Changes: Version 3.05 05/06/1991 - present 1. Started the official numbering system for the Shareware version at 3.05 to show that this is the 5th generation of Archives. 2. Added directory rename. 3. Made a slight change so that ArSet286.EXE and Archv286.exe now do not have to be renamed, in fact, should not be renamed to the names of the Real Mode version. The 286 versions still require the user to be registered. 4. Thanks again to the Beta Testers. Your opinions are very helpful. 5. Included a text version of the WinHelp file. Although, the WinHelp file was planned throughly, only one Beta tester used this file. 6. Improved the Shift+Direction keys processing. Other than finding a way to speed this up, I believe I'm done here. 7. ******** VERY IMPORTANT FEATURE ************** A very important feature of Archives was missed by several interviewed users!!! a. When you Decompress a file, choose the 'Checkout Selection' option on the UNZIP Functions dialog box (or UnARC or UnLZH dialog boxes). b. The 'Open 2nd' Checkbox will automatically be checked. Leave it checked this time and select 'OK". c. A 2nd instance of Archives will open and automatically show you the File Stats for this decompressed to temporary directory. If another compressed file is in this list decompress it again the same way by selecting 'Checkout Selction' and leaving the 'Opened 2nd' checkbox selected. d. Each successive copy of Archives opened this way will show in the Window Title Bar which copy of Archives it is. e. Now close the last copy of Archives opened. the previous copy of Archives will open and ask if you want the temporary directory and associated files deleted. Check 'OK'. f. Repeat step 'e' until your are back to the first copy of Archives. HMMMM, pretty good for viewing and putting away files downloaded from bulletin boards files, do you think? Changes: Version 0.94 04/29/1991 - 05/03/1991 1. Added several options for running DOS applications using either ARCH.PIF or the users _DEFAULT.PIF files. I have the ARCH.PIF set up to execute in a Window and my _DEFAULT.PIF is setup for exclusive operation. (see ARCHIVES.HLP _DEFAULT.PIF) This provides more options for executing DOS programs from Archives or just getting a DOS command line. 2. Greatly simplified the number of buttons clicked when the Checkout option is used and 'Open 2nd' (copy of Archives) is selected. And simplified the Checkin process. 3. If a second copy of Archives is called, a few of the user modified parameters from the first copy is inherited. 4. Added several options for Changing Date & Time of files, including updating the compressed file with the date & time of the lastest internal file. 5. Added changing file attributes. Hidden, Read/Write, and the archive bit. 6. Supplied an option so Users could save their Registration Code in the WIN.INI. This code will be used to reRegister Archives whenever ArcSetup is reran. Archives.exe does not require this setting in the INI file, only ArcSetup.exe. This saves the user the burden of reentering the loooong registration code everytime. Changes: Version 0.93 03/22/1991 - 04/26/1991 1. Significantly changed the memory management. Added no new functions; however, the changes that I made were so significant that THIS OUGHT TO BE CONSIDERED a NEW RELEASE when you test the functions again. What use to work may not work!!!!!! The program as stored on your hard disk is larger than before, but the memory used by the system is much smaller ~ 35K. However, Again, I throughly retested this app, so I don't expect problems. The program code is basically the same, but many, many variables were modified... This version requires significantly less memory to run, almost all of the code is discardable. 2. Allowed the system to make the filename AND DIRECTORY during the compress procedure. 3. Found a bug that was preventing the application from compressing files on some computers. The program would terminate with an system error message. Thanks, Phil. 4. Changed the locations of some of the menu items to make more sense. I know that it is rude to change the menu item locations, but some of them were located poorly and this is a Beta release. 5. Compiled a 286 version named ARCHV286.EXE. This MUST be Renamed to ARCHIVES.EXE. Run this version if you never run Archives while Windows is in the REAL mode. This version will run in both Standard & Enhanced Modes of windows (PROTECTED). It is slightly smaller, and slightly faster to run versus the REAL mode version. This version will require the user to be registered before it will run. ARSET286.EXE is used to configure this program. ARSET286.EXE must also be renamed to ArcSetup.exe. The final versions may not require them to be renamed. The Beta users can use the Either the REAL Mode version or the PROTECTED Mode version. You cannot use both programs at the same time!!!!!!!! Windows will terminate because they have the same windclass name (technical jargon). 6. Automated a few functions so that the user presses fewer keys. 7. Improved the mouse painting function. 8. Added another several mouse clicking windows. These windows are clicked on using either the right or left mouse button. They are yellow or blue in color. For example: The upper left yellow window will change between viewing FILE STATS and viewing the contents of a file. Left mouse key activates window. Right mouse key will find selected file in the FILE STATS display. (See the Glossary in ARCHIVES.HLP) 9. Added a maximize Task Yield function to the Configure menu. When activated, the application will yield windows time to other applications. This feature is very useful when running Archives while running a communications program in the background. This feature is activated from the Configure menu. To see this function work, you'll need to have at least windows clock running or download/upload a file using a Windows communications program. Archives even starts from File Manager without stopping the clock for the complete start-up, and without a significant delay in startup appearance to the user. Although, if your communications program is busy, the yielding to the communications program slows some of Archives functions 2 to 6 times versus when the yield is off. Whether or not you use yield depends on your priorities, personal time or communications speed. 10. Modified the functions to work with foreign characters in file names and directory names. 11. Added a significant amount of additional error checking. 12. ArcSetup.exe will now optionally install the program icons in the Windows Program Manager. Changes: Version 0.92 03/19/1991 - 03/21/1991 1. This was a special release that went only to one Beta tester. Thanks again, Phil. Changes: Version 0.91 03/19/1991 - 03/21/1991 1. Fixed the algorithm for Copy or Move/Rename files to insure that the file being copied is not being copied to the same directory. Before the fix, the original file was sometimes corrupted. 2. Minor ArcSetup installation improvements/changes. 3. Optimized the command line test for long directory names. Some cases were prohibited when a temporary batch file would have worked in compress & decompress functions. 4. Added Ctrl+character HOT KEY to change the drive that Archives is viewing (similar to File Manager). For example, Ctrl+A will change the drive viewed to A: Ctrl+C will change the drive viewed to C: etc. 5. Made Archives more user friendly if a floppy drive was selected & a disk wasn't in the drive. 6. Added the hourglass to several functions to show the user when the system was busy. 7. Removed the requirement requiring that a file to be copied, deleted, or moved/renamed was chosen from the Viewer Window if the FILE STATS were showing. Now if a file was not selected from the Viewer Window and the FILE STATS are showing, then the file selected in the Files Window is used. Added a message to the Copy, Delete, and Move/Rename dialog box describing where the file was selected. 8. Fixed an error in the Copy, Delete, and Move/Rename functions where the function would quit on the 1st error even after the user chose to continue. 9. Fixed an "improvement" that limited the number of files allowed in Copy, Delete, Move/Rename, compress, and decompress operations to less than the 700 files advertized. 10. Modified Archives so that the display uses the Users Window colors 11. Made several minor changes to the text in the dialog boxes to allow for differences between various user systems fonts. Thanks to the contributors... SPECIAL NOTE: 03/21/1991 - 04/01/1991 I found the problem were one Beta Tester was having problems with Archives TERMINATING when he tries to compress files. This was one of those problems that exists only sometimes, but was definately a tough error to find in the code.