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===== Dos Navigator What's new?.. ========================================= [!] Major news [+] New feature [-] A bug fixed [*] A bug fixed and/or functionality improved Version 4.9.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Compatibility issues <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] When creating directory under control of Windows NT/2000/XP the cursor had not been placed on a new directory if its name contained spaces. [-] Now DN works with substed drives correctly under Windows XP. [*] Improved compatibility of CD player with Windows NT/2000/XP. Now one can use buttons for switching tracks in main windows (< and >). When trying to use functions that are not supported in these systems, an appropriate message will be shown. [*] The new key 'AutoDisableSecondsWNT' added to section [Clock] in dn.ini, which allows to disable seconds in built-in clock automatically when working under Windows NT/2000/XP. >>> DN.INI parameters, setup and options <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] The new key 'BlinkSeparator' added to section [Clock] in dn.ini to switch on/off the separator blinking in the clock when seconds are switched off. It is ignored when parameter 'AutoDisableSecondsWNT' is turned on. >>> File manager <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] Now DN can compare subdirectories. [+] Now DN can copy files from one archive to another using a temporary directory (incompatible with WinNT: temporary files are not deleted). [+] Now Quick Directories list elements can be swapped (Shift-Up/Down). [-] Showing help for output window (Alt-F5) works correctly now. [-] Fixed DN crash at attempt to Quick Search files on empty panel. [-] Now DN will change drive by pressing Ctrl+LeftArrow more correctly. [-] A current directory on a disk which locates a temporary directory is not changed to temporary directory after viewing files from archives. [-] Now DN will change current language using new algorithm. [-] After maximizing file manager window it was impossible to restore its previous size. [-] After changing Quick Directories in dialog mode a window title was not restored. [-] Now DN will process quoted command line parameters correctly. [-] Now DN correctly places the cursor after deleting of the selected files. If the cursor before removal was on the selected file after deleting the cursor will be placed on the following file after selected files. [*] Improved interface of Compare Directories operation. [*] Information about free memory, which is displayed on pressing Shift key, stays available when the clock is disabled. >>> Editor and viewer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] Now when placing a bookmark in viewer or editor a dialog requiring confirmation is displayed if bookmark with the same number already exists. [-] Now DN will accept the character @ in WKZ formulas again. Fixed error concerning functions with several parameters, leading to impossibility of using expressions with brackets as a parameters. [-] Now DN will view temporary files correctly. [-] In the editor the forward searching in the vertical block did not work correctly for short lines, which end before the left edge of a selected area. In some cases (i.e. when there were empty lines) DN crashed. For non-empty lines sometimes it could cause false success of searching. [-] Fixed crash when viewing file in archive from history. [-] Fixed error because of which viewer's history for files without an extension could not be saved. [-] Now DN highlites text in editor correctly. [-] DN crashed in attempt to perform Quick View operation when option DefCodePage in dn.ini was set to Auto. [-] The mistake in backward search is fixed, and also use of search in editor and viewer is corrected. Now forward and backward search, and any alternation of them work correctly. [*] The searching in the block in the editor is slightly optimised. [*] Now DN can save viewer's position for archived files. [*] Now combinations Ctrl-NumPad4/NumPad6 in editor (un)indent block only if NumLock function is turned off. >>> Database viewer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] It was impossible to view memo field in dbf viewer when parameter DefCodePage in dn.ini was set to Auto. >>> Archivers <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] The new option 'Pass names of directories' is added to archivers' setup. When it is enabled, When it is enabled, the directory names are passed to archiver along with file names. [+] LHA .COM SFX detection. [+] Support of 7-Zip archiver. [-] Now DN will delete directories from archives more correctly. [-] Filenames './path/filename' are processed correctly in archives. [*] Option 'Swap when unpack/del/test' was liquidated. Now DN unloads itself from memory before calling any archivers. [*] Temporary batch file is not used for viewing files in an archive. [*] CAB-SFX detection. >>> Calculator <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] The code of calculator is rewritten again and optimized. When pressing 'Enter' key on incorrect expression, the cursor will now move to the position of error. If a function argument is missing, the name of corresponding function will be displayed. >>> Miscellanous <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] Now in phone book search is performed not only by name and phone number, but also by memo lines. [-] Now change of current language affects opened CD player window. [-] When CD player cannot retrieve Audio CD information, DN does not crash but shows a warning message. [-] Change of DN window title is implemented more correctly. [-] Disk image unpacker and UU-decoder set incorrect date and time to files in some cases. [*] Improved interface of CD player. [*] Extension of temporary batch files depends on operating system: CMD for WinNT and OS/2, BAT for DOS and Win9x. >>> Source codes usage features <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [!] Virtual Pascal compatibility. [+] Implemented conditional symbol {$DEFINE MICRO}. [-] Now DN will compile in BANK version. [*] RegAll unit is rewritten: NumRElms counter removed. Version 3.7.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Compatibility issues <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] Now DN will try to delete file by its short name if unable to delete file by LFN (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] Function "Show server name/volume for network drives" now works with Novell Network clients (Max Vasilyev). [*] "Free disk space" for \\server\share\ (under WinNT) is conditionally set as 2 Gb instead of 0 byte (Max Vasilyev). [-] Drive type detection fixed (Max Vasilyev). [-] Now DN will not re-read current drive after displaying "Change Drive" menu (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN correctly re-writes files under Windows XP on Novell Netware drives (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN correctly copies and shows files with size more than 2Gb (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN correctly performs "Quick Rename" of files on network drives mapped through "CD" command (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN correctly performs "CD" command on network drives (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN correctly re-reads information about file (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). >>> DN.INI parameters, setup and options <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [!] Dialog layouts of "Interface Setup" and "New Manager Defaults" have been changed. Implemented possibility of more flexible settings for showing selected files and long file name on separator and on information panel (Evgeny Zvyagintzev). [!] Parameter "ShowLongName" (section [FilePanels]) has been moved from DN.INI into DN Options panels (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy, Max Vasilyev). [!] Attention! Use of parameter "ShowLongName" (section [FilePanels]) has been changed in DN.INI (Eugeny Zvyagintzev): ShowLongName = 0 - do not show LFN; ShowLongName = 1 - do not show LFN if it is not equal to short filename (case insensitive); ShowLongName = 2 - show LFN if it is not equal to short file name (case insensitive); ShowLongName = 3 - show LFN in any case; [+] New variables have been added in DN.INI (section [FilePanels]) (Eugeny Zvyagintzev): AlignLFNInBottom = 0 - centre LFN; AlignLFNInBottom = 1 - align LFN left; AlignLFNInBottom = 2 - align LFN right. LFNCutSide = 0 - show left part of LFN; LFNCutSide = 1 - show right part of LFN; LFNCutSide = 2 - show left part of LFN and file extension (if present). [+] "QuickSearchType" (section [FilePanels]) setting is added to DN.INI. This option allows to complete file name mask (by pressing ".") in Quick search (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy, Max Vasilyev). [+] Now option AltGrAsAlt (section [Kernel]) added to dn.ini (Eugeny Zvyagintzev): AltGrAsAlt = 0 AltGr and Alt are different; AltGrAsAlt = 1 AltGr and Alt are equal. [+] Now option "DefCodePage" (section [Editor]) from "dn.ini" works in internal text viewer (Sergey Biryukov). [+] Now DN can show time and speed of File Copy process. New variable "ShowCopyTime" (section [Interface]) added to DN.INI (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] When checking "ReuseViewers" (section [Editor]) rule/option, Quick View window is ignored (Sergey Biryukov). [*] When opening files from "Edit History" the option "Internal Editor" is verified now (Sergey Biryukov). [-] "VertScrollBarChars" (section [Interface]) parameter from "dn.ini" did not affect internal file viewer (Sergey Biryukov). [-] "ReuseViewers" (section [Interface]) parameter from "dn.ini" was not used by internal viewer in viewing DBF files (Sergey Biryukov). [-] "ReuseEditors" (section [Interface]) parameter from "dn.ini" was not used for opening files with internal editor (by <Ctrl-Enter> or from the "Open File" dialog box) (Sergey Biryukov). [-] if "dn.ini" parameters ReuseEditors=0 and ReuseViewers=0 (section [Interface]) were set, then order of opened windows will not change with opening of other viewer or editor window with the file being already opened in editor or viewer window (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [-] Fixed options "Store editor position" and "Store viewer position" (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Not all editor options for a certain file were saved in history (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Option "DefCodePage" (section [Editor]) from "dn.ini" had no effect on new files created (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Now DN correctly performs "Sleep when inactive" function (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] The last position in dialog Options|Colors|Group was not preserved (Sergey Biryukov). >>> File manager <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [!] Added possibility to search files in archives (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy, Max Vasilyev). [+] File selection/deselection <Grey+> and <Grey-> (in file selection dialog) with mask ending with "\" selects/deselects directories instead of files now (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [+] Now it is possible to modify Quick Directories list in interactive mode (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [+] DN shows file size before file name in file panel if LFN has length of 250 characters or more (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy, Max Vasilyev). [+] Now DN will display warning if an attempt to delete current directory from history of directories is made (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [+] Now it is possible to skip all bad files during coping files (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [+] Now it is possible to show file description on bottom Information Panel (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy, Max Vasilyev). [+] Switching (with <Ctrl-Y> hotkey) between current and full modes of showing files now works in archives as well (Pavel Borodin). [+] Path to file is shown in archive on panels of search/branch (with <Ctrl-K>/<Alt-;> hotkeys) (Pavel Borodin). [+] Now a file name is added to history of File Copy dialog also in case when there is an archive opened in passive file panel (Sergey Biryukov). [+] Now when copying a directory its name is added to File Copy history (Sergey Biryukov). [+] Now combinations <Alt-BackSpace>, <Alt-Shift-0>, <Ctrl-Shift-Alt-1...9> work on directory tree panel (Sergey Biryukov). [+] It is possible to use combination <Ctrl-Shift-Del> on file panels to hide current file (Sergey Biryukov). [+] Now when performing the "Quick Rename" operation in file panel a new name is added to history of copying/moving files (Sergey Biryukov). [*] Settings check has been added In "Setup columns" dialog for situations when user enters more symbols for a file extension than for a file name. Similar checking routine has been added for similar modes in setup options (Sergey Biryukov). [*] Changed look of short file name which is shown in archives (Sergey Biryukov). [*] Now unselecting of selected files while packing in and extracting from archives occurs only when selected files do exist (Sergey Biryukov). [*] Now the title of DN window in operations with file panel is refreshed only when it is necessary (Sergey Biryukov). [*] Now DN performs "Append files" and "Verify writes" operations at copying files in more optimal way (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] Now DN is more flexible in showing the line of Quick Search on separator and information panel, and in accordance to long file name and settings of selected files display (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] Procedure of saving files (extracted from archives or after applying filters) to be opened in editor has been revised. Now, after restarting DN or after changing current language, DN asks for confirmation to save file and saves it if the file was saved before or editor window was closed. In addition, newer procedure allows to switch back to viewing the files after editing these files (Sergey Biryukov). [*] Now size, description fields, as well as compression ratio in archives, are highlighted completely; the path field in file find panel now is also highlighted (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy, Max Vasilyev). [*] Now archive, ARVID and list file panels respond to <Ctrl-\> hotkey correctly: exiting from file (archive, ARVID list or list file), and cursor bar is set on this file (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy, Max Vasilyev). [*] "Associate File List" operation recognizes file names in list by the following pattern (Alexey Korop, Max Vasilyev): - if the first character is 'space' or ">" the whole line is ignored (this option added for multiline comments); - if the first character is ("), entire text is regarded as name up to closing bracket; - if the first character is none of the above - the whole line is regarded as name; - but if the file w/"name" not found and the line contains spaces, then text from beginning of line to the very first "space" is regarded as name; [*] File List Panel could contain multiple names of the same files (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy, Max Vasilyev). [*] Now File List ignores strings containinig wildcards "*" and "*.*" (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy, Max Vasilyev). [*] In deleting files DN re-reads only directories where files were deleted (Alexei Kozlov). [*] If filename mask is set on file panel, then this mask is shown on bottom information panel "as is", without "*." removed, which allows to avoid incorrect display of masks different from "*.ext" (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [*] Now DN will put "CD directory" command in Command History more correctly (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] Title of "Copy File" window dialog was changed. Window title refresh will occur only with actual changes (Sergey Biryukov). [*] File name was added to dialog history after copying/moving to "TEMP:' (Sergey Biryukov). [*] If Directory History menu is called from "Search" panel or "TEMP:" cursor bar is set to source directory (Sergey Biryukov). [*] Fixed and improved resizing of file panels with <Alt-Left/Right> and <Ctrl-M/Ctrl-Alt-Z> (Sergey Biryukov). [*] Command "Window|Zoom" now works more correctly for file panels (Sergey Biryukov). [*] Now DN will copy files correctly when "Check free disk space" option is selected and 1) insufficient free disk space detected and 2) file already exists and 3) file being copied can fit in space only by overwriting old file (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] Now DN will use LFN only if "Action" input field is empty when creating a file list (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] Now DN will terminate process of deleting directories much more faster (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Quick search was not terminated by pressing "*" (Sergey Biryukov). [-] After moving file to archive its description was not deleted (Sergey Biryukov). [-] After copying a file into the same directory under new file name its description was deleted (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Fixed errors occurring while adding strings to the history of file copying (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Now DN will perform "Make list file" operation more accurately (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Dos Navigator window title was not updated, if the File Search operation was stopped and then resumed (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Maximized file panel in archive incorrectly showed the string containing information about size of compressed files and compression ratio. This string was not centered after maximizing file panel; and background of the element "Current file" overlapped this string (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Fixed recent bug that had caused DN freeze in entering archive with Information panel open (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now "Quick View" can not be invoked from manager if current panel is Information panel (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Now Viewer History for files in archive works correctly (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Now Search Files with "DIR\*.*" mask works correctly (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Directories History works correctly now with "\\server\share" path (Max Vasilyev). [-] Pressing <Ctrl-E> could retrieve other than the last command from history (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Info Divider was not always redrawn after pressing "Home" button (Sergey Biryukov). [-] In Command History records (even those marked as protected) were deleted in case of overflow (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Fixed error with copying descriptions of the same file (Sergey Biryukov). [-] After viewing file from archive with an external filter, DN did not delete file (extracted from archive) from temporary directory (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Fixed some bugs with viewing files in archives from File View History (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Now in zoomed DOS ("User") screen the commands from command line history can be called with Shift-Up/Down keys (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Now DN will display previous and next commands in command line more correctly (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN will not cancel process of copying files if it fails to read current file (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN will move file[s] more correctly (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] When cursor bar was moved to opposite panel by <Tab> key, list dividers between fields with information about current file had colour of file name (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [-] The highlighting of size, date, time and description of selected files disappeared after switching to opposite panel (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy, Max Vasilyev). [-] When files were renamed in File Search panel or TEMP panel the colour change did not occur whereas target files had different colour assigned (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy, Max Vasilyev). [-] In "Quick File Rename" process in Search panel or TEMP panel DN sometimes showed false error messages (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy, Max Vasilyev). [-] Directory changing (by <Alt-T>) from archive panel did not work correctly (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [-] If current file panel displayed archive contents then, after an attempt to choose a deleted archive or file list from "Directory History" some errors occurred in the panel (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy, Max Vasilyev). [-] In attempt to enter a deleted directory via "Directory History" DN moved to parent directory without any warning (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy, Max Vasilyev). [-] After entering file list through "Directories History" current directory was not changed to directory containing the files from list. As a result, the list contained files NOT from its original directory, but from active directory at the moment of call (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy, Max Vasilyev). [-] Pressing <Ctrl-\> hotkey in TEMP drive panel caused moving to root directory of the drive which was in current panel before TEMP drive (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [-] Panels of File Search, List, and TEMP were not re-read (refreshed) upon pressing <Ctrl-R> (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [-] Fixed some errors in Drag-n-Drop operations (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy, Max Vasilyev). [-] Fixed errors that occurred during File Search in switching to "Find" panel (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy, Max Vasilyev). [-] After file search (of files on disk) and after opening directory branch (of disk File Tree) sorting of new file list occurred twice (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy, Max Vasilyev). [-] With some inappropriate column settings some malfunctioning and crashing of DN could occur (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy, Sergey Biryukov, Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Sometimes description files were marked/selected even if option "Always copy descriptions" was set active (Max Vasilyev). [-] When viewing files from an archive, if the length of a command line for executing an archiver exceeds the limit value of 127 symbols, an error message is shown and abnormal termination of DN does not occur (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Now DN changes current drive correctly (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN correctly re-reads directory while moving files (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN unselects files (removes selection tags/flags) upon returning files to Temp Drive (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN correctly copies directory name '..' to clipboard (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN correctly re-reads "File Find" Panels (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now information about selected files on Find File panel is not lost after viewing an archive with F3 (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Now DN will set current file's position after file deletion more correctly (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Fixed error that occured when calling help for the "Quick Rename" operation, leading to the situation when help window stayed in background after pressing Esc (Sergey Biryukov). >>> Editor and viewer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] The selection pattern of File View modes was altered (Sergey Biryukov): -- internal Viewer is selected: <F3> toggles modes 1) special internal 2) specified in "dn.vwr" 3) text; -- internal Viewer is deselected: <F3> toggles modes 1) specified in "dn.vwr" 2) special internal 3) text; -- regardless of "Internal Viewer" option: <Alt+F3> selects mode as specified in dnalt.vwr; <Alt+Shift+F3> selects text mode only; "Special Internal" mode implies viewing database, spreadsheet and messages by internal DN tools. When file is opened for viewing from "File View" History, the mode that was used last is selected. [+] New hotkeys added in DN editor (Sergey Biryukov): Ctrl-A, Ctrl-Numpad5 - select all text as continuous block; Ctrl-F - show/hide selection; Ctrl-< - select left word from cursor; Ctrl-> - select right word from cursor; Ctrl-Shift-Up - select text from current line to beginning; Ctrl-Shift-Down - select text from current line to the end. Operations previously assigned to hotkeys <Ctrl-A> and <Ctrl-F> are still available by using <Ctrl-ArrowLeft> and <Ctrl-ArrowRight> hotkeys. [+] In history of the dialog "Save File As" for internal viewer and editor now a current file name is added (Sergey Biryukov). [+] New hotkeys have been added to the editor (Sergey Biryukov): Ctrl-Up - single-line scrolling up; Ctrl-Down - single-line scrolling down. Same navigation is possible by pressing <Up> and <Down> with "Scroll Lock" on. These functions differ from operations <Ctrl-W> and <Ctrl-Z> by the fact that cursor does not change its position on the screen if end or beginning of current file has not been reached. [+] Pressing <Alt-Left> in editor shifts selected block to the left, pressing <Alt-Right> shifts selected block to the right. New hotkey combinations duplicate functions of <Ctrl-K-U> and <Ctrl-K-I> hotkeys (Sergey Biryukov). [+] For sorting block in reverse order <Alt-Shift-T> hotkey combination is used now (made as synonym for <Ctrl-R> hotkey) (Sergey Biryukov). [*] Interpretation of "StringFLAGS" keyword (in DN.HGL) has been improved, comments of DN.HGL file have been expanded and updated (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [*] Fixed error that made cursor move by one position to the right at attempt to undo operations of changing character case (Sergey Biryukov). [-] The scrollbar in viewer window did not work properly while viewing very large files (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [-] RealMode version of DN crashed after "Sort Block" operation in internal editor (Sergey Biryukov). [-] During search in DN internal viewer the word was not selected if it was in the last line of a file (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Fixed error with calculating sum of block in editor (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Fixed error in opening non-exiting file by an external editor (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Now DN will correctly perform operations with selected block in editor: uppercase, lowercase, etc... (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN will scroll editor window (Ctrl-W, Ctrl-Z) more correctly (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now SmartTab works correctly when cursor is placed before space character in previous line (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN will initialize files highlight in file viewer more correctly (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Cursor remained visible after switching view mode from DisAsm to text mode (Alexey Korop). [-] Fixed DN crash at attempt to go to some address by pressing <F5> key while viewing file in disassembler mode (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [-] Editing in hexadecimal mode of file viewer (in disassembler view) changed wrong bytes (other than those under cursor) (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [-] Fixed error in editor that appeared at pressing <Esc> after sorting a text block (Sergey Biryukov). [-] In internal viewer, when going back to first line its first symbol used to disappear (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Fixed bugs with text selection (Eugeny Zvyagintzev, Sergey Biryukov). [-] Now DN processes "AutoBrackets" option from Highlight Files configuration file (DN.HGL) (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Fixed potential error while navigating in text viewer (Sergey Biryukov). >>> System Information <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] HDD detection procedure has been improved (Max Vasilyev). [-] DN/DPMI displayed incorrect amount of 'memory for user' in 'Information Panel' (Max Vasilyev). >>> Database viewer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [!] Now DBF viewer works with different code pages and XLT-files (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [+] Now it is possible to go to row or collumn in DBF viewer through dialog invoked by <F6> key (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] Now DN finds empty fields in DBF viewer if search string (input line) was empty (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] Now DN displays a warning dialog upon detecting errors in DBF header (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] Now DN correctly loads empty WKZ spreadsheet file (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Fixed false warning of overflow in WKZ editor (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Fixed DBF file detection (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN correctly displays empty memo fields created by Clipper (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Restored option of WKZ editor to export WKZ file into text file (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN updates menu of WKZ editor if active language was changed by <Alt+F12> key while viewing WKZ file (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Spreadsheet editor did not correct addresses in formulas after inserting/deleting empty rows/columns or pasting cell contents from clipboard (Alexey Korop). [-] Now DN correctly writes history of viewing WKZ files from archives (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN erases temporary files after viewing WKZ files from archive (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN uses history of viewing DBF files more correctly (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN correctly performs auto calculation of formulas when symbol "," used (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Restored usage of ":" symbol in formulas (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Fixed 100% CPU load that occurred in resizing WKZ spreadsheet column (Alexey Korop). [-] Now DN deletes rows and columns in WKZ editor more correctly (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN correctly performs SUM and MUL calculations with multiple operators (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN correctly performs auto update of linked cells containing SUM and MUL functions with multiple operators (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN correctly performs auto update of linked cells after an error occurring in previous calculation (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN allows to exit from cell editing mode by pressing <Esc>. Previous value of cell will be restored (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN does not save WKZ contents in dn.dsk (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN uses only two operands in formulas like =SUM(a1,d1) (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN replaces values in WKZ editor more correctly (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] While searching DBF file in viewer DN did not find data if they were in current line only (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Now DN correctly searches data in DBF viewer (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN updates DBF viewer if country settings were changed (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN performs text search in DBF viewer more correctly (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN detects DBF file structure more correctly. Strange character fields C(10,3) are detected just as they are described in header - at first structure detection. Then length of entire record is calculated. If the length of calculated record length does not match header record length, then the length of character fields will be calculated as 10+3*256=778 (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now indicator in DBF viewer is displayed correctly (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN will remember Find Text dialog settings in DBF viewer and WKZ editor (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). >>> Archivers <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] Added OS/2 fixpack diskimage unpacking (Max Vasilyev). [*] Arvid's streamer TDR file, Package for the WEB (CAB-sfx), WinZIP SFX and ACE SFX archives detection improved (Max Vasilyev). [*] Now DN passes long or short archive name to an archive unpacker in accordance to parameter "Use Long File Names" set in archiver options (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy, Max Vasilyev). [*] Unpacking of DDI diskimages (Max Vasilyev). [*] Now ACE archiver is set to "Use long names" by default (Max Vasilyev). [*] ARJ archiver settings (be default) were changed for better compatibility with LFN operations (newer ARJ archiver release may be required) (Max Vasilyev). [*] Now archivers are called by 'NAME' instead of 'NAME.EXE' (Max Vasilyev). [*] If passwords do not match when creating protected archive an appropriate message is displayed (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Fixed error occurring in attempt to make or extract an archive with a password containing spaces (Sergey Biryukov). [-] More strict processing of ARJ, RAR, ZIP and GZIP archives (Max Vasilyev). [-] Processing of RAR archives created under Unix (Max Vasilyev). [-] Fixed problem with viewing files that contained 2 spaces in names - from archive (Max Vasilyev). [-] Fixed cursor re-positioning at entering/leaving archives enclosed in another archive volume (Max Vasilyev). [-] Fixed work with file descriptions inside AVT/TDR (Max Vasilyev). [-] DN crashed in attempt to read AVT/TDR (Max Vasilyev). [-] AnyFile.gz.rar contents were not shown properly in some cases (Max Vasilyev). [-] Diskette images unpacker was unable to process more than 16 files correctly in some cases (Max Vasilyev). >>> Calculator <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] Now all functions, except construction IF(...,...,...), can receive parameters without brackets (Sergey Biryukov). [+] It is possible to write n! instead of fact(n) function for calculating factorial of a number in calculator. However function "fact(n)" also works as before (Sergey Biryukov). [+] Added new function "dfact(n)" (and similar/shorter notation "n!!") calculating value of double factorial of number n (Sergey Biryukov). [+] In order to keep meaning of operation "!=" and to accommodate two innovations (factorial functions "n!" and "n!!"), newer syntax has been introduced (Sergey Biryukov): n!=m corresponds to n<>m; n!!=m corresponds to n!<>m; n!!!=m corresponds to n!!<>m. For more obvious interpretation, one can use brackets, for example, (n!)!=m. [+] Now pressing "Evaluate" button in calculator performs conversion of number in the input line to selected form (Sergey Biryukov, Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [+] Now calculator can be called from any input line as a modal window. "Evaluate" button will calculate expression and return result to input line (Eugeny Zvyagintzev, Sergey Biryukov). [*] Now the main menu can be called from calculator (Sergey Biryukov). [*] Algorythm of detecting repetetive operations and missing arguments was rewritten and optimized. Some errors occurring in analysis of unary operations were fixed. Operations with negative degrees were fixed. (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Detection of missing operation sign and exponential form of the number was improved (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Fixed XOR function (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Precision of calculations is increased. Work of unary minus was fixed. Also number "ch" is recognized more correctly now (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Fixed error leading to incorrect output of some calculator results in decimal system (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Fixed DN crash that occurred at entering large numbers in binary, octal and hexadecimal scales of notation (Sergey Biryukov). >>> Terminal <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] Fixed error that prevented re-activation of already opened terminal window (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Temporably DN does not compress packets in Navigator Link (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). >>> Miscellanous <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] Directories sorting speed is slightly increased in DN/DPMI (Max Vasilyev). [+] Now it is possible to switch from displaying directory name in command line to displaying first 3 characters (drive letter only) by mouse double click or by pressing Ctrl-< and Ctrl-> (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [+] Now in all histories <Alt-Up> and <Alt-Down> hotkeys are used for moving to a nearest undeletable item in selected direction (Alexey Korop, Sergey Biryukov). [+] Now at setting up advanced parameters of formatting diskettes an appropriate item in Disk Capacity menu is selected automatically (Sergey Biryukov). [+] New hotkeys have been added to operations in Input Line (Eugeny Zvyagintzev, Sergey Biryukov): Ctrl+Q D - insert date; Ctrl+Q T - insert time; Ctrl+Q Y - delete text from cursor to end; Ctrl+< - select word from cursor to left; Ctrl+> - select word from cursor to right. [*] Now changing current language affects opened calculator window and Tetris Game window (Sergey Biryukov, Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] Optimized processes of moving of items in Directory, Viewer, Editor and Command histories (with hotkeys <Shift-Up> and <Shift-Down>) (Alexey Korop, Sergey Biryukov). [*] Now position of File Extention Filter panel (invoked by <Alt-BS>) is not stored, and Window always opens in centre (Alexey Korop). [*] The size of help window now depends on video mode (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [*] "@echo off" string will not be added into temporary batch files, if the first string of these files begins with "\*" or "#" (i.e. REXX and Perl scripts) (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [*] Now keys <Ins> and <Del> work correctly in the environment variables editor, and functions of "insert" and "delete" were moved to keys <Alt-Ins> and <Alt-Del> (Ilya Malanyin). [*] Changed logic of adding the string with date and time in SmartPad Editor (Sergey Biryukov). [*] DnError utility: compatibility with OS/2 VDM (Max Vasilyev). [*] Now "Make list file" and "Read file list" operations interface is improved (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] Now DN will terminate dragging or resizing windows on pressing Esc key (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN will quit correctly when Disk Editor is running (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now macroses !: #: $: &: work correctly on empty or network drives (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now macroses '#' and '&' work correctly on element '..' (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] DN did not save "dn.err" when it was run from a directory with a long name (Sergey Biryukov). [-] If command string used in command line was too long, DN closed without any warnings (Sergey Biryukov). [-] "Help" windows for all functions of CD Player are shown correctly now (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Now DN shows "Drive Access Error" message more correctly (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] DN window title was not always updated after closing Help Window (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Now <Ctrl-\> works correctly in dialogs (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Restored range of options of floppy disk formatting (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Fixed removal of nested archives from TEMP on exit from DN (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Now DN wait for <Del> key to be released after command line was cleared (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Fixed error occurring when "\" pressed on Directory tree after quick search (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Now DN displays messages directly on screen if Desktop does not exist at DN startup (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DNERROR uses "swap file" instead of using memory (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Menu items "Panel" => "Re-read", "Window" => "Next similar", "Prev similar", "Next different", "Prev different" were not disabled even when actions corresponding to them were not possible (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [-] Fixed bug occurring at UUE-decoding of multiple files (Alexey Korop). [-] '#0' symbols were shown in progression indicators instead of spaces (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [-] When moving between CD Player buttons by <Tab> and <Shift-Tab> hotkeys, only visible (active) buttons are used (Sergey Biryukov). [-] After closing all windows, DN still kept a window title of last window or dialog (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Now selected text is overwritten with "Insert Date" or "Insert Time" operations (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] During the process of UU-coding files in case some sections already exist skipping one section cancelled the whole process (Sergey Biryukov). [-] When UU-coding only one section and rewriting of existing file was chosen, the question about rewriting appeared twice (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Now DN will perform quick file searching in File Open Dialogs correctly (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN will load current file from dn.dsk more correctly (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN works with "2" and "8" keys on KeyPad more correctly (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Fixed crash of CD player when working under Windows XP (Sergey Biryukov, Eugeny Zvyagintzev). >>> Source codes usage features <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] Small internal optimization of LFN module (Max Vasilyev). [*] Now TObject has additional field which allows to define the type of object made from it. Procedure of identifying a type of current window when invoking Help window has been changed to accommodate this feature (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Now work with clipboard are changed in dialogs: use procedures from dnutil2.pas GetFromClip and PutInClip (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] uFnMatch.FnMatchFunc (aka "Is filename matches mask") function fixed for DOS style "AnyFile" mask (aka "*.*") (Max Vasilyev). [-] Nameless files ".jpg" report ".jpg" as extension now (Max Vasilyev). [-] Memory leak in collections has been fixed (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Fixed memory leak which occurred while working with tree panel (Alexey Korop, Sergey Biryukov). [-] Small memory leak fixed in CallUuDecode (Alexey Korop). Version 2.7.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Compatibility issues <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] Fixed problem with detection of free space, creation and deletion of directories on network drives (Max Vasilyev). [-] IOmega Bernoully detection removed because it needed to read the disk for proper detection (Max Vasilyev). >>> DN.INI parameters, setup and options <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] New <Ctrl-A> hotkey added to call current file properties dialog (Pavel Borodin). [+] Hotkeys <Shift-F5>/<Shift-F6> now invokes commands to copy/move current file. Hotkey for "Split/Combine" functions assigned to <Ctrl-Alt-F5> and "Reanimator" hotkey assigned to <Ctrl-Alt-F8> (Pavel Borodin). [*] Useless "CapitalCodePageName" option removed from DN.INI (Max Vasilyev). [-] DOS ("User") screen did not show by pressing <Esc> if "command line" option was disabled in file manager (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). >>> File manager <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] Now DN correctly adjusts viewer & editor windows sizes in accordance to current desktop size (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Fixed bug (first appeared in DN 2.3.0 release) which had resulted on loss of current file position on file panel (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Navigation in file panel with <Left> and <Right> buttons did not work when column width was equal to (or one char less than) current panel width (Pavel Borodin). [-] Now DN does not ask for overwrite file confirmation if "Accept choice for all files" was selected and "Rename" button pressed (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [+] Now DN saves "SmartPad" edit history (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] Now DN correctly deletes folders marked as "Read-Only" (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] When viewed with external filter, and after filtering, a file is also processed by internal DN viewer and external viewers specified in DN.VWR. External filtering feature works as "F3 View" now (Max Vasilyev). [+] "File Find" process (with text string search) can be terminated at any moment; and current file can be skipped as well (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Filenames got invalid name case after copying with <Ctrl-Ins> (Max Vasilyev). [-] DN did not switch to next or previous window (by pressing <F9> or <Shift-F9>) during "Find File" process, if current DN language was Russian (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [+] Now hotkeys <Ctrl-K> and <Alt-;> toggle show of current file path in file manager panels (Pavel Borodin, Max Vasilyev). [*] Now DN displays correct number of files moved with mouse (drag-and-drop) from "total info" panel (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [+] If specified TEMP directories do not exist at DN startup, DN uses own directory for temporary files (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Switch-over between current and full column display modes (by pressing <Ctrl-Y>) in "FIND" or "TEMP" file panels now works correctly (Pavel Borodin). [*] Now "Find Files" window can not be closed through DN Windows Manager (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Folding/unfolding of Directory Tree branches with mouse clicks did not work (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [*] Now DN saves current directory for both active and inactive panels through menu "Save Desktop" (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DN correctly shows maximized File Panel shadow (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] In scrolling file panel with mouse (except selected block), cursor now jumps to first filename in file list of next page (Alexey Korop). [+] Directory History now works correctly with "\\server\share" (Max Vasilyev). [-] If Directory History contained only 2 records (where upper record in the list is always current and indelible) then deletion of second record caused cursor to freeze in the list (without shifting to remaining record) (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Fixed incorrect operation of copying and moving directory if target was directory name with dot at the end (Sergey Biryukov). >>> Editor and viewer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] Now "Text to Find" operation in editor can be terminated at any moment (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Sum of selected block was not calculated correctly if selection contained empty lines (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). >>> Database viewer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] History of viewing DBF files is saved correctly now (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] Text search option in viewing WKZ and DBF files is the same as in DN text file editor and viewer (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [+] <Alt-W> hotkey now changes current column width in WKZ editor (Pavel Borodin). [-] DN crashed in attempt to re-open DBF file if number of fields of DBF file had been changed (by another program) since the last access to this file within DN, and with the last field active (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Long fields are shown correctly in viewing DBF files (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] DN crashed in attempt to view DBF file with a field of 255 chars long erroneously taken for "memo" field (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] DN crashed at startup if DN had been closed before with DBF file opened for viewing (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] DN crashed when overflow occurred during WKZ cell calculations (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] Correct performance of command "Go to cell number [...]" in WKZ editor (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] Detection of damaged DBF file header (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [+] Now DN can import comma-separated value (CSV) and dBase (DBF) files in WKZ editor (Kirill Vodonosov, Eugeny Zvyagintzev, Max Vasilyev). [+] Now DN can export files from WKZ editor to comma-separated value (CSV) and dBase (DBF) files (Kirill Vodonosov, Eugeny Zvyagintzev, Max Vasilyev). [-] DN crashed in attempt to open any file via WKZ editor (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). >>> Archivers <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] Operations with GZip archives are now done with external utilities. It's not necessary to have TAR archive inside GZip (Max Vasilyev). [+] Reading Speed of ZIP archives is considerably increased (Max Vasilyev, Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [+] Now DN can work with multiple ZIP archive volumes. Last diskette (volume) of this archive should be accessible for correct DN operation (Max Vasilyev). [-] DN froze in attempt to view RAR 3.0 archives with encrypted headers. Now DN shows RAR 3.0 archives with encrypted headers as empty archives (Max Vasilyev, Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [-] Few corrections in ZIP and GZ archive detection (Max Vasilyev). >>> Calculator <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] Fixed the following errors: a) incorrect calculations of 10^31, 10^34 ¿ 10^35 in "DEC"; b) incorrect calculations of 10 with number degree more than 40 and aliqout 10; c) changing number to exponent view added blank space at beggining; Lower limit for automatic conversion of decimal number to exponent view now changed (Sergey Biryukov). [+] More flexible mechanism of error processing implemented in calculator. Input expression syntax is analyzed before calculation; any error detected in calculations invokes an appropriate error message (Sergey Biryukov). [-] Fixed functions DIV, MOD, COSEC, ARCCOTAN, ARCCOSEC and operations <=, >=, <>, !=. Power function works more correctly (Sergey Biryukov). >>> Terminal <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] Fixed incorrect hotkeys in Terminal buffer operations (Pavel Borodin). >>> Miscellanous <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] Double pressing of <F10> in Disk Editor moves active cursor bar to main menu (Pavel Borodin, Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] "Help" system works correctly now (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] "Help" window shows correctly during file copying (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] "Help" windows for CD player options and Floppy Formatter shows correctly (Sergey Biryukov). [-] "Help" was not accessible at first startup with non-English resources (Max Vasilyev). [*] Now <Ctrl-/> and <Ctrl-\> keys combinations work in Dialogs the same way as in File Editor (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). Version 2.3.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] DN versions obtain their number by date (Year-2000).(month).(day) (Max Vasilyev). [-] 100% load of processor in operatiing under W2K and NT is partially fixed (Kirill Vodonosov). [!] new template.txt >>> DN.INI parameters, setup and options <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] Newly created DN.INI did not contain values of String type (Pawel Ziemian). [+] New hotkeys in "Screen grabber" (Oleg Antoshkiv): Shift-End ─ to expand selection to the right screen border; Shift-Home ─ to expand selection to the left screen border; Shift-PgUp ─ to expand selection to the upper screen border; Shift-PgDn ─ to expand selection to the lower screen border. [*] Hotkeys assignments is brought to general style. In Russian resources "Alt-M" hotkey for calling memory information is added, status line descriptions are sorted for more convenient editing. Setting up DOS Navigator help window colors now is made possible via dialog. Calendar colors setup is moved to the end of the list (Pavel Borodin). >>> File manager <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] 'Format disk' function works again in DN/RealMode (Max Vasilyev). [-] In copying to some system devices (such as CD-RW under RSJ, OS/2) file manager requested false confirmation to rewrite file. After negative answer file manager created a file of 0 size on output device (Alexey Korop). [*] Now DN will check if file exists before reading file into buffer (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] Now DN will display error message in attempt to move file to itself (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] Now file's number in "File Search Panel" is shown correctly (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [+] COPY/MOVE current file operation is added to "File" menu. Before that it was possible to do only by mouse drag-and-drop of current file info. Final decision about assigning <Shift-F5/F6> hotkeys to these operations are yet to be made (Pavel Borodin). [*] Now DN windows manager shows window titles of DBF viewer and spreadsheet editor correctly (Pavel Borodin). [*] Now DN loads desktop size more correctly (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] Now DN can process PGDN key pressing at the first line of User Menu (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] Now DN's command line is more comfortable... Again. As it was in original DN 1.51 by RitLabs (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] DN crashed after deleting all files from archive (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] DN crashed during start-up if the archive file (which was opened in file manager when DN exited previous session) did not exist anymore (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] DN crashed after two attempts to move a file with mouse if this file already existed in target panel and option "SKIP" was chosen in overwrite CONFIRM dialog (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] Now logic of moving files with mouse 'drag-and-drop' to DRIVE LINE is the same as for standard procedure of moving files (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] Now DN does not VERIFY DISK WRITES and does not CHECK FREE DISK SPACE in coping to "PRN" or "NUL" devices (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] DN crashed at attempt to start an external program if one of DN file manager panels was "FIND:" panel or file LIST (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Fixed potential bugs in different file operations in DN file manager (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). >>> Editor and viewer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] Sometimes DOS Navigator did not delete files from %TEMP% after viewing (Max Vasilyev). [-] While executing "Replace all" operation with confirmation after "Cancel", the editor did not display the message about the number of the replaces made (Alexey Korop). [*] Now sorting text block in the editor does not sort/permute lines with equal keys (Alexey Korop). [-] In editing a 'Read Only' file (with "File Lock" option active), the following sequence: "Save" file (F2), negative answer to request to overwrite file ("Cancel"), "Save" file (F2) again - caused DN crash (Alexey Korop). [-] Now changing File Name Case is ignored when saved in history (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] Now hotkey <Alt-F7> invokes BACKWARD SEARCH in viewer just as in editor. Function of hotkey <Ctrl-F7> has not been changed (Pavel Borodin). [-] Now DN more correctly performs selected block calculate (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). >>> System Information <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] AMD Duron and Intel Pentium 4 processors detection (Max Vysokikh). >>> Database viewer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] File with .DBF extension (but not database file in fact) was not opened for viewing at all (only by Alt-F3). The repeated viewing of same DBF and WKZ files did not restore the cursor and window positions (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now DBF and WKZ files are correctly shown in history (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Now horizontal scrollbar does not overlap bottom-right window corner (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [-] Internal viewer is not invoked after viewing empty DBF files (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [+] Now DBF viewer shows the type and the size of current field (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). [*] Now horizontal scrollbar size in DBF viewer is the same as horizontal scrollbar size in editor (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). >>> Archivers <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] RAR 3.0 SFX detection (Max Vasilyev). [*] Operations with archivers optimized, fixed bugs in processing some types of archives (Max Vasilyev). [*] Now changing an archiver parameters does not set this archiver as default for archiving operations (Pavel Borodin). [-] After moving/copying file into archive DN changed default archiver setting to one which archive was used to copy/move files into (Pavel Borodin). [*] Now DN will more correctly archiving files. If single file choosen to create archive then DN will use long or short name of this file for archive file's name. It's depends on current Files Panel settings: Show Long File Name (Eugeny Zvyagintzev). >>> Source codes usage features <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] Process of copying documentation files into "OUT" (during compilation) is now restored (Alexey Nemytov). Version 2.0.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Fixed occasional files deleting, hanging at file operations, 'missing' files in file panels, improved Novell Netware compatibility. Changes information added to the source codes. >>> Compatibility issues <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] Fixed bug caused DOS Navigator could not work with empty catalogs in Novell disks from DOS (Max Vasilyev). [-] Changed time sharing system in multitasking environments (removed EnterCriticalSection and LeaveCriticalSection) (Max Vasilyev). >>> DN.INI parameters, setup and options <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] New DN.INI parameter: HistoryButtonChars = string[4], (section [Interface]). In this case displaying the history button in dialogs will use a limited chars set (like PoorFrames parameter) (Pawel Ziemian). [+] New DN.INI parameter: SundayFirst = byte (section [Calendar]). Value 1 defines Sunday as the first day of week, 0 defines as the last one. Value 2 defines automatic detection of this parameter (default) (Max Vasilyev). [+] Added new filenames display mode. Set in menu Options -> File Manager -> Column defaults -> (any item) -> Automatic detection. The case of filenames in panels is defined so: 1. If there are letters of one case IN.a.name.BETWEEN.TWO.points, then the files names are lowercased, and catalogs names are uppercased. 2. If there are letters of different cases in.a.Name, then it is displayed as is. This displaying mode formerly was set only in the source codes by specifying {$DEFINE COMBINE_MIXED} (Max Vasilyev). [*] Removed intersected hotkeys in archiving dialog. Some corrections in search and replace dialogs in the editor and viewer. Added calling help for files columns options dialogs. Added Ctrl-M hotkey for zooming window. Added IniFile topic, describing DN.INI structure, to English help files. (Pavel Borodin, Max Vasilyev). >>> File manager <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] Added mode of sorting files by descriptions (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [*] Now Ctrl-N hotkey is used for toggling long and short names display in file panel and Ctrl-Alt-N hotkey is used for network information display (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [*] Option for sorting archives before executables in panels added to panel options (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [*] If HandleChDirCommand=1 used, the catalog name in CD command will be automatically transformed into long. CD /? command is now passed to processing by the operation system (Max Vasilyev). [*] Changed function of hotkey Ctrl-Y: Now it serves for toggling between the current (but not only the first one as formerly) and the second (full by default) modes of file panels columns (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [*] Now hotkey Shift-Del (for deleting a single file) in file panel does not work while '[ ] DEL erases file(s)' in File Manager options is off (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [*] Now wildcards like '*.' and 'xxx*.' are interpreted as wildcards of files without extensions while searching by a filter and in a file panel filter (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [*] The file panel filter correctly accepts (and processes) wildcards with extensions exceeding 3 chars length if such files exist (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [*] The file panel filter works via long filenames in the long filenames displaying mode and via short ones in the short filenames displaying mode (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [-] Fixed processing cases of unsuccessful moving files to another disk (Aleksej Kozlov). [-] Fixed processing hotkeys Ctrl(+Alt)(+Shift)+Enter (Max Vasilyev). [-] Now element '..' cannot be deleted by Ctrl-Del (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [-] Fixed bug caused impossibility of comparing catalogs using all the 4 comparison criteria simultaneously (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [-] Fixed hanging while viewing catalogs tree. Minor changes in the tree displaying: Now catalogs names are not edged with zero chars (which are often seen as vile small dots or something worse), now all catalogs of one level display aligned by one vertical line not depending on the catalogs presence in them (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [-] Fixed bug caused that deleting the zeroth element (current catalog) of the catalogs history passed to the history element of the number smaller than the selected one by 1 (and selecting the zeroth element simply passed to the current catalog) (Alexey Korop). [-] Not all files displayed in some sorting modes (Max Vasilyev). [-] Fixed copying catalogs descriptions containing a point in their names (Max Vasilyev). >>> Editor and viewer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] Fixed back search in view (Marcin Meinardi). [-] Fixed hanging when changing xlt-table in view (Alexey Korop). [-] Fixed bug caused going to a bookmark by mouse was impossible if there are no the bookmark of the number smaller by 1 (Alexey Korop). [-] Formerly '!\!.!' wildcards data for viewers, editors and launching by extension were transferred in a wrong case. Irrespective of the real one, the catalog was uppercase and the filename was lowercase causing problems with Java (Aleksej Kozlov). [-] Fixed functioning of Undo/Redo after saving a file in the editor (Max Vasilyev). >>> Database viewer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] Fixed databases identification (Max Vasilyev). >>> Archivers <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] Operations with archivers optimized, fixed bugs in processing some types of archivers and also processing archivers without extensions (Max Vasilyev). [-] Fixed archive reading process indication (Max Vasilyev). >>> System Information <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] Changed detecting hard disks of large sizes (more than 8 Gb) (Max Morozov, Max Vasilyev). >>> Calculator <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] Values may be entered in scientific form <a>E+<b>, <a>E-<b> (Pavel Anufrikov). [+] Added support of logic functions && and || (Max Morozov). [*] In calculator entering values of bases 16, 8 and 2 interpreted as signless, ie. entering value 0xFFFFFFFF displays not Overflow but 0xFFFFFFFF in HEX line. Also it works correctly with negative values like -0xF8000001 (Max Morozov). [-] Fixed executing functions OR and XOR (Max Morozov). >>> Miscellanous <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] Calendar is completely rewritten. See the detailed information in the help chapter about Calendar (Pawel Ziemian). [-] Fixed program crash after a message about COM port cannot be found when opening the terminal window (Max Morozov). [-] Fixed program crash while copying files (Pawel Ziemian). [-] Being installed 'from scratch' DOS Navigator could not be launched without its English resources (Max Vasilyev). [-] Fixed bug caused occasional deleting files (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy). [-] Fixed hanging and occasional creating files in some computers (Marcin Meinardi). >>> Source codes usage features <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] {$DEFINE COMBINE_MIXED} moved from the source codes to the panel options (Max Vasilyev). [-] Fixed the processors detection library compilation (Max Vasilyev). [-] Now AsyncPro library may be used in source codes (Max Vasilyev). [-] Fixed 'broken' possibility of compiling with included PKTVIEW (Pavel Borodin). [!] Changes information added to the source codes. It is filled by the COORDINATOR only! Version 1.6.RC1 (Release Candidate 1) --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> File manager <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] Files containing descriptions (descript.ion, file_id.diz) are no more excluded from the group selection in Archive, Navigator Link and Arvid panels (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy) [*] Files with both Hidden and System attributes set are now marked with a hash character different from those for files with Hidden attribute alone and System attribute alone (Pavel Anufrikov) [-] Destination wildcards containing two '*' signs were handled incorreclty when copying, moving and renaming (Pavel Anufrikov) [-] Panel column setup was reset each time when drive was changed with Ctrl-Left/Right (Eugeny Zvyagintzev) [-] Drive Not Ready error message was shown twice when changing drive with Ctrl-Left/Right (Max Vasilyev) [-] Fixed directory change logic (Max Vasilyev) [-] Fixed detection of TDR storage catalogues (Max Vasilyev) [-] Fixed incorrect initialization of Arvid drives (Max Vasilyev) >>> Editor and viewer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] After editing a file with more than 65535 lines, DN became unstable (Anton Fedorov) [-] When opening a file in Editor, stray empty lines still could appear, though in rare cases (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed Indent and Unindent commands having been accidentally swapped in the Russian resources for the Editor menu (Alexey Feldgendler) [-] Recalculation of some expressions in the Spreadsheet was broken (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed detection of databases (Max Vasilyev) >>> Archivers <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] Archivers that do not take the list of files to extract from a list file are now invoked multiple times if necessary, so that all the desired files are extracted (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy) [-] Fixed detection of ARJ archives (Max Vasilyev) [-] Fixed reading of TAR and TGZ archives (Max Vasilyev) >>> Miscellanous <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] Extended the set of characters after which a space is not automatically added when pressing Ctrl-Enter to insert the current file's name into the command line. Now this set includes the at-sign '@' (Pavel Borodin) [-] A number of fixes announced in DN OSP 1.51.12 were actually missing in the release. Now synchronized (Alexey Feldgendler) [-] Fixed the behavior of memory-saving configurations with disabled features. Such DN configurations are not publicly distributed and one can only make them from the source code (Pavel Borodin) [-] Wrong Help article was shown for the File Manager Setup dialog in Russian resources (Pavel Borodin) [-] Cosmetic fixes to some dialog windows in Russian resources (Pavel Borodin) [-] Fixed some Russian letters appearing in place of English letters with similar appearance in Russian resources, and vice versa (Pavel Borodin) [-] Fixed a number of typos thoughout the Russian history.txt file (Alexey Feldgendler) [-] Fixed a number of other bugs, minor and not... Version 1.51.12 --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Compatibility issues <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] 3.5" 2.88 megabyte floppy drives are now correctly identified in the System Information and Format windows (Ondrej Zary) [-] Some drive types were reported incorrectly by the DPMI version under pure DOS (Alexey Feldgendler) [-] Selecting Abort in the System Error window caused a crash in DPMI version under pure DOS (Alexey Feldgendler) [-] Long file names could not be used on Novell NetWare remote drives (Anton Fedorov) [-] Clear Read-Only from CD-ROM option did not work in DPMI version under pure DOS (Max Vasilyev) [-] The CopyLimit parameter from [Kernel] section of DN.INI was used not only in Windows, but in DOS too. This did not match the documented behavior (Max Vasilyev) [-] The SmartWindowsBoxClose DN.INI parameter ([Kernel] section) almost never worked. Now it is fixed both for real-mode and DPMI versions. The only limitation remaining is that you should start DN.COM from Windows directly, not, for example, from a batch file, in order for the close button to work (Vitaly Astaforkin) >>> DN.INI parameters, setup and options <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] New DN.INI parameter: UseF3InViewer = long ([Interface] section). Similar to the existing UseEnterInViewer parameter ([Interface] section). When set to 0, pressing F3 in viewer does nothing; when set to 1, F3 closes the viewer window; and the value of 2 means that F3 should cycle through text, hexadecimal and dump view modes (Alexey Feldgendler) [+] New DN.INI parameter: PoorFrames = bool ([Interface] section). Value of 1 means that the character encoding being used does not contain all the pseudographic characters. In this case DN uses a reduced set of characters for rendering various boxes (Pawel Ziemian) [*] Made the memory allocation for DN.INI parameters more efficient (Pawel Ziemian) [*] When reading DN.INI file, syntax errors are reported along with the corresponding line numbers (Pawel Ziemian) [*] Optimized writing of DN.INI (Pawel Ziemian) [*] The colour of scrollbars in the database viewer is now customizeable (Max Morozov) [*] Updated some default values: enabled Advanced copy, turned on Check free space for all drives, added some new column presets (Max Vasilyev) [-] The Ending string in the Printer setup was ignored (Anton Fedorov) >>> File manager <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] When HandleChDirCommand=1 is set in the [Kernel] section of DN.INI, one can browse remote drives without mapping them to drive letters. To change to a shared network resource, just enter "cd \\server_name\resource_name" (Anton Fedorov) [*] Directories are now compared using long file names (Max Morozov) [*] When copying files, the system cache is flushed each time after writing the whole RAM load, in case when more than one megabyte was transferred. The tests show that it really speeds up copying (Stanislav Olkhovik) [*] Disabled syntax highlighting for Quick View panels, as handling it properly would require introducing too many color customzation entries (Max Morozov) [-] File search could find particular files not matching the wildcard pattern (Anton Fedorov) [-] Renaming a file with Alt-F6 to one of the description file names like files.bbs caused its content to be damaged (Anton Fedorov) [-] After renaming a file, a stray space appeared between its name and description in the descriptions file (Max Vasilyev) [-] The last description from a descriptions file could be deleted incorrectly (Max Vasilyev) [-] File sizes were not shown according to the country setup (Marcin Gryszkalis) [-] Fixed display of sizes for very large files, including compressed sizes in archives (Marcin Gryszkalis, Alexey Feldgendler) >>> Editor and viewer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] Files viewed with external facilities are now correctly recorded into the view history unless they reside in a temporary storage like files extracted from archives for viewing (Alexey Feldgendler) [*] Optimized the Open file at cursor Editor feature by speed, not changing the logic (Anton Fedorov) [-] Improved the Open file at cursor Editor feature: fixed the logic for extracting the file name from the current line, added correct handling of absolute pathnames, made cosmetic changes to the related user interface. Also fixed the newly created DN.SPF not becoming visible until refresh (Alexey Feldgendler) [-] Fixed a possible crash when opening an Editor window (Anton Fedorov) [-] When opening a file in Editor, stray empty lines could appear (Anton Fedorov) [-] After viewing a file with an internal viewer (Alt-F3) it was impossible to view it with an external tool (F3) because it was recorded in the view history. Now F3 always selects the viewer that matches the file's extension, be that viewer internal or external. Selecting an entry from the view history still activates the viewer last used for the file (Alexey Feldgendler) >>> User Add-on Package <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] Added more examples and fixed some old ones in the DN.EXT, DN.HGL, DN.XRN configuration files from the User Add-on Package (Andrzej Kowalczyk) >>> Archivers <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] Fixed reading of WinRAR 2.80 beta 1 and later archives (Max Vasilyev) >>> System Information <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] Added Windows ME (Millennium Edition) detection (Ondrej Zary) [*] OS/2 Warp Server for e-Business version is shown in System Information (Max Vasilyev) [-] Too many LPT ports was sometimes reported by the System Information (Anton Fedorov) >>> Miscellanous <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] DDI disk images can be unpacked (Max Vasilyev) [*] Added arcctg function to Calculator as a synonym to arccotan (Michael Mercuryev) [-] Fixed sqrt function in Calculator (Michael Mercuryev) [-] Fixed the VGA palette not being properly initialized on startup (Alexey Feldgendler) [-] After running an external program, the VGA palette was reset to the default values (Marcin Gryszkalis) [-] When in 132-conumn extended video mode, the initial state of the video mode selection menu did not reflect the current mode (Pawel Ziemian) [-] Pressing PgUp while moving a window would cause it to jump off the screen (Alexey Feldgendler) [-] A help window called from a menu could be obscured by it (Alexey Feldgendler) [-] Characters with decimal code 255 used in the Help window could cause unwanted visual effects sometimes and were replaced with spaces (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy) [-] Multiple cosmetic fixes to the Russian user interface (Michael Mercuryev) [-] Fixed a number of other bugs, minor and not... Version 1.51.11 --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Compatibility issues <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] DN caused a conflict with LFN00X long file name services for Windows NT (Anton Fedorov) [-] DN caused a conflict with QEMM memory manager (Jiri Travnicek) >>> DN.INI parameters, setup and options <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] New DN.INI parameter: RecombineLongLines = bool ([Editor] section). As before, lines longer than 255 characters are cut into several lines when loading a file in any case. But now, when the new option is enabled, each line that is exactly 255 or 254 characters long is recombined with the next line when saving the file or writing the selected block to a file. This allows limited editing of files with lines longer than 255 characters: all usual editing can be done on the last line segment, and only character replacement, but not insertion or deletion, is possible on the prior segments (in order not to change their length). To indicate the special status of these lines, they are highlit when hit by the cursor (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy) [*] Added 1ST, ANI, BAS, CC, CHR, CUR, CXX, DB, DIB, HPP, HXX, JAV, JAVA, JS, MAK, ME, MOV and WP extensions to the corresponding highlight group defaults (Alexey Feldgendler) [*] Tweaked the default palette setting for the Terminal window frame (Alexey Nemytov) [-] Some accented Cyryllic characters used in Russia and Ukraine were not subject to case conversion by default (Alexey Feldgendler) [-] A value of zero accidentally specified for the screensaver delay could make DN lock up in an endless loop (Alexey Feldgendler) >>> File manager <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] On 104-key extended keyboards, the Menu key now opens the menu associated with the extension of the current file. This allows to free Alt-Enter for Windows needs (Michael Averbukh) [-] Drive type captions in the drive selection menu were always in English (Alexey Feldgendler) >>> Editor and viewer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] Added support for text files with LFCR-style line breaks (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed detection of line break type (Alexey Feldgendler) >>> User Add-on Package <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] Added many new xlat tables to the User Add-on Package (Pavel Protasov, Andrzej Kowalczyk) [*] Added more examples and fixed some old ones in the DN.EXT, DN.HGL, DN.MNU, DN.SPF configuration files from the User Add-on Package (Andrzej Kowalczyk, Alexey Feldgendler) [*] The User Add-on Package now contains DN.INI with English and Russian comments describing each parameter (Alexey Feldgendler) >>> Miscellanous <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] Splitting the DNUtil unit into two parts and placing the one that is not required to be constantly present into the overlay helped to free up some conventional memory without suffering in performance (Anton Fedorov) [-] Cosmetic fixes of many dialog windows in Russian resources (Pavel Borodin) [-] Fixed a number of other bugs, minor and not... Version 1.51.10 --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Compatibility issues <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] DN was unable to utilize the long file name services under Windows NT and dosemu (Anton Fedorov) [-] DN was extremely unstable under Windows NT. In particular, it was unable to delete a directory; some output strings were erratically duplicated (Anton Fedorov) [-] DN did not work in real mode under MS-DOS (Anton Fedorov) [-] Access to Novell Netware shared volumes was impossible or erratic (Anton Fedorov) [-] The DPMI version failed to handle file system related errors, such as a physical read or write error (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed handling of file system related errors under OS/2 (Max Vasilyev) [-] Altered the file management mechanism firmly, eliminating a bunch of problems, both effective and potential (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed a bug related to changing work directory under MS-DOS (Anton Fedorov) [*] Reverted to quick sort in real mode. This increased both performance and reliability of the real mode version (Anton Fedorov) >>> DN.INI parameters, setup and options <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] New DN.INI parameter: UseEnterInViewer = long ([Interface] section). When set to 0, pressing Enter in viewer does nothing; when set to 1, Enter closes the viewer window; and the value of 2 means that Enter should cycle through text, hexadecimal and dump view modes (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy) [*] The information set shown in the drive selection menu is now configurable not only by modifying the DriveInfoType DN.INI parameter directly, but using the new options added to the Interface setup dialog window (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy) [-] The DN.INI [Kernel] DoVesaTest parameter did not work (Pawel Ziemian) [*] Reorganized the editor and viewer options and placed them in separate dialog windows (Anton Fedorov) [-] Cosmetic changes to the Screensaver setup dialog window (Alexey Nemytov) [-] Cosmetic changes to the column deafults dialog windows (Mariusz Borkowski) [-] The AutoWrap and WrapJustify keywords in DN.HGL were erratically swapped by their meanings (Pawel Ziemian, Marcin Gryszkalis) [-] If there were spaces between the last extension in the list and the opening bracket in DN.EXT, the last extension was never matched (Alexey Feldgendler) [-] Replaced the incorrect filter U[1-9][1-9] for highlight group 2 with U[0-9][1-9] (Alexey Feldgendler) >>> File manager <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] Optimized memory utilization by TEMP, Branch and Find panels (Anton Fedorov) [-] Restarting DN with a TEMP or Find panel open caused a crash (Anton Fedorov) [-] After cancelling the Branch panel building, it is now shown empty without any weird effects (Anton Fedorov) [*] Description files with descriptions linked to long file names are now correctly read and updated. However, new descriptions are still linked to short names (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed updation of the description file with file operations: now the descriptions are correctly updated and deleted when copying, moving and deleting files even if there are several descriptions for a particular file (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy) [-] After automatically updating the description file like descript.ion, its attributes were reset (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed deletion of descriptions spanning several lines (Max Vasilyev) [-] Sometimes an attempt to ascend to the parent directory from a subdirectory or an archive could bring up the root directory (Anton Fedorov) [-] Browsing archives with subdirectories caused a memory leak (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed extraction from archives without extensions (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed launching of files without extensions (Anton Fedorov) [-] External programs launched from the user menu did not receive lists of files selected in either panel (Anton Fedorov) [-] Files without extensions whose names were one character long were displayed first when sorting by long extension (Anton Fedorov) [-] Sorting an empty file list produced a crash (Anton Fedorov) [-] Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right sometimes did not work as expected to change the current drive (Anton Fedorov) [-] Pressing Ctrl-[ or Ctrl-] could lead to a crash (Anton Fedorov) >>> Editor and viewer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] Fixed switching between editing and viewing a text file (Anton Fedorov) [-] In viewer, scrolling to the top of a text file with single CR or single LF line breaks caused a crash (Anton Fedorov) [-] Very long lines of text were shown incorrectly in viewer (Anton Fedorov) [-] The horizontal scroll bar could sometimes be off the editor window it belongs to (Anton Fedorov) [-] The tab stops in editor were shifted one character (Pawel Ziemian) [-] The MoveDown editor macro command did not work (Alexey Feldgendler) [-] The {32-127} and {32-255} character range filters did not work in viewer (Anton Fedorov) [-] In hexadecimal viewer mode, the last character on each line did not get translated according to the active xlat table (Alexey Nemytov) >>> Archivers <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] Added support for IS3 SFX archives (Max Vasilyev) [*] Optimized reading of ARJ archives as well as NE SFX archives (Max Vasilyev) [*] Improved detection of ARC, QuArk and UFA archives as well as ARJ SFX archives (Max Vasilyev) [*] Due to the introduction of the Recurse subdirectories per-archiver option, updated the default options for QuArk and UFA archivers (Max Vasilyev) [-] The extension for QuArk archives was incorrectly specified as QRK (Max Vasilyev) [-] Broken IS3 and LHA archives as well as certain kinds of broken SFX archives caused DN to crash (Max Vasilyev) [-] Fixed ACE archiver default options for ACE 2.0 compatibility (Max Vasilyev) >>> Database viewer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] Scroll bars are now available in the database viewer (Eugeny Zvyagintzev) [*] When viewing a database's structure, ordinal numbers are shown with the field names (Anton Fedorov) [*] After editing a database field, the trailing whitespace is automatically trimmed (Oleg Redut) [*] Significantly increased the speed of database searching (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed searching a string in all database fields (Eugeny Zvyagintzev) [-] Fixed editing of date fields in databases (Anton Fedorov) [-] The database viewer window is now tileable (Eugeny Zvyagintzev) >>> Miscellanous <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] While searching files, the file mask is always shown, even if it is *.* (Pavel Borodin) [-] Applied a number of cosmetic fixes to the user interface (Pavel Borodin) [*] Returned sum() and mul() spreadsheet functions (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed russian resources for the spreadsheet editor (Alexey Nemytov) [-] Cosmetic changes to the menu system and some dialog windows (Jiri Travnicek) [-] Fixed some typos and punctuation errors in the text of Russian help (Alexey Feldgendler) [-] The Zoom and Maximize terms for the Window menu in Russian resources did not correspond to their usage in English resources (Alexey Nemytov) [-] The advanced formatting options dialog window was always shown with all text in English (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy) [-] An attempt to activate Help while moving a Help window caused a crash (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed the About box (Anton Fedorov, Oleg Redut) [-] The command line could hide the last line of user program's output (Anton Fedorov) [-] The title of the audio CD track selection window could be incorrect (Anton Fedorov) [-] Automatic sorting of phonebook entries could place one or more lines before the ".." entry (Denis Afonin) [-] Fixed some bugs in Calculator (Anton Fedorov) [-] When the first day of month was sunday, is was not shown in the Calendar (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy) [-] Eliminated a potential crash when gathering the System information (Konstantin Kuznetsov) [-] Fixed reporting of OS/2 version in System information (Mariusz Borkowski, Max Vasilyev) [-] The DPMI version could crash when spawning a separate OS/2 session (Max Vasilyev) [-] The real-mode version hanged up after an external screeensaver was terminated (Alexey Nemytov) [-] Fixed a number of internal bugs (Jiri Travnicek) [-] Eliminated a potential internal problem influenced by implicit type casting (Alexey Feldgendler) [-] Several modules were moved from the overlay file to the base executable image because the DN performance with neither extended memory nor disk cache available was unsatisfying (Alexey Feldgendler) [-] Fixed a number of other bugs, minor and not... Version 1.51.09 --------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Added support for LE SFX archives (Max Vasilyev) [*] The new Floating extension option allows to show names of files without extensions using the full column width (Anton Fedorov, Max Vasilyev) [-] Fixed reading of GZIP files (Anton Fedorov) [-] Keypad Alt-3 and Alt-9 worked as Alt-PageDown and Alt-PageUp (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed opening Help while dragging a window (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed the Game after DN restart (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed unpacking of diskette images containing long file name records. At the present moment, these records are ignored, but it is only a temporary measure (Max Vasilyev) [+] The database viewer allows to delete and recover records (Eugeny Zvyagintzev) [-] Fixed detection of Windows version (Max Vasilyev) [-] The ARJ archiver is now considered as supporting long file names. The default options changed according to this (Max Vasilyev) [-] Some keyboard combinations did not work on first use (Anton Fedorov) [-] Scrolling the viewer a large amount to right caused a crash (Anton Fedorov) [-] DN.SWP sometimes was not created though needed under MS-DOS (Anton Fedorov) [-] Line drawing mode could be combined with selection mode, causing weird behavior (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed a number of other bugs, minor and not... Version 1.51.08 --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> DN.INI parameters, setup and options <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] Added PAT, NFO, UUE, UU[1-9] and U[1-9][1-9] extensions to highlight group 2 (text), WMA extension to group 7 (audio) and REG extension to group 8 (configuration) (Anton Fedorov) [*] The Highlight group dialog window now contains an example of each group's color (Anton Fedorov) [*] Exit confirmation is now the last item in the Confirmations dialog window (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed handling of screensaver delay values (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed comment handling bug related to extension configuration files (Anton Fedorov) [-] Mouse sensitivity was not restored after restarting (Anton Fedorov) [*] Removed StoreVideoMode2 DN.INI parameter (Pawel Ziemian) [+] New DN.INI parameter: StoreVideoMode = long ([Kernel] section). 0 means not to store video modes selected from the mode selection menu anywhere, 1 means to store them as video mode 1, and 2 means to store them as video mode 2 (Pawel Ziemian) [+] New DN.INI parameter: DoVESATest = bool ([Kernel] section). When on, VESA 132 characters wide modes are available, but Windows can do annoying switches to full-screen mode (Pawel Ziemian) [*] DN specific video modes are now encoded with numbers that do not conflict with VESA mode numbers. The current assignment requires to add up the two numbers, the first being 128 for the horizontal dimension of 40 characters, 144 for 80 and 160 for 94, and the second being 0 for the vertical dimension of 12 characters, 1 for 14, 2 for 25, 3 for 30, 4 for 34, 5 for 43, 6 for 50 and 7 for 60 (Pawel Ziemian) [*] Changed the defaults for alternative video modes: 80x30 for Alt-F10 and 132x25 for Ctrl-F10 (Anton Fedorov) [*] Changed some default options according to wishes of the majority of users (Max Vasilyev) [*] There is an option now to show volume serial number and file system information in the Information panel (Ondrej Zary) [+] New DN.INI parameter PreserveMenuPositions = bool ([Interface] section). When enabled, the current positions in all menus persist DN restart (Anton Fedorov) [-] HistoryErrorBeep DN.INI parameter was ignored for input line histories (Anton Fedorov) [*] While QuickRenameInDialog DN.INI parameter determines which method of quick renaming shoud be used for Alt-F6, Alt-Shift-F6 invokes the other method (Anton Fedorov) [*] Changed column defaults for modes 3 and 4 (Max Vasilyev) >>> File manager <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] Returned the Combined case its original meaning (Anton Fedorov) [-] Ctrl-Shift-Arrows had unexpected effect on the command line (Anton Fedorov) [*] Several internal optimizations caused a valuable decrease of directory scan time. The same technology now applies to Branch panel (Anton Fedorov) [-] Sometimes the command line could enter the OS/2 session spawn mode under operating systems other than OS/2 (Anton Fedorov) [-] Ctrl-Arrows with only one panel visible now always change the drive it displays. In prior versions it was possible to change the drive for the invisible panel (Anton Fedorov) [-] Returned TEMP panel summary shown in the Information panel (Anton Fedorov) [-] It was impossible to edit a file's description when none of the description files was present (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed an old bug: when moving a file to a directory where the same-named file exists and the overwrite prompt was shown, the Rename option did not work (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed extensions containing closing brace in quotes in the file highlight groups (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed a bug related to sorting files by long extension (Anton Fedorov) [-] When deleting files with multi-line descriptions, only the first line of description was deleted (Max Vasilyev) [-] Moving left and right in File Panels could cause weird scrolling (Anton Fedorov) [-] Quick search failed to find files whose name contains square brackets (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed drag-and-drop copy operation (Anton Fedorov) [*] Alt-Shift-Left and Right arrows move the vertical line between panels by large amount (Anton Fedorov) [-] The total number of files shown at the bottom of panels was one larger than their true number (Anton Fedorov) [-] Recombination of split files failed to work properly when invoked upon any section other than first (Anton Fedorov) [-] In file split dialog, the input line contained the last history entry instead of the default destination directory (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed a bug that caused a crash under DPMI and incorrect sort results under DOS (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed summary information displayed for a very large number of files (Anton Fedorov) >>> Editor and viewer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] A single zero-code character was the default replace string in editor, instead of an empty string (Anton Fedorov) [*] Once pressed Ctrl-Enter in editor, the user can interrupt the search process with Esc (Anton Fedorov) [-] Sligtly fixed the Ctrl-Enter search logic in editor (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed the scrolling speed control logic in viewer (Anton Fedorov) [*] Files not mentioned in DN.HGL are not subject to syntax highlighting (Pawel Ziemian) [-] The DBF search status window was missing the quotation character after the search string (Anton Fedorov) [-] Due to an internal bug, some editor commands could be missing (Pawel Ziemian) [*] Syntax highlight improvements: added a new general option flag (value 128) (GENERALFLAGS keyword) that allows to recognize floats with missing integer part and a new string flag (STRINGFLAGS keyword) (value 128) that restricts control character sequences highlighting to caret-letter pairs with a non-alphabetic character being the next (this solves some problems with Pascal syntax) (Pawel Ziemian) [*] Removed the disassembler, at least temporary (Max Vasilyev) [-] When replacing all occurrences of search pattern in editor, the replace summary was incorrect (Max Vasilyev) [-] Scrolling up in the viewer sometimes produced weird results (Anton Fedorov) [-] It was imposible to interrupt searching in DBF viewer (Anton Fedorov) [-] After editing a file passed through an external filter, an empty entry was added to the editing history (Anton Fedorov) [-] Comments on the current line did not get highlighted in editor (Anton Fedorov) [-] Printing from the editor was broken (Anton Fedorov) [-] Editor performed very slowly in real mode (Anton Fedorov) [*] The List panel's title is now shown with appropriate prefix (Anton Fedorov) [*] Shift-F6 in viewer does not reset the current xlat table anymore. Instead, a menu of available xlat tables is opened. Pressing Backspace in this menu removes any active xlat table, and pressing Spacebar presents a dialog window for advanced selection of XLT files (Anton Fedorov) [-] The Goto command in Spreadsheet Editor was broken (Anton Fedorov) [*] Introduced Goto command in viewer similar to the one in editor (Anton Fedorov) [*] Alt-F7 performs backward search in DBF viewer (Anton Fedorov) [*] Added SmartTab option to the local editor menu (Anton Fedorov) [*] Empty databases are recorded to view history (Anton Fedorov) [-] DN crashed on DBF file with a field's length of zero created by some database tools (Anton Fedorov) [-] The editor window frame was colored incorrectly when inactive (Anton Fedorov) [-] The default setting for Tab Replace was ignored (Anton Fedorov) [-] Horisontal Scroll bar could have incorrect size after resizing the editor window (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed wrong attributes having been set on the created by editor files (Anton Fedorov) [*] When printing the selected block from the editor, the page is not ejected (Anton Fedorov) >>> Search <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] Searching failed when the file was less than twice the length of the search string (Anton Fedorov) >>> Archivers <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] Fixed handling of AIN and UC2 archives (Max Vasilyev) [-] After exitting an archive selected from the directory history, DN returned to the last directory that was active. Now it jumps to the directory containing the archive (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed a bug related to archiving subdirectories (Anton Fedorov) [-] When running AIN and UC2 archivers, blinking was enabled (Max Vasilyev) [-] Invalid AIN archives could sometimes hang DN (Max Vasilyev) [-] Fixed and optimized detection of AIN, GZip, LHA and UC2 archives, as well as ARJ 2.72 SFX archives (Max Vasilyev) [-] Fixed TDR handling by means of rolling back to DN 1.51 code with no functionality degradation (Anton Fedorov) [+] Added new per-archiver option: Recurse Subdirectories. By default enabled for those archivers that do recursive scanning only for *.* wildcard. Not set for archivers, that always do recursive scanning and for those that, when archiving a single file, would put into the archive all files from subdirectories having that name. (Max Vasilyev) [*] Improved default options for most archivers (Max Vasilyev) [*] Improved detection of SFX archives (Max Vasilyev) [-] Fixed reading of small LHA archives (Max Vasilyev) [*] Fixed HPACK invocation (Max Vasilyev) [-] Long archiver options cound be unexpectedly truncated. (Max Vasilyev) [*] To prevent crashes, packers and unpackers whose extensions are other than EXE or COM are invoked via the command shell even when swapping was disabled (Anton Fedorov) >>> System Information <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] More DOS vendors, Windows earlier than 95 and OS/2 earlier than Warp 3 are now correctly reported by System information (Mariusz Borkowski) [-] CPU speed detection code hanged the DPMI session under pure DOS (Max Vasilyev) [-] Fixed resources for system information (Max Vasilyev) [-] Fixed detection of OS/2 and some Windows versions (Max Vasilyev) [-] Fixed reporting of more than 64 megabytes RAM (Max Vasilyev) [-] Fixed occasional detection of four LPT ports (Max Vasilyev) >>> Cosmetic <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] A minor cosmetic fix to Russian after-formatting dialog window (Anton Fedorov) [*] The status bar now reflects available keyboard commands while holding down Ctrl and Alt together (Anton Fedorov) [-] The user menu was sometimes shown off the right place (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed the phonebook. The sections now get sorted each time after loading, and, when renamed, are automatically reordered (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed the internal timing code, thanks to Pavel Borodin (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed minor typos in Engligh resources (Mariusz Borkowski) [-] Highlight was missing for OK and Help buttons in dialog windows (Pavel Borodin) [*] T key in CD player now works for Time, not for Title (available via L key). R key now works for Track list (JITRsoftware) [-] Fixed a cosmetic bug in the CD Track list dialog window (JITRsoftware) [*] Tetris, Print manager, Calendar and Calculator windows now have ordinal numbers like other windows (Anton Fedorov) [*] Windows 9x console window title strings that are too long are now correctly shortened (Max Vasilyev) [*] F9 and Shift-F9 are now functional in the Dialer window (Anton Fedorov) [*] PgUp and PgDn keys work in menus (Anton Fedorov) [*] Right after opening the directory history, the second entry becomes selected automatically (Anton Fedorov) [*] When holding an arrow key in a menu or scrolling it with the mouse button, scrolling stops at the beginning or at the end and does not continue until the key or the mouse button is released (Anton Fedorov) [*] In the event of run time error, DN requests for its description (Anton Fedorov) [*] Reorganized the Panel Defaults dialog window in Russian resources (Anton Fedorov) >>> Programs executing <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] The DPMI version incorrectly reported itself as DOS version at startup (Anton Fedorov) [-] DN.SWP sometimes did not get deleted (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed a crash when DN environment variable contained a nonexistent path (Vladimir Korablin) [*] Temporary list files now have unque names. This prevents conflicts between several copies of DN running simultaneously (Anton Fedorov) [-] External programs launched with Quick Run feature cound not access the list of selected files (Anton Fedorov) [*] When used in multitasking environment, several instances of DN store their current desktop information in separate temporary files to prevent unwanted interference (Anton Fedorov) >>> Miscellanous <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] The screen manager is rewritten to allow usage of more extended text modes (40, 80, 94 by 12, 14, ..., 60) and to eliminate problems with VESA text modes under DPMI (Pawel Ziemian) [-] Due to an internal bug, DN was neither usable nor compileable under non-Windows 9x environment with LFN API available (Max Vasilyev) [-] An internal fix was done on syntax highlighting (Pawel Ziemian) [-] DPMI version crashed with a user menu where the first entry was empty (Anton Fedorov) [-] Tetris crashed after playing (Anton Fedorov) [-] When Color Dialog was opened after loading palette from a file, a General Protection Fault was generated (Pawel Ziemian) [-] Fixed mitliple bugs related to VGA palettes (Anton Fedorov) [-] DN crased when help file is missing (Anton Fedorov) [-] Printing was impossible in DPMI version (Anton Fedorov) [-] Internal fixes for Direct disk access (Max Vasilyev, Anton Fedorov) [-] Reanimator and Disk editor did not worken in DPMI version (Sergey Korshunoff) [-] Erasing files with Direct disk access was broken (Anton Fedorov) [-] It was impossible to calculate arcsine and arccosine values of 1 and -1 (Anton Fedorov) [-] Unary minus operator was missing in the Calculator (Anton Fedorov) [-] Trailing zeroes were incorrectly trimmed from exponent part of decimal numbers (Anton Fedorov) [*] Tweaked window sizing logic. Alt-Z now toggles between the maximum (with fully visible borders) and the prior size, and Ctrl-Alt-Z switches the extra-large (with invisible side borders) and the prior size. This is true for the editor, viewer and terminal windows. The file manager window was also subject to modification: Ctrl-Alt-Z now only enlarges the current panel to the size of the whole file manager window, not zooming the latter to the screen extent and leaving this task up to Alt-Z. This influenced a change of DN.DSK desktop file format (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed numerous bugs in Navigator Link (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed a number of other bugs, minor and not... Version 1.51.07 --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> DN.INI parameters, setup and options <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] New DN.INI parameter: HistoryErrorBeep = bool ([Interface] section). When enabled, pressing Del on a "locked" history list item produces a beep. Otherwise, pressing Del on such an element is just ignored (Anton Fedorov) [-] The Tag character check box in the File manager setup did not work (Anton Fedorov) [+] A new per-archiver option: Use long file names (corresponds to the new UseLFN = bool ARCHIVER.INI parameter). This allows to avoid problems with some archivers (Anton Fedorov) [+] Added two more bit fields to DriveInfoType DN.INI parameter ([Interface] section): 16 - Show Quick Dirs in drive selection menus 32 - Show the number of files and directories stored on TEMP drive (Anton Fedorov) >>> File manager <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] Filename case conversion feature: press Ctrl-Alt-F6 to get a dialog window with samples (Anton Fedorov) [*] Changed the default settings for file highlighting groups. Audio and video files moved to one group, and the one freed up is now used for "office" files (Max Vasilyev) [*] When copying or moving a group of files, "<" character in the destination mask means that the corresponding source name character is to be skipped (Anton Fedorov) [-] The copy progress indicator was going left-to-right after dragging with mouse regardless of ReflectCopyDirection setting in DN.INI (Anton Fedorov) [-] After renaming a directory, the selection didn't move as expected (Anton Fedorov) [-] Moving left and right in file panels sometimes behaved strangely (Anton Fedorov) [*] The Drive Line now shrinks automatically so that the bottom left panel window corner used for resizing is never obscured (Anton Fedorov) [*] It's impossible to change to an absent removeable drive (used some code from Yasha, Yasha project author: Sergey Korshunoff) [*] Fixed descriptions handling (Anton Fedorov) [*] When splitting files, a new parameter is available: Section count. When the Section size field is empty, it is selected automatically to produce the given number of sections. Also improved recombination logic: the next section is first checked for in the current directory, and only on absence a dialog window is shown with the ability to edit the next file's path (Anton Fedorov) >>> Editor and viewer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] Searching works fine in viewer with an xlat table applied (Anton Fedorov) [+] The viewer scrolling speed depends on the place where you click: the further from the center, the faster it scrolls (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed DN restart with a file from archive or externally filtered open in a viewer window (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed tab handling, line wrapping and disassembler in the editor (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed reading of DN.HGL editor highlight file (Pawel Ziemian) [-] Fixed editor window handling in the Window Manager (Anton Fedorov) >>> Search <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] The search results panel title reflects the full search context (Anton Fedorov) [+] Quick searching now works fine in both the file panels and directory tree. The long or short name searching mode is selected automatically (Anton Fedorov) [-] After quick searching with CapsLock-<letter>, the CapsLock light remained on (Anton Fedorov) >>> Archivers <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] Progress indicator is shown while reading a TGZ archive (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed reading of TGZ archives (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed handling of ACE archives (Max Vasilyev) [-] Fixed SFX archives detection (Max Vasilyev) [-] The long names passed to archivers are quoted (Anton Fedorov) >>> Terminal <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] Fixed Terminal crashes under certain conditions (Anton Fedorov) >>> System Information <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] Removed detection of some Windows versions due to the impossibility of correct identification (Max Vasilyev) [*] Improved OS/2 version reporting (Max Vasilyev) [-] The co-processor information was always in English (Max Vasilyev) [*] DPMI version shows the amount of EMS and XMS memory available (Anton Fedorov) >>> Calculator <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [!] The Calculator was totally rewritten (Anton Fedorov) [+] Numbers in notation bases other than decimal do not have to be integers (Anton Fedorov) [+] Added root(a,x) function to calculate the arithmetic power a root value from x (Anton Fedorov) [+] Added hyperbolic functions: sh(x), arsh(x), ch(x), arch(x), th(x), arth(x), cth(x), arcth(x) (Anton Fedorov) >>> Miscellanous <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] The new windows receive numbers 1 through 9 with each new window getting the first free number. Use Ctrl-Shift-1..Ctrl-Shift-9 to switch between windows by their numbers (Anton Fedorov) [*] Use Shift-Gray "+" and Shift-Gray "-" to switch to the next or previous window of the type similar to that of the current window (Anton Fedorov) [*] The palettes coming with DN are updated to accomodate the increased number of file highlighting groups. New color schemes have been optimized for exploitation under any ambient lighting conditions in either full-screen or windowed mode (Max Vasilyev) [*] Pressing the mouse button on the top or bottom menu boundary scrolls the menu with constant rate (Anton Fedorov) [*] Windows 9x console title now shows full file names (Anton Fedorov) [+] Optimized the DN.COM loader (Max Vasilyev) [*] Improved the delay code and made it system speed independent (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed packing of DN.MPP debug supplementary file (Pawel Ziemian) [-] Fixed editor menu displaying logic (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed multiple help system bugs (Anton Fedorov) [-] File Open dialog box could cause a hangup under pure DOS (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed a higlighted letter collision in the File menu in Russian resources (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed the long file name service availability check (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed opening files for editing (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed a number of other bugs, minor and not... Version 1.51.06 --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> DN.INI parameters, setup and options <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [!] Totally replaced the INI engine. In particular, all the user comments are left intact when automatically updating (Anton Fedorov) [+] New DN.INI parameter: SmartWindowsBoxClose = bool ([Kernel] section). When enabled, an attempt to close Windows 9x/2000 console box is equivalent to pressing Alt-X in DN (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy) [+] New DN.INI parameter: StoreVideoMode2 = bool ([Kernel] section). A value of 1 states that a video mode selected via Shift-F12 is to be saved as the second video mode (Anton Fedorov) [+] New DN.INI parameter: ReflectCopyDirection = bool ([Interface] section). When enabled, the copy progress indicator grows from right to left when copying files from right panel to left (Anton Fedorov) [+] New DN.INI parameters: ReuseViewers = long, ReuseEditors = long ([Interface] section). The first parameter affects viewer windows, the second one affects editor windows. When set to 1, instead of opening a new separate window for a file already opened, a prompt to activate the existing window is issued. When set to 2, the existing windows are activated without prompts. Zero means to always open a new window (Anton Novosyolov, Anton Fedorov) [+] New DN.INI parameter: QuickRenameInDialog = bool ([FilePanels] section). A value of 1 causes quick renaming (Alt-F6) to occur in a special dialog (Anton Fedorov) [+] New DN.INI parameter: RightAlignClock = bool ([Clock] section). When on, the clock is always positioned at the right edge of the screen (Anton Novosyolov) [+] All the archiver settings are stored as plain text in ARCHIVER.INI. Only the settings modified by user are stored there automatically. To store all the archiver settings at once, use the new Update ARCHIVER.INI menu command from the Archives submenu of the Options menu (Anton Fedorov) [+] Added extra parameters to pass to archivers on invokal (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy) [*] The option to create SFX archives is now available in Archive Files dialog (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed DN.XRN handling bugs (Anton Fedorov) [+] On Ctrl-Enter in editor, if the file is not found, the user is prompted to create that file from scratch or to configure the search paths in DN.SPF (Anton Fedorov) [+] Instead of simply warning the user that the FTN information is to be set, a corresponding dialog window is now shown (Anton Fedorov) [+] New system parameter configurable independently for each particular drive: Check free space. When on, the free space is checked by default when copying to this drive (Anton Fedorov) [*] The Verify disk writes and Check free space check boxes are now initialized depending on what drive is active on the non-active panel on dialog opening and have priority over the system setup settings (Anton Fedorov) [+] Added the option to always copy the file descriptions (File Manager setup). When enabled, the Copy descriptions check box in the copy dialog will be checked by default. In this mode all the description contaners (descript.ion, files.bbs, etc) are excluded from group mark and invert operations (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy) [+] Added the option for alternative Ctrl distinguishing logic. When on, right Ctrl relates to the active panel and left Ctrl relates to the passive panel. When off, each Ctrl relates to that panel on what side of keyboard it is (Anton Fedorov) [+] Added 5 more highlight groups to the 5 existing (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy) [+] Country Setup now has the ability to import the parameters from DOS locale driver (Pawel Ziemian) [+] Added toggle options for syntax highlight and SmartTab in editor and for syntax highlight in viewer (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed video mode restoration bug on exit from DN (Anton Fedorov) [*] In the video mode selection menu, the cursor is initially positioned at the current mode (Sergey Korshunoff) [-] Fixed clock and Trashcan position preserval bug (Anton Fedorov) [*] Added an option to disable formatting warning under OS/2 (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy) [*] Setting OS2COMSPEC environment variable is no more required to launch native programs under OS/2 Warp 3+ (Mariusz Borkowski) >>> File manager <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] After Alt-Enter, the menu for the specific extension was shown for F2 instead of the User Menu (Anton Fedorov) [+] Improved extension matching logic. Now file.tar.gz matches both gz and tar.gz extension specifications, as well as file.html matches both htm and html (Anton Fedorov) [+] Everywhere in a file pattern specification the * and ? characters can be used multiple times, plus any of the following constructions: [abc0-9_] - matches exactly one character from abc0123456789_ [^ax-z] - matches exactly one character NOT from axyz "characters" - matches the characters literally (Anton Fedorov) [*] New Combined case names display logic: a name is shown "as is" if and only if it contains both capital and small letters (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy) [-] Fixed !\ and some other path macros for the .. entry (Anton Fedorov) [*] When splitting a file, an arbitrary section size can be specified (Anton Fedorov) [+] When both dirinfo and file_id.diz do not exist, readme.txt is shown in the Info panel. These files are now scrollable (Anton Fedorov) [+] File operations like copying and acriving are performed on all files in the directory if invoked while standing on the .. entry (Anton Fedorov) [*] On F5 and F6 with the same directory being open on both panels, the file name is shown in the input filed without the full path (Anton Fedorov) [*] When copying or moving a group of files, ">" character in the destination mask means that the next character is to be inserted into the name instead of overstriking (Anton Fedorov) [*] Alt-; (Alt-semicolon) can be used to toggle descriptions as well as the old hot key (Anton Fedorov) [+] Databases and spreadsheets are recorded in the file view history, including the position within the file (Anton Fedorov) [+] Directories within archives and Arvid catalogs are stored in the directory history (Anton Fedorov) [-] When quick renaming, the cursor could hit the vertical delimiter line (Sergey Korshunoff) [*] CMD files in Windows NT are now treated as executable [-] Hidden, System and Read-only files could not have their attributes changed with DN (Anton Fedorov) [-] The !, #, $ and & macros produced garbage in user menu when the panels were empty (Anton Fedorov) [-] When trying to cd to a nonexistent directory, an undesired cursor movement occured (Anton Fedorov) [-] The automatic up-change feature on the current directory absence (when rereading a panel) failed when the upper directory did not exist too (Anton Fedorov) [*] After erasing the command line contents with Backspace, the up-change with Backspace feature is disabled until Backspace is released (Anton Fedorov) [-] Sometimes using Right/Left arrows in the panels resulted in weird horizontal scrolling (Anton Fedorov) [-] DN could hang up when moving the panel delimiter with Alt-Right/Left (Alexey Feldgendler) [+] The two new file sorting modes are designed to order files by their long names and by long extensions (Anton Fedorov) [*] The new algorithm used for sorting significantly decreases the time it takes to enter a directory with large number of files (Anton Fedorov) [*] Panels are not reread after changing sorting options (Anton Fedorov) [*] A rotating dash is shown in the upper-left corner of the screen while reading directories (Anton Fedorov) [*] The current file remains current after changing sorting options (Anton Fedorov) [*] A single click on a drive letter in the Drive Bar is equivalent to Ctrl-R. A double click brings to the root directory of a drive (Anton Fedorov) [*] Now history windows are shown even when empty (Sergey Korshunoff) [-] Fixed a bug appearing when trying to reopen a file from archive for viewing (Sergey Korshunoff) [+] Tweaked AVT and TDR handling, making operations faster (Anton Fedorov) [-] Returned correct file type detection within archivers and Arvid catalogs (Anton Fedorov) [-] Some macros failed to work with one panel closed (Sergey Koryakin) [*] In the drive selection menu "*" is now the hot key for TEMP and "/:" is the hotkey for LINK. More than that, the Quick Directories became accessible from this menu (Anton Fedorov) >>> Editor and viewer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [!] The editor is now able to open files of unlimited size. Yet implemented only in DPMI version (Anton Fedorov) [+] As an experimental feature, disassembly mode has been added to the viewer, activated with F4 as the fourth mode (Anton Fedorov) [+] Added external filtering feature to viewer: a line in DN.VWR containing !%F macro is not an external viewer, but an external filter specification, where !%F is expanded to a fully qualified short name for the temporary file to be created by the filter program. After filtering, internal viewer opens with that temporary file's contents. When the user attempts to modify such file either with the viewer or by starting editor with Alt-E, he or she is warned that it will be impossible to save the modified file back through the filter. If the user agrees, a consequential attempt to save the file produces the Save As dialog (Anton Fedorov) [*] Redo has an extra hot key Alt-Shift-Backspace, in addition to the old one (Anton Fedorov) [-] When closing a viewer window via the Window Manager, the temporary file was not deleted (Sergey Korshunoff) [-] Could not save a Read-only file modified in viewer (Sergey Korshunoff) [+] Alt-V in editor replaces the editor window with the viewer for the same place of the same file, prompting the user to save the editor changes (Anton Fedorov) [*] The apostrophe is not a delimiter character anymore (Anton Fedorov) [-] Deletion of a word with Ctrl-Backspace was undone character-by-character (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed insertion and undoing insertion of vertical blocks (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed tab character handling in viewer and editor (Alexey Froloff) [-] Fixed tab character handling in viewer once more (Anton Fedorov) [+] Automatic line break type detection now works in editor too (Anton Fedorov) [-] Files consisting of only one line were always detected as having <CR> line breaks (Anton Fedorov) [-] Files with single <CR> line breaks were shown incorrectly in viewer (Anton Fedorov) [+] Syntax highlighting in viewer (Sergey Korshunoff) [+] A new, advanced syntax highlighting module for the viewer and editor with many new features available. See the DN.HGL example for details (Mariusz Borkowski) [-] Fixed the syntax highlighting module (Pawel Ziemian) [-] Fixed the syntax highlighting module once more (Anton Fedorov) [+] Hex editing mode in viewer now allows to enter almost any characters. Ctrl-P or Ctrl-B brings the ASCII Table (Ctrl-P and Ctrl-B themselves are selectable only from the table) (Sergey Korshunoff) [+] In hex editing mode, the current cursor position is highlighted by inverting the colours (Max Vasilyev) [-] Spacebar now works like PgDn only in text view or dump mode (Anton Fedorov) [-] The user is prompted to save editor and viewer changes when restarting DN with Ctrl-Alt-X (Anton Fedorov) [+] Selecting an arithmetical expression in editor and pressing Alt-Ins places the result of calculation in Clipboard (Anton Fedorov) [*] The bookmarks remain bound to their lines of text on line insert and delete operations (Anton Fedorov) [*] The viewer now has, like in editor, the ability to set bookmarks with Alt-digits and to jump to them with Ctrl-digits (Anton Fedorov) [-] The bottom border of viewer window looked oddly when the window was very narrow (Anton Fedorov) [*] Four digits are shown for the year in date fields of databases viewed (Anton Fedorov) [*] The database field titles are now centered (Anton Fedorov) [-] Sometimes it was imopssible to view memo fields in databases (Anton Fedorov) >>> Search <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] The option to search in all code pages is now available in viewer too (Anton Fedorov) [*] The editor search and replace dialogs and the file search dialog now have input lines for hex strings (Anton Fedorov) [*] When a search string is present, it is shown in the search status window (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed search bug leading to hanging up (Anton Fedorov) >>> Archivers <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] A major revision of archiver support code has resulted in freeing 20 more kilobytes of conventional memory (Anton Fedorov) [+] TGZ archives support (Anton Fedorov) [+] InstallShield 3.00.xxx archives support (Max Vasilyev) [-] Fixed ZXZIP archives handling (Max Vasilyev) [-] Fixed handling of ACE archives with revocery records (Max Vasilyev) [-] Fixed reading of ARC archives (Anton Fedorov) [*] Improved HA archive identification logic (Max Vasilyev) [-] Fixed ZIP and WinZIP archive identification logic (Max Vasilyev) [-] Fixed PE and NE executable SFX archive detection (Max Vasilyev) [-] Fixed file extraction from SFX archives (Max Vasilyev) [-] Fixed HA, HYP, RAR default switches (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed directories archiving (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed handling of archived files whose names start with dot (Anton Fedorov) >>> System Information <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] Now the CPU type and clock is detected correctly (Max Vasilyev) [*] Improved hard drive specifications retrieval (Max Vasilyev) [*] Improved operating system identification (Max Vasilyev) [+] The Windows version (including Windows NT and Windows 2000) is correctly shown in System information (Max Vasilyev) [*] System information now correctly detects OS/2 Warp Server for e-Business (Mariusz Borkowski) [*] System information now correctly detects version of dosemu (Anton Fedorov) [+] DN since version 1.50 works only on machines with 80286 or higher CPUs, so the Conventional Memory field is no more useful. Insted there is a field now showing the total amount of physical memory (Max Vasilyev) >>> Miscellanous <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [!] Borrowed some internal modules from Yasha (DOS Navigator) (Yasha project author: Sergey Korshunoff) [*] Yasha (DOS Navigator) phonebook format is supported for reading (Anton Fedorov) [!] Corrected and written from scratch are many help topics (Igor Vagin) [*] Window switching commands are available in Help. When the Help window is opened but inactive, F1 activates it (Anton Fedorov) [-] Help now behaves correctly when invoked with menus active (Anton Fedorov) [*] The team list in the About box now shows a nice visual effect (Anton Fedorov) [+] Added Calendar, which is available from double-clicking the clock or via Ctrl-F12 hot key. See the Calendar help topic for details (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy) [+] Xlat tables from the XLAT directory and palette files from the COLORS directory are now available via the quick access menus (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy) [*] Long menus can be scrolled by clicking their top and bottom frames (Anton Fedorov) [*] Dates for extended search can include either 2 or 4 digits for the year (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy) [*] Any of the zone:, net/, node and .point components can be omitted when specifying FTN addresses. In such cases, zone, net and node are taken from the user's primary address, while point is considered to be zero (Anton Fedorov) [*] When creating a file list, !.! is appended to the Action string only if it doesn't end with a space. When adding !.! to ^ and ## strings, the delimiting space is not added (Anton Fedorov) [+] New keyboard commands available in all input fields: Ctrl-[ converts current word to upper case, Ctrl-] converts current word to lower case, Ctrl-\ capitalizes current word. Holding Shift with these commands makes them span the whole text, preceding them with Ctrl-K makes their subject only what is selected. Alt-F12 converts the selected text between Russian and English letters and is useful when you forget to switch the keyboard layout before typing (Anton Fedorov) [*] The time in the Clock built-in screensaver changes its colour periodically (Jaroslaw Osadtchiy) [-] Fixed the Flash-light built-in screensaver (Anton Fedorov) [*] ASCII table now shows an example of what a character with the attributes specified by the current byte would look like (Anton Fedorov) [*] The command line content automaticaly scrolls back as its length decreases (Anton Fedorov, Alexey Feldgendler) [*] Source file name without path is automatically added to the UU Encode dialog's history list (Anton Fedorov) [*] UU Encode now uses "uue" instead of "UUE" extension for output files (Alexey Feldgendler) [-] Split refused to work when the input field was left empty (now the current directory is assumed) and malfunctioned when the source file's extension started from "d" and only the output path, without name, was given (Alexey Feldgendler) [*] Changed DN.HIS history file format (Anton Fedorov) [*] The error message related to resource file opening failure now includes the name of that file (Anton Fedorov) [*] Optimized the DN.COM loader (Max Vasilyev) [!] Performed numerous speed and memory usage optimizations (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed Trashcan display logic (Anton Fedorov) [-] Trashcan visual caption made language-dependent (Alexey Feldgendler) [-] Fixed cursor positioning in command line (Anton Fedorov) [-] Phonebook crashed when creating an empty directory (Anton Fedorov) [-] Ctrl-Alt-X and Ctrl-Alt-Z sometimes failed to work right after DN startup (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed OS/2 check before issuing the formatting warning (Anton Fedorov) [-] Fixed a bug that caused 100% CPU load under Windows NT (Anton Fedorov) [-] Now dn.flg is created correctly even when DN is placed extramely deeply in the directory structure (Pawel Ziemian) [-] Fixed a number of other bugs, minor and not... Version 1.51.05 --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Long File Names <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [!] Long file names supported everywhere. Unfortunately, there are limitations not depending on us, that make it impossible to open or delete files whose full pathname is longer than 255 characters [+] A new system setup parameter available for each particular drive: Don't use long file names. It prevents DN from using long names even if the operation system reports them as being available [-] Fixed a bug related to the bi-coloured strings rendering, which sometimes worked incorrectly for strings containing the tilde character [+] It is now possible to create up to 10 panel view presets, switchable with Ctrl-1 ... Ctrl-0 [+] Added new macro sequences like ! and $. Everywhere # means active panel, & means passive. The macros also can be used in the User Menu item names. # & - current file's long name up to the last dot, not including that dot, without quotes .# .& - current file's long extension (the text after the last dot or empty string if there are no dots), without quotes #\ &\ - long path to the current file #/ &/ - long path to the current file (without the trailing \) #: &: - same as !: and $: ## && - respectively # and & characters !%? $%? #%? &%? - a special replacement, where the ? may be: a - file attributes: RHSVDA, minus signs in place of absent attributes c - compressed size or the real size outside an archive d - last modification date according to the current date format r - compression ratio (with the percent sign), "100%" outside an archive s - file size (uncompressed size in archives), an empty string for directories t - last modification time according to the current time format z - the first line of file description, without heading and trailing spaces, or an empty string when descriptions display is disabled >>> DN.INI parameters, setup and options <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] A new DN.INI parameter: UseLFN = bool ([Kernel] section), on by default, enables the global long file name support [*] The CopyLimit8M parameter has been removed from the [Kernel] section of DN.INI [+] A new DN.INI parameter: CopyLimit = long ([Kernel] section) - specifies the limit for copy buffer size under Windows in kilobytes. 0 means unlimited. The default is 8192 (8 megabytes) [-] Fixed saving of string parameters in DN.INI [+] New DN.INI parameters: HorizScrollBarChars = str and VertScrollBarChars = str ([Interface] section), specifying the scroll bar appearance, containing 5 characters: first character, last craracter, bar character, slider character and the empty bar character. Specified like a string of five characters [*] The ShowKeyCode = long DN.INI parameter ([Kernel] section) now can be: 0: Don not show key codes 1: Show Scan/ASCII pairs in a special window 2: Show Scan code in the upper right corner 3: 1 and 2 together [+] The "cd path" and D: commands are now handled by DN itself, without starting a command shell. This can be disabled by setting the HandleChDirCommand = bool DN.INI parameter ([Kernel] section) to zero [+] Added auto detecting of codepage for a file newly opened for editing (not present in the editing history). For auto detecting, set the DefCodePage = str DN.INI parameter ([Editor] section) to AUTO. For WIN or KOI to be considered actual the text must contain small, capital letters and wovels; for each 500..999 small letters there must be a capital letter but not more than one capital for each 5..9 small letters; plus a wovel for each 5..9 small letters [+] Removed HideLocalCurDir, HideNetworkCurDir parameters from DN.INI, instead there is a new parameter: DriveInfoType = long ([Interface] section), taking an additive combination of the following values: 1 - Show device type 2 - Show current working directory for local drives 4 - Show current working directory for CD-ROM drives 8 - Show current working directory for network drives The default value is 2 (show current working directory only for the local drives) [*] The default has changed to saving all histories [+] Added new multitasking time slicing options (Startup window) [+] New logic for distinguishing between Ctrl keys: selecting drives with left Ctrl affects the passive panel, while the right Ctrl is for the active >>> File manager <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] It is possible to enable the long name display in panels and to customize the long name column width and the extension field width. Use zero extension field width to make extensions displayed just after the names with a dot [*] The extension specifications in the editor, viewer, etc configuration files can now contain ? and *. [-] An attempt to activate a panel for a CD-ROM directory when the CD-ROM was not in the drive could lead to an endless error message loop [-] After measuring the time of program execution some files could get erased [-] File list reading feature was handling lower case names incorrectly [+] Ctrl-Alt-X restarts DN [*] The Windows console title now shows the current DN window name [+] Ctrl+<Gray +> on ".." selects all files [+] Editing descriptions is now possible regardless of them being shown or not [-] Fixed dragging files with panel titles turned off [*] Improved moving directories within a single drive [*] Zooming the current panel is now done with Ctrl-Alt-Z [+] Added visual effects on DN entry/exit. The fade speed is specified in DN.INI with the FadeDelay = long parameter ([Interface] section). Use 0 (default) to disable the effects. 5 is a reasonable speed value [+] Mark/unmark commands now allow filters like *.a;*.d [+] The user screen shown with Esc is now displayed in the default colours [*] Fixed external screensaver invocation [+] Ctrl-Backspace can be used in input fields to erase a word [-] Changing the interface language had no effect on the editor menu [-] SmartPad and Clipboard windows lost their special status after DN restart [*] F9 and Shift-F9 for switching windows now work in the Calculator [*] There were no hotkeys for the CD player in the Russian resources [*] Fixed a resource bug preventing the user from activating the main menu with F10 from the CD player [*] The command line handles keystrokes only when a file manager or an output window is active [+] Ctrl-Enter, Ctrl-Shift-Enter, Ctrl-Ins, Ctrl-Shift-Ins, Ctrl-[, Ctrl-] now work with long names if used together with Alt [+] Selection, insert and replace features are available when quick renaming a file >>> Editor and viewer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] File not found on Ctrl-Enter warning was always in English [*] Improved Ctrl-Enter logic, removed the debugging mode [+] Hex viewer highlights the current cursor position [+] The xlat table is applied in the hex viewer [-] Fixed positioning in the ASCII part of the hex viewer window [*] When selection or ruler usage in the editor caused scrolling, it wrapped past end and before start of the file. Now it just stops [-] Fixed a minor bug related to the system clipboard [*] Single Alt does not activate the editor menu anymore [-] Fixed a bug reported by Max Vasilyev (2:5057/33.36): in the hex viewer for short files (like dn.cfg) it was possible to use Ctrl-PgDown only after a Ctrl-PgUp [+] The editor shows line break type on the bottomw border (CrLf, Lf, Cr), the Line breaks item was added to the Misc menu to switch it [+] Xlat table now works in Dump mode, and the editing is done regarding the current xlat table [*] Added new window switching commands Next different, Prev different, Next similar, Prev similar. Now available only from the Window menu [-] Fixed editor hangup with very long lines [*] Spacebar now acts like PgDn in viewer [*] Enter closes viewer [*] Reopening an open file for editing or viewing brings the existing window to top instead of opening a new one [*] When opening a previously closed file, the scrollbar always shown the beginning of the file [*] F8 in viewer now cycles codepages like in editor (DOS, WIN, KOI), the special xlat tables are available only via Shift-F6. This caused the DN.HIS format to change [*] Changed viewer status information: removed brackets, the filter range is now always shown, clicking the mouse on encoding and filter range information changes these values [+] Files containing CR CR LF sequence are now shown with the first CR as a regular character rather than a line break [*] The right mouse button on a bookmark position in editor always sets the bookmark rather than jumping to the old position [+] Viewer now has bookmarks, and they are shown on the bottom border like in editor (but there are no marker digits on the left border) [+] Alt-E in viewer replaces the viewer window with the editor for the same place of the same file [*] Ctrl-S in editor saves the file being edited [*] Trying to view a file from archive that is already open does not cause unpacking anymore [-] Fixed a bug causing F1 not to work in viewer [*] Ctrl-Enter in the ASCII chart inserts the character without closing the chart window >>> Search <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] All case insensitive comparations and case translations now handle cyryllic letters correctly. The cyryllic letters are shown in lower case in the file names; the Quick Search finds cyryllic names correctly [+] History lists now have the quick search feature. Just start typing the first characters of the desired entry, press Ctrl-Enter to jump to the next match. The spacebar finds a space character instead of 'locking' the current record in this mode; move the cursor or click the mouse to cancel quick search first [*] When a long file name entered in the search window does not contain ., * and ? characters, each space in the name is replaced by a * and an extra * is added at the end. So, entering "Monthly report" will find both "Monthly report.doc" and "Monthly sales report.doc" [*] Improved text searching [-] Fixed searching in all codepages [*] The free space is now checked taking into account the cluster size on the destination drive [+] The search pattern in now shown during a file search >>> Archivers <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [*] The maximum length of the Additional options in the Archive dialog increased to 80 characters; a history list attached to this field [*] ARJ volumes are now handled correctly [*] Directories in LHA 2.55 archives created with -h2 option are now handled correctly [-] NE executable WinZip SFX archives were not always correctly identified [*] AIN and TAR identification logic improved [-] AIN file date retrieval fixed [*] Russian version of AIN could not be used. Fixed [*] Include pathnames in on by default when extracting using Shift-F2. When copying, the default is taken from DN.CFG [*] Fixed extraction from CAB volumes. Sometimes the destination directory was wrong. Fixed [*] Does not overwrite files automatically when extracting anymore (default changed) [-] The archiver setup dialog titles were broken [*] Archives with empty directories were treated incorrectly [*] HA archive headers from other operating systems handling fixed [*] CAB SFX directory reading worked incorrectly. Fixed [-] Password presence was not always shown correctly [-] In UNIX RAR archives, all files appeared as directories [+] Quark and UFA archivers support [*] Fixed a bug related to ZXZIP archive handling >>> Terminal <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] The CPS shown was wrong after Z-Modem protocol restart [-] Time remaining is now calculated based on the effective CPS instead of the port baud rate [-] Ctrl-F9 Terminal setup saving bug fixed [+] Clicking the mouse in the Terminal window causes (depending on the mouse setup): primary button - grabs a character and sends to the port secondary button - grabs a word and sends to the port (now works only with 80x24 fullscreen Terminal window) double click - same as above, but with trailing line break [+] Ctrl+Z for HangUp item added to the Terminal status line [-] The "bytes of" string in the upload/download window is now language dependent [+] Ctrl-D is now used for the Dialer in Russian resources >>> System Information <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [-] Highlighting for the Network info in the Russian resources was broken [*] System Information now correctly shows OS/2 version [*] The System Information window width changed to accomodate all Russian strings [*] "MMX Support" and "MMX no support" strings in System Information changed to "Pentium MMX" and "Pentium" respectively [-] Fixed handling of very large drives >>> Miscellanous <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [+] Alt-1 ... Alt-9 can be used in any input field to quickly enter pathnames of the Quick Dirs [*] Volume Label field in the Format window now has a history list [*] The history window was moved down and right one position not to obscure the input line [-] Unpack Diskette Images dialog was always shown in English [*] Comments in the DN.SPF template are now language dependent [*] Screensaver launch delay selector changed from a radio button group to an integer input field for the number of minutes [*] About window now shows DN compilation date on a separate line [*] Stack dump added to the debugging information saved to DN.ERR [+] Ctrl-RShift-Tilde dumps the current internal state to DN.ERR [-] Removed directory descriptions were not deleted from FILES.BBS [+] When renaming with Alt-F6, the descriptions file is now currectly updated [+] The descriptions are now copied or not depending on the descriptions copying setting. The descriptions display option affects only the default value for this setting [+] The description continuation line can now start with a tab, not only with a space [+] Overwriting a file overwrites its description now [+] With the new Kill descriptions container option in the File Manager setup, a description file that becomes empty is automaticaly removed [+] AVT files support added. Creating, removing, renaming and moving directories is supported. When reading or writing files in AVT is attempted, appropriate batch files for AVCOMSTR are created. [*] Long file names in AVT are handled correctly [*] Character colouring information is now saved along with the screen dump in DN.ERR [*] The Anonymous string used in Tetris, as well as the On and Off strings appearing in the editor menu, became language dependent Version 1.51.04 --------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] The file list creation function has now the option to add specific strings or file contents to the top and/or bottom of the list being created. The Insert text mode inserts the text line specified before the beginning or after the end of the files list. Insert files mode inserts a sequence of text files whose names are specified and delimited with ";", with a non-fatal warning message for each nonexistent file. In the Auto mode, when at least one of the files listed and delimited with ";" exists, the function works like in Insert files mode except that no warnings for non-present files are generated. Otherwise, the Auto mode works like the Insert text mode [-] Fixed an old minor bug related to FTN adress handling when creating file lists [*] File lists visited with the Read file list command are now recorded in the directory history. File lists, as opposed to directories, are shown without the trailing "\" in the history list [+] Added "logarithm of y by the base x" function to the Calculator: log(x,y) (x>0, y>0, x<>1) [*] The Calculator now correctly raises to negative powers: x^y (y<0) [-] Incorrect argument values for arcsin(x), arccos(x), sec(x), cosec(x) and fact(x) now result in an error message rather than a zero value [-] Up arrow in the Calculator caused previous command selection from the command line. This was an erratic behavior [-] The clipboard.dn file was created on exit even if SaveClipboardOnExit = 0 [*] On external program invokal, an "@echo off" line was put at the end of the temporaty bat or cmd file. Now it is put at the beginning as well [+] The User Menu parameters (lines starting with "<=") can now contain macros, so an expression like <=!:\! would be handled as expected. To specify "!" and "$" characters literally, type them twice, as usually [*] Some amount of lower memory was freed by placing the Novell unit in the overlay module [-] Creating a file with Shift-F4 in a directory with System, Hidden or, in some cases, other attributes, resulted in an "Invalid file name" error message [*] Extract with path names setting is now stored in the configuration file between uses of the extraction dialog [-] Updated the list of archive file extensions [*] Fixed default options for ARJ [*] Fixed ARJ, CAB, LHA, TAR archive identification [+] Added suppport of NE executable SFX archives, as well as WinZip archives [*] Improved support of LX and PE executable SFX archives [-] Files with GZ, Z and $Z extensions sometimes were not highlighted as archives [*] Files with 777, ACB, BOA, IMP, J extensions are now highlighted as archives [-] Fixed some bugs related to directory handling in ARJ, HA archives [+] Added support for ACE, AIN and ZXZIP archivers [*] The Current archiver command brought to the top of Archivers menu [*] A submenu that does not fit the screen, for instance the Archivers menu, is now scrolled [*] The first submenu of the main menu (the System Menu) is now shown as the "." (#4) because of the previously used character (#240) sometimes appearing as a cyryllic letter. There is an option to specify any other character instead [-] "UU-encode" and "Directory tree" commands in the Russian resources were both bound to Ctrl-F7 hot key [-] The drive selection menu from Ctrl-F3 and in some other cases was shown with a very strange shadow [-] The current directory name containing a tilde character was shown incorrectly in the drive selection menu as well as long file names with tilde characters were displayed in weird colours [*] Brought back the colour customization options for the Trash can [*] Cosmetic fixes to the Russian resources (some strings were in English, one message was broken, highlighted letters caused a conflict in the editor menu, the menu items order was different from the English resources, highlighted letters caused a conflict in the Archive dialog) as well as the English resources (highlighted letters caused a conflict in the Archive dialog) [+] The prompt to copy next file when there is insufficient space for the current one now has an All button, which causes Yes to be implied for all such prompts for the duration of the current copy operation [*] When Check free space option is on, the destination drive is checked to have enough free space to accomodate all the files, and if it has not, a prompt to attempt the copy operation is displayed [-] Deleting a file's description from descript.ion, files.bbs sometimes left a blank line in the description file [-] The Horizontal scroll bar in the editor window was sometimes shown incorrectly [-] When the editor window became inactive and its border turned single-lined, the left border remained double-lined [+] Replace All operation in the editor is now undone and redone as a single action [-] Ctrl-J in the editor with Russian resources opened the Terminal window instead of executing macros [+] A new hotkey Alt-" (Alt-quote) quickly toggles the hidden files display mode [-] Some keys pressed with Shift while quick searching could cause DN to change to the upper directory [+] Alt-Z zooms the current panel to the full screen or restores its prior state [-] Fixed a bug related to Alt-Z handling in the viewer [+] The editor window can now be horizontally zoomed just like the viewer by pressing Alt-Z [-] F3 opened all files as plain text, ignoring DBF and WKZ extensions [-] The Word wrap options worked only when the Line wrap was on [-] In the hex viewer for short files it was possible to use Ctrl-PgDown only after a Ctrl-PgUp [+] When reading new or updated DN.INI, the parameters are saved in the binary form to dn.cfg. If DN.INI was not touched since the last start, it shall not be read over again [*] All DN.INI parameters related to the Clock were moved to the new [Clock] section [*] The SmallClock parameter was renamed to ShowSeconds and its meaning was inverted [*] There is a space and not comma between the day-of-week name and the date shown by the clock while Ctrl is held [+] When ShowSeconds = 0, the colon between hours and minutes flashes every second [*] Fixed clock positioning logic. When they are in the right half of the screen, they are right-aligned to a fixed horizontal position, and when they are in the left half, they are left-aligned. Also fixed the intermediate state between ShowSeconds = 0 and ShowSeconds = 1 [*] File attributes window now shows four digits for the creation date [+] The new Change language command in the System menu (Alt-F12 hot key) changes the current interface language 'on the fly'. It causes the ActiveLanguage DN.INI parameter to change its value and DN automatically restarts (the user is prompted to save all the files being edited). Some windows still fail to change its language automatically (Editor, CD Player, some other) and they are to be closed and opened again [*] The resource files for each language have the new names <language>.lng and <language>.dlg, and the help file names are <language>.hlp. There is no need to rename these files anymore. It is strongly recommended to delete the old dn*.lng, dn*.dlg and dn*.hlp files, because their presence can invalidate the language switching logic [+] Since the old resource files can cause the quick language switching feature to malfunction, DN automatically checks for files names dn.dlg, dneng.dlg, dnrus.dlg, dn.lng, dneng.lng, dnrus.lng, dn.hlp, dneng.hlp, dnrus.hlp on the first start. If any are found, DN shows the list of old files and offers to automatically delete them. If the user refuses, the prompt will never appear again [*] The "Please report to RIT" string in the fatal error message is replaced by "Report to RU.SHELL.DN" [*] Reorganized the authors information shown with Alt-I in the About box; updated the "About Navigator and its authors" help topic [+] New DN.INI parameter type: char, which means any single character [+] New DN.INI parameters: [Interface] section: SystemMenuChar = long - The character to be used for the System Menu. Specified as the decimal ASCII code [Clock] section: ShowCentury = bool - show four digits for the year while Ctrl is held ShowDayOfWeek = bool - show day of week while Ctrl is held DaysOfWeek = str - specifies names for days of week shown while Ctrl is held, different from the language default. When the value is 14 or 21 characters long, it is considered a sequence of seven three- or four-letter names respectively. The names are listed without spaces, starting from Sunday, for instance, SunMonTueWedThuFriSat. If the parameter has some other arbitrary length, is left blank or omitted, the language default is used [Editor] section: AutoBracketPairs = str - specifies any number of bracked pairs for the AutoBrackets feature. This value has no effect on the bracket search feature. The default is ()[]{}<> [SmartPad] section: LineChar = long - specifies the delimiter character to be used by SmartPad, as its decimal ASCII value. The pseudographic symbol used by default (-) is not desirable sometimes as it is not always correctly xlated [Game] new section: EnableGame = bool - set this to 0 to disable the built-in Tetris game [Language] new section: ActiveLanguage = str - A non-empty value is taken as the current language name. For example, ActiveLanguage=russian specifies that rusian.* resource files should be used. When this value is blank or omitted, the DNLNG environment variable is used. And when it is not present too, English is used HelpLanguageOverride = str - A non-empty value is considered the name of the help language. For example, HelpLanguageOverride=english forces usage of english.hlp. When this value is blank or omitted, the current interface language is used for help. If there is no help file for that language, English help is used ShowLanguageMenu = bool - A value of 1 means that the Change Language command (or Alt-F12) must show a menu listing all the languages available (the list of languages available is retrieved by scanning the DN startup and %DNDLG% directories for the resource files). This behavior is convenient when there are more than two languages installed. The value of 0 means that the command must automatically cycle to the next language available without showing a menu. 0 is the default value Version 1.51.03 --------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Most of the units are moved to the overlay module, freeing a reasonable amount of lower memory [-] Fixed Russian resources: Ctrl-J did not always work for opening Terminal [+] The authors list shown in the About box after pressing Alt-I is now scrollable with up and down arrows [+] Day of week is shown together with the date while holding Ctrl [*] When SmallClock DN.INI parameter is set to 1, the clock is right-aligned [+] Modified DN.INI parameters are applied right after saving without restart [*] Improved tab character handling logic in editor [-] Files with HPK extension were not highlighted as archives [*] Files with ACE, AIN, GZ, TAZ, TGZ, Z, $Z extensions are now highlighted as archives [-] The Current Archiver Setup command was absent in the Russian resources [-] Some archivers setup window titles were broken [*] All archivers are now listed in the alphabetical order [*] The CAB archiver is now available in the Archive dialog (Shift-F1) [*] System Information window shows more precise and correct data, including currect identicifation of CPU type [-] Garbage was shown instead of long file names under pure DOS [*] Chanded highlight group defaults: added CFG to group 2 and JPE, PNG, TIF and TGA to group 5 [+] New DN.INI parameter: CopyLimit8M = bool - enables eight-megabyte copy buffer size limit under Windows ([Kernel] section) [*] The eight-megabyte copy buffer size limit is now effective only under Windows when CopyLimit8M=1 in [Kernel] section of DN.INI [*] Changed archiver setup defaults: ARJ, RAR and ChArc now save empty directories, correct switch set for maximum ARJ compression, removed unneeded switches for TAR, HA, HPK, tweaked ZIP, LHA directory structure storage, added RAR, LIM compression level switches, returned the original name to ChArc [-] The debug file dnedit.dbg was created even when DebugMode=0 [+] Can now enter LX and PE executable SFX archives [-] Fixed TAR archive identification bug Version 1.51.02 --------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Cosmetic fixes to English and Russian resources [-] Fixed a resource bug in the text search dialog [*] The date inserted by SmartPad now has four digits for the year [-] Fixed editing of text files with tab characters [-] Fixed trailing garbage copied to Windows clipboard [*] Untitled.TXT is not shown in the Clipboard window title anymore [-] Fixed search dialog for dbf databases (moved one field) Version 1.51.01 --------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Dos Navigator becomes the Open Source Project (see dnosp.txt for details) [+] Added arcsin(), arccos(), sec(), cosec() and fact() (factorial) functions to the Calculator [-] When changing to a directory named AUTOEXEC.BAT, a prompt was shown to run the file named AUTOEXEC.BAT. Fixed [-] Fixed a bug related to pathnames in archives [*] Returned old behavior (removed in DN 1.51): a beep is generated after a copy operation only if that operation took longer than 30 seconds [+] Can now specify a pattern filter for files that are to be used for directory comparison [-] Fixed a bug: a sequence of #00#09 could not be saved by the editor [-] Fixed UNIX text files viewing (where lines are LF terminated) [+] Added the Word Wrap feature to the viewer [+] The viewer window can be horizontally zoomed with Alt-Z (with vertical border lines disappearing) [+] Added Microsoft CAB archives support (extract only, no publicly available compression utility is known at the moment) [+] Added Show Clipboard menu command. Collects previous clipboard contents [-] Fixed pasting from Windows Clipboard [+] Full ASCII (866), ANSI (1251) and KOI8-R codepages support in editor. Use F8 to cycle between them, printing moved to Ctrl+F8 [+] Added DN.INI text configuration file. See below for the options [*] Auto positioning in Alt+0 window selector is done either to the previous (by Z-order) window or to the previous editor window (WinManagerSelectNext and WinManagerPosToEdit parameters, respectively) [*] Arrows move between buttons in dialogs [-] String overflow checking is done when searching files [+] Long name for the current file is shown in the mini status [*] The drive list invoked with Alt-F1/Alt-F2 is now scrollable [*] Vertical centering of the drive selection box (Alt-F1/Alt-F2) is available as an option [+] Ctrl+U goes to the end of word in editor [+] Alt+/ toggles case of the current letter in editor [+] Alt+F12 converts selected text between Russian and English to correct typing errors caused by incorrect keyboard mode [+] The codepage used by editor for all new files is a user option [+] Complementary begin/end, case/end, if/then, repeat/until search feature [+] Quick bookmark access bar appears in editor window [+] Bookmarks are shown on the left border of the editor window [+] Alt+Up/Alt+Down can be used to navigate among selected files in the File Manager [+] AutoScopeDetect option (see appendix for DN.INI) [+] When a filter pattern is set and no files are selected, the current filter pattern is shown in the mini status (ShowFileMask DN.INI option) [+] Ctrl+Enter in editor opens the file whose name the cursor is on. The search paths are described in dn.spf (see also DebugMode below). If Ctrl+Enter is pressed and dn.spf does not exist, an empty dn.spf is created containing detailed comments with format description [+] DN.INI and DN.SPF can be edited via the Options menu [*] Right Shift alternates line drawing style when used in linedraw mode [+] Search in all codepages is available [+] Redo feature in editor [-] Fixed a bug related to undoing vertical block opeartions [-] Fixed copying bug [*] The network path mapped to each drive is shown in the drive selection menu [*] Can disable SmartPad automatic date insertion [*] Added "<>" brackets to the AutoBrackets feature Appendix: Dos Navigator startup options (DN.INI) * bool - can take values: false/true, 0/1, no/yes * str - a string parameter * long - an integer parameter (longint) =========================================================================== [Interface] CutDriveInfo = bool - shorten drive information in Alt+F1/F2 drive selection menu default: 1 HideLocalCurDir = bool - do not show current working directory for local drives in Alt+F1/F2 drive selection menu default: 0 SmallClock = bool - show clock without seconds default: 0 HideNetworkCurDir - do not show current working directory for network drives in Alt+F1/F2 drive selection menu default: 1 WinManagerSelectNext - position to the next window rather than the current in the Alt+0 window selection list default: 1 =========================================================================== [SmartPad] InsertDate = bool - insert date on SmartPad invocation default: 1 =========================================================================== [Kernel] AutoSave = bool - save DN.INI on startup default: 1 DebugMode = bool - debugging flag when on: 1) The spf.dbg debug file is created in the DN directory on Ctrl-Enter in editor, containing the list of all directories last searched default: 0 =========================================================================== [Editor] UnlimitUnindent = bool - defines the Ctrl+K U behavior in editor (unindent only while all the lines have leading whitespace or regardless) default: 0 Koi8rKeyMap = bool - include or not KOI8-R in the editor codepage selection loop (F8) default: 1 DrawRShift = bool - right Shift alternates linedrawing style default: 1 AutoScopeDetect = bool - automatic setting for scope when searching: Selected text when there is selection or Global otherwise default: 1 ShowBookmarks = bool - show bookmarks on the left border line in editor default: 1 FastBookmark = bool - show bookmark quick access bar default: 1 DefCodePage = str - the default codepage for newly created editor files (Dos, Win or Koi) default: Dos FastSearchDeep = long - searching complementary begin/end, etc can fail when comments contain these keywords. It is recommended to set a limit for the nesting depth to about 300 to prevent the editor from searching through the whole text default: 0 (unlimited search) WinManagerPosToEdit = bool - position to the next editor window in the Alt+0 window selection list (overrides WinManagerSelectNext) default: 1 =========================================================================== [FilePanels] ShowFileMask = bool - display filter patterns other than *.* default: 1 ShowLongName = bool - obsolete, replaced by 'Long name in bottom' panel option =========================================================================== [NetInfo] NoLevelsInfo = bool - do not include SFT/TTS Lev. info in the network information summary default: 0 =========================================================================== [Clipboard] SaveClipboardOnExit= bool - preserve clipboard contents between runs default: 1 MaxClipboardSize = long - maximum size of clipboard contents collected default: 4096 =========================================================================== Version 1.51 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── [■] Dos Navigator is now FREEWARE. Version 1.50 Build 002: changes since Build 000 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── [-] Fixed a bug with UUEncode, that could corrupt the configuration file. [-] Fixed a bug with adding dummy empty lines to the end of descripytion files. Version 1.50: changes since 1.42 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Global ▀▀▀▀▀▀ [!] DN is now using extended (AT) keyboard so this version is not possible to run on old machines... [!] Code is optimized for 286+ CPU, so now works slightly faster, but is not able to run on 8086-based computers. New HotKeys ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ [+] 'Hotkey Overview' topic added to 'Help on Help' [*] Ctrl-K toggles descriptions in file panel. [*] Ctrl-Y toggles full display mode in file panel. [*] Alt-F11 runs Navigator Link. [*] Shift-F11 opens Spreadsheet. [*] Ctrl-F11 runs CD Player. [*] Alt-G in editor - 'goto line number'. [*] Quick Dirs came back in Tree Panel. UU Decode / Encode ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ [+] "Recover Broken Files" option. [+] Can process LowNoizeUUE. [-] Fixed bug with decoding binary files and single-line sections. [-] Prefix 'table' is now processing without troubles. [-] Fixed bug with encoding on large sections (>700 lines) Viewer ▀▀▀▀▀▀ [+] Possible to edit fields while viewing DBF-files (by pressing F4 on field). [*] Date in DBF Viewer is shown accordingly to Country setup. [*] Shift+F2 hotkey for saving changes in Hex mode in Viewer and Disk Editor. [-] Some bugs in DBF Viewer causing Share Violation and 'forgetting' temporary files in the TEMP directory. [-] Structure of empty database files is displayed without dropping to hex-view mode. [-] Fixed bug, caused crashes while viewing files with more than 128 tab characters in a row. [-] While Tracking Viewing History, file could be truncated (by another process), and DN tried to achieve unexisted data beyong end-of-file, displaying "dirty memory dump". [-] Fixed crash when trying to scroll down emty file by mouse. [-] Fixed bug with loosing last character on line while scrolling up UNIX-style text files (0A as a new-line character). [-] Bug in when wrapping lines with Tabs. [-] Fixed percent calculation while searching substrings. Editor ▀▀▀▀▀▀ [!] Confirmation about modifing files with Read-Only attribute is now asked. [+] "Optimal Fill" in local editor options. [+] Tab size in Editor Setup. [*] Alt-G hotkey came back - 'goto line number'. [*] Improved speed of Vertical Block Sorting. [*] It is now possible to save large blocks in editor [*] Autobrackets facility is working only if the cursor character is space or the cursor is beyond the end of the current line. [-] Bug with moving block in "freshly" edited line. [-] Heap memory blocks have not been allocated correctly - it caused memory losses. [-] The first line of text file might have been lost while loading within invalid XMS/EMS environment. [-] Fixed autowrap - DeltaX allways corresponds to Left Side. [-] AutoWrap/AutoIndent local and global setting might have been ignored. [-] Fixed bug with calling 'Undo' by clicking the menu item. [-] The following block commands came back: Mode │ Ctrl-B V Justify │ Ctrl-B J Rigth │ Ctrl-B R Left │ Ctrl-B L Center │ Ctrl-B æ (Ctrl-B called ASCII table before) Archives ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ [+] Size of '..' entry indicates the total amount of bytes of all files in current archive directory. [*] Speed of reading archives improved. [*] "Archiver Setup" dialog box (Options|Archives) now have displayed on its title the name of archiver currently being setting up. [-] Fixed multiple-volumed ARJ archives reading. [-] Fixed bug, which caused to determine wrongfully some files as ZOO or ARC archives. [-] TDRs being extracted from archive for viewing no more stay in temp dir unerased. [-] Options|Archives|Current archiver setup did not work properly - it was always tuning ARJ's settings, instead of "Archive Type" checkbox value of "Archive Files" dialog. [-] RAR archives with dot-ended directory names (e.g. 'DN.\*.*', created using 'rar a -r dn dn.' command) are now viewing OK. [-] Fixed "Swap when unpack/del/test" option in archiver setup. Now an archiver can be safely called without swapping DN (but in shorter memory space), and it significally improves the speed of archives processing. [-] Turning on QuickView on open archive, and extracting a file, caused system crash, until desktop file was not erased from elsewhere. [-] After extracting files from an open archive, or executing DOS commands, archive date ('..' entry) became undefined. [-] Fixed percent calculation of large files in archive viewer. File Manager / Panels & Drives ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ [+] File|Unpack diskette images (Ctrl-I). [+] "Do not kill descriptions" option added to Options|File Manager|Setup dialog box. It's now possible to control whenever the descritions should be preserved or removed from "descript.ion"-like files, when the descripted panel elements (files/directories) are removed by Erase/Move operation. [+] Shift-Enter works on TEMP/List panels as well as on Find one. [+] Seconds are now used in time comparing, also DN would not be confused with dates in 21'th sectury. [+] Added Ctrl+R hotkey for re-reading tree. [+] Del key for removing directories from Tree Panel (if appropriate option is set). [*] It is now possible to call Directory Tree dialogue from Archive/Find/ Branch/Temp file panel. [*] File Manager: it's not possible to drop a directory to itself (if confirmation of mouse operations is switched off). [*] Full-new 'Advanced Filter' (Alt-Del) logic. [*] 'All drives' option of FileFind doesn't scan CD-Drives when not necessary as well as floppies. [*] The dot does not appear after directory name when dropping it to cmdline by pressing Ctrl+[Shift]+Enter. [*] Directories history can be obtained also from archive/find/temp drive panel. [-] "Long Descriptons" in info panel disappeared after rereading (Ctrl-L) or changing "Columns Setup" (Alt-K) or "Description Mode" (Ctrl-K). [-] Long descriptions are taken considerably to contens of Options| File Manager|Setup field, unlike 'files.bbs', hardcoded into previous versions. [-] File manager did not operate huge numbers (>2^31) - now fixed due to large drives and archives/TDRs. [-] Confirmation about launching AUTOEXEC.BAT no more asked from FileFind panel. [-] DN could not operate with files, which has percent characters in its names - bug in earlier versions took these characters as string format specifiers. [-] Fixed bug with reading empty root directories (e.g. formatted diskettes). In some cases it could corrupt the heap. [-] Fixed bugs, caused system crashes and memory losses of 'Change Directory' Tree Dialog (Alt-T). [-] Bug with dragging files with tilda characters in the name. [-] Quick file rename with Alt-F6 doesn't lose file descriptions anymore (if the description was visible during renaming). [-] Weird bug with cursor appearing in both panels after a disk error. [-] Directories descriptions are no longer forgotten in the source directory during copy/rename operation. [-] Fixed bug with Copy / "Refresh old files". [-] Was unable to call Copy/Move and some other dialogs just after making list file. Miscellaneous ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ [+] Long time operations (loading files for edit, scanning drive trees, directory branching and sizing) can be cancelled by pressing ESC key. [+] 'Multilanguage' critical errors. [+] Options|Configuration|Startup|TimeSlicing Options [ ] DOS Idle (Int28) ─ periodically returns to DOS remainings of time intervals by calling Int28. This option alone is compatible with timeslicing mechanism of previous versions of DN. [ ] Sleep when inactive ─ when it is nothing to do, and no key pressed during several seconds, DN falls asleep. [+] Options|Configuration|System Setup|Options|Flush disk buffers - if set on, DN forces File System Manager to flush immediately all write-back buffers after copying/erasing files [+] Options|Configuration|System Setup|Options|Advanced copy [ ] When this options is set off, DN doesn't use EMS/XMS memory for filecopy buffering (the only conventional - all amount). It always copies only one file at a time - doesnt open a next file for reading before finished writing the current one. [+] "Autodetermine" checkbox in Make List File dialog. If this option is set "on", every call to this dialog will make to determine the necessaty of paths (and set "Store path names in list files" automatically). Considered path names are useful only on Branch/Find/Temp-Drives, instead of a similar diskdrive panel. If "Autodetermine" option is set "off", the value of "Store path names" checkbox is not set automatically when calling dialog, but is preserving since last call. [+] Screen Grabber now handles PgUp/PgDn and Home/End keys. Movement / resizement scale is also affected by Ctrl key. [*] Semicolon is used as comment character in .MNU file. [*] Improved speed of copying files. [*] Empty field of "Temporary Directory" (Options|Configuration|System Setup) is treated as a value of %TEMP% (or %TMP%) environment variable. [*] DN doesn't allocate more than 8 MB RAM for copy buffer to avoid unnecessary virtual memory swapping under multitasking envoronment. [*] Branch, FileFind and Archive Viewers are now able to use EMS/XMS/SwapFiles, so their file storage possibities are expanded. [*] Workaround for a bug of OS2 Warp 4 (Merlin) gammas - turn off Options|Configuration|System Setup|Options|Advanced copy - it will slow down copying and erasing, but will prevent system traps while erasing subdirectories. [*] Windows 95 doesn't try to switch windowed session to full screen every time when DN examines VESA-BIOS presence on startup. [*] Validating file creation date in 'Change File Attributes' dialog. [*] When Screen Mode is changed, the clock is now properly positioned. [*] Disk Formatter: Volume Label length is now correct (11 characters). [*] Formatter and File Search windows are now shown in Window Manager. [-] Fixed bugs with displaying copy gauges on large files (>~30Mb). [-] Improved speed of erasing files. Earlier were doing it not so fast because of always trying to clear ReadOnly attribute before erasing file, even if this flag was absent. [-] Value of "Options|Configuration|System Setup|Disable XMS/EMS usage" checkbox have been ignored in earlier versions - now fixed. [-] Fixed calculator's "power" operation. [-] Bugs with numbers beginning with '.' in Calculator and Spreadsheet. [-] Fixed traps, appeared in calculator when character data was passed to function's argument, e.g. "EXP(A)". [-] After modifying spreadsheets (WKZ) panel still left unrefreshed until pressing Ctrl-R. [-] Now now DN asks to overwrite before copying (F5/F6) read-only files too - bug in earlier versions overwrote them without any confirmation, unlike normal files. [-] Button width in message boxes now corresponds to caption width to prevent wrapping in international builds. [-] Reanimator and Environment editor windows did not answered on Ctrl-F5 keyboard combination (Size/Move Window command). [-] "!\" and "!/" extension specifiers are now parsed normally, without a last character loss. [-] Answering 'Cancel' on confirmation to save modified file before running external program or archive swapping, caused crash. Now fixed. [-] When the amount of available extended/expanded memory was not enough to allocate overlays completly, DN halted with fatal error. Now in this case it leaves overlays on disk, but uses extended/expanded memory for other needs. [-] Fixed problems with Advanced Format Dialog Box disposing. [-] Terminal window resizing painted background with an invalid color. [-] Redial timeout in autodialer is now working. [-] Scrollback buffer overflow did not handled correctly and could hang the system. [-] Printer Setup | Ending string value was ignored, it was always taken from Initial string. [-] DN could not change the descriptions of TDR's with ReadOnly attribute, which is default for this type of files. [-] Fixed problems, caused memory losses on TDR processing. [-] Fixed displaying of tilda character in file name of copy dialog boxes. Navigator Link ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ [!] Navigator Link allows to access remote computer by a common file panel. The following features are implemented: Create/Remove directories, Copy, View and Erase files. Navigator Link uses its own communication protocol, a kind of Niagara(tm) block transfer protocol, developed by RIT. Advantages: - block streaming mode: Navigator Link works seamlessly in server/slave mode and doesn't take full CPU time during link session. Using of FOSSIL interface allows you to work via packet transport protocols (ipx/spx, tcp/ip) and other hardware (parallel port), if you have an appropriate FOSSIL driver. We left FOSSIL-driver writing for third-parties yet... - bi-directional mode and true full duplex: Both machines linked by DN have equal rights on each other's drives, and both can work with remote simultaneously. - advanced errror correction: Navigator Link uses double-level selective reject method, so it works even on high-noise lines. - real-time data compression: Link allows to transfer text files and directory data twice faster on the same line. The compression works more efficient than modems' internal compression methods. Version 1.42: changes since 1.41 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Interface ~~~~~~~~~ [+] Ctrl arrows are now working in InputLines [+] Editor and viewer histories tracking (<Alt-PgUp> and <Alt-PgDn> respectively [+] It's possible to move beetwen marked items by <Arrow Left> or <Arrow Right> in all history lists except InputLines histories [*] ASCII table by <Ctrl-P> (<Ctrl-B>) in InputLines came back Editor ~~~~~~ [-] Search by whole bug words in editor File Manager ~~~~~~~~~~~~ [+] Ctrl-Shift-Arrows work for Drive Lines, it doesn't matter that Command Line contains a string or not [+] A## and R## are now treated as archives (# = 0,1,2,...,9) [+] (AltF1/2) if you hold Shift key when select a drive, the panel will be selected [+] Directory history (manageable by same way as other histories) by Alt-Backspace from a file panel [+] Go to upper directory with BS option [*] Tag Character selection came back [*] Descriptions are now copied to the file with descriptions already presented in the destination directory [*] Filenames in description files are now stored in the upper case [-] Space is no longer added before first file name when store file names in the Clipboard from a file panel [-] Shift-Enter wasn't going to correct place if there was an archive opened in the inacitve panel File Viewer ~~~~~~~~~~~ [+] XLat tables usage in Viewer by <Shift-F6>. *.XLT files (placed in XLT subdirectory) have following structure: <byte1><xlated byte1>..<byteN><xlated byteN> eg: with XLT file containing A!B!C! i.e. (hex dump): 41 21 42 21 43 21 you will see letters A,B,C replaced by symbol "!" Terminal ~~~~~~~~ [+] Possibility to set Data Flow Control for a communication port [-] Some bugs in the terminal (ANSI emulation, video mode changing) [-] Bug in the terminal scrollback buffer which was causing scrolling stops, lines duplicating and sometimes even system crashes CD Player ~~~~~~~~~ [-] Mixer came back Spreadsheet ~~~~~~~~~~~ [-] Bug with formulas ajustment after a deleting/inserting operation Version 1.41: changes since 1.40 ────────────────────────────────── [■] Bugfix release, there are no major improvements, but a lot of wierd bugs were fixed Some details: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [-] Palette/blinking bugs: after video mode change, screen savers etc. palette and blinking settings weren't affect [-] System hung after connect when a number was dialled from thew phonebook [-] Random color pallete for typeless files when Sort Mode was by type [-] It wasn't possible to install Help file [-] Uppercase of vertical blocks wasn't working properly [-] Multiply operations bug with archivers which aren't supporting filelist (there weren't spaces beetwen file names) [*] Autohide command line feature is improved: if the command line is empty, it's now shown after switching back to File Manager [+] "In-place" rename possibity by [Alt-F6] in File Panel [+] "Store viewer position" option Build 002: [-] [Alt-Enter] wasn't functional in File Panel Build 003: [-] Bugs with cutting desktop windows caused by auto hide Command Line [-] Bug in Editor when loading files with CR at the end [+] ForceCR, ForceLF and ForceCRLF for specified files in DN.HGL for forcing Line dividing style Version 1.40: changes since 1.39 ────────────────────────────────── [■] Perfomance is very improved [■] A couple of big and small bugs squashed Miscellaneous (interface) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [+] Advanced history maintenance - now the history doesn't depends from Desktop file and it's possible to keep only strings you need after restart of DN [+] Use system Clipboard option in System setup for sharing Navigator's Clipboard with Windows. [+] <Interface Setup> options added: [Command line autohide] for hiding command line when Editor, Viewer etc. are active [Block Insert cursor] for big cursor in Insert mode (Editor, Input lines) [Store editor position] to store last Editor window position and use it when new Editor window is opened [+] Time-meter command prompt - {C:\} for counting a command execution time [+] Command prompt switcher: Shift-Alt-/ changes command prompt to previous mode [+] '/P<filename>' command line parameter to force load palette from file. [-] Bug with floating Trashcan [-] VESA SVGA modes wasn't functional [*] Corrected time-slicing under Windows [+] All Point-And-Shoot (extensions) operations, external viewers/editors and Quick Run programs are searching their data in appropriate local directory files first (and only in case of a failure they are using DN directory files). [+] If Shift is pressed when click on Options|Extention file edit, Options|Quick Run file edit, Options|Editors, Options|Viewers menu items local will be got as file to edit. File Manager ~~~~~~~~~~~~ [+] Sorting speed improved [+] Counting directory length in ARVID archives [+] Possibility for FTN nodes with Bink Style outbound to put tagged files for particular FTN address: 1. Add "/FIDO=<addr>,<outdir>" string as a mask to Files with descriptions filter, eg: "files.bbs;descript.ion;/fido=2:469/38,R:\FL\OUT" 2. Tag files to be sent and then choose Panel|Make list file 3. Input <send flag><address> in File Name and clear Action (or put #!\!.! if you want to kill the files after send). Send Flag is one character meaning type of attachment: '/' for hold '+' for crash '%' for normal [+] Copying speed improved [-] Bug with skip command in file copying Text Editor ~~~~~~~~~~~ [+] Line Draw mode - [F4] [+] Reversed search command [Alt-F7] [-] Block uppercase wasn't managing first and last words properly [-] Some bugs in Search/Replace [*] "Wizards" submenu changed to "Misc" File Viewer ~~~~~~~~~~~ [+] Search back option [+] Reversed search command [Alt-F7] [-] Search always begun from the begin of a file. Terminal ~~~~~~~~ [+] FOSSIL and INT 14h support [+] Scrollback buffer on [Alt-B] or [Shift-] [+] Connect Sound option in Terminal Setup for making terrible sounds for wake you up after getting a connection from autodialler [+] Controls in capture option for preventing (if desired) showing control ANSI/Avatar escape sequences in caputre [+] Beep after more than 30 sec file transfer in Beep after copy is set [-] Bug in reading modem status procedure which caused loosing bytes [-] Some bugs in ANSI emulation [-] Bug with CD detection while transfers [-] Auto Zmodem download wasn't work sometimes [-] Only ANSI+Avatar and TTY emulation wasn't functional Reanimator ~~~~~~~~~~ [+] Copy command when view file to be reanimated. It's possible to save the data to another location Version 1.39 (4 October '95 ) - difference between version 1.38 Beta ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── [■] Registration procedure was optimized. Copy ~~~~ [*] Copy procedure was significantly optimized to speed up copying a lot of files. Text Editor ~~~~~~~~~~~ [+] Added ability to exchange with Windows Clipboard Ctrl-Q C - Copy block to Windows Clipboard Ctrl-Q V - Paste block from Windows Clipboard [-] Fixed problem with empty lines inserting [-] Fixed problem with Replace All when New Text was the same as Text to find File Panel ~~~~~~~~~~ [-] Tag Character now can be transparent. ( to reflect tagging of Hidden and System files ) Archives Setup ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [*] Compression setup for RAR was optimized General ~~~~~~~ [-] Fixed bug with Direct Disk Access setup for floppy drives Version 1.38 Beta (1 August '95 ) - difference between version 1.37 Beta ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── [■] New Cool CD-player [■] Fixed major bug with Copy/Move in Append/Overwrite mode from v1.37 Beta. File Copy ~~~~~~~~~ [*] All files being copied from CD-ROM will not have Read Only attribute if 'Clear Read-Only from CD' is set in 'Drives Access' [*] Settings in file copy dialog will not be stored in configuration file. [*] Added ability to use File Split on any drive. [*] Now Combine mode will check for files created with use 'Binary splitting' and will perform normal Copy operation on such file(s). [-] Now Copy/Move will report message 'Access Denied' if target file is blocked ( opened by another process in multitasking system ). In cases mentioned above user will be asked to continue or abort Copy process. Utilities ~~~~~~~~~ [+] New cool look'n'feel CD-player. Fully mouseable. Play tracks by order option is now available. User can store play track order and CD-player will load and use it later. Now it's become possible to describe each CD and track for later display by CD-player. [+] UUdecode/UUencode supports *NIX-style ASCII text format. [-] There is no requirement to press [ESC] after Screen Grabber. [-] Format: Information window was not removed after format has been terminated with some errors. [-] DBFView will not trash desktop file. Text Editor ~~~~~~~~~~~ [+] Added compatibility with *NIX-style ASCII text files. Now any text file will be saved in the source format. There is a new option 'New editor' in Options|Configuration|Editor\Viewers to define new text file format. [+] Alt-[ selected block upper case Alt-] selected block lower case Alt-\ capitalize words in selected block [+] New Submenus: Block and Wizards [-] In Editor AutoBrackets now function correctly at the end of line. [-] Text was not updated after last Search/Replace operation in All mode with Prompt on replace [-] Ctrl-Del work if size of marked block is more than 64k Internal viewer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [+] <ASCII> button in Find [-] Fixed a bug caused an Exception in Hex-mode Input line [-] Fixed a bug caused an Exception when ScrollBar Indicator is dragging by a mouse. [-] if a .DBF file has non-DBF(Database) structure then it view by Internal viewer. General ~~~~~~~ [+] Command separator "||" will not be used when 4DOS.COM has been detected. ( 4DOS.COM users can use "^" instead, because "||" is reserved in 4DOS.COM ) [+] Ability to choose different help file language in DN Install [+] There is a new option in System Setup to clear keyboard buffer upon program start. [+] There is a option to disable global VGA palette usage in System Setup. [*] Configuration menu was changed. System Setup was changed. Startup setup was removed. Added Drives access... and Directories... [*] 'Test Direct Disk Access' will not change Disk Access options in configuration file [-] Commands history was not functioning when Command line was off. [-] Problem with changing Mouse cursor has been fixed. [-] Comment lines will not be copied from DN.XRN into *.bat [-] Bug in VGA-Palette ( problem with TSENG video BIOS ) Version 1.37 Shareware (13 July 1995) - changes since 1.35 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── [■] Demo keys are not supported any more [■] Support for .TDR files - directories of Arvid streamer [■] UU Encode\Decode files opportunity is added [■] New option for Compare directories command 'Compare contents' [■] Setup VGA-palette [■] EMS/XMS usage in text editor [■] Compatibility with MS Windows (Win 3.x, Win'95, NT) [■] Significant improvements in user interface [■] PowerPack for Dos Navigator File Panel ~~~~~~~~~~ [+] Select files by [Spacebar] (Options|File Manager|Setup|[X] SPACE toggles selection) [+] Delete selected files by [DEL] and file under cursor with [Shift-DEL] (Options|File Manager|Setup|[X] DEL erases file(s)) [+] Mark selected files not only with color but also with user selected char like '√' (Options|File Manager|Setup|Tag character) [+] New command: Panel|Directory Branch... [Ctrl-H] [+] Directory tree dialog full path of directory, number of files in it and total size of files are shown [+] Insert key autorepeat under plain DOS. Will not work under OS/2 [+] New command Manager|Show\hide inactive panel [Ctrl-P] [+] New command File|Edit|Edit file description [Alt-Ins] [+] Directories are shown in Capital letters, files are shown in small letters according to Configuration|Country support. Info Panel shows "real" filenames [+] It is possible to set information fields, shown on Manager|Info [Ctrl-L] Options|File Manager|Information panel... [+] Option to define the type of left panel of new file manager (Options|File Manager|New Manager defaults) [+] It is possible to establish the filter of names of the files in the file panel (Panel|Advanced filter... [(Shift)Alt-Del]) [+] Checking for media type: Hard Drive, Floppy, CD-ROM, SUBSTed drive, Network drive, etc. [+] New file selection options: <Shift> <+> - select files with extension different from current (only for files) <Shift> <-> - unselect files with extension different from current (only for files) <ALT> <+> - select files with same name as file under cursor <ALT> <-> - unselect files with same name as file under cursor <ALT><Shift> <+> - select files with name different from current one <ALT><Shift> <-> - unselect files with name different from current one [+] Directory Tree supports QuickDirs and DriveLine for drive changing [+] New option for Compare directories command 'Compare contents' [+] Command 'Compare directories' can be invoked by [Ctrl-C] [+] Settings in file copy dialog will be stored in configuration file [-] CapsLock status was not restored after using [CapsLock+Character] for incremental search [-] Dragging a name of the file using Drag-and-drop to the self is ignored [-] The situation of divider of the right and left panel of the manager was not saved at change of a video mode [-] The incremental search in file panel does not corresponded with a horizontal scroller in description column if it is present [-] Clock and CD-Player does not draw on User Screen Utilities ~~~~~~~~~ [+] Internal UUencoder/UUdecoder. 'Filetime' instruction and advanced checksum. Ability to manage the different files hashed to section. [+] Double click of the mouse on Trashcan will popup Reanimator. [+] Clock will display current date if [Shift] or [Ctrl] key are holden down. [+] Format system disk: If command processor is not 'command.com' then actual command processor will be copied and stored in newly created config.sys on floppy disk. [+] Phone book - new functions: <Sort> <Search> <Import> <Dupe> [*] In the Phone book the items in the groups are now organized by a principle of directories and files. Pressing [Enter] on item results in automatic start of a Call-back (The format of a database DN.PHN was not changed). [*] Improvements in Reanimator interface. More correct prognosis is made for directories reanimation. This procedure with 'average' prognosis may lead to errors in old versions of DN. Now only directories with 'good' prognosis can recovered. [-] Number of bugs in calculator corrected; New logical functions and functions of the relations introduced. [-] TrashCan will not hide under File Managers. [-] Trashcan was not saved in .DSK [-] Phone field in the Phone Book had maximal length of 20, so one could not fit some long international numbers. Now phone field has length of 100 characters. Text Editor ~~~~~~~~~~~ [+] Size of editable file now only limited by free EMS/XMS memory and total number of strings (<30,000) (Options|Configuration|Editor/Viewer...|Use XMS/EMS memory.) [+] It is possible to set a direction of search Forward/Backward and the origin of search Entire scope/From cursor [+] 'Save All' command [+] New editor mode Options|Configuration|Editor/Viewer...|[ ] Cursor through tabs. Accordingly it is possible to specify TabSize (Step of tabulation). [*] Option Internal Editor [X] in Options|Configuration|Editor/Viewer... will assign Internal Editor on [F4] and External on [Alt-F4]. Otherwise Internal Editor on [Alt-F4] and External on [F4]. [*] New Ruler will popup when second mouse button is holden down. [*] AutoBrackets worked only if next character was not letter/digit [*] Attributes of the file before editing are saved at editing of the texts and descriptions (Date and time vary). [-] Sometimes editor did not saved its options upon exit. [-] 'Replace all' process indicator Internal Viewer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [+] New search option - 'Whole words only' [+] Vertical slider can be dragged by mouse [*] File attributes are not changed after editing it (Date and time are changed) [-] Sharing Violation error under Quick View was fixed File Copy ~~~~~~~~~ [+] It is now possible to forbid the request of a destination directory during Drag-and-drop files, and the copying within the limits of one directory is ignored. Options|Configuration|Confirmations...[X] Drag-and-drop destination. [+] All files being copied from CD-ROM will not have Read Only attribute [-] If the DOS command APPEND was started, occurred routing of the copied files from appointed directories in a directory, indicated in Append, if the files with similar names already existed in these directories. Accordingly, anything it was impossible to copy FROM these directories. It is especially disastrous had an effect for the OS/2 users. [-] Read-Only files does not removed under local network (Novell Netware). Colors setup ~~~~~~~~~~~~ [+] Ability to change VGA-palette and to save it into .PAL file. You can use this palette in DN and in all programs called from DN (Options|Configuration|Startup...|[X] Restore VGA palette...) [+] There was the opportunity conveniently to set up colors for Black-and-White and Monochrome monitors and to save them in config [+] There was the opportunity to use "factory" Color\BW\Mono palettes, which are stored not in .PAL (external palettes), but in the program. Options|Colors...|Default color scheme [+] Mixing of RGB colors is forbidden for VGA-palette setup on Black-and-White and Monochrome monitors [+] In PowerPack is included a program DNPAL.EXE to additional manipulations with VGA palettes [*] There were corrected many of color setup. Now the colors of many interface elements can being set up in Options|Colors... [*] Option 'Enable blinking' added to colors setup [*] All external palettes are stored in directory called COLORS\ [-] Now 'black on black' selection in Colors setup works correctly Archives ~~~~~~~~ [*] ARCHIVE ONE FILE - default archive name will be the same as a current file name ARCHIVE SELECTED FILES - default archive name will be the same as a current directory name [-] Fixed bug in .LHA, .ICE, .LZH archives handling [-] Fixed bug in .ARJ archive creation General ~~~~~~~ [+] Support of fast start of external applications is entered. The structure, describing appropriate .BAT or .CMD files, is stored in the file DN.XRN, which owes is in a user directory of DOS Navigator Options|Quick run file edit... [+] Option for fast executing external programs. Information describing corresponding .BAT and .CMD files is stored in DN.XRN in DN directory. [+] It is possible to establish the overlay buffer size for optimization of conventional memory: Options|Configuration|Startup...|Overlay buffer size [+] 'Fast command execution' will be turned off under Windows 3.x ( Under Windows 3.x this option will not work ) [+] Under OS/2 [Alt-/] will change command prompt (DOS, OS/2-FullScreen, OS/2-Windowed sessions). System prompts is defined in DNL-resource (PowerPack) [+] New option Options|Configuration|Startup|Exit on inactivity hour [+] New command: File|Execute DOS command... [Alt-F6] [+] Ability to enter characters from range #10..#13 in all input lines. Also [Ctrl-B] and [Ctrl-P] call ASCII table for more comfortable input [+] Compatibility with MS Windows is improved. Now SysInfo detects type of Windows((Win 3.x, Win'95, NT)) and DN gives back TimeSlice to it. [+] It is made automatic switching-off Direct Disk Access under OS/2 and Windows, but also on Network, Subst, CD-ROM, DoubleSpace, Stacker and other drives: Options|Configuration|System Setup...|[X] Test Direct Disk Access. [+] [Shift+Ctrl+Ins] - copy command string to Clipboard [+] In all filename lists (Input FileName, Reanimator) mouse support and incremental file search implemented. [+] New option for Drives Access config - verify writes. When destination panel is on drive and 'verify writes' is on for this drive then in Copy dialog option 'verify writes' will be turned on too. [*] New Install utility [*] 'Disable XMS usage' and 'Disable EMS usage' in System setup [*] Many options, dialog boxes and menu are ordered... [*] DOS Command separator in Command line was changed. Now in side of ";" is used "||" [*] All external ScreenSavers should be stored in directory called SSAVERS\ [-] After changing video mode, clock moved to upper right corner. [-] Screen cursor is not hide in external editor. [-] Problems with a registering DN on Network or HPFS386 drives [-] Not all memory was released under DN, leading to Exception after some hours of work. [-] Sometimes desktop file was trashed. [-] When creating temporary batch files for executing programs from user menu, filename could reach 9 characters ($$dn100$$.bat) [-] Corrected bug which let only 3 character extensions to be proceeded in 'Extension file'. 2,1 and 0 character length extensions are also supported now. Version 1.35 Shareware (1 February 1995) - changes since 1.33 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── A lot of bugs have been fixed it is just wasting of time to describe all of them, only major changes here: General ~~~~~~~ [+] Install utility [+] Possibility to load overlays into XMS/EMS memory (optionally) [+] CD-ROM player. [+] DOS environment viewer/editor. [+] DOS NAVIGATOR checks on loading if it is already loaded and then shows warning message. [*] Now DN.COM creates flag file in startup directory ( or in DNSWP directory ) to prevent overwriting swap file by DN from different sessions under multitasking. [+] FILES value automatically expands if FILES < 20 [+] Clearing keyboard buffer upon startup and exiting from externals. [+] -Mask in Filter excludes specified files e.g. : *.*;-*.bak N.B. If you want to use -FileSpec in filter, you have to specify filter from which FileSpec will be excluded (for example, *.*) [+] Possibility to hide Command Line (for XTree-like interface). [+] Batch-file launching from the Command Line has been improved: you can use %1 parameter for name of the current file from the currently active File Panel. [+] Added 'Preserve directory' option in Startup for forced changing directory to last active directory in active File Panel. File Copy ~~~~~~~~~ [*] We hope all terrible bugs have been removed here. [+] 'Beep after complete operation' for Copy if the operation time was longer than 30 sec (set in Options|Configuration|Interface) [*] Directory attributes are preserved. Editor ~~~~~~ [+] Persistent blocks. [+] AutoBrackets function [+] Overwrite Blocks mode (for non-persistent blocks only) [+] Extra highlight options on specific extensions (See HighLit.DOC) [+] Editor macros for different filespec. (See HighLit.DOC) [+] Mark single word - Ctrl+K T Copy block - Ctrl+K C Move block - Ctrl+K V Delete block - Ctrl+K Y Hide/display block - Ctrl+K H Print block - Ctrl+K P Move to begin of block - Ctrl+Q B Move to end of block - Ctrl+Q K Exit to menu bar - Ctrl+K Q Mark line - Ctrl+K L Internal Viewer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [+] Dump mode (like in XTree) [+] Zero, ASCII and Extended ASCII Filters (Switching by F6) [+] Grid for HEX mode [+] Go to address command [-] Bugs with cursor positioning in search (HEX mode) File Manager ~~~~~~~~~~~~ [+] Create several directories from Make Directory dialog using ';' e.g. 1;2;3;4;5 creates five subdirectories with appropriate names in current directory [+] Shift-Enter in Find Panel seeks this file in inactive panel of FM [+] F3 on directory = [ALT][G] [+] F4 on directory = [ALT][E] [+] Full path for current directory in the Directory dialog box. [+] Ctrl keys difference (see Options|Configuration|Interface): when Left Ctrl is held down, left Panel Drive Line will be activated if Ctrl-Arrow pressed and Right Ctrl - for Right Panel. [+] Alt keys difference for Quick Dirs: if you press Left Alt - number then Left File Panel of File Manager will change current directory accordingly number and same for Right Alt and Right File Panel. [+] If "Display selected files info" is not set in the Panel Setup, current file information will be replaced with information about selected files if some files are selected (in other words, it will work like in The Norton Commander). [+] Make List File command has been improved: added macros '!:' for drive, '!/' for file path without backslash . Also it is possible to use ';' for multiply commands (e.g. print !.!;del !.!;pause). Use ';;' for ';'. [+] DirInfo (Directory Information) file handling in the Information Panel. Point-and-shoot (run on extension) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [+] It is possible to specify several extensions for one command block now. e.g. pcx,bmp,tif{win !.!} [+] Use ]] for specifying ] symbol in DOS command (inside command block), }} for }, )) for ) Version 1.33 Shareware (31 october 1994) - changes since 1.32 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 1. Copy/Move algorithm has been totally changed. 2. Added possibility to Rename files with matching names when File Copy. 3. Added Recurse directories options in the Copy Dialog Box to store or remove recursively directory structure. 4. Statistics for Read and Write in the File Copy window have been separated. 5. Fixed Terminal Grab procedure (Ctrl-Ins, Shift-Ins). 6. Fixed some bugs in Autodialer. 7. Fixed cursor positioning in Disk Editor. 8. Fixed bug with Quick Directory changing from an archive. 9. It is possible to re-read archives by Alt-R. 10. Some bugs in Country support have been fixed. 11. Added Duplicate command in the Text Editor - F4. 12. Some bugs in the User Menu have been fixed. 13. ^V in the Command Line is switching Insert/Overstrike mode. 14. ^Del in the File Panel removes selected files from the current list (files aren't physically removed from disk). 15. Entering in directories from TEMP: or FIND: drives in "Enter opens directory" mode is possible by ^PgDn keystroke. 16. It is possible to calculate power in the Calculator. 17. FOSSIL support has been removed from the Communication Dialog, but it has been replaced by IRQ and Port(hex) values. 18. ZModem has been corrected - file recovery is functioning now. 19. Fixed bug with '$' sign in the command line. 20. File Search by file contents has been fixed. Version 1.32 Shareware (4 August 1994) - changes since 1.31 ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 1. HPFS conflicts with Direct Disk Access bug - fixed 2. Added internal Screen Grabber to place grabbed images into Clipboard of SmartPad(TM). Instead of having all those loose bits of paper cluttering your desk, just pop up SmartPad(TM) anywhere in Dos Navigator with ALT-Q, make a few notes and then carry on with what you were doing. 3. Fixed bug with deleting directory from Tree Panel. 4. Removed separate Tree Window - Select Directory Dialog is called instead. After selecting File manager with Tree panel will be opened. 5. Terminal recompiled with new libraries - I hope that some bugs in the protocols were fixed, also Compuserve B+ protocol added. 6. History strings in Terminal added. 7. Terminal Screen Grabber added - (by Ctrl-Ins pressing) - you can place screen into String History or into SmartPad(TM) Clipboard. 8. Added FOSSIL support in terminal - see Communications Dialog. Version 1.31 Shareware (June 22, 1994) - changes since 1.30 ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 1. Added "Quick directory change" function. It is possible to change directory to another (which is used frequently) by pressing Alt-n, where n is digit (1-9). Use Alt+Shift+0 to get "Quick change" list. To store current directory into "Quick change" list use Ctrl+Alt+Shift+n (n from 1 to 9). 2. It is possible to change directory while quick search: just type directory name with backslash. 3. Editor: Ctrl-[ word upper case (Use Ctrl-Shift-[ to upcase whole line) Ctrl-] word lower case (Use Ctrl-Shift-] to lowcase whole line) Ctrl-\ capitalize word (Use Ctrl-Shift-\ to capitalize all words in line) 4. Added File Panel Hotkeys explanations in Help. 5. Many bugs fixed (I don't remember all): - if drive A: is not ready and A: is active, DN freezes session at start. - if DoubleSpace is loaded, DN turn floppy drives on at every start - DN couldn't set attributes for read-only file - Directories in RAR 1.50 archives was displayed as files too. - working with empty Phone Book directories hangs system up. - Memo fields messes up when changing cursor position in Phone Book. - Disk Format: format terminated if bad sector was detected. - disk drive wasn't accessible after non-standard (for example, 800k) formatting if external diskette extender was loaded. 6. It is possible to use environment variables DNCFG and DNDSK to set specific names for configuration (DNxxxxxx.CFG) and desktop (DNxxxxxx.DSK) files. For example: SET DNCFG = _OS2 means that DN will be using file DN_OS2.CFG as configuration file. This feature provides to make user and OS specific configurations for DN. Version 1.30 Shareware (June 1, 1994) - changes since 1.25 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 1. Calculator was changed. Copy button allows to copy result of evaluation in Clipboard according to 'Copy as'. For hexadecimal, octal, and binary numbers you can use all possible combinations which existing in different programming languages e.g. 0x23AF=$23AF=23AFh, 01234=1234o, 0b100101=100101b 2. It is possible to put selected files from file panel into Clipboard by pressing Ctrl+Ins. Also you may use Shift+Ins in Command line to get string from Clipboard. 3. Copy algorithm was changed. Now DN can use all available EMS/XMS memory. 4. Now it is possible to copy in non-existing subdirectories - these directories will be automatically created. Also you can create a new subdirectory using this method. E.g. - you want to copy files in directory C:\MYDIR\MYSUBDIR1\MYSUBDIR2. But directory C:\MYDIR doesn't exist (and its subdirectories too). Don't worry - just type C:\MYDIR\MYSUBDIR1\MYSUBDIR2\ in "Copy to" dialog box. 5. OS/2 support: ■ Alt+'/' - switch to OS/2 command prompt mode. All files (except archivers and viewers used internally) and commands will be executed by OS/2 command processor. ■ if NumLock was highlighted when OS/2 session has been started, session will be paused after its execution by system command "pause" 6. QuickView and Autochange Directory in file panel was corrected. 7. User menu interface was changed: ■ User menu is shown with all inheritances like as PullDown menu ■ If User menu not found in current directory, DN will find out User menu in upper directories. ■ It is possible to switch between Local/Global User Menu while User Menu is executed. ■ It is possible to start edit User Menu after call to it. ■ Empty line after Menu Item header means Menu separator in Menu box. ■ Macros changed: ! - Name of file in active file panel $ - Name of file in passive file panel .! - Extension of file in active File Panel .$ - Extension of file in passive File Panel !\ - Directory of file in active File Panel $\ - Directory of file in passive File Panel !/ - Directory of file in active File Panel (without backslash) $/ - Directory of file in passive File Panel (without backslash) !: - Drive of file in active File Panel $: - Drive of file in passive File Panel You can use these macros in Menu item names. %1 - Name of list of selected files in active File Panel %2 - Name of list of selected files in passive File Panel %3... - User parameters 8. Added Windows-style File Open dialog. 9. Added TAR support 10. "Refresh old files" radio button added in File Copy/Move dialog. 11. Working with archives: ■ "Copy to archive" function. ■ Extract archive without entering in it. 12. Working with descriptions: editing (by pressing Alt-INS), copying, moving NOTE: For registered users only ! 13. Added RAR 1.50 support 14. Text editor: ■ sorting lines by selected vertical block containing (Alt-T) ■ it is possible to calculate sum of numbers in vertical block and put it into Clipboard (Alt-Ins) 15. File Find: ■ Search for a single file mask speeded up. ■ Added "Advanced search" function to set time, size intervals and required attributes for files to find. 16. Pressing Right mouse button while dialog box is executed = pressed default dialog boxes push button. 17. It is possible to read file lists such as files with descriptions and *.?lo (Alt-V in file panel). 18. Added "View DN Team" command in About dialog box 19. Added new Diskette Format. (Advanced options are available for registered users only)