Revision History of FIPS
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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

- now supports more than two harddisks on a PC

- some minor fixes


Version 0.1 alpha - april 12, 1993

Initial Release

