Welcome to a brand new version of MaxFile/PM!

Most everything that was in version 1.10a is in 1.20. I have restructured the
FILES.BBS Window context menu so it takes up a little less real estate on the
screen when you bring it up and at the same time added a few things to it.

If you have registered MaxFile/PM and I haven't sent you a new registration key
yet, please contact me via netmail and I'll get your key to you post-haste..

MSGAPI32.DLL is required for this version of MaxFile/PM, if you don't already
have it... It comes as part of the Squish 1.10 package from Scott Dudley. Any
Maximus distribution site should have the Squish package available for
download, or you can file request SQSHP110.LZH from me. I can't legally
distribute the DLL with MaxFile/PM or I would. Please let me apologize in
advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

To get started with MaxFile/PM run the REXX command script INSTALL.CMD and
follow the prompts. It will lead you through the steps of getting MaxFile/PM
installed into its own directory. I *DO* recommend a clean install. However, if
you wish to use your old MAXFMPM.INI from a previous version, tell install to
use the directory that you have your current version of MaxFile/PM installed
in. The install is smart enough to find your old MAXFMPM.INI and modify it
accordingly.

As far as documentation is concerned, MAXFMPM.INF will always be current.
MAXFMPM.TXT won't be too far off, but it may not always follow the latest code
changes as closely as the Online Reference.

Have fun!

Craig

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Necessary files

  The only files absolutely needed for MaxFile/PM to operate correctly
  are:

        MAXFMPM.EXE
        MAXFMPM.INI
        EXECDOS.EXE
        MAXFMPM.TXT (Not absolutely needed, but does come in handy.)

  The rest are just examples and the documentation files.

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What's New (or been fixed)

    I may not always put everything that has changed in this section of
    this file. I get quite wrapped in the code and sometimes can't
    remember every little thing that I have worked on. But for the most
    part this section should be pretty accurate.

07-01-94

    Removed Origin line from File Announcement messages that are
    generated in a FILES.BBS window. REXX announcements are unaffected
    by this. Also bumped the max message size up to 32k since Squish
    1.10 can handle the larger message size now.

    Changed the way DOS archivers are handled, you can now configure
    them just like OS/2 based archivers.

    Added a few more REXX enhancements.

    Removed most of the directory sensitive code so that directory
    changes won't bring MaxFile/PM down in a nasty fashion.

    Cleaned up the install a little bit, it only copies the needed files
    to the destination directory.

    Increased buffer sizes for reading in FILES.BBS files.

    Added support for ZOO as per popular request.

    Fixed bug in recognizing archivers other than ZIP, ARC, ARJ or LZH.
    They ALL work now.. I have tested them all and added some suggested
    switches for all of them to MAXFMPM.TXT.

    Added a few more status reports to the FILES.BBS windows.

    A successful "touch" on a file now flags the File Database Utility
    so that it will run on the area(s) that files were touched in.

07-02-94

    If no adoptee extensions are set up, MaxFile/PM will no longer do an
    adopt.

    Rearranged the code that opens windows from the main file area
    window so that the queue wouldn't get blocked as long. All the open
    calls are now initiated by a WinPostMsg() call, this should help out
    with the problems that were occurring under 2.11. I wish I could do
    this in another thread, but PM doesn't allow it..

    Squashed a little buglet that occurred when opening a window from the
    Search Results dialog box. Before, if you opened a window from that
    dialog you couldn't bring the main window to the front unless you
    closed the window you opened.

    Added another command file to the distribution archive, SHOWINI.CMD.
    Its sole purpose in life is to report the pertinent INI information
    to standard output.

07-03-94

    Final registration incentives added in preparation for standard
    release. It's put or shut up time. :-(

    Adoptee extensions were being ignored, because the code was missing
    to parse filenames for the Adopt function. Whoops! It's been fixed.

07-05-93

    Increased maximum line lengths to accommodate both the 8.3 filename
    and a description for each entry in a FILES.BBS file. When an
    extended description marker is defined the maximum line length is
    now 1036 characters (8+1+3+1024), otherwise the line length is
    limited to 278 characters (8+1+3+256).

    Fixed a little problem with the case sensitivity of ZIP and UNZIP
    when trying to extract a FILE_ID.DIZ from ZIP archives.

    Overlooked the ^D hotkey for Remove Items, its back in now.

    Fixed the overwrite code for drag and drop, it now works as
    advertised.

07-06-93

    BC++ libraries strike again.. For some odd reason, free() was
    trapping on certain size FILE_ID.DIZ's (241 characters), beats the
    hell out of me why it was doing it, heap corruption could be a
    possible cause. Fixed by using DosAllocMem()/DosFreeMem() instead of
    the library functions.

    Solved the problem with context menus not appearing, PM's heap was
    filling up which in turn stopped the menus from loading. I am now
    explicitly destroying each menu when it is no longer needed. This
    should also clear up a few other PM related problems.

    When unprintable characters are stripped from incoming FILE_ID.DIZ
    files all extra whitespace is now removed. Makes for a cleaner
    import. Any truncations that may occur are done AFTER the garbage is
    stripped out.

    Tweaked the menu handling code to work a little better, this fix is
    mostly cosmetic.

07-07-93

    Added another button to the button bar.. Format Descriptions.
    (Elliott? ;-)

    When a program macro is run against a file in a FILES.BBS window
    MaxFile/PM now checks the file statistics against what is stored in
    the container record and updates the container record if they don't
    match.

07-08-94

    First draft of the Online Reference is included. It doesn't have any
    jumps in it yet, but it is still VERY readable.

07-09-94

    Fixed the settings notebook so the error reporting message boxes
    don't go into an endless loop requiring MaxFile/PM to be killed by
    another process.

    'Format Description' will now always strip whitespace from
    descriptions and remove any present extended description
    characters. This makes for a cleaner description.

07-12-94

    Reinstalled the Performance Beta 1 to evaluate MaxFile/PM's
    performance. It works, no hangs so far.

    Tweaked EXECDOS code, there was a possibility that a return code
    from it could be bogus and meaningless. Not anymore..

    Reinstalled 2.10 and applied the service pack.. (Ick!) So I could do
    some more testing. 2 days, 3 different versions of OS/2..

    Removed presentation parameter calls for setting the fonts for MLE
    controls. This should help with 2.11 and its picky nature.

07-14-94

    Small problem occured if no FILES.BBS was found for a file area, no
    files in the download path were added to the container for that
    area. Fixed..

07-15-94

    Fixed Trap when there was no FILES.BBS for a file area and the
    directory was empty.

07-16-94

    MAJOR change in the way the Insert->File option on the FILES.BBS
    context menu works. It does *NOT* copy the file anymore, instead it
    inserts the file with a *_FULLY QUALIFIED PATH_* into the FILES.BBS.

