- Bugfix: Removed the code for detecting the Linux DOS Emulator because
it caused a hangup on some machines.
Version 1.0 - may 3, 1994
- Added code to detect the OS FIPS is running under (thanks to Dave
McCaldon). This is to make sure that FIPS is not run in a multitasking
OS. Does not yet detect OS/2 and Novell Task Manager.
- First official release. There have been few bug reports in the test phase
and only one serious problem (with OS/2 dual boot). It is addressed in
detail in the doc.
Version 0.9.3 beta - march 31, 1994 (not publicly released)
- Some minor corrections for compatibility with Borland C++ 4.0
- Bugfix: "FAT too small" error with some configurations corrected
Version 0.9.2 beta - march 25, 1994 (not publicly released)
- Documentation revised, information about use with OS/2 added, features
of DOS 6.x taken into account
- -quiet and -s switches removed
- Drive detection code changed, this hopefully solves the problem with
the 'Too many drives found' error
Version 0.9.1 beta - january 21, 1994 (not publicly released)
- Select the start cylinder for the new partition with the cursor keys
- Automatically check for free space even before prompting for the
new start sector
- A nasty bug in the partition reordering procedure that caused FIPS to
fail in some cases was removed
- Slight bug in class definition corrected
Version 0.9 beta - november 7, 1993
- Save files on floppy (root and boot sector) are not overwritten -
there may be up to ten save files on a disk.
- Verbose error messages are now displayed by default, -verbose switch
has been removed.
- A minor error resulting in a 'division by zero' error with some invalid
bootsectors has been corrected
Version 0.8 beta - july 23, 1993
- A minor correction to the documentation
- No changes in the program from version 0.3. This is the first beta re-
lease. It is intended to be available to a wider audience.
Version 0.3 alpha - june 8, 1993
- FIPS is now completely translated to C++ (for easier maintenance and
programming experience)
- Explanation of the calculation of the new starting cylinder improved
- FIPS was reported to work with Stacker and SuperStor
Version 0.2.2 alpha - may 26, 1993 (not publicly released)
- partition table reordering improved - non-dos partitions remain in their
slots
- all necessary header files now included (sorry about that, my compiler
does not complain about missing prototypes)
Version 0.2.1 alpha - may 5, 1993 (not publicly released)
- bugfix: minimal cylinder number for start of new partition now calculated
correctly on drives with 16 sectors per cluster
- some improvements/simplifications to the code
Version 0.2 alpha - april 27, 1993
- added commandline switches to override certain error messages and
use FIPS non-interactively
- test mode without writing added
- debug mode added (writes a session transcript + additional info to a file)
- more informative error messages
- display of verbose error messages may be selected
- error checking is now more 'dos-like' (more unusual configurations
accepted)
- possibility to reedit the partition table without restarting the program
- added the number of megabytes to the partition table display
- now works correctly with drives that only have one free partition
