Changes in the Beta-Test rules:

  From now on I won't give the beta-versions special version-numbers, this is
  coz I release a new versions almost every day, and it would be impossible
  for me to keep track of all version-numbers.

  Sometimes you'll see that the version-number has been changed, but not
  always. When you report bugs, please include the DATE of the PROGRAM and
  the RSC files!

  Expect a new version every third day, but sometimes it may take up to
  a week.


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History, from the 24/5-93 and forward.

24/5 : Fixed a bug in the CRLF routine, sometimes all lines would begin
       with CR. (The CRLF routine is the one that will let you show Amiga
        and MAC textfiles as they SHOULD look like .. this routine may be
        a bit slow sometimes ... )

25/5 : Added the filearea/conference selector ... Maximum 10 conferences,
       and 19 fileareas in each conference can be used.
       You can also call up the selector by pressing [ESC] from within the
       main file-display screen.
       (Note that pressing [ESC] is NOT the same as clicking on the close
        box in the window. That will END the program, no matter what screen
        you're in!)

28/5 : Well, now there's no more exams for atleast 3 months (school) ...
       Expect -=FAM=- and -=Bad Ad=- developement to go SKY HIGH now ..

29/5 : Added the [A]dd option. FAM will actually search ALL the
       subdirectories for new files. (Unlike RATSoft v1.6k-pre that will
        only search the specific area-path). You know, "Alternative File
       Devices" specified in the config program!?. Anyway, it  seems  to
       work OK here, even though it was written during some heavy C2H5OH
       consuming....[grin].... TRY IT OUT!!!

30/5 : Added an OFFLINE button in the EDIT dialog, also made some minor
       cosmetic changes in the main window.
       I know about the big bug where memory gets trashed .. I have no
       idea why this happends and I suspect it's GFA rather than FAM
       that's responsible...

2/6  : Pressing TAB while in the textviewer will now switch between the
       small font and the normal one, maybe only useful in resolutions
       with more than 400 y-pixels? (I'll maybe make this option work
        in the main file-selector window too.)

5/6  : Marking a file as deleted/offline will now give you the option to
       REALLY kill it, and editing a file that does not exist will make
       it offline.

11/6 : Graduated! ...got better grades than I expected... ;)

12/6 : Mark Matts suggested that I'd remove the 19-fileareas limit in
       the CONF/FILEAREA selecter ... hopfully that's now been taken
       cared of, and the limit is now 100 fileareas ... enuff! :-)
       
13/6 : Maybe found the big memory-trashing bug that has made FAM quite
       useless before!!!
       Please make some EXTENSIVE tests now, it actually seems to work!
       (The bug was bcoz windows needs static string-memory for the
        NAME and INFO fields, and GFA can't cope with that. Now I'm
        using a MALLOC:ed string-mem which should work!)
        
13/6 : Limited the use of the TAB key to switch between normal and
       small font to work only when the Y-character size is higher
       than 8 pixels. (ST-High and up that is)
       
13/6 : Ahead of RATSoft .. :-) ... Steve told me that in 1.6l (and in
        1.6k-pre if you have run the MF_ORDER fix program) you can choose
       what your conference-folders should be named (8 chars each).
       -FAM- will now use the names found on that line! (Which means that
        if you have v1.6k-pre but not run the above fix-program, it won't
        work!)
       -FAM- still assumes that you have the main-conference folders
       in your RATSoft root directory though! (Will be fixed later)
       
14/6 : Added the option to MARK files in a que. The marking is universal
       so you can have files from all fileareas and conferences marked at
       the same time. This que will be used when MOVING/COPYING/DELETING
       files later on. (At the moment it's not used for anything, just
        try it out!)
       Oh, almost forgot. Press SPACE when on a file to mark it...

14/6 : When editing or adding a file FAM will now copy the brief
       description to the first line of the full description if none
       is entered.
       
16/6 : Fixed the bug where moving the window downwards called up the edit-
       dialog. Hopefully everything else still works Ok.
       
16/6 : Selecting a filearea with a non-existing AREA.x file (newly created
        area that is) will now create a 0-byte AREA.x file.
       Adding files to an area containing no files now works Ok.
       
17/6 : [F] from the main file-selector will now call up the Edit Filearea
       dialog. Works exactly the same as $E in RATSoft.
       
17/6 : New option in the Edit-File dialog. Scan for file description files!
       -FAM- recognizes and inserts FILE_ID.DIZ and *.UPL files, even though
       I have no official format of the *.UPL files they never seem to be
       more than 5-6 lines long and no more than 75-80 characters per line.
       There's a bug I can't fix here, GFA's file-handling ... ehrm... I
       found a *.UPL file that looked OK, and it was viewable from all
       programs, but GFA will not understand when it reaches EOF ... thus
       crashing... Not -FAM-'s fault though!
       If you know of a "file-description" file format besides FILE_ID.DIZ
       and *.UPL - please let me know!
                            
23/6 : Borrowed the game CIVILIZATION from a friend ... uhh ... go and get
       it ... it hooked me up for quite a few days ... GREAT game!
       Anyway .... tried -FAM- on a 640*800 screen ... crashed ... it works
       now anyway .. hopefully it works on other big resolutions aswell...
       
24/6 : Many people have asked why I have the characters "A-Z..." in the left
       column .. well .. those were meant to be used as short-cuts .. but
       since it's so fast just to move the mouse or pressing the Arrow-Up,
       I've replaced them with RATSoft style numbers.
       Fixed the "double-refresh" bug when selecting a new area.

24/6 : -FAM- will now not open a window with more than 640 pixels width.
       (No need for that size)
       Also the "FULLER" box in the window will now half the screen, in all
       resolutions.

26/6 : I noticed that when trying to type a textfile in one ZIP archive I
       found, -FAM- would lock up ... but if I pressed CONTROL-C it would
       continue ... actually it's STZIP.TTP that hangs, and I haven't got
       the slightest idea why, the textfile can be viewed and extracted
       from STZIP with no problems ... If you think you know why this
       happens, please tell me! I've only found one archive that acted this
       way...
       
27/6 : Sometimes the fileselector you get when choosing [T]ype wouldn't
       show the last file in the archive, hopefully that's been fixed.
       
28/6 : Included in the .RSC are now colour versions of some of the dialogs.
       I use WORKOUT(39) to determine colour capability, and if the work-
       station has 1 or 2 colours (ST-Mono has 2!) -FAM- will use a pattern
       to emulate colours. (GFA-Basic's manual claims 1=Mono, dunno why.)
       
30/6 : The [S]earch dialog has been here a long time, but is hasn't been
       operational .. until now! Everything should work 100%, except the
       "Wildcard" option when searching FILENAME. That is bcoz I don't
       know of a good way to "simulate" TOS's own wildcarding routines.
       
2/7  : Anyone wanna send me a Videocrypt decoder and a fully functional
       card? I want to see all the new Videocrypted channels on Astra 1C!
       ...Ok...New option in the [S]earch dialog, UNIVERSAL search ...
       This will allow you to search all fileareas in a conference at
       the same time ... 
       
3/7  : Extended search options .. you can now (when -FAM- found a file
        matching the search specifications) choose between Editing the
       file, Type it, Set new position, Mark it in the batch que or
       continue searching. -FAM- will now also show the brief description
       of the file it found when asking you to choose.
       
4/7  : Made -FAM- fully compatible with the new Delete flags bugfix in
       RATSoft v1.6l ... hopefully it works OK ...
       (Notice that this bugfix means that all old files will have 0
        downloads now ... :-/ ... )
        
6/7  : If the FILE_ID.DIZ or *.UPL files have lines longer than 75 chars
       they will now be cut down to 75 chars. (Seems that some people
        don't understand that a standard is a standard .. I've recieved
        FILE_ID.DIZ with up to 80 chars ... That's WAY OFF!!!)
        
13/7 : If -FAM- doesn't find any new files when "A"dding, it will now ask
       you if you want to search in all the other areas too.
       
14/7 : "S"earch when viewing a textfile is now functional.

               
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Why FAM?

Coz I *LOVE* GEM programs, and I found that editing descriptions and other
file-related stuff in RATSoft was painfully complicated...

A Climax Software Product!

All coding by Rickard Troedsson.


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RATSoft/ST is a trademark of R0dent Laboratories Software and is (c)1993
  by R0dent Laboratories Software and Steve Hughey

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[Known bugs]

 NONE! (Atleast no big ones .. :-)
 
 
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 Please tell me what resolutions and machines you try it on!


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You have to have FAM in RATSoft's main folder, coz it'll use the following
files, assuming you have them all in the same directory as FAM itself!

   LHARC.TTP, STZIP.TTP, ARC.TTP, STUNARJ.TTP, ZOO.TTP, CONFIG.DAT
   v2.01l     v2.0 >     v6.02 >  v2.20        v2.14

Hope to hear from ya all .. regulary!

Rickard Troedsson, developer on Climax SoftWare.


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