CHOPPER042700: Well, ok....I musta got REALLY distracted when coding the 042600 release, cause it wuz FULL of bugs ! But, here's the fixed version. All the bugs are pretty much worked out (I hope). If you find any, please lemme know, huh ? mail to scatatacs@hotmail.com subject CHOPPER. My apologies to those who downloaded the CRAPPER042600 version...SORRY GUYS !


CHOPER042600: Upgraded to Commnd-line capability ! Aint fully tested yet, but I think it works just fine. This is in prep for makng a CHOP shell extension...if I can ever finger it out! Also, added "Retain Extension" option, which tells CHOPPER to retain the original extension in the piece names (MAKBATCH upgraded for this already). I did a few other things, too, like fix a couple minor bugs, and add the "Last piece" label which displays how big the last piece will be. Lastly, I changed the "size" dimensions. For the "Chop to Floppy" option, it now CHOPS to 1.30 mb, instead of 1.38mb. This is for in case there are bad sectors on yer floppies (I got alot of em !), and the "Chop to 1 meg" was changed a little to increase performance, but still chops to .99mb. 


CHOPPER042300: Hmmm...found bug ! Program crashed if you tried to select an unavailable drive in the "Select output Path" form(eg; you selected drive "a:" with no disk in "a:". An easy fix ! Not much else doing, as I'm working on MixMaster now. 


CHOPPER041700 HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! More changes to CHOPPER. I've added the "# of Pieces" option, which allows the user to specify a # of pieces to chop the file into. This was LONG overdue ! This change prompted me to re-arrange the whole form, which I think worked out for the better. Removed the "Save Details" button, but you can still save them by selecting "file/save data" from the menu. Removed the "Fileword" details completely, as they are no longer needed. Made the "browse filename" and "browse output" buttons a little more attractive, as well as understandable. Removed the "frmCHOPPER.HIDE" command from the "select output path" event. Fixed a couple other stupid bugs. 


CHOPPER041500: This release was never actually released. It contains a couple minor bug fixes, and the fix for the MAKBATCH long-filename compatability. After I had written a VERY long sub-routine to try and cope with long filenames (that didn't quite work, BTW), I trashed the idea and translated MAKBATCH to Visual Basic, taking advantage of the 32-bit functionality it offers. 
Also in this version, I have restored the "open file" Common Dialogue Box, as there were some errors in the other method I didn't feel like de-bugging. OK, call me lazy ! 

CHOPPER041400: fixed some general errors and added a little more code. Found a bug with MAKBATCH.EXE. It seems that the output path must be DOS format, otherwise errors will occur.


CHOPPER041000 released: replaced "open file" CDB from "browse filename" with modified "frmSelectOutput.form", in an effort to reduce the need for the external VB runtime files. Also added "toggle details by double-click" feature, enabling users to double-click a blank part of frmCHOPPER.form to view details. fixed some errors with the txtOutpt_double-click feature. Fixed some general bugs here and there.

CHOPPER040900-ready to release (?). makbatch.exe stand-alone functional. help text written for CHOPPER and MAKBATCH. ADVANCED notes written, ACCURACY note written, LICENSE written, program distributed to 1 person prior to "Browse Output", Output selecttext, and "locate makbatch" upgrade (done today). 
Much work has gone into this program up to this point. Planning for "Batch Chop" upgrade under way. 