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- │ The OS/2-Commander v1.13 │
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-
- First of all: Thanks to Frankie "wat denn nu noch" Raether for
- his work on the manual and a lot of good ideas!
-
- Very special thanks to: Thomas "Big Daddy" Bradford,
- his lovely wife Marie
- and his kids: Ben "The Wild",
- Autumn "I love Marshmallows",
- and "smiling" Michael.
- And not to forget: Jenni "The Yankee"
- for a great time in the USA!
-
-
- Thank you to my beta-tester for testing every bug and having
- much patience with me ;-)
-
- Thanks to Siegfried Hanisch, the author of the ScreenSaver, for
- creating and collecting most of the nice maxims and allowing me
- to use them for the OS/2-Commander's internal screen-saver.
-
- Thank you to all the people all over the world using this program
- and supporting me with their ideas and comments.
-
-
-
-
- **** Attention ****
-
- This is a beta-version, the new "Tree"-View option is not ready yet!
-
-
-
- News and changes in OS/2-Commander version 1.13 Beta 3
- ======================================================
-
- - OS/2-Commander Beta 2 had some problems with directory names beginning
- with a dot.
-
- - Beta 2 sometimes did not copy all files of a directory.
- Sorry for the 2 above bugs.
-
- - fixed the QuickSearch window.
-
- - fixed a little problem with the command line
-
- - When changing sort method the cursor will now remain on the same file.
-
-
-
- News and changes in OS/2-Commander version 1.13 Beta 2
- ======================================================
-
- - eMail address changed! My new eMail address is wsarp@ibm.net
-
- - nothing new, only some fixes. Don't have much time at the moment, sorry.
-
-
-
- News and changes in OS/2-Commander version 1.13 wide beta
- =========================================================
-
- - CTRL-F10 with tagged files did not work correct.
-
- - start in 132 column mode with a different number of rows than the
- directly supported modes caused an error.
-
- - the AddArcer function (e.g. UC2) missed one file in the filelist.
-
- - change drive window fixed (with more than 18 drives).
-
- - fixed error 5 in directory tree (ALT-F10).
-
- - the directory tree (ALT-F10) is now left/right scrollable with
- cursor left/right.
-
- - added switch to disable the mouse.
-
- - The scan for the directory database needed a lot of memory. This is
- fixed and speeded up for about 10%.
-
- - Sometimes an error 9 occured after copying a directory. This is fixed.
-
- - Merlin-Problem fixed.
-
- - Color-extensions is now working with extensions with more than 3 characters.
-
- - Cursor left/right in brief mode now also goes to top/bottom of the filelist.
-
- - added switch to write the QuickView (CTRL-Q) directory size into the
- filelist (Options / Configuration / Window options)
-
- - and a couple of other smaller fixes...
-
-
-
-
-
- News and changes in OS/2-Commander version 1.12
- ===============================================
-
- - fixed some problems with high intensity background colors
-
- - setting "QuickSearch moves down" didn't work
-
- - fixed problem with external viewer in find function
-
- - fixed directory database error 14
-
- - fixed some problems with the Popup Menu
-
-
-
-
-
- News and changes in OS/2-Commander version 1.10
- ===============================================
-
- - for Unix freaks: Now you can start a program in a new task by adding '&'
- to the command line. E.g. 'format a: &'.
-
- - added SHIFT-ALT-F7 to show the previous ALT-F7 Findlist without rescanning.
-
- - added "Medium" filelist to menu. The Medium list will show the filename,
- file size and file date.
-
- - added CTRL-B to toggle (show/hide) the function key line.
-
- - added CTRL-Z to switch between real filesize and allocated size.
-
- - added allocated size to Info window.
-
- - added Disk-Image function to the Commands menu.
- You can create an image from a diskette and write it to another disk.
- When creating an image, you'll be prompted for the filename for the
- image file, when writing an image to a disk you simply put the scroll bar
- onto the image file and start "write image to disk".
- The created disk image should be comaptible with OS/2's VMDISK images
- and you should be able to boot a DOS session from an image created by
- The OS/2-Commander.
-
- - added 132-column mode. Use SHIFT-F10 or the Options menu to switch
- between 80 and 132 columns.
-
- - added enhanced search algorythmn to the DFB-Viewer.
- For the search string (F7) and the browse filter (F9) the following
- rules apply:
- Entering a simply search string, e.g. 'warp', will search the whole
- record for that string, regardless which field it is in.
- If you want to search for a string in a specific field, you have to
- use the following syntax: @<fieldname> = <"searchstring">
- E.g. '@progname = "warp"'
- You have to put the search string into quotation marks.
- You can combine up to 5 search strings with logical AND or OR, but
- you can not combine AND and OR statements.
-
- Following 2 syntaxes are valid for AND:
-
- @<fieldname> = <"searchstring"> .AND. <fieldname> = <"searchstring">
-
- E.g. '@progname = "os2com" .and. progdesc = "Commander"'
-
- or
- @<fieldname> = <"searchstring"> & <fieldname> = <"searchstring">
-
- E.g. '@PROGNAME = "warp" & PROGDESC = "server"'
-
- For OR you can use the following 2 syntaxes
-
- @<fieldname> = <"searchstring"> .OR. <fieldname> = <"searchstring">
-
- E.g. '@progname = "os2com" .or. progdesc = "567890"'
-
- or
- @<fieldname> = <"searchstring">, <fieldname> = <"searchstring">
-
- E.g. '@PROGNAME = "warp", PROGDESC = "server"'
-
- It's also valid to seperate an OR statement only with a SPACE.
-
- @<fieldname> = <"searchstring"> <fieldname> = <"searchstring">
-
- E.g. '@progname = "warp" progdesc = "server"'
-
-
- The following syntax in NOT valid and will result in an AND search:
-
- @NAME = "1234" .AND. TEXT = "5678" .OR. TEXT = "ABCD"
-
- Neither the search strings nor the seperators are case sensitive,
- there's no difference between '.AND.' and '.and.'.
- The <fieldname> has to match the exact fieldname in the database,
- (also not case sensitive).
- The <searchstring> can be anywhere in the field, e.g. a search for
- '@PROGDESC = "warp"' will return every records containing one of the
- following string in the field PROGDESC:
- warp
- WARP
- warp 3.0
- Fixpak for Warp 3
-
-
- - added a Filter to the DBF-Viewer. With F9 you can set the filter.
- When a filter is set, the Browser will only show records that contain
- that string.
-
- - added DBF-packer to the DBF-Viewer. It removes all deleted records from
- the database. Use it with care, if you have index files you might have
- to rebuild the indexes! The OS/2-Commander DBF-Viewer does not touch
- index files at all!
-
- - the F5, F6 and F7 prompts are now "scrollable" and accept more than
- 64 characters.
-
- - the DBF-Viewer now has a Browse function.
-
- - new switch "don't scan network drives" in FIND function.
- If this switch is enabled together with the "scan all drives" switch,
- The OS/2-Commander will scan only local drives.
-
- - the prompt line is now no longer limited to 80 characters.
-
- - internal and external editor available in Find function.
-
- - new switch "Use NCOPY on NETWARE drives" in "Some switches".
- If enabled, The OS/2-Commander will use NCOPY to copy files on
- NETWARE drives.
-
- - new switch "Scan network drives" in "Some switches".
- If disabled, The OS/2-Commander will not scan network drives when creating
- the directory database WCD.DB.
-
- - fixed some 'sorting' problems. When sorting by date, the newest files
- are now at the top. When switching to 'unsorted', the directory is now
- displayed unsorted immediately without having to re-read the directory.
-
- - the cursor-problems should now be history (I hope <g>).
-
- - new path options "Left window path" and "right window path" in "Directories".
- Here you can store the paths you want the OS/2-Commander to start in.
-
- - new switch "Restore stored paths" in "window options".
- If enabled, OS/2-Commander will start each window in the path stored in
- "Left/Right window path"
-
- - new switch "auto-save configuration" in "Some switches". If enabled,
- The OS/2-Commander will save the curent setting automatically.
-
- - it's now possible to use high intensity backround colors (values > 7).
-
- - you can now use CTRL-ALT-<number> to Quick-Search for files or
- directories beginning with a number.
-
- - it's now possible to specify a special configuration file.
- With the command line parameter /C: you can define the configuration
- file you want to use.
- Example: os2com /C:d:\users\user1\thomas.cfg
- The OS/2-Commander will also use a file "thomas.ext" for the extension
- definitions.
-
- - new option "Never" when copying or moving and the file exists in the
- target directory. When choosing "Never", only non-existing files will
- be copied or moved to the target directory.
-
-
- News and changes in OS/2-Commander version 1.09
- ===============================================
-
- - the configuration has totaly changed!
- The OS/2-Commander is now using a configuration file OS2COM.CFG that will
- be created automatically if not existing.
- Most options now have to be set inside the OS/2-Commander, in the
- configuration option of the 'Options' menu. The configuration will be saved
- automatically. The OS2COM.INI now only contents the sections [Arcer] and
- [AddArcer], all other settings are done with the menu in OS2COM.CFG, except
- the extension definitions and the color-definitions for specific extension.
- They are now located in the file OS2COM.EXT.
-
- - With ALT-F9 you can now change the case of a file or all selected files.
- Of course this only works on HPFS partitions.
-
- - Nested archives are now supported.
- You might run into problems when opening two nested archives, one in the left
- and one in the right window. You should avoid to do that.
-
- - RAR OS/2 and DOS self-extracting archives are now supported.
-
- - the number of extensions that can be defined in OS2COM.EXT is now unlimited.
-
- - fixed the "lost cursor" with QEdit as external editor.
-
- - fixed the selected item background color.
-
- - fixed the Warp fixpack problem.
-
- - time was not working in a windowed session.
-
- - empty directories were not tagged correctly.
-
- - new switch for lefthand mouse.
- This switch will swap the left and right mouse button.
-
- - new switch for window video mode.
- This switch defines the video mode when running OS/2-Commander in a
- windowed session. If you don't use this switch, the normal 'video mode'
- is still used in a window session, but now you can define different
- video modes for fullscreen and window sessions.
-
- - new color option for the drive select icon.
- With these switches you can define the foreground and background color
- of the drive-select click-point in the upper left corner.
-
- - new color option for the function keys.
- With these switches you can define the foreground and background color
- of the function key numbers in the bottom row.
-
- - new option for a second external editor.
- With this option you can define a second external editor that is called
- with Shift-Alt-F4.
-
- - DBF-Viewer/Editor implemented.
- For files with the extension .DBF the internal DBF-viewer will be used
- with F3 and F4 now. With the DBF-viewer you can also delete, undelete and
- edit records in a DBF database and you can add records to the database.
-
- The DBF-Viewer is using the following color definitions:
-
- DBF-Viever foreground color
- DBF-Viever background color
- DBF-Viever field foreground color
- DBF-Viever field background color
-
- - Shift-F3 will always call the standard internal viewer.
-
- - New switch 'PrinterPort'.
- This switch defines where your printer is connected.
- e.g. 'LPT1'
-
- - New switch AutoMenu.
- With AutoMenu enabled OS/2-Commander will show the user menu at program
- start.
-
- - New variable [%N] for the User-menu.
- It's nearly the same as [%F] but will only insert the first part of the
- filename and strip the extension.
-
- - Fixed Error 14 in Warp-Function.
-
- - Fixed Error 5 in Archiv-Function
-
- - Delete all read-only files is now working correct for all subdirectories.
-
- - The read-only attribute is now striped when files are copied from a CD-ROM.
-
- - Changed the Extension definition in OS2COM.EXT.
- Now you have to enter a variable where and how the filename will be
- inserted. It's now possible to append parameters or strip the extension.
- If you're upgrading from a previous version, you have to change your
- entries!
-
- Examples:
- The scroll bar is on the file 'picture.gif' and you press enter:
-
- gif: d:\tools\pmview !.! will be converted to
- d:\tools\pmview picture.gif
-
- gif: d:\tools\pmview !.! /v will be converted to
- d:\tools\pmview picture.gif /v
-
- gif: d:\tools\pmview ! /v will be converted to
- d:\tools\pmview picture /v
-
- gif: d:\tools\pmview !. /v will be converted to
- d:\tools\pmview picture. /v
-
- - changed the structure of the directory tree file. The files DTREE.OSC in
- the root directory of each drive are no longer needed and can be deleted.
- OS/2-Commander now uses the same database that WCD (Wolfgang's Change
- Directory) is using and WCD is almost completely included into OS2COM.
- OS2COM will now update the database automatically when creating, deleting
- or renaming a directory.
-
- The concerning new configuration options are:
- - "DirBase" to give the drive and directory where OS2COM should store the
- directory database, default is "C:\WCD.DB". You have enter the drive and
- directory name, including the filename!
-
- - "WarpFlags" to tell OS2COM how to behave when scanning the drives or
- searching for a directory with the "Warp Directory" feature. OS2COM will
- no longer use any environment switches!
- You have to enter the slash "/". E.g. "/c".
-
- Valid flags are:
-
- /a : list all directories.
- If OS2COM finds more than one directory that matches exact
- to your search string OS2COM will only list these exact
- matching directories by default. Use /a if you want OS2COM
- to list all directories that contain the search string
- in their name.
-
- /b : list only directories that begin with the searchstring.
- By default OS2COM lists all directories that contain the
- string somewhere in the name. Use /b if you want OS2COM to
- list only directories which begin with your <directory>
- parameter.
-
- /c : don't scan CD-ROM drives.
- By default OS2COM scans all drives. If you don't want OS2COM
- to scan CD-ROM drives by default, use /c and OS2COM will not
- scan a CD-ROM drive when (re-)building the database.
-
- /d : search current drive only.
- Search for the directory you want to change to only on
- the current drive.
-
- /e : if only one exact match, show popup window.
- Show popup window if exactly one directory name is found
- in the directory database with the exact name to search for.
-
- /s[x] : shrink searchstring.
- This option will change OS2COM's behaviour when no directories
- are found that match the original searchstring.
- 0: (/s0) do not shrink searchstring, abort (default).
- 1: (/s1) shrink searchstring and try again.
- 2: (/s2) shrink searchstring and try again. Always open window,
- even if only one directory matches the shrunk searchstring.
- /s (without a number) is equal to /s1.
-
-