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│ 15.35 │ Minor release │
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■ Fixed a big number of strange bugs that were caused by one of the
included commercial PASCAL routines. These routines weren't outdated
but did work incorrectly. I now have included routines of my own
that work OK (after a long period of testing). Anything from hangups
to incorrect functions could occur is some special cases. These all
apply to every included program;
■ Fixed some bugs in the logic where MTA would copy comments from one
FILES.BBS to another. This should now work fine;
■ Fixed a problem where MTA would not report the name of the type of
VIRUS-scan program into the MTA.LOG. The name you have assigned to
a certain VIRUS-scanner will now be showed remote and inside the
log-file;
■ Fixed a problem where MTA would detect arc-in-arc files with the
extension being a valid archive. In these cases MTA would try to
extract the file (it will still do this) and would MOVE the file to
the error-directory (this is removed). These files were thus not
included anymore in the target-archive, which was incorrect. Any
incorrect file inside a NESTED-archive (arc-in-arc) is now left as
it was, independent of any extraction-results;
■ Fixed various problems with AV-codes (both ZIP and ARJ). You should
consult the AVCODES.TEC file inside the MTA__TEC.EXE archive to read
all about the problems with AV-codes;
■ Fixed a flaw where MTA would report 'Mask file not found' where it
really meant 'No files selected'. This would occur if you use the
pick-list to tag files and did not tag any file at all;
■ Fixed a problem where MTA would bail out after a number of files.
This was only the case when the UPDATEMSGFILES option was active. As
it was, MTA kept one file-handle open, causing the file-handles to
exhaust. MTA would report various problems, from invalid extractions
to invalid files;
■ Converted the MTA package to Borland TP 7.0. Users can apply for a
very special version of MTA, compiled under StonyBrook Pascal, which
can EXECUTE overlays in EMS. This version is still under development
but if you need such a version, please send a message to me;
■ The pick-list will always scan the directory where it is started and
in previous releases this could not be aborted. Now you can hit ESC
when it is taking you too long;
■ Changed the detection code for PKZIP 2.xx AV-files. These were not
reported by earlier MTA versions (only PKZIP 1.93 or higher with
included AV-codes). See the AVCODES.TEC file inside MTA__TEC.EXE
for details;
■ Changed the detection code for SQZ 1083. This version is now able
to generate AV-codes which can be detected by MTA. Also the new
SQZ1083 structures are detected and handled correctly;
■ If you use the /@ command-line option (to use a file with filename
to convert), MTA will now also swap to the supplied directory. There
is still one flaw (see /@ documentation) of minor interrest;
■ Added a new command-line parameter /DEBUG. For details, see the file
MTADEBUG.TEC inside the MTA__TEC.EXE file, which is included inside
the release archive;
■ Added a new option KEEPAVNOCODE to keep AV-codes EVEN if there is no
AV-number available or no AV-owner can be extracted. This was the
default behaviour of all MTA versions BEFORE 15.30. In 15.30 I did
change it in a way that these files were always converted (as if
there wasn't any AV-code). If you want the pre 15.30 behaviour again
in MTA, you can include this option;
■ Added a new option NOCLOAKEDARCHIVES (in combination with the new
command-line parameter /NOCLOAK) to detect archives that contain
an file inside with the same name as the original archive;
■ Added an extra parameter on the MTAERRORPATH option. You can set the
parameter if you want MTA to terminate when there are more than the
specified number of FILES or BYTES present in the error-directory;
■ Added coding to use the ORIGINAL CJPEG.EXE and DJPEG.EXE programs
from the Independent JPEG Group <tm>. The default is still to use
the Handmade Software <tm> GIF2JPEG.EXE and JPEG2GIF.EXE programs
but with the STANDARDJPEG option set, you can now also use the
original programs;
■ The options to overrule/add parameters for GIF2JPEG and JPEG2GIF
programs, are extended to 80 characters to accomodate the longer
parameters needed for CJPEG.EXE and DJPEG.EXE;
■ Added the MTV program to the MTA package. MTV is a fast file-finder
program with macro options and with detection of archives. The old
MTV program (which was a stand-alone package) is now obsolete and
replaced with this shape-up version;