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Copyrighted Pete Rocca & Multiboard Communications Centre, 1994
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║ UpCheck 5.01 - History ║
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May 1st, Version 5.01 (public release)
- Changed the EMS overlay system to full EMS/XMS/Disk
swapping capabilities
- 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
Wildcat, Telegard and Spitfire. (others?)
- Context sensitive help in UpSetup
- Any other ideas?
April 10th, 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, Version 4.01 (public release)
- allowed lowercase and !#$%^ characters in archiver setup
March 22nd, 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, 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, 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, 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, Version 2.0
- First public release of the program