-- v3.51 --
- Released: April 6, 1997!
- Bug Fixes:
- Star Gazer was telling me he thought the file was turning the More
Prompt OFF, but forgetting to turn it back on. Upon checking into
this, I noted that if an error occurred in the CNB program, or if
you opted to use the Create Archive command, this WAS the case. I
made these areas also re-enable the More prompt. I then noted that
the AMaint file was doing the same thing, which normally would NOT
have posed a problem, however if a user used the CNBA command, THEY
would lose their More prompt as well. The AMaint file now reenables
the More? Prompt as well.
- Changes/Additions:
- An idea that occurred to me 2 days AFTER releasing the 3.50 version
was to create a .BAK BackUp Set. I refer to this as a CLONE BackUp,
where instead of the file creating an LHA archive of the files in
the given BackUp Set, it simply CLONED them in the SAME paths, but
using a ".bak" extension. You can now create a BAK setup, where any
FILES or PATHS can be listed. Numerous internal changes had to be
made to both files:
- When ADDING the BAK set, you'll be allowed to enter the text
description and the interval days, while all other fields are
automatically filled in with "moot" values.
- By default, hitting ENTER in the Extension field while empty
used BAK as the extension. This was changed to CNB instead.
- When EDITING the BAK set, you'll ONLY be able to EDIT the text
description, interval days, and last backup date.
- While modifying the FileList for a BAK set, you'll NOT be
allowed to enter a filename ENDING in ".bak", nor will you be
able to EDIT or CLONE an existing file, so it ENDS in ".bak".
- When a CLONE (BAK) BackUp is performed, files in your FileList are
COPIED using the ADos COPY command, with the COM parameter. This
ensures that the COMMENT is ALSO copied to the backup file. By
default, the file's PROTECTION ATTRIBUTES are copied to the BAK
file. The TimeStamp will reflect the DATE/TIME the .BAK file was
created. Any EXISTING .BAK file that MAY exist is OVERWRITTEN by
the NEW, regardless of it's timestamp.
- No LOGS are created during the processing of a BAK set, however if
MISSING files are found, AMaint will still send a MAIL message to
SysOp ID # 1.
-- v3.50 --
- Released: March 9, 1997!
- Bug Fixes:
- None. (Were there any?!?)
- Changes/Additions:
- You can now specify complete PATHS in your backup sets. For example,
you could specify "systext:" and have ALL files located within the
systext directory backed up.
- Numerous additional options added to each backup set:
- Ability to set the PRIORITY to which LHA packs and tests it's
archives. (From -5 which uses very few system resources, but
at the cost of extra time being needed, to 5, which basically
takes over your system and results in the fastest creation)
- Ability to ONLY have the EMail messages sent to you if the
created archive contained integrity errors, or to receive the
mail whenever a backup is performed.
- Ability to use a "FAST" display mode, which makes LHA perform
a bit faster all around.
- Ability to NOT compress files initially. An archive containing
all listed files is created by simply storing the files in the
archive with NO compression. When the archive is created, the
archive itself is then packed. In certain circumstances, this
results in archives 20-30% smaller than those that are packed
initially from the start.
- Archive Test Integrity has been expanded to give the file the
ability of KNOWING when an archive fails an integrity test. It
can then take further precautions in these instances.
- A "clone" command has been added to the List-Add routines, so
that if you enter a LONG path, then have another file that is
very close to the first path, you can simply delete a few
characters and create the next item in your list.
- (I believe this one is old, but don't see it listed here). You can
now create an LHA archive directly, without having to create a
BackUp set first. In this instance, it is thought you will want to
additionally send this archive to a user on your bbs, so once the
archive is created, you'll be asked for an Account ID # to which
a piece of file-attach email will be sent to the user with the
created archive attached.
- Changes made to this feature include:
- The default filename presented is MMDDHHMM time stamp,
using 8 characters, to be compatible on IBM systems.
- If an ID number is specified, the created archive will be
copied to that user's mailbox before the mail is created.
This allows you to use the CNB to create other archives,
without losing the first archive before the user can down-
load it.
-- v3.01 --
- This version released February 10, 1997!
- Bug Fixes:
- There was a bug in the AMAINT module that resulted in only the
first backup list to be backed up, even if other lists were
present. (Had a variable conflict in there)
- Changes:
- Added the newer version headers and footers to both the CNetBackUp
and the CNetBackUpA files. Now uses smart version variables and the
parse source method of smart home path seeking.
-- Written by Dotoran of Frontiers --
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