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A-Shell Development History

1409.3.1

LOAD.LIT 3.0(110) fixes a problem with loading PFK files. They loaded, but didn't work. Problem was introduced in 6.0.1000. (Apparently PFK files are not commonly used!)

1409.3.2

APN.LIT 1.0(105) fixes problem with new files being created with upper case names, which interfered with APN file extension matching rules. Also it now allows files with no extension (using explicit trailing "."), and properly handles some legal but unusual variations of AMOS-style specs, e.g. "[5,6]FNAME".

1409.3.3

PDFX bug fix: Email.Content handling was in some cases causing a GPF or simply generating garbage content in the email message.

1409.2.1

PDFX bug fix: Email.Type,5 wasn't working.

1409.2.2

PDFX5/XTREE bug fix: The XTREE print operation was generating a PDFX error in the case were PDFX5 was licensed but no PDFX printing had yet been done in the session. Note that when printing XTREE to PDFX, you should use the "PDF-X/A-Shell-<jobname>" printer. This one will have been been pre- configured to work with the XTREE print preview, and unlike the case with PDFX version 3, will recognize the license and omit the demo watermarks.

1409.2.3

DSKCOM.SBR bug fixes: Aliasing COMMON to DSKCOM (ALIAS=COMMON,DSKCOM) wasn't working as expected. Also DSKCOM was not defaulting to destructive read like it should to match the COMMON behavior and documentation.

1409.1

XTREE control (SftTree_IX86_U_70.dll) updated to version7.02, adding support for Windows 10 and fixing a minor problem with column width in Print Preview mode being slightly too narrow, causing an ellipsis where the entire column contents should have displayed.

1409.0.1

XTREE enhancement: new xtr'miscflags option XTMF_NOEXTARGET (&h80) addresses an obscure situation involving dual editable trees. Normally, if the user clicks on Tree #2, row X, col Y while editing Tree #1, the return value of xtr'targetrow and xtr'targetcol will be set according to clicked cell in the external Tree #2. xtr'xrow / xtr'xcol will be set to the cell Tree #1 that was last active at the time of that external click. If the new XTMF_NOEXTARGET flag is set, the location of click in the external tree is ignored and the returned xtr'targetrow / xtr'targetcol will be set the same as xtr'xrow / xtr'xcol, i.e. to the cell last active before the click. A rationale for this subtle feature may be found in the A-Shell Forum post http://www.microsabio.net/ubb2/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=5;t=001454

1409.0.2

DUMP.LIT 1.0(106) fixes a problem in which the /L switch being interpreted as part of the filename.

1409.0.3

DIR.LIT 3.3(155) refines the operation of the /1 switch to remove the trailing blanks from the output, making it much more like the UNIX ls -1 utility that it is modeled after.

1409.0.4

PAGE.LIT 1.0(103) fixes a bug in which it was treating any /? on the command line as a request to display the PAGE.LIT syntax help, rather than the syntax help of another command—e.g. PAGE DIR/? now pages the output of DIR/? rather than PAGE/?.