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=== SvarCOM's history / changelog ===
=== ver 2024.4 (16.08.2024) ==================================================
- /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 (thank you ECM for all your help!)
=== 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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