What's New With Robelle

What's New at Robelle

• HP has stopped selling the HP 3000, but we will support it as long as users want our support.

• We continue to enhance our MPE products as well as our HP-UX versions. And the flow of enhancements has accelerated, including many-to-many links, subtotals, numeric edits, and much more in Suprtool. Check whether you have the current versions.

• Robelle was the first 3000 vendor to support the IMAGE-lookalike database, Eloquence.

• Web downloads now make for faster distribution of our software.

• Manuals are now available in three formats: PDF and HTML-Help, as well as on paper.

• We published a new book about MPE - HP 3000 Evolution - that covers homesteading, system tune ups, and migration.

What's New in Suprtool

The Current Production Release

The Current "Pre-release" for Testing

In Development

Changes in Previous Suprtool Versions

In-Development for Suprtool

Suprtool Pre-Release Version

Suprtool 5.0.15 / 5.0.17 (HP-UX)

• The ST-COUNT field name was not written out properly when Set SDExtname was on and dup none keys was used. The FILLER- fields were written out fine.
• The Table command would fail if Set SDExtname was on and both the input source and the table files were built with extended names and the sorted option was used. (HP-UX 5.0.16)
• Support for extended names in Suprtool and Suprlink.
• Total $file did not work properly in Suprtool for AMXW. (AMXW)
• KSAM input files were not opened with ;shr;lock. (AMXW)
• STExport did not handle files with 256 fields in an SD file.
• Request a download.
• Suprtool for MPE Change Notice
• Suprtool for HP-UX Change Notice
• Suprtool for AMXW Change Notice

Production Version of Suprtool

Suprtool 5.1 MPE

• Suprtool can now execute the if and extract expression $stddate($days(a) + 10) in one task.
• STExport did not handle files with 256 fields in an SD file.
• Suprtool now Supports Indexes and Third-Party Indexes that have a type of Z.
• Suprlink has had some internal changes, mainly in terms of some of it's data structures and information about the link file(s).
• Set stat on did not look at the correct flag when being parsed.
• STExport XML command did not convert compound items (2)..(n) properly.
• Multiple literal compares now work in the if command.
• If $lookup can now return the data portion loaded into a table to use in a comparison.
• Suprtool now reads NM KSAM files with MR NOBUF if an IF command is specified. (MPE only)
• STExport HTML command did not calculate the maximum record size properly in some cases. (MPE only)

Suprtool 5.1 HP-UX

• Suprtool can now execute the if and extract expression $stddate($days(a) + 10) in one task.
• Support for extended names in Suprtool and Suprlink.
• STExport did not handle files with 256 fields in an SD file.
• Suprtool for HP-UX and AMXW would not close the previously opened database when a new base command was issued with database name. (HPUX/AMXW only)
• Suprtool now Supports Indexes and Third-Party Indexes that have a type of Z.
• Suprlink has had some internal changes, mainly in terms of some of it's data structures and information about the link file(s).
• Set stat on did not look at the correct flag when being parsed.
• Suprtool now allows you to specify the "lp" program by setting the variable ROBELLE_LP. (HP-UX)
• Reset Output would not properly reset the output filename in HP-UX and AMXW versions of Suprtool. (HP-UX, AMXW)
• Set VarsubCompat did not work in STExport and the default was set to on incorrectly.
• Set VarsubDebug has been added to look at the line after variable substitution has occured.
• Suprlink and STExport can now be run with -cv argument to turn on the VarsubCompat flag. (HP-UX and AMXW)
• STExport XML command did not convert compound items (2)..(n) properly.
• Multiple literal compares now work in the if command.
• If $lookup can now return the data portion loaded into a table to use in a comparison.
• Suprtool for HP-UX would fail with a DBGET failure on a directed read if fastread was on and if the record number specified did not have a record in the slot previous to the start record number. (HP-UX only)
• Suprtool2 would fail to detect the ROBSUPR variable even if set in some cases. (AMXW only)

Suprtool 5.1 AMXW

• Suprtool can now execute the if and extract expression $stddate($days(a) + 10) in one task.
• Total $file did not work properly in Suprtool for AMXW. (AMXW)
• KSAM input files were not opened with ;shr;lock. (AMXW)
• Suprtool for HP-UX and AMXW would not close the previously opened database when a new base command was issued with database name. (HPUX/AMXW only)
• Suprtool now Supports Indexes and Third-Party Indexes that have a type of Z.
• Suprtool for AMXW would abort when trying to get file system error messages from AMXW intrinsics.
• Suprlink has had some internal changes, mainly in terms of some of it's data structures and information about the link file(s).
• Set stat on did not look at the correct flag when being parsed.
• Reset Output would not properly reset the output filename in HP-UX and AMXW versions of Suprtool. (HP-UX, AMXW)
• Suprtool for AMXW build version had a conflict with the Dateline intrinsic. (AMXW)
• Suprlink and STExport had an issue detecting the AMXW shell with some versions of AMXW. (AMXW)
• Suprtool, STExport and Suprlink all set the outcount variables by default just like they do on MPE. (AMXW)
• Set UserLabels on now works in Suprtool for AMXW just like it does in the MPE version. (AMXW)
• Set Filecode 0 will work if Set UserLabels is set to off. (AMXW)
• Suprtool would fail with Fgetinfo failure when output is to stdlist (out *) and a sort is specified. (AMXW)
• Suprtool for AMXW would use the file size stored in the SD label as opposed to the actual physical file size that AMXW uses. (AMXW)
• Suprtool would not abort nor return an error message when the AMXW FPOINT intrinsic would fail when trying to append to an output file greater than 2Gb. Suprtool now aborts with an error message and Speedware has fixed FPOINT to work with files > 2Gb. (AMXW)
• Error handling has been improved when creating or opening large files. (AMXW-only)
• Set VarsubCompat did not work in STExport and the default was set to on incorrectly.
• Set VarsubDebug has been added to look at the line after variable substitution has occured.
• Suprlink and STExport can now be run with -cv argument to turn on the VarsubCompat flag. (HP-UX and AMXW)
• STExport XML command did not convert compound items (2)..(n) properly.
• Multiple literal compares now work in the if command.
• If $lookup can now return the data portion loaded into a table to use in a comparison.
• Suprtool for HP-UX would fail with a DBGET failure on a directed read if fastread was on and if the record number specified did not have a record in the slot previous to the start record number.
• Suprtool2 would fail to detect the ROBSUPR variable even if set in some cases. (AMXW only)

• Request a download.
• Suprtool for MPE Change Notice
• Suprtool for HP-UX Change Notice
• Suprtool for AMXW Change Notice

Changes in Previous Suprtool Versions

Suprtool Version 5.0

MPE

• Set InitExtents setting has been added to reduce the size of the extent B-trees for some systems. Keep in mind that this will increase the size of the chunks that it needs to have for large files. (4.9.05)
• Suprtool had some internal messages printing out on stdlist when the Table command was used. (4.9.04)
• Set Itemlock command has been added to support Item level locking. (4.9.04)
• Update from a table would incorrectly update records with spaces if the record was not found. (4.9.04)

HP-UX

• Suprtool for HP-UX now has a set command called Set HPUXCMDERR that will allow you to configure which commands are not considered fatal errors when running in batch.(4.9.06)
• The $split function would abort on some systems if the $split character was the last character in the string. (4.9.06)
• Ground work has been done in Suprtool to support longer fieldnames in self-describing files. This feature is being added to the next version of Suprlink and then it will be released. (4.9.05)
• Suprtool for HP-UX and AMXW had some timer call information disabled which meant that progress messages have incorrect Wall time statistics. (4.9.05)
• Suprtool for HP-UX would occasionally fail with mmap errors in some environments.(4.9.04)
• The Base command on it’s own did not close the current database like it did on MPE.(4.9.04)
• Suprtool for AMXW would fail with a dbstatus 17, No current record found when doing an update or delete operation with Set Fastread on and Set Lock 0.(4.9.04)
• Set varsubcompat flag has been added to control how variable substitution behaves on HP-UX.(4.9.04)
• STExport would fail if the input file did not have any line feeds and the XML command would in effect.(4.9.04)
• Oracle load warning messages are no longer printed by default.(4.9.04)
• Dynamic loading of Oracle and Eloquence libraries is improved.(4.9.04)
• Suprtool would abort if an invalid password was specified in some cases.(4.9.04)

AMXW

• The $split function would abort on some systems if the $split character was the last character in the string. (4.9.06)
• In Suprtool for AMXW the Base command would fail on the dynamic loading version if Eloquence was not installed. (4.9.06 Build 1)
• If the Eloquence and Oracle libraries are not loaded the Base and Open commands will print an error saying that the appropriate libraries were not loaded when the Base and Open commands are entered. Previously, Suprtool would simply abort. (4.9.06 Build 2)
• Suprtool for AMXW would not initialize the filecode to zero if the input file was self-describing and the output option was ascii, prn or display. (4.9.06 Build 2)
• Suprtool, STExport and Suprlink for AMXW did not handle duplicate filenames for permanent and/or temporary files in all cases.
• Suprtool for AMXW dynamic loading version did not work for those sites that did not have the Eloquence routines. (4.9.05)
• Suprtool for AMXW did not support input filename(2/), where Suprtool starts to read at a particular record number until this version.(4.9.04)
• Suprtool for AMXW now supports the Numrecs command to control the size of the output file.(4.9.04)
• Suprtool for AMXW does variable substition in the same manner as the HP-UX version. Suprtool for AMXW first tries to resolve variables set on HP-UX and are available as an environment variable. Then any command that uses a “!” MPE variable, will be resolved next.(4.9.04)
• Stexport Output command would fail as the byte size was assumed to be words, incorrectly.(4.9.04)
• The latest AMXW version of Suprtool2 would interfere with some Cobol programs if they attempted to open a KSAM file.(4.9.04)
• STExport did not support temp file creation in the AMXW version.(4.9.04)
• STExport would core abort when trying to input a file did not exist.(4.9.04)
• STExport did not produce Variable length files by default as it did on MPE.(4.9.04)
• Suprtool would occasionally fail with mmap errors on HP-UX when using the Table command.(4.9.04)
• Output, erase was not working properly in STExport and Suprlink.(4.9.04)
• Files that had a size in words would not get linked properly in Suprlink and the Table file might assume an incorrect size.(4.9.04)
• Suprtool for AMXW would behave poorly with set fastread on and if the dataset it was reading had no records in it.(4.9.04)
• Suprtool for AMXW would fail with a dbstatus 17, No current record found when doing an update or delete operation with Set Fastread on and Set Lock 0.(4.9.04)
• Suprtool for AMXW would not close the currently open database when the BASE command was entered by itself.(4.9.04)
• Suprtool did not print out progress messages when run in batch in an AMXW job. This was solved by calling AMXW’s print intrinsic.(4.9.04)
• Progress messages were intersperesed with List command output.(4.9.04)
• Number of records are now being printed when doing a form of a self-describing file.(4.9.04)
• Set AMXW Perfwrite ON increases performance of writing to an output file by up to 10 times.(4.9.04)
• When numrecs is > number of records read, sometimes the file is padded with blank records.(4.9.04)
• Output,erase on a file with a shorter record would write a series of nulls.(4.9.04)
• Sort with output,erase on a smaller file did not erase all records.(4.9.04)
• Suprtool now shows error when there is no room to append records, this is to be more “MPE” like.(4.9.04)
• Suprtool now can use two methods when dynamically loading Oracle, Eloquence and Image routines in the respective versions of Suprtool.(4.9.04)
• Suprtool for HP-UX now supports Item Level locking with the Set Itemlock command.(4.9.04)
• Oracle load warning messages are no longer printed by default.(4.9.04)
• The Base command on it’s own did not close the current database like it did on MPE.(4.9.04)

Suprtool Version 4.9.02 (HP-UX 4.9.03)

• Suprtool for HP-UX would not set the return code variable $?, if it failed with some syntax errors. (HP-UX 4.9.03)
• Suprtool had some debug messages were left over in the Table module.(HP-UX 4.9.03)
• Suprtool would have a stack overflow when the input source was an Oracle table, the if command was used and no records were selected.(HP-UX 4.9.03)
• Suprcall for AMXW would not build a tempfile even if the Build command was specified in the Suprtool task.(HP-UX 4.9.03)
• Suprcall would not always print the stdlist if the print-state was set to ER.(HP-UX 4.9.03)
• Suprcall now returns an error status if Suprtool run has an error, in both the AMXW version and the regular HP-UX version.(HP-UX 4.9.03)
• A stack overflow error would occur when sorting with two sort keys and the input source was an Oracle Table. (HP-UX 4.9.02)
• Suprtool would output 100 blank records when reading an empty Eloquence dataset with set fastread on. (HP-UX 4.9.02)
• Suprtool2 fixed to work better with certain cobol compilers and compiler options. (HP-UX 4.9.02)
• Command lines that were not terminated with a null are now handled correctly in Suprtool2. (HP-UX 4.9.02)
• Print state and execution of print of stdout now works properly in all cases in Suprtool2. (HP-UX 4.9.02)
• Tmpnam call would occasionally abort on Itanium due to ineffective space allocation in Suprtool2. (HP-UX 4.9.02)
• Suprtool would incorrectly give an error with the Set Buffer command with some values. ( MPE 4.9.02)
• Output=Input now writes out the sort information for self-describing files. (HP-UX 4.9.01)
• The $file and $list options are now supported in the Total command. (HP-UX 4.9.01)
• Suprtool would leave a KSAM/iX or KSAM/64 file open when reading the file and if the task had an if command in it.
• Suprtool would return Illegal constant error when Set Varsub was on and either the $Counter or $findclean functions were being used. (HP-UX only)
• The List command would fail to initialize the output file if PCL was other than zero and the file option was being used and Stdlist was being re-directed. (HP-UX only)
• Suprtool would report an error when closing a memory mapped file if two or more Tables are being used.
• The $CLEAN function in Suprtool and Clean command in STExport can now remove a character that needs to be cleaned and it does not replace with a space, but rather shifts the text to the left and adds a space to the end.
• Suprlink's Join command would not build the output file large enough if the input file flimit was significantly smaller than the Link file.
• Suprtool 4.8.10 would abort on a duplicate none key operation on a file greater than 5,000 bytes (approx)
• Suprtool would not select the correct records for Ksam64 files.
• Suprlink's Join command would not build the output file large enough if the input file flimit was significantly smaller than the Link file.
• Suprtool would incorrectly retrieve Oracle Null dates when with a real Date value, instead of Null values in certain versions of Oracle. (HP-UX only)
• Suprtool would not be able to extract the last field of a table when the extracted record size was an uneven number of bytes and the set Ifouroutput option was being used with Oracle tables. (HP-UX only)
• Suprtool would return Illegal constant error when Set Varsub was on and the $Counter function was being used. (HP-UX only)
• Suprtool would return Bad Address or stack overflow on some sort operations. (HP-UX only)
• The Table command would previously not release memory used for Tables in all cases. (HP-UX only)
• Output=input is now supported in Suprtool for HP-UX. (HP-UX only)
• The $number function would either add garbage onto the end of a conversion or two zeroes if the field did not have a decimal point.
• Suprtool has all new code to connect to Oracle databases which fixes a number of issues with connecting to recently released Oracle patches. (HP-UX, specific)
• Suprtool now dynamically loads all Oracle calls that it requires which also helps with several issues with connecting to recently release Oracle patches. (HP-UX, specific)
• The FILE option of the List command did not handle absolute file names properly. (HP-UX, specific)
• The Table command now can read files greater than 4 Gbs. (HP-UX specific, MPE version already does this)
• Suprtool for MPE Change Notice
• Suprtool for HP-UX Change Notice

Suprtool Version 4.8.02

• The information about the data loaded in a Table would be lost if the table being referenced was the second held table and the previous task involved a chain command.
• The Get command would not get correct end of file signal if the dataset was empty and being accessed with Set FastRead On. HP-UX Only
• The chain command would either fail or return incorrect records when used with Set FastRead On. HP-UX only
• The $subtotal function has been re-written in order to use less resources and fix some bugs.
• Suprtool now reads Eloquence databases up to five times faster. (HP-UX specific)
• Eloquence routines are now dynamically loaded, using the libraries on your system. (HP-UX specific)
• Suprtool now has a $findclean function to identify records with specific characters in it.
• Dbedit for HP-UX now works on Eloquence databases and on Oracle databses in the ImaxSoft version of Suprtool. (HP-UX specific)
• The List command now has new options for listing to a file on HP-UX. (HP-UX specific)
• Suprtool now has a $edit function for formatting data.
• Suprtool now allows up to 255 $split functions per task.
• Suprtool's Open command can now connect to a remote Oracle database. (HP-UX specific)

Suprtool Version 4.7.02

• Suprtool now has a $Number function which will allow Suprtool to use a freeform ascii number with signs, decimal places and currency symbol as a display field.
• Suprtool and STExport now support features to Clean your data.
• STExport now supports an Escape command which will escape out certain characters.
• The $Counter function will increment a field by one for every record selected.
• The $total function will total a specified field.
• The $SubTotal function totals numeric fields and resets on sort breaks.
• Split byte strings into multiple fields via the $split function.
• Many-to-many links via the Join command.
• Suprtool, STExport and Suprlink now support environment variables. (HP-UX specific)
• Suprtool has been enhanced to support Eloquence 7.0 features. (HP-UX specific)
• The Base and Put commands have been changed to support new features in Eloquence 7.0. (HP-UX specific)
• Suprtool now supports the expanded database limits in Eloquence 7.0. (HP-UX specific)
• Suprtool now supports Extract from a table on HP-UX similar to MPE. (HP-UX specific)
• Suprtool now supports larger tables and a significant performance improvement in loading and looking up tables. (HP-UX specific)
• Suprtool for MPE Change Notice
• Suprtool for HP-UX Change Notice

Suprtool 4.6.01

• Suprtool would incorrectly coerce large negative numbers from a Packed field to another Packed or Display field.
• Suprtool would fail with prefetch point failure if the file had an uneven record size and an uneven blocking facter.
• STExport now properly converts the Roman 8 universal monetary symbol to the Euro-Symbol in the HTML and XML commands.
• The Item command would fail if a definition or Item command was already issued for a field, if the input source was a self-describing file and and extract range was used or all items from a dataset were extracted.
• The XML command would fail to convert ">" to ">" and "<" to "<".
• The XML and HTML commands failed to convert "&" to "&".
• MPE Change notice
• HP-UX Change notice

Highlights in Suprtool 4.6

• Support for HP Eloquence databases has been added. (HP-UX only)
• Suprtool incorrectly rounded Real and Long target data in arithmetic expressions
• The Table command incorrectly gave an error message in some cases when data was loaded with key values. (MPE only)
• MPE Change notice
• HP-UX Change notice

Highlights in Suprtool 4.5

• Support for "well-formed" XML in STExport.
• Suprtool, STExport and Suprlink can now have warnings turned off when run from batch with the set warnings off command.
• CM to NM switches in Suprtool have been decreased significantly.
• Suprtool now has the ability to load and extract data from a Table.
• Loading a Table is now up to 28% faster than previous versions.
• Table lookup operations are now up to 33% faster than previous versions.
• MPE Change notice
• HP-UX Change notice

What's New in Host-Based Qedit and Qedit Server

More News:

The Current Production Release

The Current "Pre-release" for Testing

In Development

Changes in Previous Versions

In-Development for Qedit

Qedit Pre-Release Versions

Qedit 5.7.11

• The Text command would abort with Integer Divide by Zero error when trying to text in some large variable length and bytestream files. (5.7.11)
• Regular Expressions. Qedit would improperly report the error "String longer than maximum allowed" if the expression specified is longer than the window of the rangelist. (HP-UX/MPE) (5.7.10)
• Shadow Passwords. Qedit for HP-UX did not support Shadow Passwords properly for all versions of HP-UX. (5.7.10)
• Request a download.
• Qedit for MPE Change Notice
• Qedit for HP-UX Change Notice

Production Version of Qedit

Qedit Version 5.7

• MPE commands with long Info= string do not cause stack corruption anymore.
• A rangelist can now have an AND keyword with up to 10 search strings. All strings must be found on a single line for the line to be selected. Each string can have its own search window.

The following enhancements have been implemented in Qedit for HP-UX only.

• Escape sequences to set/reset terminal tab stops appear in output file when Qedit's output is redirected as in
  $ qedit > qedit.out
  Qedit now resets the tab stops when running in interactive mode only. Redirection is assumed to be batch mode.

The following enhancements have been implemented in the Qedit for Windows server.

• The server correctly returns error 90 when the modified record length is greater than the maximum allowed in the current workfile.

• Request a download.
• Qedit for MPE Change Notice
• Qedit for HP-UX Change Notice

Highlights in Previous Qedit Versions

Qedit for HP-UX Visual Mode Issue (5.4/5.5)

We had a problem with Qedit Visual Mode when editing Cobol files. The problem only occurs on HP-UX 11.x or when you force Block mode emulation with Set vis Blockemulation On. After you have marked a block of text to move or copy, (with a cc or mm) and then attempt to paste in on another page, you will receive an error:

 NO UPD:  bad format in left 4 columns (see qscreen)

Qedit Version 5.6

• Set Vis Attachmate was added to allow for wide-column support with the HP terminal emulator called KEA! 700/98 for Windows 95/98/NT version 5.10x from Attachmate.
• Verify Keep does not display the file timestamp and the TrailingSpaces setting anymore. The information can be displayed using Verify Info or Verify All.
• The Qedit/UX server now supports HP-UX shadow passwords feature.
• The server correctly recovers line numbers on an Undo operation.
• If the first line of a block was partially copied/cut (did not start with column 1), the server pasted unwanted characters at the end of that first line. These unwanted characters were not displayed until the file was closed and re-opened or after a cache refresh.
• The server may lose a file after detecting a problem such as running out of disc space on a Save. Even subsequent saves would not write the file back properly. The file could be saved only by doing a Save As.

Qedit Version 5.5

• With Set Work Trailingspaces On, Qedit can preserve trailing spaces in a variable-length record file. This also allows creation of odd-length records.
• The Merge-justified (mergej) command merges the content of a file with the current workfile based on the line numbers by appending text of the external file to the corresponding line in the workfile.
• You can define a scrollup character with Set Visual Scrollup and be able to scroll backward in full-screen mode. The default character is an minus sign "-".
• You can mark a line range to be excluded from the display in full-screen. Lines can be excluded using the Set Visual XX command or by using XX indicators in the cut-and-paste area in full-screen mode.
• Use Colcopy and Colmove to copy/move columns on a line.
• With Set Varsub On, Qedit can substitute environment variable names such as !HPDATEF, !HPACCOUNT on MPE. On HP-UX, variable names are prefixed with a dollar sign as in $HOME.
• The new Form command displays information about self-describing files created with programs such as Suprtool.
• Enter Set List Lines 999 to skip to a new page only on $page directives.
• To prevent Qedit from using halfbright, enter Set Halfbright Off.
• Use Lsort to sort lines. It can be abbreviated to lso, lsq (quiet), lst (template) and lsj (justify).
• Random names generated for scratchfiles and temporary Hold files can now have up to 240 characters and are referred to by their absolute pathnames.
• Qedit's Blockemulation mode takes advantage of the QCTerm terminal emulator from AICS Research.
• Qedit recognizes .pco as valid Cobol extension.
• The server notifies the Qedit for Windows client whenever it runs out of line numbers (Error: Too High).
• Qedit displays an error message if you try to use it as a Qedit for Windows server (-d argument) but the server module has not been enabled. In this case, the Qedit for Windows client is notified and displays an appropriate error message.

• MPE Change notice
• HP-UX Change notice

Qedit Version 5.4

• Search with a string range (from stringA to string B).
• DeleteJ prompts for verification of each line to be deleted.
• Set List Nearest determines whether a List command on a non-existent line number displays a warning or the nearest line.
• Set RCRTMODEL variable to 1234 for hpterm and other emulators.
• Set Visual Marginfixed causes the right margin to never change.
• HP-UX changes: Visual mode is supported again on HP-UX 11.0 and later; Text and List with the Length option fold lines at a specified line length; Set Keep LF ON|OFF determines whether saved lines end with Newline; COBOL files can be sed with fixed-length records; COBOL source files may have more than 65,545 lines
• MPE Change notice
• HP-UX Change notice

Qedit Version 5.3

• Server signals whether client password was stored or prompted for.
• Lines that are too long are now folded on a Text instead of truncated.
• Justify "string" formats all paragraphs starting with a string.
• Qedit supports 4 new languages: HTML, XML, JAVA and QSL.
• MPE only: Lsort is faster, Parm can be passed from Posix, Visual takes advantage of QCTerm 200 column mode,
• Qedit supports 4 new languages: HTML, XML, JAVA and QSL.
• MPE Change notice
• HP-UX Change notice

Qedit Version 5.2

• List an open workfile
• More flexibility when searching include files
• Set Text Exclusive to obtain exclusive access to a file while editing a copy of it
• Set Visual Editonopen automatically goes into Visual mode when you open a file
• MPE-only: Enhanced command support (option list and nolist anywhere in a command, option recursion and norecursion)
• MPE Change Notice
• HP-UX Change Notice

What's New in Qedit for Windows

The Current Production Release

The Current "Pre-release" for Testing

In Development

Changes in Previous Versions

In-Development for Qedit for Windows

Qedit for Windows Pre-Release Versions

Production Version of Qedit for Windows

• The Last Modified column of the host directory dialog box now uses the new rules for Daylight Savings Time (DST) introduced in 2007. The rule states that DST starts on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November.
• Selecting a word with Ctrl+Shift+rightarrow now works the same as double-clicking. The most noticeable difference is that spaces after the word are also selected.
• Qedit for Windows was aborting with an assertion failure if the modified record length was greater than the maximum allowed for the document's Language. Qedit for Windows now displays a descriptive message:
  Line length is invalid for the file's Language. (Server error 90)
• Change document for Production version.
• Download Production version.

Highlights in Previous Qedit for Windows Versions

Qedit for Windows Version 5.6

• The new client in combination with the latest server can take advantage of shadow passwords on HP-UX.
• This version contains a number of fixes to various issues. Some of these fixes have been implemented in the server with no equivalent change in the client.
• The Open Host File dialog handles longer names in the Current directory: field.
• In some circumstances, Qedit for Windows was unable to recover a corrupted document database. It should now be able to recover from most situations.
• Qedit for Windows sometimes printed the page heading line with the color of the last line of the previous page. The page heading should always print in black from now on.
• Qedit for Windows aborted when trying to print a file which did not have a syntax language associated. For example, this would happen with newly created files which have not been saved with a known extension.
• The server may lose a file after detecting a problem such as running out of disc space on a Save. Even subsequent saves would not write the file back properly. The file could be saved only by doing a Save As.
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Qedit for Windows Version 5.4

• new options to fold lines in HP-UX files to specified length
• new options to deal with files without Newline delimiters
• improved Connections to host servers
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Qedit for Windows Version 5.3

• syntax coloring
• improved security with password information
• improved debugging information
• highlight matching of curly brace pairs, "{" and "}"
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Qedit for Windows Version 5.0

• executing host commands
• color configuration
• scripting language
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