ActaeOn V2.00 Copyright 1989,91 Jon Clempner The Shareware Hard Disk Manager The distribution disk or archive should contain the following files ACTAEON.EXE - The main program ACTAEON.OVR - Overlays ACTVWGIF.AGV - GIF File viewer ACTAEON.DOC - The documentation ACTAEON.HLP - The help file READ.ME - This file ORDER.FRM - Registration form SHAREW.TXT - Definition of Shareware VENDOR.DOC - Info for potential vendors SSI.DOC - Information about the publishers For registration details see ACTAEON.DOC or print out the file ORDER.FRM If you have a printer you may print out the manual by typing the following DOS command: COPY ACTAEON.DOC PRN RELEASE HISTORY Version Release Date Reason for Release ======= ============ ================== V1.10 24/06/1989 Original release V1.20 06/08/1989 Fix bug in New Directory function. Add user configuration of colors, Bell On/Off, and no of display lines. Add context sensitive help. Add graphic characters to tree display. Show number/size of tagged files. Number of Drives now more accurate. Ctrl-Tag prompts for filename filter. Show processor type and number of floppies in Information display. Copy now works on read-only files. V1.30 22/11/1989 Add DOS Shell and user defined commands Add Global display option Context sensitive help improved and extended to menus Co-proc detection improved Cosmetic changes/improvements Mouse support extended to Help and all menus Add sub-directory only option Ctrl-C now works in Directory mode Bug in displayed volume name after Log drive now fixed. V1.31 07/01/1990 Display lines in config menu fixed if no EGA or VGA Adaptor. V1.52 07/04/1990 Mouse support dramatically improved including scroll bars, mouse selection of files, directories and commands. Zoom mode introduced User defined commands improved. Context sensitive help extended Xplore for text string introduced Use of overlays (using EMS if installed) Function of Shell modified and Ctrl-Shell introduced (see docs) Amount of EMS installed (if applicable) added to information display Minor cosmetic improvements. V1.53 30/04/1990 Use of /s fixed Naming of overlay file made more flexible 79th Column cleaned up when mouse not installed and switching between Zoom and file mode Ctrl-K D now exits from editor When Shelling to DOS, current DOS directory is made same as highlighted directory V1.54 30/08/1990 Screen display when doing a MOVE while in Zoom Mode has been fixed. V1.55 07/09/1990 Entering Zoom Mode when less than 3 files were in directory caused runtime error Spurious 'Mouse dropping' was left when switching between 25 line mode and 43/50 line mode Deleting last file in left hand column while in Zoom mode left part of highlight bar V1.56 19/10/1990 File order is now saved in the configuration file correctly V1.57 03/11/1990 Rename directory added Escape on 'Confirm each delete' now aborts delete Ctrl-Copy now continues after 'N' to overwrite /S when in root directory fixed Drive name added to path display V1.58 08/11/1990 If the number of directories was exactly the same as the number of lines in the directory window and a mouse was being used then ActaeOn failed with runtime error 200. This has been fixed. V1.59 10/11/1990 If a file was Moved from one directory to another and the file already existed in the destination directory and 'Y' was replied to Overwrite? then ActaeOn failed with runtime error 005. This has been fixed. If it was attempted to copy a file to itself (Destination directory same as Source directory) and 'Y' was replied to Overwrite? then ActaeOn would truncate the file to 0 bytes. Copying a file to itself is now disallowed. If a both buttons (or centre button) on the mouse was pressed to tag a directory when the mouse cursor was below the last directory then memory would become corrupted requiring a reboot. ActaeOn now tags the last directory. V1.60 12/11/1990 Mouse clicking on Rename directory after the 'N' resulted in New Directory. Clicking on the C of CTRL with the mouse did not select Control mode V1.61 09/12/1990 When selecting a User Defined Command with the ALT key which has a %Pn"text" parameter the input field was not initialised. V1.63 14/01/1991 Added 'sticky' ALT key to select user defined commands with a mouse. Added extra response to Overwrite? prompt in CTRL-Copy when file already exists in destination directory. It is now possible to reply 'A' (All) which will overwrite all files in the destination directory. This was added to ease the backing up of tagged files. Pressing ESC at the Overwrite? prompt now aborts the CTRL-Copy function. Added 'Perform' option. It is now possible to perform the currently selected file if it is an executable file Added 'Remove user command' option to configuration menu. Added facility to change file attributes. Added ability to edit new files. Ctrl-Edit prompts for a filename that will be created. Ctrl-Copy when in Zoom mode did not clear display of tag markers when copy finished. This is now resolved Some command line parameters when starting ActaeOn caused a machine crash. This has been resolved. Default colors for Mono displays are now readable. Added 'Output' command allowing the printing of file lists, directory tree, tagged files etc. Resolved problems with %P in User Defined Commands. V2.01 02/09/91 Added Browse file. Currently supports ASCII, Hex, Zip, LZH, GIF, and DBase (DBF) files. Browsing of Zip files requires PKUNZIP to be on the PATH or in the current directory. Browsing of LZH files requires LHARC to be on the PATH or in the current directory. Info display now distinguishes between 8088, 8086 and V30 processors Xplore now automatically invokes Browse with the cursor positioned on the found text. Auto-Browse mode (Activated with Ctrl-B while in file mode) allows the scrolling through the file list showing the first page of the file in the directory window. If a tagged file was edited the total tagged size was not correctly updated. This is now fixed. Limits on number of files and directories have been increased to 7200 and 512 respectively. Added 'Jump' command which jumps to the next tagged file. Fixed errors when selected Sort option in Global mode Pressing ESC at the Save File prompt when exiting the editor now returns to the editor. ActaeOn does not now beep when pressing PgDn in the directory window when not on the last directory. Added Tag by Size, Tag by Attribute, Tag by Date and Tag Branch options Pressing the Left arrow key while in directory mode now goes to the current directory's parent. Fixed error when deleting last file in a directory while in Global mode. Directory tree is now sorted into alphabetical order Zoom display was cleared while Ctrl-Delete when confirming each delete. Renaming a file in Zoom mode did not update the displayed file name. When loading Actaeon the current DOS directory is now highlighted. Add ability to specify number of columns in Zoom Mode. Pressing 2, 3, or 4 while in Zoom mode will adjust the number of columns accordingly. Level of detail (Name, Size, Date) varies according to the number of columns. Added fast drive logging. Multiple drives may be logged, making subsequent logging of that drive faster. Xplore will optionally search all logged drives. Pressing SPACE while in directory mode now toggles the 'tagged' state of all files in the directory. Information display now shows the amount of free EMS and XMS memory. 4DOS users can now perform .BTM files and include them in User defined commands. Versions not listed in the above release history are beta test versions and are not for general distribution. KNOWN ERRORS If you have a Logitech mouse with a version of the driver less then version 4 then the mouse cursor disappears after line 25 if in 43/50 line mode. You need to upgrade your mouse driver to fix this. The information display does not currently distinguish between 386 and 486 processors. It should be noted that any non-trivial software product may contain bugs. If you find any then let me know and I'll do my best to fix them. UPGRADE NOTES Users upgrading from versions of ActaeOn prior to 1.52 should delete their ACTAEON.CFG and ACTAEON.CDF files before running the program. MANUAL ADDITIONS A command line switch has been added so that ActaeOn reads only the current sub-directory and its subordinates. To invoke this option simply type ACTAEON /S You may rename ACTAEON to something shorter (ie ACT) as long as you also rename the help file (.HLP), the overlay file (.OVR), the Configuration file (.CFG), the Command Definition File (.CDF), and the Output Definition File (.ODF). The latter three are created after selecting options in the Configuration menu or the Output menu. So for example to have ACT as the program name you should REN ACTAEON.EXE ACT.EXE REN ACTAEON.HLP ACT.HLP REN ACATEON.OVR ACT.OVR REN ACTAEON.CFG ACT.CFG (if applicable) REN ACTAEON.CDF ACT.CDF (if applicable) REN ACTAEON.ODF ACT.ODF (if applicable) VENDORS Commercial disk vendors should see the file VENDOR.DOC