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Copyrighted Pete Rocca & Multiboard Communications Centre, 1994-1995
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║ UpCheck - History ║
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January 1st, 1995 - Version 6.00 (full release)
- Now adds the reason for failure to the file listings
- Support to use GUS for unsupported archive types
- Support for future versions of RemoteAccess 2.x
- Will use headers information in place of sysop name
when running locally. (Uputils)
- If you are using a RAM disk for your online messages then
you can use a RASEM enviroment variable to point to that drive
- Can disable Upcheck from recompressing the archive if it
is already the same type as the type you are converting to
- Increased the length of the 'scanning program' path
- If an area was marked as '[Unused]' in RA 2.x but had a path
in it that matched the uploaded files path, it could possibly
not update the file listings
- Fixed the "dos error 3-2 file not found" error that occurred
on some systems if the full path wasn't specified.
- Cosmetic, added commas in Uputils query display
June 23rd, 1994 - Version 5.32 (full release)
- Fixed a cosmetic problem in UpUtils that would cause the
entire screen to change to a lightgray background and
have flashing prompts - sorry folks!
June 18th, 1994 - Version 5.31 (beta release)
- Support for multiple line file description seperators in column 1
- Even faster output
- Support for metastrings
- Fixed cosmetic bug that did not complete remote "thanks!" box
- RemoteAccess compatible log file
- Problem with text based filelisting formats, removed a filename
from the list under certain conditions - Fixed.
May 16th, 1994 - Version 5.30 (beta release)
- Added "Test configuration feature"
- Added full features to the UpUtils program in unregistered mode
(I'm trusting you guys and gals on your honor here <g>)
- Added a powerful text retrieval system, that allows
UpUtils to use file descriptions from almost any text file,
BBS list, or capture log
- Fixed TriBBS 5.0 message base fault if the conference was
over 64K in size
- Made UpUtils "/I" feature add the extra info without needing
the "/D" switch turned on. It now performs description
inserting about 5-10x faster
- Made the screen rescyronize after multiple display blocks
instead of after each character, making the modem throughput
speeds increase dramatically (especially under OS/2)
- Included a program called UPSAMPLE that will allow you to
test the message posting features. (Even in unregistered mode
so you can confirm that the routines work and you can see
what the messages look like)
- Included aggressive locking routines for better reliability
on very active multiline systems
- Added an indicator to show when UpCheck/UpUtils is being
denied file access (so you don't think it crashed)
- Fixed the inablilty to test files in the root directory
- Added PCBoard, TriBBS, FILES.BBS file base support
- Documentation now spans 31 pages
- Although it was not too bad - I ran the documentation
through a spell checker - 11 errors in 1680 lines :)
May 1st, 1994 - Version 5.20 (beta release)
- Added support for ZIP, LZH and SQZ self-extracting (SFX) files
- Added support for TriBBS message structures
- Included sample batch file in the UPCHECK.DOC to
use multiple scanners, including TBAV, McAfee v2.0
- Added online help in UPSETUP (handy)
- Added an internal stats editor in UPSETUP
- Killed the beeping sounds for errors in UPSETUP
- Made the input interface in UPSETUP even more standard
- Fixed the errors being reported as one number
instead of two subparts as the documentation mentioned
- Fixed an apparent lockup if a blank field was specified
for the advertising file
- Fixed unsupported files not failing if 'Pass Supported
Files' was set to 'No'.
- Fixed the slow screen draw with 28.8k modems
April 25th, 1994 - Version 5.01 (public release)
- Changed the EMS overlay system to full EMS/XMS/Disk
swapping capabilities (now only uses 2k overhead)
- Removed the need for external files to be defined
using full paths (will now search the path for them)
- Adding return code logging when a file fails
- Fixed a bug when reading EXITINFO.BBS files
- Updated the documentation to correct a address change
(turns out I'm not moving for another year)
* Sorry for the delay in making these changes, it was
a very busy month for me.
* What's on deck? - Support for Tribbs, QBBS, RBBS, PCBoard
- Context sensitive help in UpSetup
April 10th, 1994 - Version 5.00 (public release)
- Added RIP graphics
- Added JAM message base format
- Added internal ZIP file commenting
- Added the option of having a security level/flag override to
force a file to return as passed (good for co-sysops)
- Added internal GIF/JPG specificiations support
- Failing archives now also insert 'Added information'
- Fixed the problem of EXE/JPG/GIF/Unknown type archives not
being adopted into the filebase
- Added option to restrict min/max resolution of GIF/JPG
- Added internal quick-scanning when using UpUtils (40% faster)
- Added option to UpUtils to allow the adding of ZIP
comments to all your files
- Made UpCheck to include overlays for reduced memory
requirements as new features are implemented
- Added EMS support for the overlays
- Added the option of having files within an archive under
a certain size to be skipped from processing (good to
keep the database size as small as possible)
- Allow you to turn off FILE_ID processing (this allows non RA
BBS packages still be able to have messages sent to the user
and/or sysop when files fail or are suspicious, as both Hudson
and JAM message bases are very popular)
- Added tonnes of feautures to UpUtils
- Added the ability to send an online message to the user
- Added the ability for you to specify 'who' sends the messages
- Increased the read buffer for faster duplicate checking
when your database gets large.
- Increased speed in some areas (about 5-10%)
March 25th, 1994 - Version 4.01 (public release)
- allowed lowercase and !#$%^ characters in archiver setup
March 22nd, 1994 - Version 4.00ß (unreleased beta)
- Added the ability to recompress files with a new type
- Unfound files are adopted into the file base
- Bad files can be removed by CRC signature
- Can add archive info to the description base, such as
Uploader name, number of files, oldest and newest dates.
- Can specify file extensions that you wish not to be
accepted. When an archive contains only these files,
it will fail, if it contains a lot of these files,
it can warn the sysop
- Messages to the sysop are sent to the sysop's name as it
appears in UpSetup (for better luck when searching new messages)
- Filebase is ALWAYS updated with the archives new size,
name or anything else that changes during processing
- Descriptions are inserted into failing files if
they exist (allows ease if the sysop decides to keep it)
- Archives are detected on signature, not extension
- Added support for UC2, SQZ and ZOO
- Can allow unsupported file types to pass, and can also
warn the sysop of this
- Added support for embedded archives, can search 10
levels deep with unlimited number of embedded files
- Duplicates can be determined on bytes as well as files
- Nicer interface in UpSetup
- ANSI.SYS is no longer required to be loaded
- More options in UpUtils
- Can rename improperly named file extensions
- Fixed the slight chance of program hang if the user hung
up during the scan
- Improved the SHARE compatibility from 99.99% to 100.01% :)
March 12th, 1994 - Version 3.11 (public release)
- Added feature that allows the Sysop to receive a message
when the file fails
- Added feature to UpSetup that tells whether or not a file
or path exists, to assist in sleepy moments of 3am
configuration (this should save many hours of massive confusion)
March 11th, 1994 - Version 3.1 (beta release)
- Added features to UpUtils
- Fixed small bug in UpUtils that was claiming a file to be
a duplicate when it wasn't.
- Increased dupe checking speed in UpUtils
- Added feature to UpCheck that allows normal processing if
dropfile is not found. UpCheck will default to LOCAL mode
if the dropfile is missing. (However, the user won't get
a message if the file failed as the user's name is in
the drop file.) To ensure that UpCheck runs at full
capability, make sure that the drop file is present.
- Fixed a real stupid mistake with the releasing of a subdirectory.
- Made the detection of duplicate much more secure.
- Shrunk the memory requirements (only requires 60k
for itself now, down from 110k)
March 8th, 1994 - Version 3.0 (beta release)
- Added visual user interface
- Added support for writing hudsonbase messages
- Shrunk the size of the dupe database (35%)
- Sped up the checking of duplicate files
- Made configuration program to help make setup easy
- Made the UpUtils program, nice all-in-one version
of AddDesc, AddDupe and DupDesc!
- Improved looks and handling of log file
- Added statistics recording
March 3rd, 1994 - Version 2.0
- First public release of the program