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                    === SvarCOM's history / changelog ===

=== ver 2024.4 (xx.xx.2024) ==================================================

 - /P is implied when SvarCOM is the init shell (works in DR-DOS and MS-DOS 5)

 - DR-DOS compatibility: F5/F8 boot key presses are detected and handled

 - VER command: provides extended kernel information when available

 - fixed COMSPEC respawning when SvarCOM is aborted through CTRL+C

 - when COMMAND.COM respawn fails, the exact path that was tried is displayed

 - CTRL+C can abort the ongoing batch files or for loop

 - EDR-DOS kernel ("config") environment is used as the initial (master) env

 - SvarCOM provides its own INT 24h handler

=== ver 2024.3 (25.07.2024) ==================================================

 - PROMPT: supports $v, $d and $t tags

 - fixed COMMAND/C processing of batch files and FOR loops (bugz #74)

=== ver 2024.2 (20.02.2024) ==================================================

 - DIR command: added /O support

 - DIR command: %DIRCMD% support

 - command-line parsing modified to work around a DN bug. Thanks to Robert

   Riebisch for reporting the issue and to E. C. Masloch for locating the root

   cause. ref: https://github.com/SvarDOS/bugz/issues/67

 - implemented the internal LH / LOADHIGH command

 - SET command: failure to update an env variable does not delete the variable

 - COPY command: timestamps of copied files are preserved

=== ver 2024.1 (17.01.2024) ==================================================

 - EDR-DOS compatibility fixes: resident module's PSP is being patched with

   cleared JFTs and its parent fields are rewired to SvarCOM. Many thanks to

   E. C. Masloch (pushbx) for suggesting this.

 - updated SvarLANG.lib to ver 20230730

=== ver 2023.1 (17.02.2023) ==================================================

 - improved BR translations (courtesy of Luzemario Dantes)

=== ver 2023.0 (06.02.2023) ==================================================

 - added a dummy INT 0x2E handler

 - added BR translations (courtesy of Luzemario Dantes)

=== ver 2022.4 (12.04.2022) ==================================================

 - SET command: fixed upcasing of var names with high-ASCII chars [#44145]

 - PATH command: path is always upcased [#44146]

 - DIR command: output adapted to 40-columns screen modes [#44153]

 - DIR command: make use of thousands separator for file sizes [#44151]

 - tabs are accepted as command-line separators (part of [#44145])

 - PSP FCB fields of launched apps are filled with cmdline arguments [#44268]

=== ver 2022.3 (13.03.2022) ==================================================

 - fixed stdin redirection handling (was broken since 2022.1) [#44027]

 - only COM, EXE and BAT files are allowed for execution [#44068]

 - FOR command: accepts control characters as pattern delimiters [#44058]

 - FOR command: patterns without wildcards are processed as messages [#44058]

 - implemented the TRUENAME command [#44051]

 - DIR command: /a:xxx is supported like an equivalent to /axxx [#44077]

 - VER command: displays DOS memory location (low, HMA, ROM...) [#44050]

 - VER command: displays true DOS version and DOS rev (bttr) [#44050]

 - REN command: allows renaming directory names [#44060]

 - implemented CTTY and LOADHIGH/LH as no-ops (LH loads programs low)

 - LN creates %DOSDIR%\LINKS directory when needed and warns on error [#44042]

 - LN ADD outputs an error message when link already exists [#44043]

 - added Polish translations

 - added German translations, courtesy of Robert Riebisch (bttr)

 - added French translations, kindly contributed by Berki Yenigun (thraex)

 - added Turkish translations, submitted by Berki Yenigun (thraex)

 - fixed and improved English help screens

=== ver 2022.2 (04.03.2022) ==================================================

 - added support for the internal FOR command

 - step-by-step execution of batch files (/Y)

 - fixed parsing of /C and /K arguments that was leading to spurious warnings

 - fixed %var% matching within batch files to be case-insensitive [#44000]

=== ver 2022.1 (28.02.2022) ==================================================

 - added GOTO support (jumps to a labelled line within a batch file)

 - added CALL support (calls batch files from within batch files)

 - DOS errors are output to stdout, and also to stderr if stdout is redirected

 - fixed batch processing with /C (was executing only first command)

 - stack overflow detection degrades gracefully by invalidating command-line

   history (useful if a stack-hungry TSR overflows the RMOD stack)

 - multi-lang support relies on SvarLANG.lib instead of its own routines

 - made all SvarCOM strings localizable

 - added partial German translations (kindly provided by Robert Riebisch)

=== ver 2022.0 (01.02.2022) ==================================================

 - added "global executable links" support (new command: LN)

 - prompt fixed when current drive becomes invalid (eg. empty diskette drive)

 - piping support (like dir/b | sort)

 - DIR: fixed /P pagination in wide mode

 - DIR: implemented /A

 - implemented IF command (IF EXIST, IF ERRORLEVEL, IF str==str)

 - added a break handler (running application can be aborted with CTRL+C)

 - DOS error messages are output to stderr

=== ver 2021.0 (24.11.2021) ==================================================

 - first public release, after roughly a month of work

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