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The IBM HandShaker (c) 1991-2000 by KHEMZ, Inc

The IBM HandShaker for OS/2 (c) 2000 by Alexander Trunov

7.6 beta 1

07/17/00
INFObegan working on CONNECT porting. this is the date when CN/2 born.

7.6 beta 4

08/09/00
INFOwildcard matching algorithm has been changed. it is no more DOS- oriented and can match 1.htm, 1.shtml, 1.html, etc by mask *.*htm*
NEWturned off OS/2 error-dialog popups if there are no diskette in floppy drive
NEWlha archiver has been added
08/10/00
INFOCN/2 now compiled by VP/2 2.1b2. thanks to Max A. Alekseyev, [relf@os2.ru].
BUGcontext help now show true topics. you should replace connect.cfg to file from original distributive.
BUGUpperCase/LowerCase in all places of CN/2 now works correctly. the conversion tables are taken directly from syste, therefore in your system must be correct language settings.
NEWcorrect displaying of files without names (starting with point: .plan, .wgetrc, etc). correct renaming, copying. correct behaviour of file dialog when creating files without name (Shift+F4).
NEWpossibility to change the case of files via Rename/Move dialog (F6/Ctrl+F6).
NEWif CN/2 falls with run-time error, it should display a filename and line number, where the error occured.
08/11/00
INFOhistory file (it's what you read now) changed format and it's automatically converted into html.
BUGsometimes cursor was broken after running programs.
INFOcorrected help in some places.
NEWsettings in "Use OS country-specific information" checkboxes of "Country settings dialog" are taken from Presentation Manager settings, if PM exists on your machine.
NEWchanged the dialog of archiver's settings. "Enable Win95 LFN" and "Swap main body checkboxes" are gone, and the format of archivers file slightly changed. you should replace connect.asp to the file from original distributive (it has pre-defined ZIP, RAR, ARJ and LHA settings).
NEWZIP, RAR, ARJ for Windows archivers are gone. As noted before, you should replace connect.asp file.
INFOconnect.asu should be also replaced to the file from original distributive (it has pre-defined settings for *.tdr files filter).
BUGtime-slices are now released in User screen mode (Alt+F5).
08/12/00
BUGif in the Help window cursor was beyond of the last link and the user pressed Tab, CN/2 falled with run-time error (RTE).
INFOin the original distributive of CN/2 is now English version of history, named english.his. feel free to correct my English (send corrections to jnc@os2.ru)
NEWgroup highlighting algorithm has been changed to handle long masks. delete connect.grp file!
NEWdisk scanning process in Drive Panel has been sped up
NEWchanged the Find file dialog (removed Full name field).
BUGcorrected displaying of files without name in some cases.
BUGcorrect displaying long file names in the status line of file panel. now we displaying them in short form.
NEWthe original built-in DBF editor has been turned on. however, the search does not work.
08/14/00
BUGfixed a couple of bugs with .* filenames handling
BUGmemory leak when editing .LONGNAME extended attribute
NEWall work with Extended Attributes now is done by EALib (sources included - all DLLs that will use CONNECT/2 will be included in sources).
08/16/00
BUGfall with RTE when user pressed Ctrl+F1
08/17/00
NEWEA Browser - Extended Attributes browser. called by pressing F12. if possible, it displays EA as the string, otherwise the hex-dump of few first bytes will be displayed.
NEWmain menu cleanup
BUGfixed fall with RTE at the CONNECT/2 shutdown after using internal clipboard. also corrected displaying of clipboard (Alt+Ins).
BUGif with file currently being edited was associated a macro file (Options|Editor|Groups|Files|Macro File), Ctrl+Ins in editor wasn't work.
08/18/00
BUGthere was no correct hint for EA Browser and .LONGNAME Editor dialogs.

7.6.5 dedicated to perished "Kursk" crew

08/19/00
INFOealib.zip now contains eatest.pas, not eatest,pas :)
08/22/00
NEWplugins API for editor. this API is a subset of FAR Filemanager plugins API. FAR Filemanager (c) by Eugene Roshal [roshal@rarsoft.com]
08/23/00
NEWColorer plugin. original Colorer library (c) Cail Lomecb (Igor Ruskih) [ruiv@uic.nnov.ru]. Colorer plugin is distributed in separate archive.
BUGfixed bug in copying function.

7.6.6

08/24/00
BUGproblems with files with two dots (like colorlib.cpp.html)
BUGexit with RTE when trying to open clipboard window (Alt+Ins)
NEWcorrect folder size counting, if it has size greater than 2 Gb. however, we store in treeinfo.cn incorrect results with sizes > 2 Gb: if the size > 2 Gb, size is assuming being 2 Gb (curved English, isn't it? :)
08/26/00
BUGif CN/2 was shutted down with opened editor(s) window(s), during next startup it falled with RTE.
08/31/00
INFOsmall fixes in Colorer plugin.
INFOchanged pParam value in ProcessEditorEvent function (applicable if iEvent == EE_CLOSE). now it is a pointer to int/Integer.
09/16/00
BUGthe mask with a dot at the end now means extensionless filename (forex: "*.", "dd??d*." -- "dd11dzz")
BUGdate has been affected if the file with EAs is copying/moving/etc
BUGcorrected dialog Copy/move to archive (Shift+F1)
BUGcorrected behaviour of mentioned dialog when archiving several files (in the commandline passed to archiver was a garbage)
NEWnew file in distribution (connect.grp) that contains coloring information for file manager (converted from original CONNECT/DOS).
NEWnew util grpconv.exe (in the new directory conv that will contain CN/DOS -> CN/OS2 converters) that converts connect.grp from your CN/DOS.
NEWadded HA archiver description. you have to replace connect.asp.
09/17/00
NEW(01:07am) implemented word hyphenation (for Russian and English languages) [wrap.dll, $CN/src/wrap.zip]
NEWuser archiver "IBM DSK Image" (see also $CN\util\dsk.cmd) from Dmitry A. Kuminov [dmik@sch79.alien.ru]; you have to replace connect.asu

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