropped out in the root directory of
the drive specified in COMSPEC.  If you booted from that floppy you
don't have a lot of choice.

Made the Archive Management menu and some of it's submenus sticky.
Now you may set options, then perform operations without having
to pop it up repeatedly.

Steven C. Lee
September 10, 1989


Fixed a bug with Extract Tagged Files - the right mouse button would
initiate the operation instead of escaping.

Steven C. Lee
September 13, 1989


Fixed a bug with Find File.  The search would not continue when the
right mouse button was clicked.

Steven C. Lee
September 28, 1989


Version 2.2

Decided to kill the test drive idea, and distribute version 2.2
freely at a reduced price.  Added a compression method switch to
the Archive Menu and SASCFG.EXE.

Steven C. Lee
September 30, 1989


Version 2.3

2.3 fixes a bug with the View function where SAS would not insert
a blank between the /m parameter and the filename.  An associated
bug in SAV has also been fixed.

Steven C. Lee
October 25, 1989

Version 2.31
Fixed a bug in SASCFG where the last menu item (Confirm Exit) didn't
appear.  The option would work by pressing C, and the previous option
would appear on that line.  Also fixed a bug with zero length files in
SAV.

Steven C. Lee
November 21, 1989


Version 2.4
Added warning when 100 directory limit is exceeded.  Previously
SAS would crash if there were more than 100 directories.

Fixed a bug with deleting 0 length files.  Previously, SAS would
delete files with 0 bytes only if the Tagged total was greater than
0.  This bug has actually been around since version 1.0.  Why didn't
someone mention it earlier?

SAS will now check for old .TRE files and automatically rescan if
the TRE file is not compatible.  This option was added because a
certain sysop insists on keeping multiple versions of the program
on different machines on his network.

SASCFG.EXE now allows you to turn sound on or off.

Steven C. Lee
March 6, 1990

Added support for PKZFIND.  If PKZIP is selected as the current
archive program, Alt F and Ctl F will call PKZFIND instead of
PKFIND.

Added option to check for duplicate files when copying.  SAS will
now ask if you want to check for duplicate files.  If you
answer yes, SAS will show you the size and date of any duplicates
found before copying.

SAS now supports up to 20 drives instead of the old limit of 15.
Also added option to check free space on other drives by pressing S.

Find File now allows you to search all drives for a file.

Fixed a bug where swap to disk while executing the program under
the cursor would not work.

Corrected text window showing mouse commands for changing directories
or continuing a file find.  Left button changes to the directory,
and right button continues the search.  Text was reversed.

Though SAS is not network aware, it will work with many networks.
This has caused some problems in the past where a network drive
may have a different drive letter depending on which drop it is
accessed from.  SAS stores the drive letter in the .TRE file, and
when the .TRE file is loaded from a remote drop on the network,
the root directory on the tree diagram would not reflect the correct
drive letter as recognized by the remote machine.  SAS will now
show the correct drive letter in the root directory.

Steven C. Lee
April 21, 1990

Added option in SASCFG to turn off checking for duplicate files.

Reduced the size of the copy file buffer from slightly under 64K
to exactly 32K.  This allowed me to reduce the amount of memory
allocated to the heap, and increased available RAM by almost 32K.
Copy speed actually increased slightly, probably because 32K blocks
are a multiple of the DOS cluster size.  Although the EXE size has
increased, version 2.4 actually has more available RAM.

Steven C. Lee
May 8, 1990


Fixed a bug where Copy Directory would fail.  Although Copy Tagged
files used the new 32K buffer size, I forgot to change Copy Dir.
Reduced heap allocation caused Copy Directory to fail.

Steven C. Lee
May 16, 1990