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Update Patches

What Are They and What Should I Do?

Update patches are usually bug fixes or feature enhancements for users who has installed Biblioscape already. User only need to download a relatively small zip file by clicking on the hyper-linked date below, and replace the old files with the new ones. After downloading the patch, please unzip it to an empty directory. If you do not have an unzip software, please download WinZip. You should then read the update history below and replace the old files with new ones accordingly. If the main installation file you downloaded has a later date than the update patch, then you have no need to get the patch.

Update History

From 3.7 To 3.72:

02/29/2000:
To do: You have to have Biblioscape 3.7 installed on your system. Unzip bsp3_02_29.zip to an empty directory.
1. Copy "biblioscape.exe" to the Biblioscape root directory to replace the old one.

Bug Fixes:

  • 2/4/2000
    1. The data aware controls for Title, Sec_title, Year_pub, etc. are connected to the query. So if one of the data fields is not included in query, error message will be generated. Now they are connected to table.
  • 2/17/2000
    1. When click "GetBib" button at online mode, if there is no associated "import filter", the previously used "import filter" will be shown.

From 3.7 To 3.71:

01/31/2000:
To do: You have to have Biblioscape 3.7 installed on your system. Unzip bsp3_01_31.zip to an empty directory.
1. Copy "biblioscape.exe" to the Biblioscape root directory to replace the old one.

Bug Fixes:

  • 01/02/2000
    1. If the last opened database no longer exists, Biblioscape will generate lots of error messages and crash. Now, the template database will be opened instead.
  • 01/10/2000
    1. The menu command "File | Report | Modern" generate an error message unless the report query is added with " order by " phrase.
  • 01/11/2000
    1. The popup menu on tab "All Links" of reference editor is not connected.
  • 01/13/2000
    1. Menu command "File | Database | Pack Tables" cause a non-fatal error message.
    2. Duplicate removal utility does not function properly when certain fields are checked, like Keywords, Location, etc. Because those fields are not included in the query.
  • 01/23/2000
    1. Double click the grid and press Enter key on the grid behaves differently. Press "enter" key does not go to the right record.
  • 01/26/2000
    1. The font for edit box in style editor are changed from "Courier" to "Times New Roman". Some ASCII characters are not shown correctly in "Courier". For example Alt+0150 (en dash -).
    2. The font for edit box in "Edit | Text | Insert Symbol" is changed from "MS San Serif" to "Times New Roman". Because some ASCII characters are not displayed properly in font "MS San Serif".

From 3.6 To 3.7:

12/31/1999:
To do: You have to have Biblioscape 3.6 installed on your system. Unzip bsp3_12_31.zip to an empty directory.
1. Copy "biblioscape.exe" to the Biblioscape root directory.
2. Copy file "bibGridFlds.txt" into the "Global" directory under Biblioscape root directory.

New Features:

  1. For the SQL query, only a subset of fields in table bib is selected, this increase performance for folder opening, search result display, etc. by 100%-150%.
  2. Query is no longer prepared manually, this saves system resources.
  3. The main data grid is replaced. The new grid supports data field grouping.
  4. The data grid customization method is changed. bib_view*.txt files are no longer needed.
  5. The limit on text size in document field is significantly increased.
  6. Biblioscape now works under Windows 2000.
  7. When create bi-directional link between records, "Is " is added before link type for reverse direction. For example, if the link type is "Cited", the link type for reverse direction will be "Is Cited".
  8. For Title fields, if the last character is "?", "!", or ".", the first character in the after field text will be removed. This can prevent cases like "....title...?.".
  9. New import filter for "FirstSearch -- PsycINFO", "OVID -- CINAHL", "NAL -- AGRICOLA", "SIRSI -- WebCat", "CARL -- CARLweb"

Bug Fixes:

  • 11/09/1999
    1. When click the "Tertiary Authors" or "Quaternary Authors" label, Biblioscape generate "Can't focus a invisible window" error message.
  • 11/12/1999
    1. BiblioWeb: If a marked records no longer exists in database, the first record in database is displayed instead when user clicked "Marked".
    2. BiblioWeb: If the style uses journal name other than "as is", a table open error message is displayed.
  • 11/22/1999
    1. When using customized style for BiblioWeb, it looks for "CaseWord.txt" in the wrong directory.
    2. The lookup label on reference editor for "Sec_title" will retrieve the distinct records according to reference type.
  • 12/06/1999
    1. When customizing reference type with "Tools | Options", the changed reference type labels are not updated in the same session.
  • 12/9/1999
    1. The Biblioscape 3.7 beta (12/02/1999), the import "import filter" feature does not work. This bug was introduced in 3.7 beta.
  • 12/17/1999
    1. When formatting a paper to generate footnote, if the style uses citation number, the formatter does not work correctly.

From 3.5 To 3.6:

10/31/1999:
To do: Please follow the procedures described below exactly. Before starting, if you have custom made "styles" or "import filters", please export them first. Because the following steps will delete all styles and import filter tables first, and replace them with the default ones with new format.

  1. Unzip this file to an empty directory "bsp36_temp_dir". 
  2. Rename the "BiblioWeb" sub-directory under "...\Biblioscape 3\" into "BiblioWeb_old".
  3. Under the Biblioscape root directory, Create a new directory called "BiblioWeb".
  4. Under "...\Biblioscape 3\Global\" directory, delete all files start with "format.*", "imp_filter.*", "imp_type.*", "journal.*", "web.*", "web_forum.*". Move all files under "bsp36_temp_dir\Global" to "...\Biblioscape 3\Global".
  5. Move all files under "bsp36_temp_dir\BiblioWeb" to "...\Biblioscape 3\BiblioWeb".
  6. Move all files under "bsp36_temp_dir" to "...\Biblioscape 3\" and replace the old files.
  7. Create a sub-directory "Mark" under "...\Biblioscape 3\BiblioWeb\", create another sub-directory "Search" under "...\Biblioscape 3\BiblioWeb\". 
  8. Double click "...\Biblioscape 3\BiblioWeb\BiblioWeb.exe" to run it. If your PC already has a web server running using port 80, you will get an error message. You need to click on the "Default setting" tab, and choose another port to listen on. For example you can use port 8001.
  9. Open your web browser, enter "http://127.0.0.1". If you are using a port other than 80, you need to specify the port number in your URL. For example: "http://127.0.0.1:8001".

New features:

Bug fix:

From 3.x To 3.5:

07/24/1999:
To do:
1. Back up your database.
2. Download and extract the zip file to an empty directory. When unzip the file, use folder names (also known as path names) stored in the archive.
3. If you are running version 3.4 ("Help | About"), just replace the main executable "biblioscape.exe" with the new one. Otherwise, replace the old files with the new ones in corresponding directories. If you have created or modified any import filters, please exported them before replacing the old "imp_*" files under "Global" directory.

New features:

  1. Display bibliographic records relationship in an organization chart. Click here to see a screen shot.
  2. In "Keywords" and "Authors" lookup box, click right mouse button to show related terms in an organization chart.

Bug fix:

From 3.x To 3.4:

07/05/1999:
To do:
1. Back up your database.
2. Download and extract the zip file to an empty directory.
3. Replace the old files with the new ones in corresponding directories. If you have created or modified any import filters, please exported them before replacing the old "imp_*" files under "Global" directory.

New features:

  1. The "Favorites" tree in "Online" mode is replaced by a table that can be grouped by column. More web bibliographic resources added. More...
  2. Table bib_link.db is added to allow user to create cross links between records. More...
  3. Suppport for Microsoft Access and other database systems through ODBC. More...
  4. Field labels on "Record" mode become sensitive to reference type changes.
  5. Format reference as footnote is now supported. More...
  6. Menu command "Remove from Folder" is added to let user remove selected records from the current folder and not delete the records.
  7. Use "^na" in temporary citation tag to omitt Authors in final in-text citation, and use "^ny" in citation tag to omitt Year in final in-text citation. More...
  8. In citation tag, use (...) immediatly after citation tag bracket [(See also ) Smith 1991 #34] to add citation prefix. Use (...) after author year [Smith 1991 ( Pg. 41-44) #34] to add citation suffix. Similarly, use ((...)) immediatly after citation tag bracket [((my comment )) Smith 1991 #34] to add bibliography prefix. Use ((...)) after author year [Smith 1991 (( my comment)) #34] to add bibliography suffix. More...
  9. During formatting document, citations by same author in same year will be differentiated by adding a, b, c, etc, at the end of citation. For example, "Smith, 1997a" and "Smith, 1997b".
  10. Support natural citation. In the temporary citation, user can use text that uniquely identify a record instead of a record ID. All search keywords applicable to indexed search can be used, including AND, OR, NOT, LIKE, NEAR, as well as wildcards * and ?. For example [#lane 1976] or [#nucleo* and cancer 1983]. More...
  11. Lookup table can now be sorted by clicking the column header.
  12. When user select a folder on "Go to Folder" window, the records in main window will not change as user select corresponding folder.
  13. In "Copy to Folder", "Move to Folder", and "Go to Folder" window, "New Folder" and "New Child" buttons are added for user to add new folders.
  14. "Select All" is added to the pop up menu in list mode.
  15. Menu command "Empty Recycle Bin" is added.
  16. File "preview_rtf_header.txt" is added under "Global" directory to give user full control for formatting RTF text in preview box.
  17. Add a comma at the end of author name field will make Biblioscape to treat the author name as coprporate author. i.e. all the text will be treated as last name during formatting.
  18. The width of explorer pane will always be remembered in a session or between sessions.
  19. If you exit Biblioscape in "Retrieve All" mode, it will go to that mode next time you start Biblioscape.
  20. Two new author name format "Smith_JP" and "Smith-J-P" are added for import filter definition.
  21. If "Reftypes" directory is present where *.bsp or *.bss file resides, the reference type specific field labels will be taken from this directory instead of the default. This will make labels bind to a database to achieve consistancy in multi-user environment.
  22. When capture web page, the HTML and graphics will be saved on local disk, the text content of captured web page will be added into field Ref_doc of database. The text will aslo be indexed for use with indexed search.
  23. Menu command "Input Preview" is added under "View | Preview Bar". Under this mode, user can add or edit record using the main window. The order of data field can be re-arranged by drag and drop. One field can be dragged to become the child of another field. More...
  24. A popup menu is added to lookup window, user can select a term and go to "Replace" directly.
  25. Ref_ID and Folder_ID are changed from long integer to autoincrement, so Access, FileMaker Pro can be used to added record. Also ASP can be used for adding, editing, and deleting records.
  26. More import filters are added for popular web bibliographic databases.

Bug fixes:

3.3 Patches:

04/05/1999:
To do:
1. Replace the main executable "biblioscape.exe" under the root directory where Biblioscape is installed.
2. Replace all the report files *.QR2 under "...\Biblioscape 3\Reports\".
3. Replace files "fields.txt", "fldFldName.txt", and "Glance_bib.txt" under "...\Biblioscape 3\Global\".
4. Replace file "BiblioSidekick.exe" under "...\Biblioscape 3\Tools\".

To fix:
1. If search index table under "...\Index" is removed, when Biblioscape starts, it won't be able to create new index table correctly.
2. The "Preview" option is not remembered between sessions.
3. In "Advanced Search" mode, date searching with "on", "on and after", "on and before", "between" does not work properly without putting single quote around date.
4. "Reference Type ID" is removed from "Advanced Search" (fields.txt and fldFldName.txt under ...\Global).
5. Database reporting won't work properly when record sorting is applied in "List" view.
6. When adding new record, if switching to "All Fields" tab, or click "Toggle Fields" button, data field labels are not displayed correctly.
7. During record import, multi-paragraph text in abstract field is
combined into one paragraph.
8. Report file uses paper size A4 as default for printing.
9. The record sorting is not controlled by report file.
10. New Feature: "Add", "Del", "Edit" buttons are added to "Glance" view. "Created By" item is added into "Glance" view.
11. "Reference User" in "Advanced Search" is changed to "Created By".
12. BiblioSidekick can not open ver 3.3 database in "Folder" mode.

From 3.2 To 3.3:

03/28/1999:
To do:
1. Create a new directory called "Reports" under where Biblioscape is installed. For example "C:\Program Files\Biblioscape 3\Reports".
2. Unzip the patch file to the above directory.
3. Replace the old executable and help files by moving "biblioscape.exe", "biblioscape.hlp", and "biblioscape.cnt" from the "Report" sub-directory to Biblioscape root directory.
4. Replace old "biblioWeb.exe" and "biblioWeb_query.htm" under sub-directory "BiblioWeb" and your CGI Bin directory.

New features:
1. An Integrated Database Report Writer for Pro Edition. For information professionals, one of their main responsibilities is to do literature search for their clients. With Biblioscape report writer, you can present your search results in a way to really impress your clients. To learn more about the new report writer, visit http://www.biblioscape.com/bt_report.htm
2. Capture Web Page. In addition to capture bibliographic records on a web page, Biblioscape now allows user to capture the content of a web page. A new record will be created automatically with hyperlink to the captured HTML file. With IE5, all the graphics will be captured as well. Visit http://www.biblioscape.com/bt_web_cap.htm for more info.
3. Support for Formatting Double Byte Language, Chinese, Japanese, etc. Not only Biblioscape can sort records in any languages, it can also format records in any languages even for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Visit http://www.biblioscape.com/bt_language.htm for more info.
4. BiblioSidekick. A new tool for citing references while writing that is better than "Cite-While-You-Write". BiblioSidekick is a free download (http://www.biblioscape.com/bibsck10.exe) for our users. Visit http://www.biblioscape.com/bt_bibsck.htm for more info.
5. Page Field Type Change. Data fields "Page_start" and "Page_end" are changed from integer field to string field. Therefore, you can use letters in page field, such as "A12" in reference type "Newspaper".
6. The name of several tables are changed to follow the 8.3 naming convention. This will be done automatically when you open an old database.

To fix:
1. For coded search like "au=smith" used under "Smart Search", it is now case insensitive.
2. If the words index table is not present when database is opened, Biblioscape generates "Access Violation" error.
3. User can make extra data field available in style editor, as long as all the files under "c:\program files\biblioscape 3\reftypes\" are correctly changed. The added data field name needs to be at the same line across all files.
4. When editing record with "All Fields" tab, the changes made to current record will overwrite the next record user navigate to.
5. When capture bibliographic records from web, if "Delimited" import was used last time, the import type tab "Tag" will not be shown as the active one.
6. BiblioSideKick: Column resizing not working properly.
7. BiblioSidekick: Drag record under Folder and Search mode wont place the right citation tag.
8. BiblioSidekick: New feature, When grouped, the number of records under each is shown for field year, journal, reference type, language, etc.
9. When browsing folder, Menu command "List | Refresh" will move to the first folder.
10. The shortcut (Shift+R) is assigned to menu command "List | Refresh".
11. "Undo Delete" is moved from menu group "Edit" to "Record" and renamed to "Deleted Records". Menu items "New Reference" and "New Reference Of" are renamed to "New Record" and "New Record Of".
12. If there are text in document formatted as symbol, then the reference section generated by Biblioscape shows as symbol also. Because an "\f3" in reference section and "\f3" is defined differently in each document.
13. Added an option for Chinese, Japanese. Korean double byte language formatting.
14. When open a database that do not have search index under "...\Index\", Biblioscape will start rebuild.exe and it will go into infinite loop.
15. When editing record with "All Fields" tab, if user move to "List" view without clicking "Save" or "Cancel" button first, the next record will be overwritten when user start browsing.
16. In "Record" mode, when display record with "All Fields", the row height is not resized when browsing through records.
17. When adding new record, the content inside document field is not cleared.
18. When moving back to "List" mode, the record selected is not the one just edited or added.
19. When moving to "Online" or "Welp" mode the window caption is not updated.
20. "Cut", "Copy", "Paste", and "Undo" buttons are added to document toolbar under "Record" mode.
21. Under "List" view, clicking "Help | Content and Index" cause record drag-and-drop to start.
22. Changes made with "Replace All" in "Edit | Replace" are not updated in search index and lookup index.

3.2 Patches:

02/24/1999:
To do: Please replace the old biblioscape.exe with the new one.
To fix: 1. When Format Document window is opened, format document within word processor caused Access Violation error. 2. Clicking field label on reference editor to lookup existing data does not work properly in some circumstances. 3. If there is a Date in a comma or tab delimited file during import, Biblioscape reports "...field Year_pub not found..." error. 4. When importing from delimited file (for example, data file from Biblioscape Express), reference type icon is not shown correctly. 5. When importing tab or comma delimited file, the last choice (tab or comma) is not remembered. 6. After using "Lookup" in explorer pane, rebuilding database or updating search index cause error message "query_bib_lookup field ... not found". 7. Sometimes when switching to lookup view in explorer pane, error message "Abstract, Notes, and Document fields can not be looked up" is generated. 8. In "Record" view, when first click hyperlinked label of authors field, error message "Invalid type casting" is generated. 9. If the "Lookup" tab is active on explorer pane during exit, Biblioscape will report error and hang.

02/16/1999:
To do: Please replace the old biblioscape.exe with the new one.
To fix: 1. Adding graphics or OLE object into document is very slow to process and make browsing such records very slow also. 2. Menu items "Copy Tag to Clipboard" and "Shoot Tag to Word Processor" are moved under "Edit" from "Copy Tag". 3. Under "Retrieve All" mode, the reference type icon is not shown.

02/07/1999:
For people who downloaded Biblioscape between Feb, 1 and Feb, 7.
To do: Please replace the old biblioscape.exe with the new one. If you already experienced the bug when creating new database, please replace two files "bib_type.db" and "bib_type.px" under "c:\program files\biblioscape 3\global\" also.
To fix: 1. When creating new database, got error "Table does not exist. File or Directory does not exist. File "...\bib_type.db". 2. "Find/Replace" not working properly under "Retrieve All" mode.

02/04/1999:
To do: Please replace the old biblioscape.exe with the new one.
To fix: "File not found" error during online records capturing.

From 3.1 To 3.2:

02/01/1999: (Pre-Release of Version 3.2, visit later for formal release)
To do: Please replace the old biblioscape.exe with the new one, and replace the following files "cool.avi", "fields.txt", and "fldFldName.txt" under directory "c:\program files\biblioscape 3\global\" with the new ones.
New features: 1. Improved interface, easily switch between list, record, and online mode. 2. 100% to 300% speed increase for certain operations, like opening folders and advanced search.
To fix: 1. Filtering and sorting not remembered between sessions. 2. Refreshing will loose filter definition. 3. Filtering not working under "Retrieve All" mode. 4. During importing, if year is missing, current year is inserted instead. 5. During importing, if year is missing, and duplicate checking is turned on, an filter error will be generated. 4. Authors with more than one first name or middle name is handled correctly. 5. Hyphenated names are handled correctly. 6. Authors with suffix can now be handled correctly. Suffix should be added to the end preceded by a comma (Smith, John Alexander, Jr.) 5. In style editor, formatting change not working for several fields, like "URL", "Priority", "Subject"...

3.1 Patches:

01/01/1999:
To do: Please replace the old biblioscape.exe with the new one.
To fix: 1. When customize reference types, after deleting a reference type, its entry is not deleted in "...\Biblioscape 3\Reftypes\Reftypes.txt". 2. During import, records with "ARTICLE" and "ARTICLE REVIEW" as reference type tags are not recognized as its corresponding reference type.

12/22/1998:
To do: Please replace the old biblioscape.exe with the new one.
New features: 1. In Style Editor, when editing authors or editors field, support the use of caret "^" to put different text after authors depend on single author or multiple authors. For example "ed. ^eds. ". 2. In Style Editor, when editing start page field, support the use of caret "^" to put different text before start page depend on end page exists or not. For example "P. ^PP. ". 3. In Style Editor, when adding new reference types, the common definitions are based on the selected one. 4. Added a feature in import filter editor to let user add fixed string to any field during import. 5. An animation indicator is added when Biblioscape is retrieving records. 6. Added the feature to allow user modify an existing query in "Advanced Search".
To fix: 1. Fixed the bug that crash the program when editing style for customized reference type in certain situations. 2. Fixed the bugs in Style Editor and Import Filter Editor that will not export record when the record is not first selected by mouse. 3. Fixed the bug in import module that does not import 4 digits number as date.

12/15/1998:
To do: Go to "File | Define Import Filters...", click "Import" button, select "btf_ver2.bif" unzipped from the patch. Do the same thing for "btf_ver1.bif".
To fix: 1. Several reference types in Biblioscape tagged file are imported as default type "Journal Article". 2. Field "Reference Mark" are imported into wrong field. 3. Record separator "------" are imported into a data field.

From 3.0 To 3.1

12/13/1998:
To do: Please replace the old biblioscape.exe with the new one.
To fix: 1. Upgrade to version 3.1 featuring a new reference editor. 2. Menu items "Insert Symbol" and "Insert Term" are added under "Edit | Text". 3. Fixed the bug in style editor that won't let user edit quaternary title. 4. Exported Biblioscape tag file now uses "--LA-- " for label, "--CO-- " for country, and "--LO-- " for location.

3.0 Patches

12/06/1998:
To do: Please replace the old biblioscape.exe with the new one.
To fix: 1. Moving records into a folder after searching. 2. Moving records into a folder in "Retrieve All" mode. 3. Added a feature to automatically recommend actions when importing large number of records.

12/03/1998:
To do: Please replace the old biblioscape.exe with the new one. Move "adspell.hlp" to "c:\program files\biblioscape 3\tools\".
To fix: 1. Not showing total number of records after search. 2. Missing help file for spell checker.

12/01/1998:
To do: Please replace the old biblioscape.exe with the new one. If you want to transfer ProCite database to Biblioscape. Do the following: Import "procite2biblioscape.bif" into Biblioscape import filter table. Move "ProCite2Biblioscape.pos" to ProCite Style subdirectory.
To fix: 1. Reference editor not working correctly in "Retrieve All" mode. 2. Import filter for ProCite users to transfer records into Biblioscape database. 3. ProCite style file for ProCite user to "File | Print Bibliography", then save records for later importing into Biblioscape. 4. "Smarting Parsing" is added for importing date in import filter builder. Click here for detailed info about how to transfer records from ProCite database into Biblioscape database.

11/30/1998:
To do: Please replace the old biblioscape.exe with the new one.
To fix: 1. In style editor, Quaternary Title field does not work properly. 2. In style editor, "Long Date Format" does not work properly. Option "94" produce 4 digits year and option "1994" produce 6 digits year with two extra "19". Click here to get the patch for version 2.

11/27/1998:
To do: Please replace the old biblioscape.exe with the new one.
To fix: Slow performance of "References | Retrieve All"; Slow performance of first author name lookup.

11/25/1998:
To do: Please replace the old biblioscape.exe with the new one. Also replace the old biblioweb.exe and biblioweb_I.dll under "c:\program files\Biblioscape 3\BiblioWeb\" with the new ones.
To fix: Biblioscape: Slow redraw when open unread reference in editor, browse with preview, and when close reference editor with changes. A new "View | Refresh" was added to show changes when user wants. BiblioWeb: The old biblioweb.exe does not work for evaluation edition.

11/24/1998:
To do: Please replace the old biblioscape.exe with the new one.
To fix: User can not longer use "{{" and "}}" as start and end symbols for reference tag, since it causes problems during manuscript formatting.

11/23/1998:
To do: Please add the 3 files to "c:\program files\biblioscape 3\global".
To fix: These 3 files are missing in the first release, the program won't work without those 3 files.

 

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