fred@cv.ruu.nl (Fred Appelman) (04/09/91)
Hi,
I am looking for users of the program BackupST. I have collected the
bug reports and wish lists for a while and BackupST 1.22 is the result
of it. If you are a current user of BackupST I invite you to become a
beta tester of the new program. The documentation is not updated yet,
so if you are a new user, you better not become a beta tester.
The following is a brief list of the news features/bug fixes in the
new release.
1. Single program instead of 2 programs. Bfront is disapeared. The oply
program left is BackupST.prg. The 'ttp' interface is gone too.
2. Bug fix: files which were located on a disk boundary had a high chance
of being damaged.
3. Bug fix: The number of files/directories reported at the end was double the
actual amount.
4. Screen flipping: Is improved. It should work now on all monitors.
5. Archive bit is set after the backup is done. This means that if you abort
the backup process half way for some reason, the archive bit is not
effected.
6. 'q' works in more. This means that you can stop a listing when you have
found what you are looking for.
7. List outputs to screen, disk or printer.
8. The welcome scene is changed somewhat.
9. Sound can be enabled/disabled. Some people found the bell annoying.
10. '$' in filename bug fixed. Not a lot of people acutually reported this
bug. If a special character (^$.*[]) was present in the filename, it
caused enless loops in some cases.
11. You can specify files/dirs to be skipped. Also wildcard are supported.
(e.g. *.bak *.o d:/tc d:/tex etc.)
If you want to become a beta tester, please mail me. If will send you
the program by mail. Between 5 and 10 testers would be great.
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Fred J.R. Appelman, 3D Computer Vision, Utrecht University
AZU, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Telephone: +31-30-506710 Fax: +31-30-513399
e-mail: fred@cv.ruu.nl or appelman@cs.unc.edu