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FTP Explorer by Alan Chavis
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Copyright Notice
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Copyright (c) 1995-1996 by Alan Chavis
FTP Explorer is a trademark of Alan Chavis
Release Notes
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THIS IS A BETA RELEASE. THIS MEANS THAT YOU WILL ENCOUNTER PROBLEMS.
PLEASE HELP ME TO IMPROVE THE PROGRAM BY REPORTING ANY PROBLEMS OR
SUGGESTIONS TO:
achavis@datacrit.com
The main objective of FTP Explorer is to provide an FTP client that looks
and feels just like the Windows 95 Explorer interface. Please keep this
in mind while evaluating it.
When released, FTP Explorer will be distributed FREE for non-commercial use.
Commercial pricing is still up in the air, but will be competetive with other
FTP clients. Please email me about what you think a fair price would be.
THE LATEST RELEASE WILL ALWAYS BE AVAILABLE AT:
ftp.datacrit.com /pub/ftpx
If you would like to subscribe to the FTP Explorer mailing list and be
notified via email about new releases, send email to:
listserv@datacrit.com
with no subject, and put this in the body of the email:
subscribe ftpx
NOTE: DON'T PUT ANYTHING ELSE IN THE BODY OF THE MESSAGE
If you thought you were on the mailing list, but didn't receive a
notification about the latest build, you may want to subscribe again.
Please note that FTP Explorer requires a 32-bit TCP/IP stack. If you are
using a 16-bit stack you will need to upgrade to a 32-bit stack to use
FTP Explorer.
Disclaimer of Warranty
----------------------
THIS SOFTWARE AND THE ACCOMPANYING FILES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED.
In no event shall the author be held liable for any damages whatsoever,
including without limitation, damages for loss of business profits,
business interruption, loss of business information, or any other loss
arising from the use or inability to use the software.
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
-------------------------
Installation used to be simple. Just put the EXE wherever you wanted and
run it.
Well, now I've gone and added a shell extension and you'll have to do a
little more work until we get a nice install program. (You'd rather have
more features and less bugs over a fancy install anyway right?)
Installation of the shell extension is optional, and is only required if
you want to take advantage of drag and drop downloads and creation of
shortcuts. (You can drag and drop upload without it, and the shortcut
option on the connect dialog will work without it.)
Be advised that because the shell extension runs in the shell's process,
if it crashes it can bring the shell down with it. It seems to work well,
but I can't guarantee that you won't have any problems with it (this *is*
a beta after all). If anyone has any questions of a technical nature
regarding the shell extension and what it's actually doing, feel free to
email me and I'll clue you in.
Installing the shell extension is fairly simple:
1. Copy the FTPXEXT.DLL file to your SYSTEM directory.
2. Open the Windows 95 explorer and go to wherever FTPXEXT.REG is.
(Probably wherever you extracted FTP Explorer to)
3. Right click on FTPXEXT.REG and choose the merge option from the
context menu.
This will add some entries to your registry under the following keys:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{eb9ebda0-b3e7-11cf-81c9-0000c0aa665f}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{eb9ebda0-b3e7-11cf-81c9-0000c0aa665f}\InProcServer32
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\CopyHookHandlers\FTP Explorer
4. You will probably need to restart your system to activate the shell
extension.
If you want to uninstall the shell extension, just delete FTPXEXT.DLL from
your SYSTEM directory and restart. You can remove the entries from your
registry as well if you feel confident you know what your doing, otherwise
you can just leave them there, they don't take up much space.
What's New
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* Changes in Version 0.00.033 (06/02/96)
- Fixed a bug that was causing the columns in the details view to be
sized to 0 width if program was closed in any other view.
- Fixed a bug where program was unable to start fpArchie if fpArchie
was located in a "long filename" path (i.e. \Program Files).
- Fixed a bug where if the folder was empty, the tree view icon stayed
green after the LIST command was complete.
- Fixed a bug where certain shell functions (such as changing wallpaper)
were performed while connected, a blocking thread was not allowing the
function to complete.
- Fixed a bug where transfer progress dialog was not appearing on top
of the main window properly.
- Added code to check for insufficient disk space before a file is
downloaded.
- Fixed a bug when "Quick Viewing" files that "Quick View" does not
recognize where the file would be deleted before quick view could
open it.
- Added percentage complete indicator to transfer progress dialog's
caption.
- Added "Port" option to connect dialog.
- Enabled transfer progress dialog for non-background transfers.
- Enabled non-background uploading.
- Added "Transfer Dialog Threshold" option to transfer options page.
This options controls how large a file has to be before the transfer
progress dialog is displayed. When transferring many small files,
displaying the transfer dialog can degrade performance slightly.
NOTE: The transfer dialog is always displayed for background
transfers.
- Added option to connection options page to hide files that begin
with a period.
* Changes in Version 0.00.032 (06/01/96)
- Fixed some problems with date/time display on certain VMS systems.
* Changes in Version 0.00.031 (06/01/96)
- Program no longer terminates until last active transfer is either
completed or cancelled.
- Fixed bug which prevented "Small Icons" or "List" list view settings
from being restored between sessions.
- Program now saves column width settings for list details view. Sorry,
still no way to change the order of the columns. :(
- Fixed a bug related to background transfers where if password was
entered via password prompt dialog, the password was not available
to the background transfer so it couldn't log in.
- Fixed bug on VMS servers where rename command was not working.
- Improved support for multiple drives.
* Changes in Version 0.00.030 (05/30/96)
- Fixed some problems with server reporting "UNKNOWN Type: L8" in
response to SYST command. (listserv-ftp.dartmouth.edu)
- Fixed a bug that was causing the SYST command to be issued every
time a list command was issued.
- Improved VMS support. Program now remembers current drive info.
Please note that to use the "Go to" command on a VMS system, you
currently have to specify the path with unix style slashes instead
of VMS style paths. (i.e. drive:[pub.misc] becomes drive:/pub/misc)
- Fixed a bug that was preventing larger files from being transferred
at all unless they were transferred in the background.
- "Go to" command now treats path relative to the current directory.
If you enter a path that doesn't start with a slash "/" character,
or a drive specification, then it will append it to the current
directory and attempt to change to that directory.
* Changes in Version 0.00.029 (05/29/96)
- Added "Sequential or Simultaneous" option to transfer options page.
This options allows the user to specify whether to transfer queued
items sequentially, or to start multiple threads for simultaneous
transfers. There is also an option to specify the maximum number
of logins.
- Moved english resources back into main executable to facilitate
development. The program will now look for "ftpxres.dll" and use
it if it finds it, otherwise it will use the built in resources.
If you are using english resources, you can delete the file
"ftpxres.dll" that was provided with earlier builds. Localized
DLL's for Norway,