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- October 12, 1994
-
- What's new?
- Version 0.42
- * Re-architected the relationship between the thread that
- manages the interface and the thread that handles the
- remote connection. Much cleaner relationship now.
- * Added directory contents caching. Through use of a Notebook
- settings page, user can control whether to use caching,
- how many directories to cache (up to 15), and how long
- to age them (up to an hour). This feature substantially
- increases performance, especially over SLIP and PPP
- connections.
- * User can view the directories in the cache using a non-modal
- dialog box. From there, the user can select a directory in
- order to change directly to it.
- * Fixed (I hope) the problem where user cannot kill program
- when the connection hangs or dies. User should use the
- system menu's "Close" menu choice.
- * Re-worked menus to solve a VX-REXX problem where using
- popup-menu ruins the pull-down menus' behaviour.
- * Speeded up screen re-draws when user resizes.
- * Program now remembers last position and size. Program
- will start up at the same size and position.
- * Added the ability to turn off Hints!
- * Added file transfer type text over the Get/Put buttons.
-
- Version 0.41a
-
- * Fixed a bug related to displaying files from VMS systems.
- * Added suppport for detecting file sizes and dates on certain
- VMS systems.
- * Added the ability to tell VxFTP what OS the remote host is
- running in case automatic detection doesn't work. You can
- even change it on the fly, after you've logged in. The login
- dialog box includes a field to specify the OS at login time.
- * Added the ability to save login information from the login
- dialog box to the Alias list, rather than requiring the user
- to go to the Settings Notebook.
- * Added "Copy" to the Local files pop-up menu.
- * Added the ability to unzip a ZIP archive into a new sub-
- directory. The new subdirectory name can be either extracted
- from the ZIP archive name or the user will be prompted for
- a directory name.
- * Allow interaction with local files while downloading or
- uploading. For instance, while you're downloading, you can
- now unzip the file you just downloaded, view its read.me,
- and execute it.
- * Support for both InfoZIP's unzip and PKUnzip.
-
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- June 6, 1994
-
- First off, VxFTP is a little more stable and coherent.
-
- Added since version 0.39:
- * Displays file and directory listings for:
- - Macintoshes
- - DEC's VAX-VMS
- - IBM VM
- - as well as PCs running OS/2 FTPD, and UNIX hosts
- * For platforms that VxFTP can't interpret directory listings,
- a menu item (Long Dir Listing) allows you to see what
- data came back from the host.
- * Support for saving Font settings on the local and remote
- file lists. Sorry, VX-REXX is having problems with giving
- me font info on the directory lists.
- * Notebook setting to allow using the 'E' system editor
- as the default viewer.
- * Default directory setting in the Notebook.
- * Fixed problem with the objects redrawing themselves at
- launch-time and after restoring from a minimized state.