XSET New Features

Version 5.52

• Internal release

Version 5.51

• Use 3 double quotes to actually store a double quote

Version 5.50

• Added support for /LFN and /-LFN in Windows 2000, XP, etc.

Version 5.49

• extended KEY command to accept non-printable characters as string specifier

Version 5.48

• Internal changes

Version 5.47

• Added real concurrency under Windows 2000 and XP
• under NT, real concurrency allowed with manual intervention (see XSET_TMP in XSET.TXT)

Version 5.46

• bug fix: character ALT-255 was not allowed in passwords
• bug fix: handles now very long filenames under NT, Windows 2000 and XP
• bug fix: year 2000 was not considered as a leap year
• bug fix: XSET_MSG was not always cleared under NT, Windows 2000 and XP

Version 5.44

• Bug fix when Windows 2000 installed on another drive than C:

Version 5.43

• Error messages exit automatically after 30 seconds

Version 5.42

• Extended compatibility with Windows 2000
• Shortened time-out in XSET32 concurrency check

Version 5.38

• Bug correction: /VIEW didn't work

Version 5.37

• Bug correction: Handling of special characters under NT (&|> etc.)

Version 5.36

• Bug correction: /APPEND problem on NT.

Version 5.35

• Bug correction: under some version of NT, XSET32 adds a 100 seconds delay in the processing.

Version 5.33

• Full support of long file names in Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000.
• /*LOWER and /*UPPER allow to convert to upper/lowercase with no translation for the characters with an accent.
• Extended support for scandinavian characters
• NT and OS/2: the current version will try to serialise calls to XSET 10 times and wait 10 seconds between each try. After 10 times, it will continue.

Version 5.29

• NT and OS/2: handles case where TEMP variable is not defined.
• Support for pathnames longer than 255 characters (like in NT).
• When not enough lines are found in an input file, set the variable XSET_MSG to END-OF-FILE.
• Support for dates after 2038

Version 5.22

• Added Windows 95 long filenames handling (/LFN and /-LFN)
• Added default date output format (/DATEFORMAT)
  
• Bug correction: characters with accents loosed them.

Version 5.21

• Bug correction in date handling

Version 5.10

• Remove line length restrictions for native NT and OS/2 command prompts

Version 5.00 - Major upgrade

• A huge boost in performances . . .
  Sometimes 20 times faster than before or even much more.
  I optimized the code a lot, but this incredible boost of performances was achieved by reducing the number of times you have to run the XSET program -- as starting and initializing a DOS application is the most lengthy part of XSET processing.
  So, I introduced two new ways of using the program to execute more commands than ever in one XSET run:

• Flags are now processed the order they appear on the command-line.
  This means that you may now use several times the same flag (with different arguments) in one shot instead of launching several times XSET.
• XSET now accepts to read commands from a file.
  You may now run XSET once and it will execute many commands that you specified in an input file (which may be the current batch file).
• DATE accepts an optional format string (like mm-dd-yyyy) to allow you to specify the date in any format you like.
• /SIZE has been replaced by ENVSIZE and ENVFREE to return the value in an environment variable.
• Enhanced compatibility with Windows 95, NT and OS/2 (Warp and Merlin).
  
• Bug correction in DRIVETEST which erroneously reported drives as CD-ROM under Windows 95.