Sawmill 2.1 Version History

Version 2.1, released February 17, 1998

[by request] Changed name of Server Directory to Temporary Directory, and changed Server Directory URL to Temporary Directory URL, to avoid any confusion with the root directory/URL of the server serving sawmill, or of the server which created the log.
Added warning about using Quick Browse configuration with non-CLOG format logs.
Added code to append a directory divider to the Server Directory, if one is not entered.

Version 2.1fc2, released February 13, 1998

Fixed error in documentation, which claimed that a subindex of 0 would refer to the entire field, even for unquoted fields. Subindex of 0 works only for quoted fields. Made the default subindex 1, rather than 0.

[by request] Added support for dates represented as the number of seconds since January 1, 1970.

Version 2.1fc1, released February 9, 1998

Fixed formatting on the <pre> sections of the documentation (sample config files and command lines), which got messed up a little in 2.1b3.
Fixed a problem with spaces in the Server Directory, probably introduced in 2.1b3; these are now allowed again.
Fixed bug with display of command line format values in docs window. This bug was apparently introduced in 2.0fc5.

[by request] Added all the individual option pages to the "All Documentation" page (quadrupled the size to 400k).
Added blurb to Error message window pointing out that you can use the Back button to go back to try again.
Improved startup interview so it is now possible to navigate it fully forward, backward, and random-access. Previous versions had some limitation-- there were particular pages which were treated specially, and would not allow backward or random access.
Improved Mac multitasking; Sawmill comes to front as soon as possible now, even during startup interview, and multitasks more often while generating documentation pages.
Improved interactivity of page loading on Mac. When generating pages on Mac, Sawmill sends each 10k chunk as it finishes it, rather than generating the whole thing at once. This saves memory, saves time, and provides faster feedback. It is particularly useful for the All Documentation page, which is so large that the Mac version was straining to generate it in memory (all other versions send CGI data as it is generated, but the nature of CGI on Mac requires it to be sent in blocks).

Version 2.1b3, released February 3, 1998

Fixed Power User's Guide (only the last two paragraphs of this very large page were appearing).
Fixed bug with line graph docs page (would generate error when displayed).

[by request] Added code to autodetect the user sawmill is running as, on UNIX systems, and display that in a couple of the places where interviews talked about permissions. This makes it easier for users to see how they need to set permissions to allow sawmill to create the database, read the log file, or access other files.
[by request] Added a link to the bottom of the Table of Contents in the documentation which displays all the documentation on a single page. This is useful for printing. (oops, just occurred to me that I forgot to display all the option pages; look for that in next version).

Version 2.1b2, released January 26, 1998

Fixed problem where the password field in the Show Options section of stats pages was not properly terminated, resulting in four bullets in the field even when no password had been entered.
Changed the Server Directory sample in the Startup interview to "sawmill," rather then "CC" (a relic of Chartreuse Cartouche, the product's previous name).
Fixed a few minor typos.

[by request] Completely revamped the internal mechanism for defining interviews. This shows up for users as greatly improved interview navigation-- it is now possible to go backward through interviews as well as forward, and to jump to any page of the current interview. It used to be possible to go backward using the Back button, but the new method is better, since it saves the contents of pages as you go backward, allowing you to later go forward and see what you had entered further along in the interview. The jump feature is similar; information, once entered, is never lost.
Reworked the Startup interview to make it a true interview (it didn't used to be, though it looked like it). With a few limitations, it is possible to navigate through the Startup interview just as you can through normal interviews.
[by request] Reworded the documentation describing the log format commands (index, subindex, etc.). Hopefully, the new wording is clearer, especially in the central point: you almost never need to change subindex.
Made the log format default to all zeros for index and subindex, so you really can leave the subindex fields alone (and you don't have to change all the indexes to 0).
Added a link to the Main Menu from the bottom of every interview page.

Version 2.1b1, released January 12, 1998

[by request] Made the date graph bar chart bars clickable.
[by request] Made it so that a database is erased not by removing the database directory and everything in it (as in 2.0), but by removing everything in it, but not the directory itself. This makes it possible to have the database directory's parent directory read-only.
[by request] Added Trial version support. This means that we can easily build a trial version of the program which accepts no more than 5000 log entries.