WHATS NEW?  (Revision History since 4.16)

5.11   [SHAREWARE/REGISTERED]  Compile date May 16, 1991.

       Picklist for files to view reworked.  By using a
       slightly different method (e.g., the files are not
       sorted nor can you move across logical drives, but
       they do appear in a sizeable, moveable, mouseable
       box), the size of the BIBL5.EXE file was reduced
       by about 20K!  This reduction in the amount of memory
       required to run BIBL should help some with smaller
       systems (registered users will see the gain in the
       amount of free RAM that can be devoted to in-memory
       indexes).

       Problem with BIBL running out of file handles if
       the HELP file was displayed many many times has
       been corrected.

       If you hit ESC when the menu for selecting field
       for BIBLIOGRAPHY, BIBL wrote garbage to the
       screen.  This has been fixed.

       [SHAREWARE only] Registration information screen that
       pops up about 50% of the time on startup has been
       edited to give a bit more information, particularly
       for credit card orders.

       [REGISTERED only] With Release 5.11R, BIBL now uses up
       to 40% of available RAM after the program loads to
       maintain in-memory storage of indexes. On a large
       database, this will yield dramatic speed improvements
       on both retrieval (fast anyway) and sorts performed
       during EXPORT (originally fast, but now blindingly so).
       
5.10   [SHAREWARE/REGISTERED]  Compile date May 3, 1991.

       Help option on main menu (INFORMATION) has been completely
       reworked. Now pressing I calls up BIBL5.DOC in a resizeable
       window.  If BIBL5.DOC isn't found, no help is displayed.
       You can put use ASCII file you like for your help file
       with 5.10...just be sure you call it BIBL5.DOC!

       Internal VIEWER reworked. Now same resizeable viewer that
       displays BIBL5.DOC under help is also used to display
       ASCII files under the VIEW option.   This viewer is much
       more flexible (even mouse-supported).

       In a more subtle change, all shadows on windows have been
       moved to the right side of the window...

5.04   [SHAREWARE/REGISTERED]

       NOT operator added to the Boolean Descriptor search. You may
       now search for term 1 and NOT term 2.  This might help
       eliminate some hits you don't want.

       Also, the opening background has been turned down just a bit.
       Now instead of being WHITE, it's gray...on monitors with burned
       out phosphorus, the WHITE tended to look bleached out ...who
       says looks aren't everything?

5.03R- BIBLIOGRAPHIES. Bounce-bar menu incorporated in selection of field
       to search.

       REGISTERED version supports searching on any field in the record.
       SHAREWARE verison allows searching author, publisher, subject
       and descriptor fields only.

5.02 - Limited release (Bibliographies option enhanced)
5.01 - Under EXPORT, keyword list now contains a count of how many times
       each term appears in the database.
5.00 - This 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. Global Change now also uses fields for input.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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!
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