Thanks John!

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 3:18 AM John R. Hogerhuis <jho...@pobox.com> wrote:

> There is a new version of LaddieAlpha.EXE to add more safety and
> robustness. This has a small new safety feature.
>
> This version will filter any disastrous NUL or EOF characters embedded in
> DO files that you might attempt to inload. It should not affect binary
> files. It should not affect files written from your laptop to LaddieAlpha.
>
> For example, if you have a two character file, and the two characters are
> NUL and EOF, when TS-DOS retrieves the directory, it will appear to TS-DOS
> as a zero-length file. When inloaded, it will be a zero length text file.
>
> This goes along with another safety feature of LaddieAlpha, which is that
> DO files misnamed as .BA are automatically detected and presented to the
> laptop as a DO file.
>
> The file is at:
>
> http://bitchin100.com/files/linux/LaddieAlpha.EXE
>
> Never mind the word Linux there, the .EXE should work universally on all
> platforms.
>
> I did some testing to confirm the new feature. But as always LaddieAlpha
> is "alpha" software and I welcome any testing and bug reports.
>
> Documentation (such as it is):
>
> http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=LaddieCon#LaddieAlpha
>
> Code is at
>
> http://bitchin100.com/pub-git/laddiealpha.git/
>
> Here's the changelog of LaddieAlpha:
>
> C:\projects\modelt\laddiealpha [master ≡ +1 ~2 -0 !]> git log
> --pretty=format:"%h%x09%an%x09%ad%x09%s"
> 693c3fb John R. Hogerhuis       Sun Feb 10 23:23:58 2019 -0800  Add EOF,
> NUL filter for DO-inload safety
> f586ac5 John R. Hogerhuis       Tue Jun 5 23:23:37 2018 -0700   Add long
> length file info
> 66443f7 John R. Hogerhuis       Wed Dec 23 20:42:01 2015 -0800  Handle
> connection exceptions gracefully
> dcc3bc2 John R. Hogerhuis       Wed Dec 23 09:50:46 2015 -0800  Add
> NoDelay and Flush to reduce TCP latency
> a6a5175 John R. Hogerhuis       Wed Dec 23 07:33:46 2015 -0800  Fix tcp
> svc init bugs
> c8c980c John R. Hogerhuis       Wed Dec 23 00:17:44 2015 -0800  Bugfix to
> set CommMode type
> ec3c95f John R. Hogerhuis       Wed Dec 23 00:03:26 2015 -0800  Changes to
> build for TcpSvc
> ac3712c John R. Hogerhuis       Tue Dec 22 23:59:30 2015 -0800  Addition
> of TcpSvc
> b74c8e7 John R. Hogerhuis       Mon Nov 30 22:42:14 2015 -0800  Add "enter
> escape"
> 82cebd9 John R. Hogerhuis       Sun Feb 16 15:08:26 2014 -0800  Remove
> static Config dependency from TPDD
> 3744d1e John R. Hogerhuis       Fri Feb 7 01:42:30 2014 -0800   Merge
> branch 'master' into win32
> 6e5612b John R. Hogerhuis       Fri Feb 7 01:30:09 2014 -0800   Bugfixes
> for DOS boot support
> f10e346 John R. Hogerhuis       Wed Feb 5 23:29:30 2014 -0800   Merge
> directory changes from win32
> 419a886 John R. Hogerhuis       Wed Feb 5 23:11:42 2014 -0800   Add
> directory sorting and hide bad files
> c898b09 John R. Hogerhuis       Wed Feb 5 22:17:50 2014 -0800   Merge
> branch 'master' into win32
> e0d0e20 John R. Hogerhuis       Wed Feb 5 22:08:16 2014 -0800   Ignore .CO
> files
> 7cd319d John R. Hogerhuis       Wed Feb 5 22:07:22 2014 -0800   Add
> DOS-in-root finder
> 0868fb9 John R. Hogerhuis       Tue Feb 4 23:18:23 2014 -0800   Exit if
> port fails to open
> 3bcc6ff John R. Hogerhuis       Sun Feb 2 21:49:43 2014 -0800
>  Enhancements to allow use of Prolific on Windows
> 21687f4 John R. Hogerhuis       Tue Oct 8 17:57:37 2013 -0700   Corrected
> code for mapping txt extensions
> f234961 John R. Hogerhuis       Mon Oct 7 17:20:16 2013 -0700   Clean up
> logging a little
> 4902714 John R. Hogerhuis       Mon Oct 7 15:55:16 2013 -0700   Update
> ReqLen if partial header.
> 358e2a2 John R. Hogerhuis       Mon Oct 7 15:40:51 2013 -0700   Make
> buildit.bat point to DOTNET 3.5
> 38b970e John R. Hogerhuis       Mon Oct 7 15:18:08 2013 -0700   Minor
> application metadata changes
> 21c2a80 John R. Hogerhuis       Mon Oct 7 15:09:15 2013 -0700   Add
> logging for version info
> ce00c58 John R. Hogerhuis       Mon Oct 7 12:47:05 2013 -0700   Refactor
> to remove goto
> b308ec5 John R. Hogerhuis       Mon Oct 7 11:52:23 2013 -0700   Fix
> checking for < 4 bytes hdr read
> 5761060 John R. Hogerhuis       Mon Oct 7 00:08:04 2013 -0700   Update
> .gitignore
> 473cf83 John R. Hogerhuis       Sun Oct 6 17:53:43 2013 -0700   Fix 'ZZ'
> link re-sync code
> 78cbe7a John R. Hogerhuis       Sun Oct 6 17:53:30 2013 -0700   Add deploy
> target
> a9cafd2 John R. Hogerhuis       Wed Oct 2 16:17:16 2013 -0700   Add more
> exception logging
> 1d2b05d John R. Hogerhuis       Sun Sep 22 20:37:53 2013 -0700  Minor
> refactoring
> 1cee31f John R. Hogerhuis       Thu Sep 19 23:02:22 2013 -0700  Add VS
> solution and refactor code
> 7014b94 John R. Hogerhuis       Thu Sep 19 21:01:14 2013 -0700  Add
> .gitignore file
> 3a79154 John R. Hogerhuis       Wed Sep 18 07:36:01 2013 -0700  Rescan
> directory before file pick
> c6d1ab7 John R. Hogerhuis       Tue Sep 17 23:34:27 2013 -0700  Trim of
> null from TEENY dir-pick
> fbe7062 John R. Hogerhuis       Tue Sep 17 21:54:44 2013 -0700  Minor
> changes for debugging and to avoid timeouts
> 3471e5f John R. Hogerhuis       Tue Apr 10 22:28:20 2012 -0700  Fixes
> fname map support so initial dir() unnecessary
> 0c69581 John R. Hogerhuis       Tue Apr 10 22:27:16 2012 -0700  Adds
> support for drive condition check command
> 9208019 unknown Sat Apr 30 16:39:31 2011 -0700  Add Windows CMD.EXE batch
> file to build
> 538c53b John R. Hogerhuis       Fri Apr 29 23:09:54 2011 -0700  Add README
> 0af79d3 John R. Hogerhuis       Fri Apr 29 22:35:35 2011 -0700  Added
> copyright header
> 3fabe21 John R. Hogerhuis       Fri Apr 29 22:28:39 2011 -0700  Cleanup
> the build
> d45b8c0 John R. Hogerhuis       Fri Apr 29 01:12:03 2011 -0700  Initial
> commit of LaddieAlpha
>
>
>

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