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- 10-15-92 Initilize code written, not distributed.
-
- 10-18-92 Increased block size of copy buffers. In house testing only,
- not released.
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- 10-20-92 Added Communications support.
- Changes to config file required.
- In house testing only, Not released.
-
- 10-24-92 Added support to add Zip comments to files. Tweeked comm routines.
- In house testing only, not released.
-
- 10-26-92 Added support for ARJ comments. Added swapping to EMS/EXT/DISK.
- Tweeked Comm routines.
- In house testing only, not released.
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- 11-01-92 Optimized code for speed and reduced memory usage.
- In house testing only, not released.
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- 11-02-92 Added support to turn on/off add Comments routines, turn on/off
- swapping to EMS/EXT/DISK.
- Changes to config file required.
- In house testing only, not released.
-
- 11-03-92 Added support for custom comm port configurations by entering
- specific addresses.
- Change to config file required.
- In house testing only, not released.
-
- 11-08-92 Added support for caller info files other than PcBoard.sys,
- (Dorinfox.def, CallInfo.bbs, and Door.sys).
- Added support to specify path/filename to caller info file.
- Added support to specify path/filename to 'Zfiles' list, now
- can be any filename.
- Added support for Max Baud rate of modem so high speed locked
- modems no longer problem detecting callers/locked baud rate.
- Added support to run as 'stand alone' mode or to run as a
- pre-processor to file xfer programs and can now be
- added directly to file xfer command line.
- Change to config file required.
- First public ßeta testing. First limited release.
-
- 11-14-92 More increased carrier detect on comm ports.
- No problems reported from ßeta sites.
- Minor code changes for optimizing speed.
- QuickBBS users:
- Just found out, QuickBBS does not have support for external
- protocols, unless you are running a file door of some
- type. File doors that use external protocols should not
- be a problem. Using QuickBBS without a file door cannot
- use this program as there are not any provisions to run
- external programs before/after downloads and external
- 'command line driven' protocols does not exist.
- Offical release for wide scale beta testing,
-
- 11-22-92 Changed file handling routines.
- Problems found on PcBoard systems,
- Will not work with PCB's internal file xfers.
- This or any other program cannot operate if PCB never exits.
- PCB has 2 methods for external xfers, one for single file xfers
- and one for batch mode, working on a fix.
-
- 12-05-92 Major Re-write. Several speed related optimizations to code.
- Should handle single file xfers now as well as batch mode. Initial
- test indicated a problem on PcBoard systems by passing batch mode
- transfers and single file transfers.
- Changed Config file format, Remove line 14! as it is no longer used.
- This should be the last config file change! (I think..<G ).
- Limited Beta Testing.
- Current Filename is now FM101.ZIP.
-
- 12-10-92 Was still having problems on PcBoard systems, new code and
- updated docs should take care of the problem. ;-)
- Upgrades to this version should check the doc file for
- possible changes to batch/protocol definition file updates.
- If this works, hope this is the last change.
- No config file changes required for this release.
- Command line options bascially the same, some new additions.
-
- 12-12-92 Added an option to purge the entire work directory, use
- with caution, it deletes EVERTHING in that dir.
-
- 12-18-92 Official release! FM103.ZIP
-
- 01-04-93 FM104.ZIP
- Added Support to keep new file date/time same as original file.
- If upgrading, add a '1' or the word 'Yes' before the comm port line
- if you wish to use this feature, else place a '0' or the word 'No'.
- Do not use the ' marks of course.
- FM104.ZIP new release name.
-
- 01-12-92 FM104A.ZIP
- Released fm104.zip with an older verion of the sample config file,
- the docs did show proper config file format, few people actually
- read the docs..sigh..
- Released as FM104a.zip with new sample config.
-
- 02-02-93 FM200.ZIP
- ■ Concerned with the # of people having a difficult time
- with the config files, I've added support to put comments
- into the config files which you may leave in there, seperate
- actual commands/options and comments with a semi-colon, ';'
- anything after the ; is ignored.
- See the sample config file for an example.
- ■ Removed 50 file batch limits, no limits now.
- ■ Add 4 lines to end of current config files!
- Additional Line 1: Added Support for max number of files to
- process, 0 = no limit. 10 = 10 files etc
- This would be Line # 16.
- Additional Line 2; Added support for maximum file size to
- process. 0 = no limit, 100000 = 100K max etc
- This would be line # 17.
- Additional Line 3: Added support to delete specified files from
- .ZIP and .ARJ files (registered versions) to
- delete those darn advertisements.
- Specify full path/filename to ascii file
- containing filenames or blank to disable
- this option.
- This would go on line # 18.
- Additional Line 4: Send only brief processing information to
- on-line caller? (1 or Yes, 0 or No),
- may help improve processing speed when
- callers baud rates are at 2400 or below.
- This would go on line # 19.
- ■ Fixed problems with high speed connects that caused comm output
- to be slooooooow.
- ■ Fixed Intermittent lockup problem with users running HS modems.
- ■ Automatic detection and useage of 16550 uarts for optimizing comm.
- ■ Caller's baud rate is now read for all locked port rates, previous
- versions never read the caller info file if we determined you had
- a locked port rate of greater than 2400, this is no longer the
- case, if you have a problem with the program complaing that it
- cannot find your caller info file and you didn't have that
- problem before, it might be that we never needed to read it
- before, but we do now. Check the path/filename of the caller
- info file and make certain it is correct.
- ■ Added note: We can use Conventional memory, EMS, EXT, or disk
- for swapping but you MUST remember to configure this properly!
- If your system does not have EMS/EXT memory, do not set the
- Swap option to Yes, if no EMS/EXT memory is available we will
- use disk for swapping which is a slow process depending on your
- disk speed.
- ■ All file handling, file processing, comm routines, heck basically
- everything re-written from scratch. Works well but added about
- 20K to .exe file size (argh!). Most of the code size is dedicated
- to accomidating almost every BBS software, being highly
- configurable, and to work in a variety methods.
- Will be working on reducing this some, if possible,
- in future releases.
- 02-26-93 FM200A.ZIP
- ■ Fixed a possible problem not informing callers that
- that File Massage was working with single file transfers.
- ■ Found out that some versions of Zmodem seem
- to think that single file transfer protocols like XModem can't
- have a batch list indicator even if the batch only contains
- one filename. All other protocols on the planet handle it
- just fine. This is a bug in the ZModem program as far as I'm
- concerned, Fmassage can process the files, write the new list
- reflecting the filenames etc, but if your version of Zmodem
- won't take it, there's not too much I can do until this
- is fixed.
- For those using Xmodem variety of said protocol,
- you'll need to add Fmassage on the same command line as
- the protocol using something either:
- Fmassage Fmassage.cfg Zmodem sx %3
- Fmassage Fmassage.cfg /r Zmodem sx %3
- etc.
- Substitute 'Zmodem' above for real name of said protocol.
- This feature was already built into Fmassage. If you're using
- a /r or /p or /L in your current implementations, you should
- still be able to use it here.
- ■ Input and output batch filename cannot be the same name!
- example: fmassage fmassage.cfg @c:\bbs\batch.lst @c:\bbs\batch.lst
- is not allowed!. Choose a different name for the last one.
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