Welcome to a brand new version of MaxFile/PM! Most everything that was in version 1.10a is in 1.20. I have restructured the FILES.BBS Window context menu so it takes up a little less real estate on the screen when you bring it up and at the same time added a few things to it. If you have registered MaxFile/PM and I haven't sent you a new registration key yet, please contact me via netmail and I'll get your key to you post-haste.. MSGAPI32.DLL is required for this version of MaxFile/PM, if you don't already have it... It comes as part of the Squish 1.10 package from Scott Dudley. Any Maximus distribution site should have the Squish package available for download, or you can file request SQSHP110.LZH from me. I can't legally distribute the DLL with MaxFile/PM or I would. Please let me apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause. To get started with MaxFile/PM run the REXX command script INSTALL.CMD and follow the prompts. It will lead you through the steps of getting MaxFile/PM installed into its own directory. I *DO* recommend a clean install. However, if you wish to use your old MAXFMPM.INI from a previous version, tell install to use the directory that you have your current version of MaxFile/PM installed in. The install is smart enough to find your old MAXFMPM.INI and modify it accordingly. As far as documentation is concerned, MAXFMPM.INF will always be current. MAXFMPM.TXT won't be too far off, but it may not always follow the latest code changes as closely as the Online Reference. Have fun! Craig =============================================================================== Necessary files The only files absolutely needed for MaxFile/PM to operate correctly are: MAXFMPM.EXE MAXFMPM.INI EXECDOS.EXE MAXFMPM.TXT (Not absolutely needed, but does come in handy.) The rest are just examples and the documentation files. =============================================================================== What's New (or been fixed) I may not always put everything that has changed in this section of this file. I get quite wrapped in the code and sometimes can't remember every little thing that I have worked on. But for the most part this section should be pretty accurate. 07-01-94 Removed Origin line from File Announcement messages that are generated in a FILES.BBS window. REXX announcements are unaffected by this. Also bumped the max message size up to 32k since Squish 1.10 can handle the larger message size now. Changed the way DOS archivers are handled, you can now configure them just like OS/2 based archivers. Added a few more REXX enhancements. Removed most of the directory sensitive code so that directory changes won't bring MaxFile/PM down in a nasty fashion. Cleaned up the install a little bit, it only copies the needed files to the destination directory. Increased buffer sizes for reading in FILES.BBS files. Added support for ZOO as per popular request. Fixed bug in recognizing archivers other than ZIP, ARC, ARJ or LZH. They ALL work now.. I have tested them all and added some suggested switches for all of them to MAXFMPM.TXT. Added a few more status reports to the FILES.BBS windows. A successful "touch" on a file now flags the File Database Utility so that it will run on the area(s) that files were touched in. 07-02-94 If no adoptee extensions are set up, MaxFile/PM will no longer do an adopt. Rearranged the code that opens windows from the main file area window so that the queue wouldn't get blocked as long. All the open calls are now initiated by a WinPostMsg() call, this should help out with the problems that were occurring under 2.11. I wish I could do this in another thread, but PM doesn't allow it.. Squashed a little buglet that occurred when opening a window from the Search Results dialog box. Before, if you opened a window from that dialog you couldn't bring the main window to the front unless you closed the window you opened. Added another command file to the distribution archive, SHOWINI.CMD. Its sole purpose in life is to report the pertinent INI information to standard output. 07-03-94 Final registration incentives added in preparation for standard release. It's put or shut up time. :-( Adoptee extensions were being ignored, because the code was missing to parse filenames for the Adopt function. Whoops! It's been fixed. 07-05-93 Increased maximum line lengths to accommodate both the 8.3 filename and a description for each entry in a FILES.BBS file. When an extended description marker is defined the maximum line length is now 1036 characters (8+1+3+1024), otherwise the line length is limited to 278 characters (8+1+3+256). Fixed a little problem with the case sensitivity of ZIP and UNZIP when trying to extract a FILE_ID.DIZ from ZIP archives. Overlooked the ^D hotkey for Remove Items, its back in now. Fixed the overwrite code for drag and drop, it now works as advertised. 07-06-93 BC++ libraries strike again.. For some odd reason, free() was trapping on certain size FILE_ID.DIZ's (241 characters), beats the hell out of me why it was doing it, heap corruption could be a possible cause. Fixed by using DosAllocMem()/DosFreeMem() instead of the library functions. Solved the problem with context menus not appearing, PM's heap was filling up which in turn stopped the menus from loading. I am now explicitly destroying each menu when it is no longer needed. This should also clear up a few other PM related problems. When unprintable characters are stripped from incoming FILE_ID.DIZ files all extra whitespace is now removed. Makes for a cleaner import. Any truncations that may occur are done AFTER the garbage is stripped out. Tweaked the menu handling code to work a little better, this fix is mostly cosmetic. 07-07-93 Added another button to the button bar.. Format Descriptions. (Elliott? ;-) When a program macro is run against a file in a FILES.BBS window MaxFile/PM now checks the file statistics against what is stored in the container record and updates the container record if they don't match. 07-08-94 First draft of the Online Reference is included. It doesn't have any jumps in it yet, but it is still VERY readable. 07-09-94 Fixed the settings notebook so the error reporting message boxes don't go into an endless loop requiring MaxFile/PM to be killed by another process. 'Format Description' will now always strip whitespace from descriptions and remove any present extended description characters. This makes for a cleaner description. 07-12-94 Reinstalled the Performance Beta 1 to evaluate MaxFile/PM's performance. It works, no hangs so far. Tweaked EXECDOS code, there was a possibility that a return code from it could be bogus and meaningless. Not anymore.. Reinstalled 2.10 and applied the service pack.. (Ick!) So I could do some more testing. 2 days, 3 different versions of OS/2.. Removed presentation parameter calls for setting the fonts for MLE controls. This should help with 2.11 and its picky nature. 07-14-94 Small problem occured if no FILES.BBS was found for a file area, no files in the download path were added to the container for that area. Fixed.. 07-15-94 Fixed Trap when there was no FILES.BBS for a file area and the directory was empty. 07-16-94 MAJOR change in the way the Insert->File option on the FILES.BBS context menu works. It does *NOT* copy the file anymore, instead it inserts the file with a *_FULLY QUALIFIED PATH_* into the FILES.BBS.