KnifeST version 1.11 Read Me 		           19 October 92
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Please state the above version number on your registration card.

New features of version 1.11
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Analyse FAT now works on partitions bigger than 16M.

New features of version 1.10
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This version fixes a problem with incorrectly generated 'Media
Change Errors' when searching on some floppy disks.

New features of version 1.09
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The Disk Info command from the Show menu now supports volumes bigger
than 16 Megabytes.

New features of version 1.08
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Certain non-standard floppy disk formats with a particular FAT usage
caused incorrect calculations in all the analysis functions resulting
in an internal error *3* alert to be generated.  This has been corrected.

Logical Sectors > 512
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These are now handled correctly.

There is a new program for some hard disk owners AESPATH. See the
text file in its folder for details.

New feature of version 1.07
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When you use Run Other to run a TOS or TTP, KnifeST now waits for a
keypress so that you may view the output from programs that do not
wait for a key themselves.

New feature of version 1.06
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With the show BIOS BPB command, the number of sectors per track and sides
are now shown as ?? for hard disks as this was confusing some customers.
 
New features of version 1.05
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File Selector
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When a file selector is used within KnifeST, the calling function's name 
is displayed above the selector.

Find String/Bytes
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In Cluster and File mode, KnifeST is now faster than with previous versions.

Analyse Floppy & Copy/Repair
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You can now press 'ESC' at anytime to abort.
Note: If copying a file, pressing 'ESC' to abort will only work whilst 
KnifeST is reading and not whilst writing.

Analyse FAT
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This will now analyse the complete directory structure of a disk as well 
as the selected FAT table.
When asked to press SPACE to continue or page, you can also press ESC to 
abort.

If errors are reported whilst analysing the directory structure then correct
these errors first before trying to correct any errors reported as FLOATING 
ENTRIES in the FAT table as these may be superfluous.  After the 
directory errors have been corrected, analyse the FAT again to see if 
there are still floating entries, if any remain then correct them.

Disk Info
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A new feature under the menu title 'SHOW'. This function shows the 
amount of bytes used, the amount of free space left and the total 
capacity of the currently selected drive.  It works with all types of 
drives.

Read File
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When you are editing a file, the file offset is continuously updated to 
show the current cursor position.

Build File
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If the RIGHT mouse button is held down over the window info bar and the 
LEFT mouse button is clicked once, the info display will toggle between 
buffer info and cache info.

New features of version 1.03
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Free Cluster
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This has been added to the main menu under FAT's.  It works the same as 
the button in BUILD File, except the menu option is not disabled if the 
buffer is in File mode.

EXPERT.TXT provides instructions on modifying KnifeST.PRG so that
it starts up in Expert Mode. Only use this if you are an expert!

The Atari ST formatting code will now write the first byte of the
boot sector as #E9, enabling many PCs to read such disks directly.

Please note that MS-DOS 4 does not appear to be able to cope with
floppy disks with 256 or more root directory entries.

Also included is the HiSoft File Selector, this is supplied together
with its documentation in the folder FSEL

David Nutkins
HiSoft
The Old School
Greenfield
BEDFORD
MK45 5DE