WHATS NEW with release 5.0?

Release 5.0 marks a departure from the record format BIBL has used for
some time.  There have been many internal changes, code optimizations,
and minor tweaks made throughout the program. Most of the work done is
invisible, but the performance of BIBL has been improved.

Changes in the program's operation:

1. Two new fields have been added.

    - a second line for Author
    - a third line for Title.

  Expanding the size of the BIBL record should help those using the
  program for tracking scientific articles--where titles are long and
  people seem to list all their friends as authors (just kidding).
  Incorporating these additional fields into the WP format options
  took a fair amount of time but the results were worth it.

2. Title index now indexes the first 25 characters of the title
   (instead of 20 as before).

3. Fields have been added to the search function for collecting user
   input.  When searching an index, the field is only as long as the
   index value for that field.  This will prevent your entering too much
   information and then getting a baffling 'no match found' message
   (since your complete query string was longer than the index key and
   thus to BIBL they did not match).

4. Under Export, the list of descriptors used in your database
   (KEYWORD.TXT) now also reports the number of times each term appears
   in your file.  This should help identify terms that do not conform to
   your scheme used to assign keywords.

5. Global Change now also uses fields for input.

6. WP format has been improved and standardized across options where it
   is available.  BIBL now attempts to add punctuation to the ends of
   fields where it is missing.

7. A couple of internal changes make BIBL behave a bit better under
   DESQview. You must still virtualize the display (as BIBL writes
   directly to screen memory), but with 420K memory set aside in
   your DVP file for BIBL it works well.

8. Under Export (Make Bibliography), BIBL now shows you what you
   entered for type of search (A S or D) and format (B A or F).
   Before your selection was not echoed back to the screen.

9. Registered version - BIBL uses 20% of available RAM (after
   the program loads) for in-memory storage of index pages...resulting
   in faster index rebuilds and faster searches (more searches are
   satisfied by the  portion of the index stored in memory). The same
   principle used in disk caching...

REMOVED FROM BIBL 5.0

1. Brief search (/b appended to an indexed query) has been removed.

2. Ability to rename fields (via BIBLCFG.EXE) has been removed.  Few were
   making use of this feature and allowing for it had a negative impact
   on performance and memory usage (since some display text had to
   be built at run-time)...no problem for those with 386 machines but a
   real drag for the 8088 owners struggling with 512K!

New record structure:

       recordstatus : longint;  { 1 = marked for deletion }
       author1      : string[70];
       author2      : string[70];
       Title1       : string[70];
       title2       : STRING[70];
       title3       : string[70];
       publ         : STRING[70];
       class        : STRING[40];
       subject1     : string[30];
       subject2     : STRING[60];
       flag1        : char;      { reserved for future use}
       flag2        : char;      {  "        "    "     " }
       flag3        : char;      {  "        "    "     " }
       value        : string[7]; {  "        "    "     " }
       note1        : STRING[70];
       note2        : STRING[70];
       note3        : STRING[70];
       note4        : STRING[70];
       note5        : STRING[70];
       note6        : STRING[70];

Bytes per record: 981.

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