********** PocketD Plus v3.1 - New features since v1.67 *********** PocketD has now been around for about a year (as v1.67). I have listened hard to requests, and have produced a new version which incorporates most of the features that users wanted, and much more. The key improvements can be summarised as: 1. Greatly improved ease-of-use, through the new program MenuD 2. Increased power through 10% more options (now over 200) 3. Improved speed 4. Improved support of other products (4DOS, Novell, LANtastic, OS/2) 5. Improved and completely re-worked documentation 6. Hundreds of cosmetic improvements 7. Security. PocketD v3.X now protects itself against Virus Attack >>>>> MAJOR NEW FEATURES!... ***** The New MENUD.EXE program (New with v3.0) This 60 menu/400 option program provides a menu-driven interface to the D.EXE program. This has got to be the fastest way to learn the complex command-line interface. It also functions as a "Utility Factory" for users who know what they want. MENUD can also be used as the sole means of access to D.EXE, providing a safe and easy to use menu-driven tool. ***** 4DOS Support PocketD now supports 4DOS comments during copy and move. 4DOS users can therefore take advantage of PocketD's substantially more powerful COPY/MOVE facilities, without having to abandon file comments. ***** OS/2 Support (New with v3.0) PocketD now supports OS/2, allowing the full OS/2 extended attributes and date/time information to be retained after copy/move. This frees the user from depending on the somewhat restricted powers of OS/2's Program Manager. ***** Scanning of SFX (self-uncompressing archives) (v3.0 improved) PocketD adds SFX scanning to the existing ZIP, LZH, ZOO, ARC, PAK and ARJ archive support. These include SFX archives created by PKZIP 1.X/2.X (default and compact types), LHA, LHARC and ARJ (default and compact types). D.EXE now supports 12 distinct archive file formats! ***** Directory and Archive browsing PocketD new /Q option allows user to freely browse through subdirectories and archives (as if they were also subdirectories), using a full-screen scrolling display. Combined with PocketD's other options, this provides a browsing facility of exceptional power. PocketD's file viewer with v3.0 has also been very substantially improved. ***** Full scrolling template execution The user can now create scrolling menus using the template facility, making PocketD a very flexible command-line menuing tool. See ARCVIEW.BAT for a good example of this. ***** More color control and easier configuration v3.0 provides the new SETCOL.EXE program for easy color configuration. v2.0 extends the number of configuration options from 12 to 19, allowing control of the colors used during file viewing and also background colors. ***** Virus Protection PocketD v3.0 will detect if it has been modified by a virus. You can now experiment with the shareware version with greater confidence that you are not using an infected product. (Run MENUD to check the disk. It will report if D.EXE or MENUD.EXE have been tampered with.) ***** New Low Cost Group and Network Licence PocketD now provides a low cost bridge between Site and multiple/single unit purchase which allows a network or office to use PocketD for as little as $144. ******* OTHER NEW FEATURES >>> NEW WITH VERSION 2.0 Jan93 (For distribution with DOS 6 SECRETS) New template parameters $c Current date $k Current time $R Space remaining $=x Output "x" "n" times New COPY sub-options "f" Inhibit final summary "q" Query if overwrite "b" Brief path format "z" Output override Support for all date formats, not just US and UK. More feedback provided during Searching. /~ now accepts a limit e.g. /~.30 (as option /K.30). @C in string search now does not match TAB, CR and LF as CTRL chars. /e sub-option "." to allow single extension matches to show the full name. /qq new query sub-option. /.n inhibit scrolling (for v1.67 compatabiiity). /.i inhibit use of file viewing option. Query "delete" now available when running templates. Case-insensitive search during file view. Support for DIET v1.44 exec. /q can now be used with /m. Templates can now be used when deleting files and during copy. D_COL can be extended by D_CO2 D_CO3 etc.. for more configuration. Buffered file output is up to 50 times faster. PocketD can now be aborted by holding down the CTRL and LEFT-SHIFT keys. This is preferable to using CTRL+break which could cause problems when PocketD is running other programs. There are also very many other minor improvements to PocketD. >>> NEW WITH VERSION 3.0 Jun93 (including v2.0 features) "f" New sort option (separating files & dirs) /!K /K now allows: All but 1st "n" matches /J Allows the user to specify a "no matches" template. ":" New TEMPLATE parameter for input of any ASCII value "x" is a synonym for "e" in TEMPLATE (as SORT) Browsing has been greatly improved with the addition of horizontal scrolling and maintenance of markers in multiple files. Screen handling has also been optimised to improve general screen updating during browsing. Extra filespec "::" which matches "Free Space on drive", allowing the user to easily test free space left on any drive. String search during HEX file view now supported. String searching allows test for NULLs (+better display of HEX matching) Delete no longer drops off end of list after deletion of last match Buffered file input is up to 3 times faster. The default display is now color, not monochrome. >>> NEW WITH VERSION 3.1 Oct93 Support added for COMPACK v4.5 compression (shareware version is now also compressed using it). Copy option "b" now less zealous. Under some circumstances re-named filenames were reported as "empty" names. Extra protection within MenuD to prevent inappropriate options from being mixed (for delete, view and copy). Copy now reports "skipped" in response to user skip. Corrections to errors in documentation for v3.0. Template $B "backspace" now accepts "n". e.g. $5B "5" backspaces. Additional options for registration in Canada. >>>>> Withdrawn features Backward compatability is very important, however the following exception has been made. Bestfit can no longer be used with /t (Bestfit's use of /t irritated and confused more people than it helped). >>>>> Bug Fixes, including (among others): PocketD now fully works with LANtastic. (The new version has a workaround for a LANtastic 4.0 bug). Numeric Template parameters formatted to a width >15 digits used to crash. Formatting now truncates to a maximum of 40 digits. Shell out during file viewing (v2.0 bug) now no longer crashes. Colors now work correctly with /t format. Bug fix to prevent crash when viewing a file in hexadecimal during file copying (v3.0 bug). /q "Run all" now works (early v3.1 bug). ZIP 2.0 archive bug fix. PocketD v3.0 saw what PKZIP v1.1 could see, extra empty files in recursed archives. D.EXE did not support DESQview's use of multiple pages correctly, now fixed (2nd revision of v3.1)..