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DirectConsole

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10/27/2005 - Added TYPE, PROMPT and STAMP. STAMP is a command for modifying a file's dates and times. STAMP has been an invaluable utility to myself in the past two versions of DirectConsole.

10/15/2005 - Added the DEFINED operator to the IF command. Added the RMDIR and MKDIR commands. RMDIR still needs the DELTREE ability.

10/12/2005 - Added GOTO. DirectConsole can now load and run simple batch files. IF, ELSE IF, and END IF seem to be working.

10/11/2005 - Added CALL. The code for handling batch file functions is now in place. Now I will begin writing the batch file loader.

10/10/2005 - Finally added the EXIT command! EXIT is designed to exit the current batch file or the program if there are no batch files running. If a number is specified as the argument to EXIT, ERRORLEVEL is set to that number upon exiting. A command can also be queued to execute immediately after EXIT by entering it as the argument to EXIT.

10/09/2005 - Added PAUSE and READCHAR. Started working on IF.

10/07/2005 - The DIR command is working. More work done to the virtual file system.

10/06/2005 - Linked the virtual file system core into the DirectConsole project. Finished writing the command manager and the code path from the prompt to the commands. Wrote CLS, ECHO, SET, CD, and started working on DIR.

10/01/2005 - Began rewriting the basics of the virtual file system core. The design of the file system goes all the way back to 2004 and has been through about three separate rewrites. In the first and second incarnations of DirectConsole, the file system was drive based, but with the new DirectConsole all the drives of the local computer appear as folders off a root directory.

09/05/2005 - Officially began working on the new DirectConsole! The library already contained the application framework, console, thread manager, and pipes, so getting the console up and running with a blinking caret was trivial.

08/08/2005 - Created the "Library" folder where all of my common files are now going. Up until now, I'd been reusing code files from past projects, but I was copying the files into the new projects rather than linking to them from a common folder. I spent a couple days building common library files out of some of the mixmatched libraries of routines I had built over the past couple years, and I reworked the E-Mail server, the Flannery Publications ActiveX controls, and a couple other projects to use the common files. When I began building the library, I also had the future of DirectConsole in mind.