Windows Commander 5.0 Beta 4 
Author: Christian Ghisler
Program Type: Shareware


File Description:  


Windows Commander is a file manager program for Windows. It offers multiple language support, search, file comparison, directory synchronization, quick view panel with bitmap display, ZIP, ARJ, LZH, RAR, UC2, TAR, GZ, CAB, ACE archive handling plus plugins, built-in FTP client with FXP, HTTP proxy support, and more. 

Changes in Current Version: 
Support for Windows XP themes on XP
"Commands" menu split into "Commands" and "Net"
FTP: support for more than 2 definition strings when defining a new server type
FTP+HTTP: Auto-Resume download if download-connection lost
FTP: SOCKS4+SOCKS5 Proxy support (active+passive mode!), SOCKS5 without encryption
Multi-Rename-Tool: Placeholder [P] puts name of parent dir into file name
Internal command cm_SyncChangeDir makes Wincmd change to the directory of the same name also in the other window
Find files: Start search inside an archive
FTP: Option to send keepalive messages (e.g. NOOP) to the server in user-defined intervals (for max. 1 hour of inactivity)
Support for packing of TAR/GZ/TGZ archives. Make sure to choose the correct target OS
Direct packing of TAR.Plugin archives, requires re-download of the plugin 
Compare by contents: Search for text in both files simultaneously, found text will be underlined
Compare by contents: Button to show the two windows above each other, e.g. for wide texts
Right click menu in Lister: added "Copy all URLs" command in HTML-Viewer mode
Pack: Option to create a separate archive for each selected file/dir. If no target dir is given, the packed file will be placed in the same dir as the original file
"Branch view" now added to "commands" menu
Create CRC-Checksum files in SFV format
FTP+HTTP in background: Set speed limit for up- and downloads
Pause button for background operations: FTP, HTTP, copy, pack, unpack
FTP download from list: detect if list file was modified, and add new items to current download
Download list can now also copy+move files
Background transfer manager can now also be started separately without a list file