New version (2.19) of bootAble available

January 31, 2004 by Hayo Baan

I have updated my script to create bootAble CDs and/or maintenance partitions again. As always, you can download it from http://www.xs4all.nl/~hrbaan

Latest changes:
v2.19 (25/01/2004)

* Added configuration file for PMView (bootAble.pmview and bootAble.PMVrc);
* Changed application configuration files so that you can now simply specify paths (e.g., the application root) in your bootAble.myCfg without having to change the application configuration file itself (see the files bootAble.myCfg, bootAble.4os2, bootAble.acrobat, etc. for examples);
* Improved setting application root of some of the applications, these now make use of entries in the ini files (see bootAble.pmview and bootAble.xwp for examples);
* Path/file specifications can now have double backslahes, the script does not fail on this anymore;
* Added function defaultIfNotSet to set a variable to a default value if not already set;
* Added function getFromIni to return the text porting of an ini entry (stripping off the trailing 0 delimiter);
* Added a verbosity level to help debug syntax errors in configuration files (VERBOSE);
* Changed behaviour of the VERBOSE setting, it is now a binary mask so you have more control over the output;
* Added global initialisation of OSBOOTDRIVE with sysBootDrive();
* Added global initialisation for EXTRADEVICE, EXTRABASEDEV, etc. settings, no need to default these anymore in your own configuration files;
* Added option for PROTECTONLY setting (default is 'YES');
* Added missing option for specifying the use of the DANI DASD driver instead of the IBM version (DANIDASD), Note: only to be used on non-lvm systems!;
* Added sample pmview configuration file (bootAble.pmview);
* Corrected bug with multipe extra ini rc files (only the first rc file got included);
* Corrected reference to boot image (osboot.img) in the cdrecord section of this document.