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│ 15.10 │ Minor Release │
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Several requests from users have been addressed in this release. Also
please read the Q&A.MTA file (if it is present inside the archive).
■ Fixed another file-selection mask (OS2 problem) in MTA.CH1. Also a
couple of OS2 beta-testers have reported me that IBM has addressed
the problem and that there is a fix-file in the later OS2 betas
that can solve the problem;
■ Added the FileIDDiz option. When active, it will store the comment
inside this file into memory. This comment can later be added to
FILES.BBS (when ADDFilesBBS is on) and/or into the semaphore file
for the protocol-driver (StoreComment and /STOCOM, see later);
■ StoreSize, StoreName (see later) and StoreComment (see later) can
now also work when remote operation is NOT the case. Normally you
should use the command-line options (/STOSIZ, /STONAM, /STOCOM)
when you run MTA under a door (FileDoor). When you set the options
in MTA.CTL they will work also when remote operation is NOT the
case (again, unless you toggle the options to OFF with the same
command-line parameters as mentioned before);
■ StoreSize (/STOSIZ) has been expanded. You can now supply the
extension of the file (normally xxxxxxxx.XS1) when the caller needs
to access another extension (FileDoor 2.03 will need the extension
F$D);
■ Added the StoreName (/STONAM) option. It will create a file with
old and new names that can be used by a protocol-driver like the
FileDoor program. Only FileDoor 3.01 (and up) will work with this
semaphore file;
■ Added the StoreComment (/STOCOM) option. It will create a file with
comments from the header or FILE_ID.DIZ file. It can be used by a
protocol driver to overrule (supply) the comment of uploaded files;
■ Added SubstOn and SubstOff options to overrule the internal
sequence that MTA uses when paging directories to a substituted
drive;
■ The warning for using a Substituted drive is reversed. You will now
get a flashy warning when NOT using a substituted drive;
■ Added the %T macro in all exit-calls that can be used to assign
different batch-files for different tasks (when running multiple
tasks);
■ The call to LABEL.COM/EXE has been removed. MTA will now use some
internal coding to reset the volume-label to the original label (or
a dummy when no label was set), when archives contain volume labels
inside;
■ The CarryComment option did only allow the first 255 bytes of
archive-comments to be carried over to the new archive. This has
been enhanced to 64K of comment. There are several special tricks
involved to deal with ARJ-comments in this matter because of the
'multi-platform' 'compatible' matter ARJ stores the comment inside
the archives (removing part of the CR/LF sequence, resulting in
problems when carried over to other archivers);