History of dox
N.B. All dates are in DD/MM/YY format. Two digit years are after 1997. Shows
date of completion of the version.

I wrote the dox programme after I needed to convert my resume from a word
processing document to an html document and finding that other programmes
insisted that I go back to my original documents and stuff around with
"style-sheets".

December 1999 (coming soon) - Extract pictures from rtf. Yes it's finally
in progress!

19/12/99 - Version 2.30 Added numerical escape characters in rtf, including
accented character support. Font size support significantly improved. Fixed
bug in GUI version where it would pause between files until the mouse was
moved. Improved GUI version's handling of 640x480 screens. Removed audio
reminder. New GUI options screen - only contains 'about' information at the
moment.

11/10/99 - Version 2.20 Added new escape characters in rtf: left/right
quote/double quote (as frequently used by MS Word). Fixed double spacing
at end of paragraphs problem. Fixed newline bug. Fixed an obscure
rtf brackets bug. NT filename bug should be fixed. Added font-size, it still
needs work though. Fixed problem with win95 version writing empty files.

28/6/99 - Version 2.10 Fixed bug in rtf output. Fixed rtf input re: ignoring
stylesheets etc. Properties section in win95 allows setting of various
parameters. No drag and drop.

11/2/99 - Version 2.00 First shareware version. Windows GUI ready no drag
& drop. Fixed bug related to font tables. Added wildcards to 16 bit version.

4/11/98 - Version 1.50 Hard drive crashed meaning 2.00 release is put back.
Fixes problems and bugs. Adds wildcard support. New command syntax.
Error/status messages routed to stderr. Dots show status every 1024 bytes.
Basic PS, RTF pictures lost.

15/5/98 - Version 1.20 Windows 95 interface up and running, although it looks
pretty basic. Variable line length wrapping for text output. Worked around
problem with brackets in rtf - recursive solution will be made soon.
Implementation of pictures postponed due to problems.

31/3/98 - Version 1.10 Converts to & from rtf, html and text.

6/2/98 - Version 1.00 First attempt - consisted only of dox.c Could
only convert one way from rtf to html.



- Future -
* A snazzy win95 interface. Including drag and drop support.
* Support for PostScript, PDF, Microsoft Help, pictures and colours.
* Allow editing of text in win95.

Dox is copyright 1998 by Andrew Punch. The source code for this programme
may not be used without acknowledgement being given.
