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- EDIR V1.35
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- User Manual
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- (C) Copyright 1992-1994 MAWEK
- All Rights Reserved.
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- 8 September 1994
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- Marco van den Broek
- Linde 71
- 2925 CE Krimpen a/d IJssel
- The Netherlands (Europe)
- Internet Email : bro@mh.nl
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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- INTRODUCTION 1
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- What is EDIR? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
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- SHAREWARE 2
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- Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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- Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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- USING EDIR 4
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- Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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- Command Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
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- Environment Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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- Date Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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- FILE FORMATS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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- HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
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- BUGS REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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- Internet Email address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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- Also available . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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- EDIR INTRODUCTION 1
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- INTRODUCTION
- __________________________________________________________________
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- If you are using the DOS operating system, you know you're
- limited to that filename consisting of 8 characters, a dot
- and again 3 characters.
- Well, those 3 characters (the extension) are used to make it
- a lot easier for use to recognize file types.
- But can you see that a .PCX is REALLY a .PCX ?
- Sometimes this extension just isn't meaningful. After all,
- there are only finitely many permissible file extensions, but
- probably uncountable many purposes to use files for.
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- WHAT IS EDIR?
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- EDIR is a program that displays the directory.
- But is does something more, it tries to identify the filetype
- (it examines the file). It is hard to see which resolution the
- file PICTURE.GIF has (and you don't wanna startup your
- favourite picture-viewer). It is even harder to see that the
- file WOW.VOC is really a .VOC file (the extension doesn't say
- anything at all).
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- Well, EDIR tells you. Not only that but much more.
- Underneath is a list of the file-formats which are recognized
- by EDIR.
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- I will update this list as much as possible (except if nobody
- likes this utility).
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- EDIR SHAREWARE 2
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- SHAREWARE
- __________________________________________________________________
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- EDIR is Shareware and as such may be freely distributed for
- no money other than those incurred in copying costs. If you
- decide to use this program you are expected to pay a
- registration fee of $10 (Dollars) or Hfl. 15 (Guilders).
- If you are going to distribute it with a commercial project
- drop me a line and get written permission before doing so.
- I hope you find it a worthwhile addition to your software
- library.
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- This program is freely distributable, all use is at your
- own risk. I assume no responsability or liability for any
- problems that might occur.
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- TRADEMARKS
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- All names of companies and products are trademarks or
- registered trademarks of their respective holders.
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- REGISTRATION
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- THIS IS NOT FREE SOFTWARE! If you paid a 'public domain'
- vendor for this program, you paid for the service of copying
- the program, and not for the program itself. Proceeds from
- such transactions would never reach the maker of this
- product.
- You may evaluate this product for a period of 30 days, but if
- you decide to make use of it, you should register your copy.
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- To register : fill in the file REGISTER.FRM and return it
- to me.
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- I offer several inducements to you for registering.
- You are entitled to support for EDIR, which can be quite
- valuable at times.
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- The unregistered version of EDIR does print a message every
- time you use it.
- Once you have become a registered user yourself, this message
- will be gone and your name will be displayed in the help
- screen (EDIR /?).
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- EDIR SHAREWARE 3
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- Registered users receive a registration key.
- The registration key contains important information such as
- the licence number and the name of the licensee.
- It is NOT allowed to sell or give away the registration key.
- When you enter the registration key in the REGISTER program,
- a key file will be created.
- EDIR searches for the key file in the current directory.
- If it does not find it there, it searches the same directory
- where the program file EDIR.EXE resides. If the key file is
- corrupt or invalid, EDIR quits and an error message will be
- displayed.
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- This registration key is valid for all future versions of EDIR.
- So if you ever get a new shareware version (e.g. by modem,
- through a computer network like Fido or Internet, or from a
- CD-ROM), it will automatically become the registered version
- again because of the registration key.
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- Although you are allowed to evaluate EDIR for a trail period
- of 30 days, it is ILLEGAL to use EDIR in combination with
- a key, produced without authorization of MAWEK, or generated
- by any software not distributed by MAWEK.
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- EDIR USING EDIR 4
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- USING EDIR
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- The minimum requirements of EDIR are :
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- ■ 8088 processor or better (80286 is highly recommended)
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- ■ MS-DOS 3.3 or higher
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- ■ Videocard (For colorsyntax a colormonitor is recommended)
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- ■ Diskdrive/Harddisk
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- COMMAND LINE
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- All the commands are entered on the command line at the DOS
- prompt. These options tell EDIR to carry out certain commands
- when the program is loaded. Below is the description of the
- command line options.
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- The EDIR command line structure is:
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- EDIR [{/|-}options] [path]
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- Parameters lists in [] are optional. The path can contain
- wildcard characters '*' and '?'.
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- [options] are the EDIR options that you can specify.
- The following is a summary of all options available in EDIR.
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- /N Sort by filename
- /Z Sort by filesize
- /D Sort by filedate and time
- /P Pause after every page
- /S Display files in subdirectories
- /Q Quick display (does not examine)
- /H Heuristic scan
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- EDIR USING EDIR 5
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- COMMAND OPTIONS
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- All command options must be preceded by a '-' or '/'
- character. The options are described below.
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- /N Sort by filename
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- This option will display the files sorted on name.
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- /Z Sort by filesize
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- This option will display the files sorted on filesize.
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- /D Sort by filedate and time
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- This option will display the files sorted on date and time.
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- /P Pause after every page
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- This option pauses after each screenful of information.
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- /S Display files in subdirectories
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- This option will browse through all subdirectories.
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- Example : EDIR C:\WP\DATA /S
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- EDIR USING EDIR 6
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- /Q Quick display (does not examine)
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- This option does not display the examine information and is
- because of this much faster. Use this when you want a quick
- view of your complete harddisk (in combination with /S)
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- Example : EDIR C:\ /Q /S
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- /H Heuristic scan
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- If you use this option EDIR will try to identify files
- which have not always a MAGIC number. For example a
- C++ source file. Normally these files start with something
- like " /* TEST.CPP */ " or " #include <stdio.h> ".
- Most times EDIR has it right but it is not always reliable.
- EDIR uses " >> description " to identify these files.
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- ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE
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- EDIR will first look for an environment variable named
- EDIR and use its value as switch options for EDIR.
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- SET EDIR=<options>
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- Example : SET EDIR=/N /P
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- Do NOT add any blanks after the variable name EDIR.
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- DATE FORMAT
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- EDIR chooses the date format for you.
- So, if your country uses the European date format, then
- EDIR will use this one.
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- EDIR knows three date formats : DD-MM-YY (Europe),
- MM-DD-YY (USA) and YY-MM-DD (Japan).
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- EDIR FILE FORMATS 7
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- FILE FORMATS
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- EDIR recognizes the following file formats.
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- Extension Remarks
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- 669 669 Sound Module file
- ABM DeLuxePaint Animation brush
- 'ADEX' ADEX ChromaGraph graphics cards image file
- ADP ADPCM compressed audio file
- AMF AMF Sound Module file
- ANM DeLuxePaint Animation file
- 'AR7' AR7s E-Mailable archive
- ARC ARC archive file
- ARJ ARJ archive file
- AVI Audio/Video file (Video for Windows)
- BGI Borland/Binary Graphic Interface file
- BMP Windows and OS/2 BitMapped pictures
- BMP Alpha BMP picture
- CHR Borland Character file
- CMF Creative Music File (Sound Blaster)
- DDI DiskDupe Image file
- DIR PCBackup directory file
- DWG Autodesk AutoCAD picture file
- 'EPSF' Encapsulated PostScript File
- EXE Executable files
- LZEXE compressed executables
- PKLITE compressed executables
- DIET compressed executables
- Windows executable files
- FLI Autodesk Animator FLIC animation
- GIF Graphics Interchange Format picture
- GIS Erdas image file
- GM Autologic image file
- GRP Windows Group file
- HAP HAP archive file
- HLP Windows help file
- Norton Guide help file
- HPK HPACK archive file
- HYP HYPER archive file
- IFF Interchange File Format
- IMG GEM Image file
- JPG JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
- LAN Erdas image file
- LBM ILBM InterLeaved BitMap
- LHW LHWARP compressed disk-image file
- LZH LZH archive file
- MID MIDI music file
- MIF MAWEK Image Format (pictures/sound/text/animations)
- MOV QuickTime movie file
- MPG MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group
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- EDIR FILE FORMATS 8
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- Extension Remarks
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- MTM Multi Tracker Module file
- MTS MTS music file
- ORG Organ data file (Sound Blaster)
- PAK PAK archive file
- PAL DrHalo palette file
- PCK MAWEK PACK archive file
- PCX PC Paintbrush picture
- PUB Microsoft Publisher file
- RAR RAR archive file
- RAS Sun Raster file
- RIF RIFF Reversed IFF format
- RLE Windows RLE picture
- ROL ROL music file
- RTF Rich Text Format file
- S3M Scream Tracker 3 Music file
- SCX ColorRIX file
- SGI Silicon Graphics Image
- SNG Voyetra music file
- SQZ Squeeze It! archive file
- STM Scream Tracker Music file
- STS Scream Tracker Song file
- SYS System Device Driver
- T64 C64 Emulator tape file
- TGA Targa picture
- TIF TIFF Tagged Image File Format
- TPU Turbo Pascal Unit
- TTF True Type Font file
- UC2 UltraCompressor II archive file
- VI Jovian VI image file
- VOC Sound Sample
- 'WP' WordPerfect file
- WKS Lotus/Symphony Worksheet file
- WK1 Lotus/Symphony .WK1 file
- WQ1 Quattro .WQ1 file
- WRI MS Write text file
- WRK CakeWalk music file
- ZIP PKZIP archive file
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- Extensions between quotes are not the 'real' extensions.
- Notice that EDIR doesn't look at the extension at all to
- identify a file, it examines the file.
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- EDIR HISTORY 9
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- HISTORY
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- V1.00 01-AUG-'92 First release of EDIR.
- Recognizes : PCX, MIF, GIF, ILBM/IFF, EPSF,
- WP, BMP, EXE.
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- 02-AUG-'92 Added : LZEXE, TIFF, ARJ, PKZIP, PAK/ARC,
- LZH, GRP, RIFF Wave.
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- V1.06 07-AUG-'92 Straightened the code out a bit and added
- a very simple help screen (EDIR /?).
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- 09-AUG-'92 Small bug in PCX file recognition corrected
- (16 colors PCX file was seen as 256 colors
- PCX file).
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- 19-AUG-'92 Added SB .VOC files.
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- V1.07 30-AUG-'92 The "could not EDIR another sub-dir in a
- sub-dir" bug fixed.
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- 03-SEP-'92 Added JPEG recognition.
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- 05-SEP-'92 Added Windows RLE & DrHalo PAL recognition.
- Added PCX and ILBM/IFF resolution and
- colors info, IFF Anim (and info) and
- Anim-brush.
- Fixed problem with finding files like *.XXX
- or something like this.
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- V1.10 08-SEP-'92 Added /P (Pause after page) option.
- Fixed problem with reading file like
- XXXXXXXX.* or something like this.
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- 09-SEP-'92 Added an Turbo C routine for calculating
- the X and Y coords for GIF pictures.
- Added .BGI and .CHR recognition.
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- 21-SEP-'92 Added Executable Fonts from Michael J.
- Mefford's FontEdit.
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- 25-SEP-'92 Added "version need to extract" for .ZIP
- archives.
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- V1.14 02-OCT-'92 Added FLIC animation from Autodesk Animator
- with frame info.
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- 04-OCT-'92 Added AutoCAD DWG files.
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- 25-OCT-'92 Added Microsoft Publisher files.
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- EDIR HISTORY 10
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- 30-OCT-'92 Added JPEG JFIF standard.
- Changed PCX recognition.
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- 31-OCT-'92 Added ROL files.
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- 10-NOV-'92 Added TPU files.
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- V1.15 14-NOV-'92 Fixed problems with *.* and HELP92??.TXT
- and so on. Rewrote the 'search-directory'
- part of the program.
- Fixed GIFXXX color problem.
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- 30-NOV-'92 Added non-expanded Microsoft compressed
- file recognition.
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- V1.16 02-DEC-'92 Added Colorsyntax (/C option). Some files
- can now easily recognized by their color.
- The Colorsyntax checks only the extension
- of a file.
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- V1.17 06-JAN-'93 Added subdirectories search (/S option).
- Added File attribute display and volume
- label.
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- V1.18 07-JAN-'93 Added Quick option (/Q).
- Fixed some little bugs.
- Changed Month display in '01' instead of
- 'Jan'.
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- 09-JAN-'93 Fixed Read-only bug.
- Changed "Press [ENTER]" to "Press any key".
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- 16-JAN-'93 Added CMF, MID and ORG file recognition.
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- V1.19 31-JAN-'93 Added /Y American-style date display.
- Displays volume name without that stupid dot.
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- 28-FEB-'93 Added HPACK, HYPER and SQZ archive recognition.
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- 02-MRT-'93 Added ADEX, Erdas and Jovian IV image formats
- and optimized some routines.
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- 16-MRT-'93 Added some new OS fields to ARJ recognition.
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- V1.21 23-APR-'93 Added MPEG recognition and registration key
- functions.
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- 24-APR-'93 Final fix for registration functions.
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- 27-MAY-'93 Added the options to the doc file.
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- EDIR HISTORY 11
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- 20-JUN-'93 Added DIET compressed EXEs recognition.
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- V1.22 31-JUL-'93 Added .WRK and .MTS recognition and more
- MIDI and MIF info.
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- 30-AUG-'93 Added Imagine Raytrace IFF picture, newer
- EPSF versions and IFF 16.7M colors
- recognition.
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- 01-SEP-'93 Added AR7 archive recognition.
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- 02-SEP-'93 Added Autologic and Sun Raster files
- recognition.
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- V1.23 03-SEP-'93 Added Alpha BMP, Silicon Graphics and
- ColorRIX file recognition.
- I made the Read-Ahead buffer bigger.
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- 10-SEP-'93 Added AVI recognition.
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- 08-OCT-'93 Added LHWARP Disk-Image recognition.
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- 09-OCT-'93 Added RTF, MS Word, WordStar and DiskDupe
- file recognition. Added more WP info.
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- V1.24 10-OCT-'93 Added Heuristic scan.
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- 30-NOV-'93 Added more PCB Dir information.
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- 04-DEC-'93 Added AMF recogition.
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- V1.25 14-DEC-'93 Added ARJ archive version recognition.
- Notice : archives created with ARJ 2.10,
- 2.20, 2.21 and 2.22 are recognized as
- ARJ 2.00 archives!
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- 29-DEC-'93 Added GWSWIN Thumbnail recognition.
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- 03-JAN-'94 Added Windows .EXE recognition.
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- V1.26 04-JAN-'94 Added QuickTime files and System device
- driver (.SYS) recognition.
- Added environment variable.
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- V1.27 08-FEB-'94 Added MultiTracker Module (MTM) and .669
- module recognition. Added auto date format
- recognition.
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- 02-MRT-'94 Added more JPEG information.
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- V1.28 05-MRT-'94 Added more WP information and ARJ & LHA SFX.
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- EDIR HISTORY 12
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- V1.29 15-MRT-'94 Added C64S tape file and HAP archive
- recognition.
- Added new option (/O) to redirect output.
- Fixed some small 'BEAUTY' bugs.
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- 23-MRT-'94 Added .VOC KHZ information and REGISTER.NL
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- 02-APR-'94 Changed maximum dir size from 512 to 1024.
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- V1.30 02-MAY-'94 Added Internet Email address.
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- 13-MAY-'94 Changed detection JPEG routine.
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- 21-MAY-'94 Added more .WPG information.
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- V1.31 25-MAY-'94 Changed PAK/ARC and JPEG detection. Added MPEG
- resolution information and True Type font
- recognition.
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- V1.32 23-JUN-'94 Added more .WAV information, Norton Guide,
- UltraCompressor, S3M, STM, STS & MOD recognition.
- Straightened the code out a bit.
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- 08-JUL-'94 Added beter MPEG recognition.
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- 14-JUL-'94 Corrected some recognition problems.
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- V1.33 18-JUL-'94 Added ADPCM, PBM, PPM and PGM recognition.
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- 29-JUL-'94 Fixed 'Error reading file' bug.
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- V1.34 30-JUL-'94 Added IMG, WKS, WK1, WQ1 and WAD recognition.
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- V1.35 08-SEP-'94 Removed /C (color-syntax) and /O (output)
- option. EDIR now uses standard DOS redirectable
- output (EDIR > TEST.TXT).
- Added more Hyper information, RAR and TGA
- recognition.
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- EDIR BUGS REPORT 13
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- BUGS REPORT
- __________________________________________________________________
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- Please send the following information to me :
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- ■ Version number of EDIR
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- ■ Type and brand of computer, hard disk, plus any peripherals
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- ■ Version number of DOS and any TSRs or device drivers in use
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- ■ Printouts of your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files
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- ■ A printout of what is in memory from the MEM command
- (DOS 4 and above users only) or a similar utility.
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- ■ The exact problem you are having. Please be as specific as
- possible. Having a printout of the screen will be helpful.
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- For bugs (or features) or just to say hat you REALLY LOVE my
- program, write to :
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- Marco van den Broek
- Linde 71
- 2925 CE Krimpen a/d IJssel
- The Netherlands (Europe)
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- or via Internet Email : bro@mh.nl (via Internet backbone)
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- NOTICE : THIS ADDRESS IS AVAILABLE TILL 1 JANUARY 1995
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- INTERNET EMAIL ADDRESS
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- If you have an Internet Email address, you can reach me via
- Internet.
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- My Internet Email address : bro@mh.nl (via Internet backbone)
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- NOTICE : THIS ADDRESS IS AVAILABLE TILL 1 JANUARY 1995
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- I read the mail once a week, so be a little patience.
- If you decide to register your version of EDIR, don't forget
- to write down your Internet Email address.
- I can mail your "registration number" via Email and even the
- latest version of EDIR (UUEncoded of course).
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- ALSO AVAILABLE
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- I also have a Unit (for Turbo Pascal 6.0) with the basic
- routines to identify a file. With this Unit you can use
- the power of EDIR in your own programs.
- Contact me for more information.
-