FILCOM.DOC -- Changes from V21C(75) to V22A(117) September 1987 COPYRIGHT (c) DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION 1973,1978,1979,1984,1986. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS SOFTWARE IS FURNISHED UNDER A LICENSE AND MAY BE USED AND COPIED ONLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS OF SUCH LICENSE AND WITH THE INCLUSION OF THE ABOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICE. THIS SOFTWARE OR ANY OTHER COPIES THEREOF MAY NOT BE PROVIDED OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE TO ANY OTHER PERSON. NO TITLE TO AND OWNERSHIP OF THE SOFTWARE IS HEREBY TRANSFERRED. THE INFORMATION IN THIS SOFTWARE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION. DIGITAL ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE USE OR RELIABILITY OF ITS SOFTWARE ON EQUIPMENT WHICH IS NOT SUPPLIED BY DIGITAL. FILCOM.DOC Page 2 FILCOM.DOC -- Changes from V21C(75) to V22A(117) September 1987 1.0 SUMMARY This is a combination of a maintenance release of FILCOM with the added support for /Offset mode. This release will run on all supported monitors. 2.0 EXTERNAL CHANGES In /U mode, FILCOM will flag deleted text by a bullet (o) in the left margin. The /O (offset) switch has been added. If this switch is used in an ASCII, non-/U compare, the location of differences will be reported as closest label+offset. This assumes that the source file is a MACRO-10 or MACRO-11 file, and that labels start in the first 10 characters of a line. PDP-11 local labels (nnn$:) are qualified by the nearest ordinary label. The /T switch has been added. This switch causes FILCOM to always produce an output file, even if no differences are encountered. This is intended for automatic procedures that assume that a file will always be created. Note that /T has always been the default for /U mode. FILCOM was comparing too many locations in an EXE file compare. Do not compare locations 0-40, 42, 43, 45-73, 77-111, 113, 114, and 132 inclusive. Also FILCOM had a bug where it was erroneously comparing location 73. The /I switch has been added. This switch causes FILCOM to do a case-invariant compare. That is, files that are identical except for case will have no differences. 3.0 KNOWN BUGS AND DEFICIENCIES None. 4.0 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS There are no changes in the installation instructions. FILCOM.DOC Page 3 5.0 INTERNAL CHANGES None. Significant Edit #s 76 Add support from ADP for /O - report label+offset in differences file. This is useful for .MAC or .P11 files, since it eliminates ambiguity in reporting the location of differences. 100 Don't get confused if someone does a CCL RUN UUO. 101 Improve /U without /L 102 Fix parsing of =[sfd spec],[p,pn<cr><lf> 105 Add /T 113 FILCOM compares too many job data area locations. Do not compare locations 0-40, 42, 43, 45-73, 77-111, 113, 114, and 132 inclusive. Also FILCOM had a bug where it was erroneously comparing location 73. 114 Fix apparent fencepost error with /1L. 6.0 SUGGESTIONS None. [END OF FILCOM.DOC]