Version 2.0.2 1999/12/21 (Alpha #3)

• Essentially a bug fix release, most problematic bugs concerned replacements in 16-bit version (See Change.log in source archive for full list of fixes)
• Made ESC exit program like it did in version 1.5

Version 2.0.1 1999/11/29 (Alpha #2)

• The parameters for the -v option have been redone to enable altering the screen colors. -v:mono will also work in DOS without ANSI.SYS
• -d will preserve the original datestamps of modified files instead of setting them to the current date and time.
• If an extension in the -z parameter lacks a decompression program, files with that extension will be skipped.
• Several bug fixes.

Major new features added since version 1.5

• The codebase has been completely rewritten, which has facilitated porting to Linux and 32-bit DOS and should make porting to other environments reasonably easy.
• The regular expressions supported are something close to UNIX extended regular expressions
• Memory limitations should no longer be a problem, at least outside the DOS 16-bit version.
• The textviewer has much more functionality.
• Backup files can have a numbered extension, which should prevent MiniTrue from deleting or overwriting any files.
• Grep mode (enabled with -o) can print more than one line of context.
• DOS filenames can use UNIX wildcards.
• MiniTrue can now operate in a terminal, even in DOS.
• Boolean expressions can be nested.
• The -z option can decompress more than one type of archive.
• Directory recursion has many new options.
• The case of replacement text can match the case of the found string.
• If the next match occurs on the current screen, the screen position is not jumped. (This behavior can be modified with the second parameter of the -n option)
• The -y option enables skipping binary or text files.
• -e suppresses display of file error messages.
• The help information is now contained in a file which is viewable in the textviewer.

Things Changed or Removed since version 1.5

• The option character and files/strings seperator has been changed from - to / to enable porting to UNIX.
• The operator for boolean matches has been changed from & to @
• The option -d, which saved the default configuration, has been removed. The default options are now read from the MINTRUE environment variable
• The option -g, which created a batch file, has been removed as well.
• The parameter format for most options has been changed.
• The column number for a match is no longer determined
• The progress bar and spinner in the status line is no longer implemented.
• -v no longer allows changing the monitor's video mode.
• The third parameter of the -u option has been removed.
• The -n option no longer seeks a prompt before preceding.
• The "splash screen" is not displayed at the start of program execution.
• -q prevents display of the filename being scanned instead of the splash screen.
• -c now enables case insensitivity instead of case sensitivity.
• The start and end of a replacement string cannot be altered during runtime.
• The program name (for 32-bit versions) has been changed from mt to mtr to avoid conflict with the UNIX tape utility.