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- │──═─│ ROMProc Revision History File
- │ ── │ ─────┐ ┌────┐
- │ │ ROMProc │──═─│ The following is a list of the most
- │ │ └────> │ ── │ recent changes made to ROMProc by
- │ │ │ │ revision level, in reverse order.
- │ │ │ │
- ─┴────┴─ ─┴────┴─
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- 1.34 - ROMProc would not properly pass the FOSSIL port number to the
- (9/18/93) transfer protocol, preventing the use of any FOSSIL protocols.
- Please refer to the documentation for more information on how to
- install ROMProc for FOSSIL use!
-
- 1.33 - ROMProc will now accept an environment variable as input for the
- (9/11/93) WORK_DIR parameter. This should help simplify multinode LAN
- installations with different drive configurations in different
- machines.
-
- Discovered (from a RBBS sysop) that the drive letter matching was
- inadvertently case-sensitive during batch file transfers (PCBoard's
- PCBSETUP automatically capitalizes all paths and filespecs, so it
- never happened here on my system). Fixed.
-
- 1.32 - Oops...if a sysop configured ROMProc to not display user status
- (8/18/93) information (COMM_IO set to NO), ROMProc would still produce an
- error if the required communication parameters were not supplied.
-
- 1.31 - Fixed a bug introduced in 1.30 where variables were not being
- (8/17/93) replaced when no space was provided between the command key and the
- variable. For example, "port @PORT@" worked fine, but "-p@PORT@" did
- not.
-
- Changed the file handling logic where if a file is encountered that
- does not include the drive spec, ROMProc will assume the current
- drive. This will correct problems when sysops don't include the
- drive in the download paths.
-
- Fixed a "Null pointer assignment" message that appeared on
- unregistered versions.
-
- 1.30 - CONFIGURATION FILE CHANGE!!! ROMProc now has a configurable amount
- (7/30/93) of time before the delay prompt is displayed to the online user.
- Refer to the new DELAY_TIME parameter in the documentation.
-
- CONFIGURATION FILE CHANGE!!! ROMProc now has a configurable string
- to display when a transfer is aborted due to exceeding the
- configured lock time; see the ABORT_PROMPT parameter. To help
- alleviate confusion, the old LOCK_TIME parameter has been renamed to
- ABORT_TIME.
-
- ROMProc's display has been revamped to include a new window, the
- "Online User Display" window. This window displays a copy of what is
- being transmitted to the remote user by ROMProc. I also tried to
- make things a little nicer looking while I was at it.
-
- It is now permitted to configure a text file for ROMProc to display
- the online user via the DL_PROMPT, PROC_PROMPT, DELAY_PROMPT and
- ABORT_PROMPT parameters. If the first character of the string is a
- "%", ROMProc will display the indicated text file. Note that PCBoard
- @-variables and @X## codes are not permitted, although ANSI codes
- may be used.
-
- Changed the number of display lines locked from three to two in
- order to give ROMProc some extra room for information display.
-
- Updated the documentation to include my new BBS phone numbers and
- home address effective August 16, 1993, as I've moved to Raleigh,
- NC.
-
- 1.22 - Found that my FOSSIL routines were broken using Microsoft C. As an
- (7/10/93) interim fix, I have recompiled ROMProc using Borland's compiler.
-
- 1.21 - If ROMProc failed with an error during the copying procedure on a
- (7/6/93) locked drive, the locking semaphore file would be left behind,
- essentially locking the drive indefinitely until the semaphore file
- was removed manually. Fixed.
-
- Added some code to detect blank lines within a batch list file
- generated by some BBS software (e.g. Prodoor).
-
- 1.20 - CONFIGURATION FILE CHANGE!!! ROMProc now supports drive locking for
- (6/17/93) slow drives. This will prevent massive slowdowns due to thrashing
- CD-ROM drives and changers. Refer to the LOCK_DRIVE and LOCK_TIME
- parameters.
-
- CONFIGURATION FILE CHANGE!!! With the addition of locking, ROMProc
- will display the text defined by DELAY_PROMPT to the user indicating
- the reason for the delay if ROMProc waits on the drive longer than 5
- seconds.
-
- Some sysops stated that the error message display would go by too
- quickly to read, therefore the delay was increased to 5 seconds from
- 3...this should help.
-
- 1.12 - Learned that some BBS software do not stay in their node directory
- (6/2/93) for the file transfer (e.g. RBBS). This poses a problem if two nodes
- are executing batch downloads simultaneously, since the temporary
- batch download list file was named "ROMPROC.LST" by default. Now the
- list file is named "ROMPROC.#", where # is the node number. Note
- that you must pass the node number using the -N command line
- parameter for successful multinode implementation within these BBS
- systems.
-
- 1.11 - With the new versions of ARJ (2.39d and higher), secured ARJ
- (5/25/93) archives cannot be modified in any way, including adding a BBS ad
- file or commenting the archive. Therefore, ROMProc has been modified
- such that it will not abort the transfer if an archiver error is
- detected, but will continue and transfer the unmodified files. The
- error will be displayed and logged for the sysop's information.
-
- Added error detection to ensure that incorrect COM port information
- (e.g. IRQ, DTE rates) cannot be accepted by ROMProc.
-
- ROMProc could not automatically identify PKZIP 2.04? SFX archives
- created with the -j (SFX junior) switch, resulting in them not being
- commented and/or not having BBS ads inserted. Fixed.
-
- 1.10 - CONFIGURATION FILE CHANGE!!! ROMProc can display sysop-defineable
- (4/28/93) text to the user indicating the processing status. Refer to the
- COMM_IO, PROC_PROMPT and DL_PROMPT parameters in the documentation.
-
- CONFIGURATION FILE CHANGE!!! ROMProc is now capable of logging
- error messages to disk, if desired. This will help track down
- configuration errors in ROMProc.
-
- 1.00 - Oops...if a single-file download was initiated from a drive not
- (3/25/93) specified to be preprocessed, ROMProc may delete it from the disk
- after download.
-
- Broke the SFX archive identification routine, so no SFX archives
- were commented or had BBS ads inserted. Fixed.
-
- 0.99ß - CONFIGURATION FILE CHANGE!!! Archive commenting is now user-
- (3/23/93) configurable via the COMMENT_ARC parameter. Enter YES if you desire
- archive commenting, otherwise enter NO or comment the line out.
-
- CONFIGURATION FILE CHANGE!!! The drives to be preprocessed (BBS ad
- insertion and/or commenting) by ROMProc must now be specified using
- the PROC_DRIVE parameter. Any file not on a specified drive will be
- transferred from the original location. This feature is for sysops
- who only want to preprocess CD-ROM files, but not files on hard
- disks. Refer to the documentation for more information.
-
- Modified code to process all the files from a drive prior to
- accessing another drive. This will prevent excessive CD changing on
- multi CD-ROM changer drives.
-
- If an ARC_COMMENT command-line is left blank in the configuration
- file, ROMProc will now skip commenting for that format. This will
- enable BBS ad insertion into archives that do not support
- commenting, such as LHA.
-
- Improved error-checking of command-line switches and archiver
- processing.
-
- 0.98ß - Initial public beta release.
- (3/20/93)
-