MaxiSweep Historical information
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Late 88
        Early versions, mainly to interested testers on MBBS Leconfield.

8901
        First version generally released.

9004
        Go command reorganised to allow larger programs.

        Suggested by David Aldred:
        Find and Wildcard-tag with attributes.

        Released to interested testers only.

        Problem reported with Delete and Erase.

9005
        Problem with Delete and Erase corrected.

        Sugg. Richard Yorke & Shakib Otaqui:
        Go command, added parameters (copied into 80h and parsed into 5C & 6C).

        Sugg. Richard Yorke:
        Character for view one line put into patch area.

900516
        Sugg. Shakib Otaqui:
        Command line to allow more than just logging a drive (implemented by
        allowing any string of commands to be entered on command line, at the
        cost of removing the old form of command line -- instead of MS B: to
        go straight into drive B, now type MS LB:).  Multiple commands are
        separated by semicolon.

900517
        Sugg. Shakib Otaqui:
        Command line to allow suppression of video, so that MS can be used
        rather like LRUN to select a program from a library, without the
        delay associated with video display and scrolling (which is not very
        fast on machines such as the Epson PX-8).  Command '-'.  Also
        command '+' to turn display back on.

900519
        Idea from Dave Rand's PC NSWP:
        J command to jump to a file number in the directory to move
        around quickly.  Probably of most use for going back to the top
        of the directory (J1) and for shorter command lines when
        libraries have several files with rather similar names.

        Sugg. Richard Yorke:
        Mask in patch area for character for view one line (makes case
        independant letter possible, e.g. L or l for line, instead of space).

        Most of the recipients of this version used Amstrad PCWs -- this
        meant that I had to read the files on a DOS machine, take them
        to a friend with both a PC and a PCW and copy across a serial
        link to the PCW.  Unfortunately my shiny new 386 mangled some of
        the bytes (after strenuous efforts the supplier refunded my
        money).  Moral: altho' CP/M may not be the leading edge of
        technology, sometimes "tried and trusted" is better.

900601
        Cosmetic change to the menu.  Reason for new version only to
        ensure corrupt 900519 is easy to identify and hopefully will not
        be further distributed.

900604
        Rename sometimes resulted in the last file being removed from the
        display (though it was ok in the disk directory).  Corrected.

        Check for .com in 'G' command omitted check of middle letter
        (because I hoped to implement .cqm and .czm support, but this
        is not available).  Corrected.

900606
        Fixed bug in new command line feature that prevented successful
        use of semicolon separator in most situations.

        Small changes to save a few bytes, reducing size of ms.com to
        12K.

900609
        Further slight space reductions.

900613,14
        G command: Fix bug which caused 2nd param to overwrite 1st in
        FCB at 5Ch instead of 6Ch.  Reset DMA address to 80h, as some
        programs assume that CP/M has set this up already.

        Further space reductions, but size is still over 11.5K and
        unlikely to get down to 11K.

        +/- commands added in library mode.

900618
        P/V commands on an empty file produced garbage.  Due to my
        thinking that XOR A, DEC A would set the carry flag (what's
        wrong with SCF, I hear you mutter -- quite right, I'm a bit
        rusty with Z80 code these days).  This problem may also have
        affected other commands reading/copying files.  It existed in
        version 880613 and probably earlier.  Fixed.

900627
        Incorporate multi-sector transfers (CP/M 3 only) when copying,
        as suggested by Oliver Pretzel.  Copies large files more than
        twice as fast on an Amstrad PCW!  Still under 12K. Released in
        MS-9007.LBR

900701
        Some users want to use MS in submit files, and report problems.
        Changed to use BDOS function 11 instead of 6 in some places,
        which may help. This version released to a few selected users
        for testing.

900709
        Configuration option to allow running under TurboDos, as
        requested by Martin Taylor.  See MultiSectorIO in MSGLOB.MAC.

        In 'O' command ignore high bit when checking 'LBR'.  Fixes problem
        notified by Terence O'Keeffe with library files that have been
        backed up by using PIP option [A].

        "Unregistered" version created, with verbose message each time
        a disk is logged in.  Registered version available to users
        sending at least 5 pounds sterling (or $7 US).

        This version distributed by PCW-World, and therefore
        ready-configured for the Amstrad PCW.

        Just over 12K again.