05.12.01 Fixed: Couldn't abort background packing while it was paused
05.12.01 Fixed: Multi-rename tool stopped working with FTP after adding [P] placeholder
05.12.01 Fixed: Uninstaller: Removed system menu and icon from title bar
05.12.01 Fixed: TAR packer could show 'ZIP' in error text instead of 'TAR'
05.12.01 Added: Show display adapter bit depth in true color mode (24 or 32 bit)
02.12.01 Release Windows Commander 5.0 Beta 2
02.12.01 Added: Custom sounds when connection established or transfer complete, can be set in Control Panel - Sounds + Multimedia
02.12.01 Fixed: Win2k/XP: Files - Associate with - (none) didn't remove association if it was made directly (shell\open\command under .ext key)
02.12.01 Fixed: Background transfer manager: selection in main win could disappear when clicking the "+" button
30.11.01 Added: Background transfer manager: Delete button with no selected items or first item selected allows to abort current transfer and continue with next
30.11.01 Added: Enhanced plugin interface allows to search for text with packer plugins (needs new plugin)
30.11.01 Fixed: Problems with TAR files containing very long names starting with a slash (absolute directory)
30.11.01 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] AppendWarning=0 removes warning message when appending to a file
28.11.01 Added: Comment lines in 'download from list' allowed, must start with a ;
28.11.01 Fixed: FTP: When trying to upload multiple dirs to read-only dir, there was no way to abort the operation
28.11.01 Fixed: Unpack each archive to separate dir didn't work with external unpackers
28.11.01 Fixed: Show workgroup name on Windows 2000 in 'System information' dialog
25.11.01 Added: Install/Uninstall allows to add/remove icon to/from the desktop
25.11.01 Added: FTP upload in background (with transfer manager): Added overwrite confirmation dialog
25.11.01 Fixed: Background HTTP download: no progress bar shown when dialog was not in the upper left corner
25.11.01 Added: Pause button support for background zip+unzip
23.11.01 Fixed: File selection not removed after packing to .GZ file(s)
23.11.01 Added: Support for .GZ files where the stored name contains forward slashes
23.11.01 Added: Deleting the only file contained in a .GZ file now deletes the .GZ file itself
23.11.01 Added: Hints to new speed buttons in "compare by contents"
23.11.01 Added: Support for SFV with chr(10) as linefeed
23.11.01 Fixed: Couldn't create SFV files in the root of a drive
23.11.01 Added: CRC-Check function: Show result list of checked files with 'OK' or 'Wrong CRC'
23.11.01 Fixed: Support tabstops in SFV file
23.11.01 Fixed: Added version number to SFV file to make WinSFV happy
23.11.01 Added: Double click on SFV file starts verifying CRCs
23.11.01 Fixed: Detect Windows ME and XP in system info box
23.11.01 Fixed: Installer: Increased wait time for Wincmd closing to 30 seconds
23.11.01 Fixed: Copy in background: 'Pause' button not working with Skip
23.11.01 Fixed: The background transfer manager was appearing behind Wincmd even when started empty
23.11.01 Fixed: Create separate archive per file/dir: Archive file name was wrong (test.txtzip)
22.11.01 Added: Moved WinXP .Manifest file into EXE
21.11.01 Release Windows Commander 5.0 Beta 1
21.11.01 Added: Pause button now also works when copying, moving or deleting files in background
20.11.01 Fixed: WinNT/2000: If parallel port driver was loaded, then Wincmd moved to a different dir, the driver wasn't found any more
20.11.01 Fixed: Copy+Paste files: File list was only refreshed with Ctrl+V, not with right click+paste
20.11.01 Fixed: Show free space available to user, not total free space on disk (considers quota settings if present)
20.11.01 Added: Support for ZIP with wrong local header PK#7#0 instead of PK#7#8
20.11.01 Fixed: Right click on dir - search didn't work correctly
19.11.01 Added: Download-list can now also upload files. WARNING: No overwrite-confirmation! Syntax: put:sourcename -> targetname
19.11.01 Added: Ctrl+A selects all, just like in Explorer
18.11.01 Added: Split the "Commands" menu into "Commands" and "Net" menu, to make it smaller and add more commands
16.11.01 Added: Extension of plugin interface allows to create archives of type TAR.Plugin
16.11.01 Fixed: Documentation error in plugin writer guide: ProcessFile() is also called in PK_OM_LIST mode (with PK_SKIP parameter)
16.11.01 Added: TBitBtn: Support for XP styles
15.11.01 Added: Install+Uninstall: Support for new WinXP style
14.11.01 Added: Background transfer manager can now also be started separately (empty)
13.11.01 Added: FTP download in background: Allow to set the used firewall for ftp connections with line firewall=1 (here, 1 stands for the first defined firewall)
13.11.01 Added: Support for Mouse Wheel in "Compare by contents"
13.11.01 Added: Support for XP themes - remove wincmd32.exe.Manifest if you don't like them in Wincmd!
12.11.01 Fixed: Workaround to WinXP bug - lparam in LB_ADDSTRING or LB_INSERTSTRING cannot be 0 if .Manifest file present!
12.11.01 Added: Download-list can now also copy+move files. Syntax: copy:sourcename -> targetname or move:sourcename -> targetname
11.11.01 Added: FTP download from list: detect if list file was modified, and add new items to current download
11.11.01 Added: FTP+HTTP in background: Set speed limit for up- and downloads
11.11.01 Added: FTP+HTTP in background: Pause button
07.11.01 Fixed: Lister: Characters with code 00 not copied to clipboard -> replace with spaces
07.11.01 Fixed: Installer: INI file could be created in wrong dir when user chooses custom location
07.11.01 Fixed: Search function showed an error message for every bad *.ACE file it couldn't search
07.11.01 Fixed: Synchronize with ZIP file: error when zip contained subdirs which didn't have the 'subdir' attribute set
05.11.01 Fixed: FTP download files in subdirs: date/time not copied with files older than 1 year
14.10.01 Fixed: Drag&Drop didn't work with negative coordinates (when using a secondary monitor on the left side of the primary)
12.10.01 Added: Linux: TAR packer can now pack/unpack symbolic links
12.10.01 Added: Linux: TAR packer now stores UID/GID/Permissions
10.10.01 Fixed: Unzip: Detect encrypted files in ZIP also in subdirs
10.10.01 Added: FTP details dialog: automatically replace forward slashes by backslashes in local dir path
09.10.01 Added: Create CRC-Checksum files in SFV format, allows to verify that a copied/downloaded file is intact by verifying the checksum
09.10.01 Fixed: F3 in lister couldn't show any multimedia files with names longer than 63 characters (Win9x+ME only)
08.10.01 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: middle mouse button click also opened the context menu
05.10.01 Added: FTP client: In log window, show connection number in front of the command/reply, e.g. 1:LIST (only for connections >0)
05.10.01 Added: Configuration-Packer: Create TAR files either for Linux or SunOS. Difference only important if packed file/path name longer than 100 characters
05.10.01 Added: Configuration - Display: Tree: Use ENTER to open dir in other window: If unchecked, dir is changed automatically
03.10.01 Added: "Branch view" to "Commands" menu
03.10.01 Added: Compare by contents: Button to show the two windows above each other, e.g. for wide texts
03.10.01 Added: 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.
01.10.01 Added: Lister, right click menu: "Copy all URLs" in HTML-Viewer mode
01.10.01 Added: Lister: Double click on a word now selects all letters including underscores _.
01.10.01 Fixed: No tooltips shown for too long directory names in view - brief mode.
28.09.01 Added: Compare by contents: Search for text in BOTH files simultaneously, found text will be underlined!
28.09.01 Added: Lister: Ctrl+F3 now reverses search direction (until now it forced backwards search)
28.09.01 Fixed: [..] and [\] buttons, <Backspace> and <Ctrl+PageUp> now work in cm_SyncChangeDir mode
27.09.01 Added: Internal TGZ (TAR.GZ) packer. Uses same compression settings as the (G)ZIP packer.
27.09.01 Added: Internal TAR packer. Warning: Names longer than 99 characters will be packed the GNU-way (Linux) and cannot be unpacked on SunOS etc.
26.09.01 Added: Internal GZIP-Packer. Uses same compression settings as the ZIP packer.
24.09.01 Added: FTP: Option to send keepalive messages (NOOP, PWD or so) to the server in user-defined intervals (for max. 1 hour of inactivity)
24.09.01 Fixed: Compare by contents: Difference found at end of file if 2 files different in line ends only (CRLF vs. LF)
24.09.01 Added: Find files: Start search inside an archive (only in the root of the archive)
24.09.01 Added: Files - Unpack: Option to unpack each selected archive to a different dir, with the name of the archive (without the extension), e.g. test.zip -> test\
24.09.01 Added: FTP-Server-Template: Allow multiplicator in size template, e.g. SSSSSSS=1024 in template multiplies size value with 1024, e.g. for servers which return the block size
24.09.01 Added: Internal command cm_SyncChangeDir makes Wincmd change to the directory of the same name in BOTH windows synchronously, e.g. to traverse two identical trees local+remote
23.09.01 Added: Multi-Rename-Tool: Placeholder [P] puts name of parent dir into file name, [P2-5] the letters 2-5 of the parent dir name
19.09.01 Added: FTP: SOCKS4+SOCKS5 Proxy support (active+passive mode!), SOCKS5 without encryption
17.09.01 Added: FTP - Synchronize dirs: If 'ignore dates' is checked, Wincmd no longer changes the date of the local files on upload
17.09.01 Fixed: Lister: Hide hint window for URLs when menu is accessed
17.09.01 Added: FTP-Server-Template: Allow Time format of hh.mm or hh,mm in UUUUU template, not only hh:mm
17.09.01 Fixed: FTP server may return wrong reply on NOOP command (1684240 NOOP command ok), should be 3 digit number
17.09.01 Fixed: Lister: Last search method not remembered correctly (Hex search)
17.09.01 Added: FTP+HTTP: Auto-Resume download if download-connection lost
14.09.01 Fixed: Long URLs in Wincmd start menu can cause Wincmd to vanish
14.09.01 Fixed: ZIP file lost hidden/system attributes when adding files to it
14.09.01 Fixed: Lister: Last character in a file not shown in UTF-8 mode
22.08.01 Fixed: Test CAB archives while connected to FTP (in other panel) doesn't close progress dialog
22.08.01 Fixed: Ctrl+Q in an archive with sound files didn't delete the files when going to next file while playing
22.08.01 Fixed: Wincmd installer: Changed icon in "Installtion complete" to information (was warning icon)
22.08.01 Fixed: Access violation when accessing FTP server in Network Neighborhood while offline
22.08.01 Fixed: Lister: Positioning cursor with % menu item caused crash if file no longer existed
21.08.01 Fixed: FTP-Client: Problems with recursive deletion if FTP server shows drive letters in all subdirs
21.08.01 Fixed: 1 Pixel offset of right window when moving % slider between the 2 file windows
21.08.01 Fixed: FTP client can now show file details correctly for files > 2GB (up/download still limited to 2 GB per file)
21.08.01 Fixed: Config-Dialog, label of RAR+ACE checkboxes changed to ARJ when clicking Apply
12.08.01 Fixed: Shell Extensions like PathCopy could prevent Copy+Paste in Wincmd (Ctrl+C Tab Ctrl+V)
12.08.01 Fixed: (Second try): Problems with WindowBlinds: Multi-Rename tool moves up a few pixels each time it's re-opened (reason: Aspack EXE packer)
12.08.01 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: With >10'000 files in a dir it took a long time until the renaming starts
10.08.01 Fixed: Search - go to file didn't always work if file/dir in root
10.08.01 Fixed: Search function didn't show NTFS-compressed attribute
10.08.01 Added: FTP client now supports more than 2 definition strings per template (up to 32!)
28.07.01 Fixed: Some file systems can contain file names with a space at the end, e.g. CD-ROMs
27.07.01 Fixed: In huge copy block mode, don't use 'no buffering' flag with CD-ROMs.
New in Version 4.54 (16.07.01):
- Compare by content: Switch between binary and text mode.
- Lister: Support word wrap in UTF8 mode
New in Version 4.53 (31.05.01):
- Display of UTF8 (special 1-6 byte Unicode format) in Lister
- Support for ACE 2.0 archives
- Support for files > 2 GB in Lister and split/combine functions
- Directory print with subdirs: Print only files of certain types, e.g. *.txt *.doc
- Change date/time of folders also on Windows NT/2000 (admins only due to restricted rights)
- FTP: Resume upload (binary files only). WARNING: With some versions of the server WarFTPd, the resume seems to work, but the uploaded file is unusable!
- Directory hotlist can now contain up to 200 entries
- The location of Wincmd.ini and Wcx_ftp.ini can now be set in the registry (32-bit version only):\SOFTWARE\Ghisler\Windows Commander, new text values IniFileName and FtpIniName.This key may be created under HKEY_CURRENT_USER or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINEThe command line parameters /i= and /f= still take precedence over the registry values.
- Special larger block sizes when copying very large files can increase the copying speed of these large files quite a bit.This function is only meant for advanced users, and needs to be enabled through wincmd.ini (CopyBlockSize etc).
New in Version 4.52 (15.01.01):
- Display of Unicode and HTML (as plain text) in Lister
- Search for Unicode and Hex in the search function
- Print function to print directory lists, trees and compare results in 'Synchronize dirs'.
- Display of all files in the current dir and all subdirs with Ctrl+B
- File windows above each other instead of side by side
- Display of the file size in kbytes or dynamic depending on the actual size
- Multi-rename tool: Enhanced counter settings using definition strings [Cxxx]
- Submenu 'New' in the right click context menu allows to create new (empty) files
New in Version 4.51 (18.07.00):
- Bugfix of 4.50
New in Version 4.50 (30.6.00):
- Multi-rename tool: Allows to rename multiple files in one step (Hotkey: Ctrl+T)
- Batch rename function with Shift+F6 to quickly rename multiple files one by one
- Rename files and subdirs inside a ZIP archive (Shift+F6)
- Parallel port transfer function (direct cable connection), works between Win95/98/NT/2000/3.1 and DOS!
- FTP: Definition of custom host types, using a definition string
- FTP: Retry to connect multiple times also for non-anonymous connections
- FTP: Support for multiple proxies (separately for FTP and HTTP connections)
- FTP: Workaround to bug in some FTP servers: Upload of subdirs failed
- Resolve lnk files on the desktop or in the Network Neighborhood
- Unpack self-extracting files created by WinACE and WinRAR (open with Ctrl+PgDn)
- "Unpack all and execute" in packer properties allows to try out a program or run an installer from inside an archive
- Define custom colors for different file types, e.g. all directories, all zip files etc.
- Search for text also inside CAB files
- Copying to 'write only' directories (Windows NT, network)
- Uninstaller: Automatic removal of the program through the Control Panel
Several new commands and parameters for Button bar / Start menu:
- cm_List now allows to open a file. The file name must be given directly behind CM_LIST, and not in the parameters field!
Example: cm_list c:\windows\wincmd.ini always opens the file wincmd.ini in lister.
- cm_ShowFileUser: Show which remote user has opened a local file (through a shared directory)
- cm_EditPersmissionInfo: Show permissions dialog on Windows NT (NTFS file system)
- cm_EditAuditInfo: Show file auditing dialog (NTFS)
- cm_EditOwnerInfo: Show "Take ownership" dialog (NTFS)
- cm_ShowOnlySelected: Hide all files/dirs which aren't selected when this function is used
- cm_OpenRecycled: Open 'recycle bin'
- New parameters %L, %l, %F, %f, %D, %d create a list file in the TEMP directory with the names of the selected files and directories.
New in Version 4.02 (16.12.99):
- Unzip, delete and HTTP downloads (Ctrl+N) in background.
- Synchronize dirs now also supports directory from/to ftp synchronization! Concerning the date/time synchronizing problems with ftp, please read the section important note on the page Synchronize dirs.
- Tray icon right click menu (context menu).
- Direct upload of files from inside an archive to an FTP server.
- Better parsing of FTP file lists downloaded via a HTTP proxy.
- User-defined keyboard shortcuts.
- Split "Equal/Unequal" button into two buttons in sychronize function
- Change date/time of directories (Win95/98 only)
- FTP server to server transfers (FXP): Always sends PORT command to left server, PASV to right server. This allows for file transfers between a public server and one in a private address room, or behind a firewall. The private server must be in the left window.
- Find files: Only search in selected files and folders
- many small additions and bugfixes (see history.txt)
New in Version 4.01 (27.07.99):
- This version was mainly a bugfix release
- HTTP downloads enhanced (now supports passwords, and special sites which require 'host:' line)
- Settings what to do when second ftp connection opened in same window: wcx_ftp.ini, [General] AutoDisconnect =1 disconnect previous =2 keep previous =0 ask user
New in Version 4.00 (17.06.99):
General:
- Directory synchronize: Compare two dirs with subdirs, or 1 dir and 1 archive
- Compare files by content
- Allow to abort binary compare in 'synchronize' with ESC
- Copy/move in the background - 32 bit only
- wincmd.ini, [configuration], AlwaysCopyInBackground=1 always copies in background
- Connect to UNC path (\\server\path) in background (separate thread), allow to abort after 3 seconds
- Dialog box Change Attributes, button to set current date&time
- wincmd.ini, [configuration], activeright=1 activates right file listbox at start
- Support for virtual folders through button bar. Use commands: cm_OpenDesktop, cm_OpenDrives, cm_OpenControls, cm_OpenFonts, cm_OpenNetwork, cm_OpenPrinters
- Copy and Move files from and to virtual folders
- Copy to nul, prn, lptx and comx now supported
- Rename or append when copying and target exists
- Files - Split now also accepts fractions of a number, like 0.5 MB
- Use NTFS time compare method (2 seconds difference considered as same) in 'Compare directories' and 'Synchroinize dirs'
User interface:
- 2 drive button bars, one per file window (configurable)
- 256 color folder icons, and support for external icon library (icl): wincmd.ini, [configuration], iconlib=dllname.dll (sample DLL on www.ghisler.com)
- Search for/select files which do NOT match certain wildcards. Use | to separate, e.g. w*.*|*.bak finds all files starting with w, without extension .bak
- Search for all files NOT containing a certain string
- Duplicate file finder can find files with same name, size, contents or any combination of the 3
Lister:
- Bitmap viewer, more formats through IrfanView plugin (see addons page on www.ghisler.com)
- Lister can now play sound and video (configurable)
- Printing in lister (Text+Graphics)
- Select all in lister: CTRL+A selects whole file
- Search for Hexadecimal strings, even mixed. Example: "PK"0102 will find 504B0102
- Lister now wraps at word boundaries (may be disabled: wincmd.ini, [lister], WordWrap=0)
New in Version 3.53 (8.11.98):
- Did extensive Year 2000 (Y2k) tests. Results: no internal date problems, only one interface prob to FTP
- Possible Y2k problem with FTP servers showing a 2 digit year only. Rule: date<80 ->20xx, date>=80 -> 19xx
- bugfixes
New in Version 3.52 (11.08.1998):
- cd \\Servername in command line (32 bit)
- Added: ACE packer/unpacker support
- unrar.dll and unace.dll internal unpackers for RAR and ACE (32 bit)
- bugfixes
Release Version 3.51 (07.05.1998):
- wcx_ftp.ini, [general], LogFile=Path\Log.txt writes FTP log to specified file
- Support for creating RAR SFX files
- Support for files > 2 GB (display, copy, rename, move, delete; NOT: ZIP, FTP, Lister)
- CTRL+P copies current path to command line
- FTP: Preserve file dates when downloading (selectable)
- FTP: Convert file names to lowercase when uploaded (selectable)
- FTP: Change Unix attributes (permissions) dialog for FTP sites (uses 'SITE chmod', which isn't supported by all sites)
- Bugfixes
New in Version 3.50 (18.3.1998):
- FTP client
- flat look
- Network Neighborhood
- IntelliMouse wheel support
- Directory history list (alt+cursor down)
- Go back, go forward (alt+cursor left / alt+cursor right)
- Create self extracting ZIP archive
- Expandable tree as in Explorer
- UUE/MIME/XXE-encode and decode, Binhex-decode
- Split/Combine files
- Start menu now supports shortcut keys (Ctrl+Alt+F1-F12)
- More command line switches (see help)
- ALT+GrayPlus selects all files with the same extension
New in Version 3.02 (14.4.1997):
- Cut/Copy/Paste of button bar buttons
- Deletion method used by explorer can be used also in Wincmd [Configuration] Win95Delete=1
- CTRL+Q on archive shows contained file_id.diz, readme*, or *.txt (in this order)
- Support for archives in archives
- CTRL+PgDn to open archives in archives
- TAR and GZ packers
- New commands cm_Switch83Names, cm_SwitchDirSort, cm_SwitchHidSys, cm_SwitchLongNames to button bar commands
New in Version 3.01 (31.12.1996):
- Bugfixes
New in Version 3.00 (15.12.1996):
- 32-bit version available
- drag&drop from and to explorer (32-bit version only)
- enhanced search function
- quick view panel (CTRL+Q)
- drive bar to select different drives
- button bar wraps around to 2 lines when larger than available width
- new multi-page configuration dialog
- Function to test selected archives for errors
- A header now allows to sort the files by name, extension, size, and date
- All parts of the user interface (except the file list) can be turned off in the configuration
