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- VC Version 4.99.08 alpha
- Copyright (C) 1991-2000 Vsevolod V. Volkov
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- This is a TEST version of the Commander which is preliminary in
- design. You should not use it for normal work. Any features may
- be changed between now and the final release. Please report any
- bugs that you find to me.
-
- The Volkov Commander is a DOS program, but it supports a lot of
- features in Windows 95 and OS/2.
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- New features in this version:
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- 1. Descriptions.
- VC supports description files like DESCRIPT.ION or FILES.BBS.
- It shows them and optionaly can copy.
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- 2. Archives.
- You can enter in archives like in subdirectory, then view,
- edit compressed files, copy them to any directory (extract)
- or copy uncompressed files to archive. You can define almost
- any archive utility to work with Commander. Long file names
- are supported for archives.
-
- 3. SVGA video modes.
- The Commander can work in any text mode with resolution 80x25
- characters or higher. Use Ctrl-F9 to switch text modes
- supported by VBE or use any external utility.
-
- 4. EMS, XMS and disk swapping.
- The Commander optionally can use EMS, XMS memory or disk
- space for reducing resident part of VC when executing
- programs. Run VC /? to view switches.
-
- 5. Reversed sort order.
- You can sort files in ascending or descending modes.
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- 6. New filters.
- You can define Your own set of filters.
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- 7. Treeinfo.
- VC doesn't support TREEINFO.NCD now, but supports new format
- of TREEINFO.VCD that can be stored in the root of disk or in
- home directory of VC. VC updates these files when creates,
- removes or renames directories.
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- 8. Attributes of directories.
- You can change attributes of directories in Tree panel.
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- 9. New macros for inactive panel in VC.MNU and *.EXT files: %,
- %.%, %%, %:, %\, %@. New macros for short names !~, !~.!,
- !~\, !~@, %~, %~.%, %~\, %~@. Macros for entering strings
- ![text], !0,..., !9.
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- 10.Internal viewer and 'Find File' function supports translation
- tables with single-byte and double-byte character set
- (Unicode). You can find these tables in files with extension
- TBL. Copy tables in directory of VC and use F8 to select one
- of them in internal viewer
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- 11.Quick View function can display contents of files including
- files from archives, information about directories, archives
- and directories in archives
-
- 12.VC.COM and VC.OVL can be compressed. VC.COM can be converted
- to VC.EXE and VC.OVL can be appended to it:
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- COM2EXE VC.COM VC.EXE
- PKLITE VC.EXE
- COPY VC.OVL VCOVL.EXE
- PKLITE VCOVL.EXE
- COPY VC.EXE + VCOVL.EXE
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- 13.A lot of other new features.
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- VC and Windows 95:
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- 1. Long file names.
- VC fully supports long file names.
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- 2. Date and time of directories.
- You can change date and time of directories in Tree panel.
-
- 3. FAT-32 support.
- Sizes of partitions greater than 2 Gbytes are displayed
- correctly
-
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- VC and OS/2:
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- 1. Extended attributes.
- VC can optionally show extended attribute .LONGNAME as file
- name when option 'Long names' is on. Also it can remove all
- extended attributes and optionally copy them.
-
- 2. Date and time of directories.
- You can change date and time of directories in Tree panel.
-
- 3. Screen saver is not activated in windowed sessions.
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- This version of VC does not contain some functions:
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- - Internal editor
- - Editing of user menu, extension files and dirinfo
- - Memory information
- - Screen saver menu
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- Known problems
-
- - Long names under OS/2 are not supported.
- - Long names under Windows NT are not supported.
- - VC is switched to full screen mode when function 'Video mode'
- is invoked under Windows 95.
- - Big delay occures when function 'Video mode' is invoked under
- Linux's dosemu.
- - Extended video modes don't work correctly under Windows NT.
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- Vsevolod V. Volkov Kiev, Ukraine
-
- Homepage: http://come.to/volkov
- E-mail: vc@vvv.kiev.ua
- Fidonet: 2:463/62.16
- Phone: 380-44-4842542 Monday through Friday,
- 7pm-10pm Kiev time (+2 hours GMT)
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- 06-June-2000
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