THE HISTORY of TCMDE Part 1. ========================================================================= v1.00 07/25/93 * Limited Initial Release. Wanted to work out the major bugs squished. 08/01/93 * Author gets side tracked due to major abdominal surgery. Doesn't write any code for several weeks for obvious reasons. v2.01 09/15/93 * Initial Shareware release v2.05 09/16/93 * PPE's were not loading properly.......FIXED! v2.10 09/19/93 * ALL Color's are now SysOp configurable. v2.11 09/20/93 * v2.10 sent out on the wire with no REGISTER.DOC! Optimized some code which should improve speed. Still working on categorizing doors. v2.50 09/21/93 * Slight Display bug with new colors..........FIXED! If your system had less than 15 doors which is less than 1 page, they were not displayed correctly...................................FIXED! * ADDED: Ability to categorize Doors! * ADDED: Command line switches! OPEN A - displays ALL doors OPEN C - asks category v2.51 09/22/93 * I went and fiddled with the Command line! v2.50 wasn't allowing you to go right into a door from the command line................FIXED! The High price of Progress! ;) * ADDED: TCMDE_ED.EXE - This is a little configuration file editor written by Chuck Valecek! Fire this up for quick changes without the comma headaches normally associated with a file like TCMDE.CFG! Say it with me guys.......Thanks Chuck! * Unless someone finds a bug, this is the last version of TCMDE for a week or 2! I have an article to work on for the PPE Newsletter! v2.60 09/23/93 * No bugs to squish, but I had some requests that I thought would improve the code. Request 1 - Improve display speed. Request 2 - Keep LST files static so they don't grow so huge! These two are actually related so I went back to work.......... * YOU MUST DELETE *EVERYTHING* IN THE TCMDE DIRECTORY TO UPGRADE TO THIS VERSION. The way I was calculating Times opened for each door was pretty slow so I changed it. the .LST files stored in the TCMDE directory are now *STATIC* in size! They will NEVER get any bigger! * I re-wrote a ton of code for this release so holler if a bug pops up! v3.01 09/ * YOU MUST DELETE *EVERYTHING* IN THE TCMDE DIRECTORY TO UPGRADE TO THIS VERSION. Due to next Item! * Times opened counter expanded to 99999! * Added the ability to specify a PPE path when calling other PPE's! * Times Opened counter was not counting if user issued the "OPEN 'shortcut'" command........FIXED! Note: I have had many people comment on the fact that my PPE does not count correctly when the user access's the Door/PPE directly with the shortcut command. The reason for this is simple, my code does not get called!!! the only way to do this would be to add a line to EVERY door batch file calling my code before the selected door. There are many managers out there that already do this. TCMDE was not designed for this purpose! TCMDE is designed to be fast and SIMPLE! 崢陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳跳 砕様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様減 些* Thanks to everyone for all the GREAT suggestions! I 該 些 realize that there have been a ton of versions, but 該 些 each time I send out the code someone comes back with 該 些 a new idea! I think it better to have many releases 該 些 than to ignore good ideas! 該 犀様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様様昇 喞陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳陳捗