ESS-Code 6.2: N E W F E A T U R E S & B U G F I X E S
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Please note that this list of new features and bug fixes is in
chronological order; new information will appear at the end of the
list.
[ESS-Code 6.0: June 16, 1994]
* * * I M P O R T A N T N O T I C E ! * * *
As a direct result of the growing investment of time and effort
placed into this application, ESS-Code is now a SHAREWARE product.
Users who register ESS-Code will receive a disk with the latest
version of ESS-Code (optimized), and a registered (optimized,
personalized) version of MasterBrowse (which also includes MasterPrint,
AutoDate, ACC-Pad, ShadowTerm II, and a coupon for a free catalog from
Suzy B's Software and a $3 credit toward the purchase of a disk from
the Suzy B's Software collection).
The continued development of ESS-Code depends _solely_ on user
contributions; if no such contributions are received, this
application will not be developed further.
For more information on registration, please read the "Registration"
section of this manual.
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NEW FEATURE: ESS-Code now supports MIME-Encoding/MIME-Decoding. The
MIME conversion method is rapidly replacing all other
conversion methods; it is not as fast as some, but it
generates very compact output and is extremely
reliable. The MIME conversion method is supported on the
UNIX, Amiga, Macintosh, IBM, and Atari computer
platforms.
NEW FEATURE: ESS-Code now has an expanded command line interface; the
previous command line interface is still present (for use
as an installed application). The new method consists of
eight possible commands; the commands are not case
sensitive, but the commands and arguments must appear in
exactly the order shown below:
-uue [source] [destination file]
-uud [source] [destination file]
-btoa [source] [destination file]
-atob [source] [destination file]
-ship [source] [destination path]
-unship [destination file] [source] [source] [...]
-mime [source] [destination file]
-unmime [source] [destination file]
For control over the segment size, use the "SEGSIZE"
environment variable. If ESS-Code is called in
command line mode, it will set the segment size
according to the value in that environment variable.
NEW FEATURE: The entire ESS-Code manual is now available at any time
from within ESS-Code (if the ST-Guide accessory is
installed). By making the online help external, the
overall program size is reduced and the quality of the
online help is vastly improved. If you want to move the
"ESSCODE.HYP" file out of the ESS-Code directory, you
must define the "ESSHELP" environment variable; it should
contain the full pathname of "ESSCODE.HYP".
ST-Guide is available on many FTP sites, commercial services,
and public access bulletin board systems. If requested,
a copy of the ST-Guide archive can be placed on the disk
sent to registered users.
[ESS-Code 6.1: June 29, 1994]
NEW FEATURE: ESS-Code can now handle MIME-Encode/MIME-Decode requests
from the operating system, or when ESS-Code is called as
an installed application. Valid extensions for a
MIME-Encoded file are ".M", ".MIM", & ".MIME" (case
sensitive).
[ESS-Code 6.2: October 6, 1994]
BUG FIX: ESS-Code will now work with the Falcon (in any resolution)!
The solution to this problem was presented by Christian
Grunenberg, the author of EnhancedGEM (the GEM library
that ESS-Code uses).
BUG FIX: ESS-Code will now move files to the proper destination
location if SHIP-Encoding is used.
-Michel Forget
Electric Storm Software
October 6, 1994