Short: V2.5a AmigaDos Version replacement. Author: hparting@hem.passagen.se (Håkan Parting) Uploader: hparting@hem.passagen.se (Håkan Parting) Type: util/sys VersionWB is a replacement for the usual AmigaDos Version command, which now uses XfdMaster.library if available. If you want the version information to be presented in a requester, this program is for you. Instead of like c:version just tell the version and revision number by default, VersionWB always tells you all it could find. VersionWB have these features: * It will bring up a requester with the version information. * It support several files in the command line parameter template. * You can shift-doubleclick an icon with VersionWB and then get all that version stuff. * You may also pick the file you want to know the version number of by using a file requester. * It will find version strings in WB1.3 libraries and devices, c:version does not, e.g. narrator.device. * If you use it with ToolManager you can have an appicon in your Workbench. Drop the icon on the appicon, and the version information will be presented (if the file contains a version string :-) * It also has an optional text output. * It recognizes any packed file (uses xfdmaster.library). * All other features of AmigaDos Version, as far as I know 8-). * Can be opened on a publicscreen * Can set the filenote of files to there versioninfo. Changes from version 2.3: V.2.3 (16.02.97) PUBLIC RELEASE ------------------------------- NEW: optimization ... Uses D3-D7 insteed of USP. NEW: Tells you if a file is resident in memory. NEW: If a file is available in the current directory and one for instance do a VersionWB asl.library, one get the versioninfo of the file, and the resident one some lines below. BUGFIX: Imploded files were processed to many times. Could be a long wait ... Bug reported by Mario Cattaneo, Germany. Thanks! NEW: Uses XfdMaster.library which means it can recognize and decrunch almost any file. Suggested by Allan Odgaard, Denmark and Grzegorz Calkowski, Poland. NEW: It tells you which packer the file is packed with. When the file is packed it have to be loaded entirely into memory, in difference to normal files which is loaded in 10kB or 16 kB blocks. BUGFIX: Not all library-alike files was recognized as such, and the version info could only be found with 'smart version string search'. BUGFIX: Version of devices did not work since v. 2.2. V.2.3a (04.03.97) MINOR PUBLIC UPDATE ------------------------------------- BUGFIX: Possible memory trash when files with only version info (no name or date). Bug reported by Peter Schulz, Germany. Thanks! V.2.4 (16.03.97) PUBLIC UPDATE ------------------------------ BUGFIX: An empty requester was showed if no version info could be found in a resident file. BUGFIX: If a library-ID-string contain just the library name, versionwb will carry on searching for the $VER-string. The ID-String should point to string with library name and version and date ... Deficiency reported by Tony Björklund, Finland. V.2.4a (17.03.97) PUBLIC UPDATE ------------------------------ BUGFIX: Error messages was not showed. Instead "no version info could be found" was showed. :-( V.2.5 (22.03.97) PUBLIC UPDATE ------------------------------ BUGFIX: Bug fixed in v.2.3a was not properly fixed. Some files caused versionwb and the Amiga to crash very hard, because of memory trashing. This bug was very hard to find, because I was not aware of it. I use the MCP(by AlienDesign)-patch CopyMemQuick, and everyone who also do so shouldn't have had any crash like this (caused by versionwb). Bug reported by Tony Björklund, Finland and Radoslaw Chyra, Poland. V.2.5a (06.04.97) PUBLIC UPDATE ------------------------------ BUGFIX: Bug tried to fix in VersionWB 2.4 and 2.4a was back in 2.5! (empty requester or no requester at all) Aaarghh! BUGFIX: No all requesters were showed on the screen, given by PUBLICSCREEN argument. This program is Gift-Ware. Version 2.5a (06.04.97) Copyright 1994/1995/1996/1997 Håkan Parting ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 1352 718 46.8% 08-Apr-97 18:04:38 VersionWB.info 2733 1264 53.7% 16-Feb-97 15:24:52 +VersionCopy.dopus 20388 8643 57.6% 06-Apr-97 22:37:08 +VersionWB 26483 9963 62.3% 06-Apr-97 22:46:38 +VersionWB.guide 7623 1593 79.1% 08-Apr-97 18:05:14 +VersionWB.guide.info 1629 842 48.3% 08-Apr-97 18:04:38 +VersionWB.info 4233 1844 56.4% 06-Apr-97 22:46:28 +VersionWB2_5a.readme 4349 1124 74.1% 08-Apr-97 18:04:38 +VersionWB2_5a.readme.info -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 68790 25991 62.2% 08-Apr-97 22:59:32 8 files