
	FileDude 5.3
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        WHAT TO DO

        Go to the Advanced Settings menu and verify that "Maximum number
        of file description lines" is set to ten, if you are using RG
        04-05-96 or later.

        If you are still using a version prior to 04-05-96, make sure
        this field is set to five.  When you upgrade to 04-05-96 or
        later, make sure you set this field to ten.

        THE GOOD STUFF

        Fix  Fixed a nasty problem with the word wrapping routines. Word
             wrapping in FileDude should be much nicer now.
	
        Fix  FileDude would choke if the FILES.BBS-type list had exactly
             60 characters in the first line of a description. The error
             reported was "Str:[](uns)". Submitted by Timothy Phillips.
	
        Add  /NOSWAP commandline option.  This option turns off swapping
             altogether when shelling to DOS and running archivers and
             virus scanners.
	
        Fix  If FileDude has been continually updating the size of a
             file entry of yours, it should do it only once now.
             Submitted by Mark Presley.
	
        Mod  FileDude now checks the download and upload paths of each
             file area before processing it.  If either of these two
             paths are invalid, FileDude skips the file area, just as it
             would if the file area was not accessible due to a SHARE
             violation.  This prevents FileDude from trashing all the
             entries if you're moving directories around, and you
             mistyped a path. Submitted by Carl Morris.
	
        Fix  FileDude/2 now upper-cases all filenames it reads from
             disk, so "hello.txt" is the same file as "HELLO.TXT". Since
             RG is a DOS-based BBS software, this method of handling
             filenames is consistent with how RG sees lowercase
             filenames.  Submitted by Marc Weinmann.
	
        Mod  User interface goodie: when you hit SPACEBAR to toggle or
             untoggle a file area in the Config Areas menu, the
             highlight bar automatically moves to the next item.
             Submitted by Brian Niegocki.

        Fix  Clicks of the mouse buttons are picked up better now in the
             Processing screen.

        Add  You can now use the left mouse button to abort in the
             Processing screen.  Submitted by Heath Hampton.
	
        Fix  Garbled ASCII junk at the end of uploaded extended
             descriptions.
	
        Add  Support for RG 04-05-96 and 10-line descriptions.  If you
             still want to use FileDude with an older version of RG,
             change the "Maximum number of file description lines" in
             Advanced Config to 5.  For RG 04-05-96, it should be set to
             10.

        Add  BMP type to Archive Config.  This allows .BMP files to be
             compressed with the "Convert Archives" feature.

        Add  FileDude now displays the current area it is processing in
             the nonscrolling window at the top of the screen.  This is
             handy when the "Processing [area]" message has scrolled off
             the lower window, and you want to know what area a
             particular file is being uploaded to.  Submitted by
             Jennifer Therrien.
	
        Mod  When FileDude makes up a .DIR filename for an area in
             "Create CD-ROM Areas", it now appends the hexadecimal
             CRC-16 of the entire download path instead of the
             8-character filename at the end of the download path.
             FileDude can now create areas for both \BBS\WINDOWS and
             \UTILS\WINDOWS;  before, it could not do this. Submitted by
             Timothy Phillips.

        Fix  FileDude now does a case-insensitive search for filenames
             in FILES.BBS-type lists.  Before, lowercase filenames were
             not be found in lists which only had uppercase filenames,
             and vice versa.  Submitted by Brian Niegocki.
	
        Fix  "Create CD-ROM Areas" was not creating areas.  It had the
             FBASES.DAT open in read-only mode.  FileDude now opens the
             FBASES.DAT in read/write mode when creating CD-ROM areas.
             Submitted by Timothy Phillips.
	
        Add  Was FileDude missing some of the files in your CD-ROM
             lists?
	     
             It seems that there is a semi-wide problem of EMBEDDED
             NULLs inside FILES.BBS-type files.  This causes problems
             when any C/C++ program tries to do a string compare or
             substring search, as those functions rely on the NULL
             character being the terminator.  Basically, these EMBEDDED
             NULLs were causing FileDude to prematurely terminate string
             searches.

             FileDude now eradicates EMBEDDED NULLs upon loading the
             FILES.BBS-type list into its buffer.

        Fix  If a FILES.BBS was imported, and the entry for the first
             file on the list was deleted from the .DIR, FileDude would
             not reimport the entry.
	
        Fix  Plural forms (like %[file/files]) were not being processed
             before being written to the SYSOP.LOG (so you would see
             both the singular and plural forms.) Submitted by Don
             Ludington.

        Mod  "Stats" display now gives separate and summary statistics
             on old files and uploaded (new) files.

        Add  You can now add a prefix to .DIR names created by the
             "Create CD-ROM Areas" feature.  That means you can have
             NOxxxxxx.DIR files for one CD-ROM, and POxxxxxx.DIR files
             for another CD-ROM, etc. Submitted by Timothy Phillips.
	
        Add  You can now configure Archive Type and Comment Type in the
             "Create CD-ROM Areas" menu. Submitted by Timothy Phillips.

	Mod  "Create CD-ROM Areas" reorganized.

        Mod  "Create CD-ROM Areas" will now detect duplicates based on
             .DIR names rather than download paths.

        Add  "Create CD-ROM Areas" now supports both Night Owl's DIRxx
             and DIRINFO.ROM formats for a listing of file area
             descriptions.  FileDude automatically detects these
             formats, and the filename of the list is not important.
             DIRINFO.ROM format submitted by Timothy Phillips.

        Mod  The maximum length of the first line of descriptions, used
             when FileDude wraps descriptions, now defaults to 50
             characters.  You can still set this to 60 characters, but
             because Renegade now only shows the user the first 50 in a
             regular "List Files", it makes no sense for FileDude to
             confuse the sysop into thinking its not wrapping
             descriptions properly.


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