SAB Diskette Utility Version 2.8 SAB Diskette Utility Version 2.8 adds the ability to automatically increment volume labels when labelling, formatting and writing diskettes. Volume labels can be serialized when duplicating saved diskette images. -------------------------------------------------------------------- SAB Diskette Utility Version 2.7 adds a verification option to the Group Duplicate function. The Boot Through code has been modified to handle SCSI devices. Diskettes formatted with SAB Diskette Utility will load the system from the hard drive even if they are in the A: drive during system startup. -------------------------------------------------------------------- SAB Diskette Utility Version 2.6 adds the ability to copy files to a saved diskette image. It also adds the ablility to find out how much space is available on the current diskette image. An option has been added to the Group Duplicate function to tell the system to continue to duplicate sets of diskettes until the user tells it to stop. A small fonts option has been added to the SETUP screen. This will cause the use of the small system font in dialog boxes. This will make the dialog boxes smaller. -------------------------------------------------------------------- SAB Diskette Utility Version 2.5 adds the ability to copy/delete files from a saved diskette image. -------------------------------------------------------------------- SAB Diskette Utility Version 2.4 adds a setup routine to install the required files and setup a Program Manager Group. The user interface has been substantially improved. Every dialog has a status/information bar that is mouse postition sensitive. SAB Diskette Utility Version 2.4 has been approved by the Association of Shareware Professionals (see the SHAREW.TXT file for additional information). -------------------------------------------------------------------- SAB Diskette Utility Version 2.3 adds optional support for Double Space. System diskettes may be made Double Space aware. This means that if you have Double Space compressed drives and you boot from a Double Space aware diskette you will be able to access the information on the compressed drives. Diskette image conversion is now available. You can read a diskette into memory and then convert to any format (360KB, 720KB, 1200KB, 1440KB, 2880KB) that has sufficient space for the data. The conversion preserves the boot sector and any reserved sectors. Diskette browse command that shows the volume label, date and statistics for a diskette. Open command displays browse information for diskette file images. It also supports the truncate option which tells the system to only read in allocated cylinders. The performance of the SaveAs (saving a floppy diskette image to the hard drive) function has been improved. Support for the truncate option (which tells the system to only save allocated cylinders) has been added as well. The system does not require CTL3D.DLL. -------------------------------------------------------------------- SAB Diskette Utility Version 2.2 adds support for deletion of groups of diskette images. The user can select a group file and delete it and the associated diskette images after at least one set of diskettes has been made from the images. Support for specifying a group control file on the command line has been added. This means that a program item can be added to a group that when pressed will automatically copy a set of diskette images to diskettes giving the user instructions on the number and type of diskettes needed and how to label each one. The syntax for doing this is: SABDU.EXE /@[drive:][path]filename.SDG The diskette images to be copied must be in the directory defined by drive:path. Statistics commands have been added to allow the user to display the number of functions performed since the system was installed, since the session started or since the last reset of the session statistics. Control over the interval between beeps when using the sound option has been added. -------------------------------------------------------------------- SAB Diskette Utility Version 2.1 adds support for creation of groups of diskette images. The user may create a control file that includes a description of the set of diskettes, general instructions, diskette image file names, and instructions to be displayed after each diskette image is copied to a diskette. This means that it is possible to set up a control file for an application and have the user prompted for each diskette to be inserted and instructed as to how to label each diskette. See the sample control files, TEST1200.SDG and TEST1440.SDG, for examples of how to set up the control files.