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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. Introduction ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                             File Commander/2 V1.51

 File Commander/2 is a 32 bit OS/2 text mode file manager and shell that allows
you to locate, copy, move, delete, view, edit and execute your files in a
quick, convenient and customizable manner.

 It's main display provides dual directory view panels that may serve as source
and destination of a copy or move operation or just two different views of your
files. A panel may also be used to view a directory tree, drive statistics or
may be turned off altogether, making visible the output of previously executed
commands.

 A command line is also provided and operates in conjuction with the directory
panels to make it much more powerful than a regular CLI including pasting file
names from the panel, a command history recall window and command completion
from history.

 Please remember that File Commander/2 is Shareware. If you like and use it,
please support the shareware concept by Registering.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2. Features ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

The following are some of the major features of File Commander/2:

o Built in archive support, with ZIP, ARJ, RAR and LZH types currently
  supported.
o Mouse support.
o Full HPFS long file name support.
o User definable menu, featuring powerful operators such as

   - Run a command once for every tagged file.
   - Automatically create a file containing a list of tagged files.
   - Get input value from the user.
   - List all tagged files in the parameter list, automatically running the
     command multiple times if the command line gets too long.

o Online help.
o Many configuration options.
o Built in file viewer with hex view mode.
o Built in editor with cut/copy/paste ability using the OS/2 clipboard.
o File Find facility combining wildcard file name filters with file contents
  scanning.
o Calculation of the total disk usage of a directory tree.
o Tree views for quick and easy directory changes.
o Ability to start OS/2 text mode, PM, DOS and Windows applications.
o Easy creation of Workplace Shell objects.
o Enhanced wildcard handling including boolean operators (and, or, not,
  brackets) for combining multiple file name masks.
o Flexible file name filtering.
o Support for 4DOS/4OS2/4NT descriptions
o 132 column mode support.
o Full support for volumes larger than 4GB (up to 2^63 bytes).


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3. Shareware ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 File Commander/2 is copyrighted software. However, you are encouraged to copy
and share the software with others according to the following requirements:

 File Commander/2 may be freely copied and shared with others, so long as no
charge is made for the software, and it is unmodified and copied in its
entirety, including program documentation. It may be distributed by electronic
means (modem, ftp etc), provided that all files are transmitted (archived)
together.

 Notice that shareware is copyrighted software. It is not "Public Domain"
software, nor is it "free" software. If you continue to use this program beyond
a reasonable "trial period", not to exceed 30 days, you must pay for it by
registering. See Registering for how to register.

o Your registration fee makes it possible for me to continue to improve the
  program and increases the likelihood that I will provide useful, cheap
  software in the future.

o IF YOU USE THE PROGRAM FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES, YOU MUST REGISTER.

o Your registration fee buys you the right to use the program beyond the trial
  period of 30 days. Your registration covers ALL VERSIONS of File Commander/2,
  past, present AND future. ie You'll only ever have to register File
  Commander/2 once.

 You may NOT charge anyone for a copy of this software other than a small
copying fee. You may NOT include this software with any commercial software
without the consent of the author.

 This software is supplied WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

 In no event shall the author be liable to you for any consequential, special
incidental or indirect damages of any kind arising out of the performance or
use of the software, even if the author has been advised of the possibility of
such damages. By using the software, you agree to these terms.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4. Registering ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 The registration fee for File Commander/2 is $29 Australian or $25 US. Once
you have registered, you will be sent a serial number that, with your name,
will allow you to 'register' the copy of the program you have. Once you have
done this your name will appear in the 'Info' panel and you will not see any
shareware reminders. This serial number will be good for all future versions of
FC/2 so you'll only ever have to pay once.

 Note that File Commander comes in two flavours, OS/2 and Win32. For
registration purposes there is no distinction between the two so if you're
registered for one you're registered for both. You don't need to register again
if you move from one to the other or use both (ie dual booting).

 To register, choose whichever of the following applies to you.

 1. Registering in Australia.

 2. Registering in Scandinavia.

 3. Registering from anywhere else.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.1. Registering in Australia ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 Australian residents can register by sending a Registration form and a cheque
to the address given in Contacting the Author.

Please make cheques payable to 'Brian Havard' (and please spell it correctly
when writing the cheque to keep my bank manager happy). If you especially want
to pay by credit card you'll need to register through BMT Micro as I can't
accept credit cards directly myself.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.1.1. Registration form (Australia) ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

              File Commander/2 Order Form
              ===========================

    Name:

   Company:

   Address:




    Phone:

     Fax:

    Email:


   Product              Price     Quantity  Total
   --------------------------------------------------------------------
   File Commander/2 single licence   $  29.00  x      =  $   .
   File Commander/2 5  user licence  $ 120.00  x      =  $   .
   File Commander/2 10  user licence  $ 200.00  x      =  $   .
   File Commander/2 25  user licence  $ 500.00  x      =  $   .
   File Commander/2 50  user licence  $ 800.00  x      =  $   .
   File Commander/2 100 user licence  $1200.00  x      =  $   .
   File Commander/2 unlimited licence $2000.00  x      =  $   .

   Latest File Commander/2 on disk   $  3.50  x      =
   (includes postage)
                           Subtotal:  $   .

   Delivery (check one):

       [ ]  Email                       Free
       [ ]  Fax  (Australia)                 Free
       [ ]  Fax  (Non-Australia)              $ 2.00
       [ ]  Regular Mail                    Free

                            Total: A$   .


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.2. Registering in Scandinavia ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 Scandinavian residents can register via the Scandinavian OS/2 Shareware
Registration Service, run by Knud Berggreen in Denmark. Methods of payment
accepted include:

o EuroCheques (DKK, SEK, NOK, FIM)
o Giroaccount (DKK, SEK, NOK, FIM)

Pricing

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ΓöéD.Kr.               ΓöéS.Kr.               ΓöéN.Kr.               ΓöéF.Mk.               Γöé
Γöé                    Γöé                    Γöé                    Γöé                    Γöé
Γöé252,00              Γöé315,00              Γöé224,00              Γöé102,00              Γöé
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 To order, see http://www.cybernet.dk/users/berggreen/os2/ or contact Knud
Berggreen at

Berggreen Service,
LodsgЖrden 1A, 1-111,
DK-2791 Dragoer,
DENMARK

[e-mail]
Telefon: [phone], FAX [phone]


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.3. Registering Anywhere Else ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 Non-Australian or Scandinavian residents and Australians who wish to pay by
credit card can register via BMT Micro, a US company that specializes in OS/2
shareware. Choose your prefered Payment method and Order method, then send in a
completed Registration form.

 Thanks to the efforts of BMT Micro, FC/2 can also be registered at a number of
other outlets around the world. See http://www.bmtmicro.com/info/wherebuy.html
for a full list.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.3.1. BMT Micro Payment Methods ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 You can register File Commander/2 using any of the following payment methods.
For up to date information on payment methods, see
http://www.bmtmicro.com/info/payment.html.

 1. Credit Card

     For your convenience, we accept most major credit cards.  In order for
    your order to ship without delay, you must give the billing address and ZIP
    code that your credit card statement is mailed to.  We will not normally
    ship to a different address than this address unless we have a faxed
    signature and can verify the "Ship to" address by phone.  We reserve the
    right to refuse to ship to a different address than the credit card
    statement mailing address.

     We accept the following credit cards:

   o American Express
   o Diner's Club
   o Discover
   o Eurocard
   o Mastercard
   o Novus (all variations)
   o Optima
   o Visa

 2. Money Orders/Cashiers Check

    Money orders, cashiers checks, and bank drafts are welcome, and all
    Shareware registered using these methods will ship as soon as payment is
    received. Please remember that all payments must be in U.S. dollars.

 3. Personal Checks (US or Canadian Funds)

    Personal checks are welcome, but please allow up to two weeks for your
    check to clear the bank.

    Canadian Funds must equal the registration amount in US dollars.

    Make all checks payable to "BMT MICRO" and write "FOR DEPOSIT ONLY" on the
    reverse side of the check where it will be endorsed for your protection.
    In the lower-left edge of your check, please write in the name of the
    program you are registering.

 4. Cash / Non-USA Funds

    We do not encourage that you send cash or currency in the mail but if you
    choose this method we will only be responsible for delivery if the mail
    containing your registration and cash require a signature upon receipt of
    delivery by a BMT Micro employee.

    We gladly accept German and British currency in any amount. Eurochecks are
    welcome but must be made in Deutsche Marks. To get the current exchange
    rate send a message to [e-mail].

 5. Special Information for our German Customers

    File Commander/2 can also be purchased by depositing the registration fee
    into our account with Deutshe Bank.

   Empfanger:  Thomas Bradford / BMT Micro
   Konto-Nummer: 0860221
   Bankleitzahl: 500-700-10

 6. Other Payment Methods

    We're always adding additional payment methods.  If you prefer or know of a
    payment method that would be more convenient for you please let us know.
    We'll make it a priority to make the arrangements.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.3.2. Order methods ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Any of the following methods may be used to contact BMT Micro.

 1. Voice Phone Numbers 8:00am - 7:00pm EST (-5 GMT)

   o ([phone] -- Orders only (United States and Canada)
   o ([phone] -- Orders and questions

 2. FAX

   o ([phone] -- 24-hour FAX
   o ([phone] -- 24-hour FAX (toll free in USA and Canada)

    This is the perfect way to order after regular business hours or to send in
    questions, comments, or suggestions for a program.

 3. Mail

    Address all mail to:

        BMT Micro
        P.O. Box 15016
        Wilmington, NC  28408
        USA

 4. Over the Internet

   BMT Micro Web Page                      http://www.bmtmicro.com
   BMT Micro Secure Orders                 https://wwws.wilmington.net/bmtmicro
   Orders Only                             [e-mail]
   ASCII Catalog                           [e-mail]
   .INF Format Catalog                     [e-mail]
   Lost Registration Information           [e-mail]
   Customer Service                        [e-mail]
   PGP Key for orders
                                           ftp://ftp.bmtmicro.com/bmtmicro/pgpkey

    We have also established an FTP site where the latest versions of our
    programs can be obtained 24 hours a day via anonymous login.  FTP to
    ftp.wilmington.net as "anonymous", using your e-mail address as the
    password.  All programs are contained in the /bmtmicro directory.  You may
    wish to check /bmtmicro/incoming as well.

 5. Support BBS For your convenience, we operate a bulletin board that can be
    used for registration, technical support, and downloading the latest
    versions of the Shareware programs we distribute.  The BBS is available 24
    hours per day, seven days a week at:

   o ([phone] (10 lines @ 14.4kbps, v.32bis)
   o ([phone] (28.8kbps)

 6. CompuServe

    You may contact customer support by leaving us mail on CompuServe.  Our CIS
    ID is 74031,307.  Many of our products are also available on CompuServe in
    the OS2BVEN forum.

 7. AOL (America Online)

    You may contact customer support on AOL also.  Our AOL ID is bmtmicro.
    Check the OS/2 area on AOL for many of the products we distribute.

 8. MSN: bmtmicro

 9. Prodigy: HNGP66D


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.3.3. Registration form (BMT Micro) ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

              File Commander/2 Order Form
              ===========================

    Name:

   Company:

   Address:




    Phone:

     Fax:

    Email:

   Product              Price     Quantity  Total
   --------------------------------------------------------------------
   File Commander/2 single licence   $  25.00  x      =  $   .
   File Commander/2 5  user licence  $  90.00  x      =  $   .
   File Commander/2 10  user licence  $ 150.00  x      =  $   .
   File Commander/2 25  user licence  $ 375.00  x      =  $   .
   File Commander/2 50  user licence  $ 600.00  x      =  $   .
   File Commander/2 100 user licence  $ 900.00  x      =  $   .
   File Commander/2 unlimited licence $1500.00  x      =  $   .

   Latest File Commander/2 on disk   $  3.00  x      =
   (includes postage)
                           Subtotal:  $   .

   North Carolina USA, residents, please add 6% sales tax:  +$   .

   Shipping (check one):
       [ ]  Email (subject to credit card verification)    Free
       [ ]  Fax  (USA / Canada)               $ 1.00
       [ ]  Fax  (Non-North America)            $ 2.00
       [ ]  Worldwide 1st Class Mail ..................    Free

                            Total: US$   .

   For credit card payment only:

   Check one: VISA [ ]  Master [ ]  Discover [ ]  AMEX [ ]  Diners's Club [ ]

    Credit card number:

     Expiration date:


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5. Where to find FC/2 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 To find the latest version of File Commander/2, try the following places:

o FTP sites

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    ΓöéBMT Micro                Γöéftp://ftp.bmtmicro.com/bmtmicro/                  Γöé
    Γöé                         Γöé                                                  Γöé
    ΓöéHobbes                   Γöéftp://ftp-os2.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/shell/        Γöé
    Γöé                         Γöé                                                  Γöé
    ΓöéWalnut Creek CDROM       Γöéftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/diskutil/             Γöé
    Γöé                         Γöé                                                  Γöé
    ΓöéLatrobe Uni (Australia)  Γöéftp://ftp.latrobe.edu.au/pub/os2/os2/util/shell/  Γöé
    Γöé                         Γöé                                                  Γöé
    ΓöéLEO (Germany)            Γöéftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/systools/   Γöé
    ΓööΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö┤ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÿ

o World Wide Web

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    ΓöéOS/2 Supersite      Γöéhttp://www.os2ss.com/archives/hobbes/os2/util/shell/   Γöé
    Γöé                    Γöé                                                       Γöé
    ΓöéFile Commander home Γöéhttp://silk.apana.org.au/fc2.html                      Γöé
    ΓööΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö┤ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÿ

o BMT Micro support BBS, USA

   - [phone] (10 lines @ 14.4kbps, v.32bis)
   - [phone] (28.8kbps, v.FC)

o The Hobbes OS/2 CD-ROM from Walnut Creek.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6. Online Help ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 FC/2 has an online help facility that may be called up using the F1 key. For
it to work, you must have the file fc.hlp in the same directory as fc.exe. The
text called up will depend on what state FC/2 is in when F1 is pressed. There
are separate help texts for the following:

o The main FC/2 screen
o Each of the 5 Menus
o The Configuration window
o The Confirmations window
o The internal viewer
o The internal editor
o File Find
o Attribute Change
o The history window
o Directory Compare
o Edit User Menu
o Edit Associations
o The help window

 When there is more text than will fit in the window, you can use the Up / Down
arrow, Page Up, Page Down, Home and End keys to move around or you can click
the mouse in the top or bottom thirds of the window to scroll it (like in the
Internal Viewer).


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7. The File Panels ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 The file panels are central to most operations in FC/2. They allow you to
browse through the files on your drives, copy, move, rename and delete files
you select from them as well as view, edit or execute any file.

 Normally, one panel will be active and the other will be inactive. The active
panel is indicated by having its title highlighted. To change the active panel,
press the TAB key or click the mouse on the panel you wish to become active.

 At any time, either or both panels can be hidden, allowing you to view the
screen behind which will contain the output of any programs you've run. Press
Ctrl-O to hide / re-display all visible panels or Ctrl-F1/F2 to switch the
Left/Right panel on or off.

 If you feel that the information in a panel is no longer up to date, you can
press Ctrl-R to re-read the information displayed in the panel. Note that this
may take some time for Tree view panels if you have a large number of
directories on your drive.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.1. Panel View Modes ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 The panels can display a list of files in several different ways. To change
the style of view, select it via the Menu (Left or Right, depending on which
panel you wish to change). You have the choice of:

Brief     Displays three columns of file names with no details. The status line
          at the bottom of the panel displays the details as in Full view for
          the current file.

Full      Displays file names with their size and the date and time of last
          modification. The status line is devoted entirely to displaying as
          much of the file name as possible allowing you to see more of a long
          file name than in the main section of the panel.

Wide      Displays file names with their size, providing much more space for
          the file name. This mode is most useful when viewing HPFS directories
          with many long file names.

Tree      Views the overall directory structure of the current drive of the
          opposite panel. Unlike in the above modes, when a panel is in tree
          mode, it is linked to the opposite panel in that selecting a
          directory on the tree and pressing ENTER causes the opposite panel to
          view that directory.

Info      The Info panel displays drive summary information for the current
          drive of the opposite panel. Details listed include total space, free
          space, label, file system and serial number. In addition, if the
          drive is mapped to network server or a peer share then the mapping of
          the drive is shown. If the opposite panel is viewing the contents of
          an archive, the panel shows total uncompressed size, total compressed
          size and compression ratio instead. You can quickly activate an Info
          panel using Ctrl-L.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.2. Moving Around the Current Directory ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 When you have a list of files showing (which is most of the time) you can move
around the list using the following keys:

Up Arrow            Move up one file name.

Down Arrow          Move down one file name.

Page Up             Move up one screenful of file names.

Page Down           Move down one screenful of files names.

Home                Move to the first file name

End                 Move to the last file name.

Alt-[printable char] Move to the first file starting with [printable char]. If
                    you continue to type printable characters, FC/2 will look
                    for a file starting with the string you've typed. Your
                    typing is displayed in the status line of the current
                    panel.

Alt-Up/Down         These keys serve two functions. If the cursor has just been
                    moved using the above function, they move to the
                    previous/next file name matching the partial name displayed
                    in the status line. Otherwise they move to the first tagged
                    file above/below the current position.

 When the current panel is in Brief mode, The left and right arrow keys move
across one column.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.3. Navigating around your drives ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 When moving to a particular directory, the first step is get the correct drive
showing. Press Alt-F1 for the left panel or Alt-F2 for the right panel to
display a simple dialog box showing the currently available drives. Select the
drive you want by pressing the appropriate letter, using the left / right
arrows to move the highligt and press ENTER or clicking on the letter with the
mouse. You can also change drives by entering a command in the form "d:" on the
command line.

 Once you have the right drive, you can move around your directories by moving
the cursor to a directory you want to change into and pressing ENTER. Selecting
".." moves to the parent of the current directory. Moving the cursor around the
list of files in the current directory is achieved using the Up / Down arrows,
Page Up, Page Down, Home and End. Double clicking the mouse on a directory name
has will also change into that directory. The full path of the current
directory is always shown on the top line of the panel.

Other useful keys for navigating around your drive are:

Ctrl-\              Move to the root directory of the current drive.

Ctrl '-'            Move back to the previously viewed directory. Note that
                    this is only for the '-' on the main keyboard, not the
                    numeric keypad (which has its own function).

Ctrl-Page Up        Move to the parent of the current directory (same as
                    selecting "..").

Ctrl-Page Down      Move into the currently highlighted directory (same as
                    pressing ENTER except that the contents of the command line
                    is ignored).

A number of other methods can be used to find the directory you want,
including:

o Change directory tree
o File Find
o Recall stored path
o Tree view panel
o Command Line CD


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.3.1. Change Directory Tree ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 The Change Directory Tree can be used to quickly locate and display the
directory you're looking for. To activate it, press Alt-F10 or select it from
the Commands Menu. You can then either browse through the tree structure using
the same keys as used to browse through a file panel, or you can start typing
the name of the directory you are looking for.

 As you type, the view will jump to the first directory name matching what you
have typed so far. You can either keep typing until the directory you're
looking for is located or you can use Ctrl-Enter to find the next match of what
you've typed.

 When you've found the directory you want, press ENTER to make it the current
directory of the current panel. You can exit the Change Directory Tree at any
time by pressing ESC.

 If you have not previously viewed the tree of the current drive it must be
read and this may take some time on a large drive. Once it has been read, the
tree structure for the drive is saved to a file for future reference. Normally
this file (fc2tree.dat) is written to the root directory of the drive the file
describes. If you don't like this or if it's not possible (eg CD-ROM drives)
you can make FC/2 store all tree data files in one directory of your choice. To
do this, change the Tree Data Directory setting in Options/Configuration to
specify the directory where you want the data files.

 If at any time you believe the tree being shown is not correct, you can
re-read the tree structure by pressing Ctrl-R.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.3.2. File Find ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 The File Find function can be used to search for a particular file. To
activate it, press Alt-F7 or select it from the Commands Menu.

 There are five controls on the File Find dialog that you can use to narrow the
search. These are:

File(s) to Find     The name of the file you're looking for. The name can
                    contain any of the wildcard characters and boolean
                    operators described in Tagging.

Containing          A text string that a file must contain in order to be
                    considered a match.

Case Sensitive      Normally files are searched for the Containing text without
                    matching case. Check this option to make the search case
                    sensitive.

Start at Root       If this option is checked (default) the file search will
                    begin at the root of the current drive. If not, it will
                    begin in the current directory of the panel that was active
                    when File Find was activated.

Scan Subdirectories When checked, the search will recurse into all
                    subdirectories of the starting directory, otherwise only
                    the starting directory is searched.

 Use TAB / Shift-TAB and Cursor Up/Down to move between these fields entering
your search data, then press ENTER to begin the search. As matches are found,
they are listed with their full path in the top section of the File Find
window. You can stop the search at any time by pressing ESC. You can do this to
save time if the file you're looking for has been located but much of the drive
has yet to be searched.

 Once the search is over, the list of matches is displayed from which you can
choose using the Up / Down arrows, Page Up/Down, Home/End or clicking with the
mouse. Pressing ENTER or double clicking the mouse on a file name will return
to the file panel with its current directory changed to that of the selected
file and with the selected file highlighted.

 You can also view or edit a file from the list using F3 or F4 respectively. If
you used the Containing field and you use FC/2's internal viewer or editor, the
starting position will be that of the first match.

 A file in the list can be deleted using F8. Note that this doesn't just remove
it from the list but deletes the actual file. This can be handy if you are
using File Find to locate junk files that you want to remove.

 If you do not want to see any of the files found you can press ESC to exit
File Find (or click Cancel). To start a new search, change the appropriate
fields then press ENTER.

 Whichever way you exit the File Find dialog, you can recall the list of files
found by the last search by pressing Shift-Alt-F7. This can be very handy if
you wish to examine each matched file in turn.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.3.3. Storing and retrieving Paths ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 To speed up access to you most frequently used directories, you can store the
current directory path in one of ten 'slots'. At a later point in time you may
recall the directory which causes the current panel to instantly move to the
stored directory.

o To store the current directory, hold down Ctrl and Shift then press one of
  keys 0-9 on the numeric keypad.

o To retrieve a directory, hold down Ctrl then press one of keys 0-9 on the
  numeric keypad.

 If you forget which directories you've assigned to which keys, you can view
the contents of the slots using Alt-F5. This lists all ten stored paths from
which you can select one to change to using the Up / Down arrow keys and ENTER,
clicking on one with the mouse or pressing a number from 0-9.

 If you do a 'Save Setup' before exiting FC/2, the directories you've stored
will be remembered the next time you start it up.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.4. Copying, Moving and Deleting Files ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 These three operations are all performed in a similar way. All can be
performed on either a single file or a group of files. To operate on a single
file, simply move the highlight bar to the file you want to copy/move/delete
using the keys described in Moving Around the Current Directory and press F5 to
copy, F6 to move and F8 to delete. These keys (along with the rest of the
function keys) are listed at the bottom of the screen so you don't have to
memorize them.

 If you want to operate on a number of files at once, you should tag the files
you wish to be affected (See Tagging). It's also possible to use Shift-F8 to to
delete a single arbitrary file

 If you select copy or move, you will next be presented with a dialog box that
allows you to specify the destination directory and file name. The default
destination is the directory showing in the opposite panel. If this is what you
want, just press ENTER to proceed, otherwise use the arrow keys, Delete,
Backspace etc., to alter the path to what you want. You can also change the
file name if you wish.

 You can rename several files at once using wild card characters '*' and '?'.
For example, to change the extension of several files to .bak you would specify
the destination file as '*.bak'. The wildcard characters represent characters
taken from the source file name.

 If you select delete, you will be prompted with a confirmation dialog. If
you're sure you want to go ahead with the delete, press Enter, 'y' or click
'OK'. To back out, press ESC, 'n' or click 'Cancel'. If there are files tagged
you will be warned and asked a second time to confirm the delete. This is to
make sure you haven't forgotten that some files are tagged which can happen if
the tagged files have been scrolled off the panel. Either or both of these
confirmations can be disabled if you wish (See Confirmations).

 If the drive you're deleting from has deletion protection enabled (using the
DELDIR environment variable) you will see an extra check box in the
confirmation dialog labeled No Undelete. If you set this option, FC/2 will
bypass the deletion protection so that the undelete command will not be able to
recover the file(s). The main advantage of enabling this option is speed.
Deleting a large quantity of small files will be much faster if they don't go
through the undelete mechanism. It can also be used if you don't want the
deletion of a large file to clear all the previously deleted files from the
undelete area or if you want to free the drive space immediately.

 All of the above operations can be stopped mid-process by pressing ESC.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.4.1. Deleting a single arbitrary file. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 You can delete any single file, regardless of the state of the current panel,
using Shift-F8. This displays a dialog that allows you to enter the full or
relative path of any single file or directory that you want deleted. The
default name is that of the file the panel cursor is currently on, allowing
easy deletion of a single file in the current panel when in the middle of
tagging a number of files for some other operation.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.5. Tagging Files ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 There are several commands available to tag files. These are:

Insert                        Pressing the Insert key toggles the tag for the
                              currently highlighted file and moves the
                              highlight down to the next file allowing you to
                              repeatedly press Insert to tag multiple files.

Grey +                        Pressing the '+' key on the numeric key pad pops
                              up a dialog into which you can enter a file name
                              mask to specify which files should be tagged. The
                              following types of wildcards can be used in the
                              mask:

   *         Substitutes for zero or more characters of any value.
   ?         Substitutes for one character of any value.
   [a-d]     Substitutes for one character of value a, b, c or d.
   [^a-d]    Substitutes for one character of any value except a, b, c or d.
   [a-d^c]   Substitutes for a, b or d.
   {fred,joe,foo}Substitutes for any one of the comma separated strings.

                              In addition, several expressions can be combined
                              using the following operators.

   |         The OR operator, give a match if either of the expressions given
             match. IE "*.cpp | *.h" will match all .CPP and all .H files, and
             is equivalent to "*.{cpp,h}".

   &         The AND operator, give a match if both expressions match. IE "*x*
             & *y*" will match any file that contains both an X and a Y. The
             AND operator has higher priority than the OR operator, so "a* & *b
             | c* & *d" is equivalent to "(a* & *b) | (c* & *d)".

   !         The NOT operator, reverses the match / no match result of any
             expression. "!*x*" will match any file that doesn't contain an X.

   ()        Brackets can be used to force order of operations override, as in
             mathematical expressions.

Grey -                        This is just like Grey + except that it untags
                              files that match the file mask.

Grey *                        Invert tagging. All untagged files become tagged
                              and all tagged files become untagged.

Ctrl-Grey +                   Tag all files.

Ctrl-Grey -                   Untag all files.

Compare directories           Selecting Compare Directories from the Commands
                              Menu or pressing Ctrl-K tags files based on
                              differences between the two panels.

Restore Selection             Selecting Restore Sel'n from the Files menu or
                              pressing Alt-Grey-+ returns the current panel to
                              the state of tagging as it was before the last
                              F5-Copy command. This allows you to re-copy or
                              perform some other operation on the same set of
                              files as was just copied.

Mouse                         Clicking the right mouse button on a file name
                              toggles the tagging for that file. Holding the
                              right button down and moving the mouse will tag /
                              untag all files touched.

 If the Tag Directories option is not set, only Insert and Mouse allow you to
tag directories. The other tagging methods ignore directories. When the Tag
Directories option is set, all the above commands except Compare directories
affect directory tagging.

 When any files are tagged, a summary of the tagged files is shown on the
status line of the panel. This shows the number of files tagged and their total
size.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.5.1. Compare Directories ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 The Compare Directories function provides a way to detect and, if desired,
eliminate differences between two similar directories. The uses of this
function are many but the most common use is syncronizing two copies of a set
of files.

 When selected, FC/2 identifies differences in the file lists of the left and
right panels, tagging files according to the options selected. Most of the
options are used to decide which files are tagged if a file name appears in
both file lists.

Date/Time                Determines if the older, newer, both or neither copies
                         of the file are tagged if the dates on them are
                         different.

Size                     Determines if the larger, smaller, both or neither
                         copies of the file are tagged if the size of them are
                         different.

Tag Unmatched            If a file name appears in one panel but not the other,
                         this option causes it to be tagged.

Compare Contents         This is the brute force method. The two copies are
                         compared byte for byte to check if there is any
                         difference. If there is, both will be tagged.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.6. Creating a Directory ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 To create a subdirectory in the current directory, press F7 and enter the name
of the subdirectory you want to create into the dialog. If the current panel is
in tree view mode, the directory will be created in the directory the highlight
is currently on.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.7. Directory Size Calculation ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 If you want to get an idea of what's taking up your precious disk space it's
often useful to calculate how much space is used by a particular directory and
all its sub-directories. File Commander/2 allows you to do this for one or more
of the directories showing in a file panel.

 To calculate the size of a directory, move the highlght on to the directory
you wish to know the size of and press Ctrl-Q. This may take some time if there
are a large number of files or sub-directories in the directory being
calculated. When the directory has been scanned its total size is displayed in
the same field as where a file's size is displayed instead of the word SUBDIR.

 If you want several of the directories in the panel to be calculated, tag them
before pressing Ctrl-Q and all will be calculated. Calculating all of the
directories provides a useful breakdown of where your disk space is being used.

 If you decide that the calculation is taking too long you can cancel it at any
time by pressing ESC.

 Normally, the result of the size calculation is discarded when you change to
another directory. If you want to browse through the directories that were
calculated while retaining the calculated size display, set the Retain Dir
Count option on the Options Menu.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.8. Creating Workplace Shell Objects ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 File Commander/2 provides a quick and easy way to create Workplace Shell
Objects that is much easier than opening up your templates folder, dragging an
object out and filling in all the details for it. All you have to do is locate
the file you want an object for and press Alt-F6. There is a simple
confirmation dialog to make sure you mean what you've pressed.

 If the file is an executable (.exe .com .bat .cmd) or an Information
Presentation Facility file (.inf) a Program object is created and you get the
chance to edit the title of the object being created. If the program is not a
Presentation Manager or Windows program you also get to choose a windowed or
full screen session. Windows program objects are created with the session type
defined in your Win-OS/2 Setup.

 For all other file types (including directories) a shadow object is created
the same as if you had created a shadow of the file from the Drives object.

 Note that if you have tagged any files, objects will be created for all tagged
files with the default value for their titles. The Fullscreen session check box
is available but will only be applied to appropriate types of program objects.

 All objects are created on the desktop ready for you to drop them into
whichever folder you want them in.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.9. Creating an Archive ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 To create a new archive from a selection of files, press Shift-F5. You will be
prompted for the path and name of the archive to be created as well as the type
of the archive. The default path is that of the opposite panel. The default
name is that of the file that the cursor is currently on without its extension.
When you select OK, FC/2 will call the selected archiver program to create the
archive.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8. Running Other Programs ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 There are several ways to start a program using FC/2.

 1. Move the highlight bar to an executable file (.exe .com .cmd .bat) and
    press ENTER.

 2. Move the highlight bar to a file which matches a defined Association and
    press ENTER.

 3. Select a program from the User Menu.

 4. Enter the program name on the Command Line.

 With all these methods, except the User Menu, you can start the program in a
separate session by pressing Alt-Enter instead of just Enter.

 The way FC/2 goes about starting the program depends on what type of
executable it is. The following types are recognized:

OS/2 text      Started within the FC/2 session unless Alt-Enter was used.

OS/2 PM        PM apps are automatically started detached so there is no need
               to use Alt-Enter to make sure you can still use FC/2 while the
               PM program is running.

DOS            As with PM apps, DOS apps are automatically started detached. As
               an added bonus, it is possible to specify DOS session settings
               by creating a text file with the same name (and in the same
               directory) as the EXE but with the extension .DS, for Dos
               Settings. If no such file exists, FC/2 will use the file FC.DS
               in FC/2's directory.

               This text file should contain 1 or more settings using the names
               as seen in the Dos Settings notebook. E.G.

                              DOS_BACKGROUND_EXECUTION=no
                              IDLE_SENSITIVITY=100

                For settings where multiple values are possible, like
               DOS_DEVICE, each value is separated by a '|' symbol. E.G.

                              DOS_DEVICE=e:\os2\mdos\ansi.sys | e:\os2\mdos\lptdd.sys

                If, for whatever reason, you want FC/2 to wait for the program
               to finish before it continues, place a line that reads:

                              WAIT=yes

               in its .DS settings file. If you want to change the default to
               always wait for DOS programs, edit your fc.ini to contain the
               line:

                              waitdos=on

                The DOS session will be started as fullscreen or windowed
               depending on the type of FC/2's session. This can be overridden
               by placing a line in the .DS settings file that looks like:

                              fullscreen=yes

Windows        To start a Windows app, FC/2 creates a temporary WPS Program
               object for the EXE and opens it. The session settings for the
               program will be as defined by the Win-OS/2 Setup object in your
               System Setup folder. Note that the working directory of the
               started program is not certain when using common seamless
               sessions so any file specified as a parameter should be given
               its full path (using Ctrl-F or !f as appropriate).  This means
               you can create associations like:

                              *.doc: G:\Windows\WORD\WINWORD.EXE !f

               and have FC/2 start Word to edit your .DOC

 FC/2 will invoke a command interpreter (as specified by COMSPEC) to run the
program if any of the following are true.

 1. The program is an OS/2 script (.CMD).
 2. The program cannot be found on your PATH.
 3. The program name is preceded by a '#'
 4. The command line contains a | (pipe) operator .


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.1. Associations ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 An association is used to link data files to the program that uses them. To
create an association, add a line of the following form:

mask : program

to your fc.ini file using the Commands/Edit Associations menu option.

 You can also use the following when specifying the command to be run:

!    Name of current file.
!x   Name of current file without its extension.
!p   Path of current panel.
!P   Path of opposite panel.
!f   Name of current file with full path.
!s   Path of current panel with trailing '\'
!S   Path of opposite panel with trailing '\'
!n   Nothing, but prevents automatic appending of current file name
!!   A literal, single !

 If none of the above are used, the name of the current file is appended.

EG

*.dsk:    loaddskf ! a:
*.zip:    pkunzip ! !P
*.inf:    view
*.ico:    iconedit
*.zoo:    zoo x
*.cpp:    make !x.exe
*.{gif,jpg,bmp}|os2logo: pmview


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 9. Command Line ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 The command line provided by FC/2 operates in much the same way as your normal
command prompt with a few extra features. The following keys are used to
operate the FC/2 command line:

Pasting file names

   Ctrl-J or Ctrl-Enter          Pastes the file name of the currently
                                 highlighted file into the command line. Note
                                 that if the character to the left of the
                                 cursor is alphanumeric, a recall from History
                                 will be performed instead.

   Ctrl-F                        Pastes the file name of the currently
                                 highlighted file with its full path into the
                                 command line.

   Ctrl-[ & Ctrl-]               Pastes the left or right panel's path with
                                 trailing \.

Clipboard

   Ctrl-Insert                   Copies the whole command line to the
                                 clipboard.

   Shift-Insert                  Pastes the clipboard to the command line at
                                 the cursor's current position.

   Ctrl-Shift-J                  Copies the name of the current file to the
                                 clipboard.

   Ctrl-Shift-F                  Copies the full path of the current file to
                                 the clipboard.

Moving the cursor

   Left/Right Arrows             Move the cursor around the command line. Note
                                 that these keys do not operate the command
                                 line if the current panel is in brief view.
                                 Use Alt-Left/Right Arrows instead.

   Alt-Left/Right Arrows         Move the cursor around the command line
                                 regardless of which mode the current panel is
                                 in.

   Ctrl-Left/Right Arrows        Move the cursor one word left or right.

   Ctrl-Home                     Move the cursor to the start of the line.

   Ctrl-End                      Move the cursor to the end of the line.

Deleting characters

   Backspace                     Delete the character to the left of the
                                 cursor.

   Delete                        Delete the character under the cursor.

   Ctrl-Delete                   Delete the word to the right of the cursor.

   Ctrl-Backspace                Delete the word to the left of the cursor.

   Esc                           Clear the entire command line.

Changing Drive/Directory

 Commands of the form d: and cd somedir are interpreted by FC/2 instead of
being executed by the command interpreter. This provides the following
differences to normal command line behaviour:

    1. A CD command that specifies a drive letter will change both the current
       drive and directory in one command.

    2. If the directory specified in a CD command does not exist in the current
       directory then any tree data that has been collected will be searched
       for the directory name specified. If found, it will be changed into.

Using ! substitutions

 All the ! substitutions allowed in user menus can also be used on the command
line. If you need an actual ! character you must to double it.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 9.1. History ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 Command history is used to save you re-typing a command that is the same or
similar to a command you've entered before. There are several ways to locate
the command you wish to repeat:

Ctrl-E or Ctrl-Up             Recall previously entered command. Repeated use
                              steps through command history from newest entry
                              to oldest entry.

Ctrl-X or Ctrl-Down           Steps forwards through command history. Useful if
                              you overshoot using Ctrl-E

Ctrl-J or Ctrl-Enter          Recall previously entered command that matches
                              the text to the left of the cursor. Can be used
                              repeatedly to find successive matches. Note that
                              this function only operates when the character to
                              the left of the cursor is alphanumeric, otherwise
                              a file name paste occurs as described in Command
                              Line.

Alt-F8                        Displays a window containing a list of previously
                              entered commands from which you can choose. Once
                              you've highlighted the command you want using the
                              Up / Down arrow keys or the mouse, you can press:

   Enter               Re-execute command now.
   Alt-Enter           Re-execute command now in a separate session.
   Ctrl-Enter          Place command on the command line for editing.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10. Menu ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 FC/2 includes a menu system to provide easy access to a range of functions.
Most of the functions on the menu can be activated by short-cut keys which are
listed on the menus. The menu system can be operated by keyboard, mouse or a
combination of both if you like.

Keyboard

 1. Activate the menu bar by pressing F9 or Ctrl-N. Also, Shift-F10 activates
    the menu with the cursor positioned on the last used function.

 2. Select which menu you want by pressing the first letter of its title or by
    using the Left / Right arrows and pressing Enter.

 3. Use the Up / Down arrows to select the menu item you want and press Enter
    to activate it. Alternatively, you can press the key that is highlighted in
    the menu item's name.

 4. You can press Esc to back out.

Mouse

 1. Activate the menu bar by clicking the right mouse button on the top line.

 2. Click on the title of the menu you want to use.

 3. Click on the menu item you want ot activate.

 4. To dismiss the menu, click anywhere away from the menus.

 These should be taken as examples only. The menus operate in much the same way
as OS/2 PM menus.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1. Left / Right Menu ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 The Left and Right menus contain exactly the same functions but apply them to
the appropriate panel.

Brief          Set panel to view files in Brief mode.

Full           Set panel to view files in Full mode.

Wide           Set panel to view files in Wide mode.

Info           Set panel to show drive summary information.

Tree           Set panel to view directories as a Tree.

On/Off         Toggle the visibility of the panel. Turning a panel off allows
               you to see the output of previously executed commands.

Name           Sort panel by file name

Extension      Sort panel by file name extension. The extension of a file name
               is from the last '.' onwards. Files with the same extension are
               ordered by name.

Time           Sort panel by file modification time and date. Files are listed
               from newest to oldest.

Size           Sort panel by file size. Files are listed from largest to
               smallest. Files of the same size are ordered by name.

Unsorted       Files are listed in the order provided by the file system.

Reverse        Reverses the order in which files are listed.

Re-Read        Refresh the contents of the panel. Useful if another process has
               modified the contents of the panel's directory or if removable
               media has been changed.

Filter         Display a dialog that allows you to modify the file name Filter

Drive          Change the drive being viewed. A small dialog is displayed
               showing the currently available drives from which you can
               choose.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.1. Filters ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 The file name filter can be used to define which files you want to see and
which files you don't. It may contain up to 40, space separated file masks that
are tested from left to right. The first mask that matches a file name will
determine that file's visibility. To indicate an exclusion file mask, precede
it with a '!'. If a file name doesn't match any of the masks, it will not be
shown.

EG

*.exe *.com *.cmd *.bat       Show only executable files
!*.obj *                      Show all files except object files.
foo* !*.obj *                 Show all files except object files unless they
                              start with foo.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2. Files Menu ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

ManuaBR(l)               View User Manual.

User Menu                Display the User Menu.

View                     View the current file.

Edit                     Edit the current file.

Copy                     Copy Files.

Rename or Move           Move Files.

Make Directory           Create a Directory.

Delete                   Delete Files.

File Attributes          Display a dialog to alter File Attributes.

File Case                Modify a file or group of tagged files' names to be
                         upper, lower or mixed case. This is only useful on
                         case preserving file systems like HPFS.

File Date/Time           Modify a file or group of tagged files' date stamp
                         (last modified date).

Select Group             Tag a group of files by file name mask.

Unselect Group           Untag a group of files by file name mask.

Invert Selection         Toggle the Tagging status of all files in the current
                         panel.

Restore Selection        Restore tagging status to the way it was before the
                         last copy operation.

Quit                     Exit File Commander/2.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.1. File Attributes ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 The File Attributes dialog allows you to modify the Read Only, Archive, Hidden
and System attributes of a file or a group of files. To activate it select it
from the Files Menu or press Ctrl-A.

 If no files are tagged, you'll be presented with a dialog displaying the
attributes of the currently highlighted file. You can use the Up / Down arrow
to move the cursor and Space to toggle the attribute the cursor is on or you
can click on the check boxes with the mouse.

 If you have any files tagged, you'll be presented with a slightly different
dialog. For each attribute, you can set, clear or leave alone that attribute
for all the tagged files. The dialog looks similar to the one used for a single
file but the check boxes are 3 state instead of 2. The three states are:

[┬╖]       Don't change attribute (default)

[ ]       Reset attribute

[X]       Set attribute

 When you've set all the check boxes the way you want them, press Enter (or
click OK) to proceed or ESC (or click Cancel) to exit without changing
anything.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.3. Commands Menu ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Tree                     Pop up the Change Directory Tree.

File Find                Locate a file using File Find

History                  View the Command Line History.

EGA Lines                Toggle 50 line mode.

Swap Panels              Swaps the positions of the left and right panels.

Panels On/Off            Removes or replaces the panels allowing you to view
                         the output of previously executed programs.

Compare Directories      Tags files according to the differences between the
                         two panels. See Tagging for details.

Calculate Dir Size       Totals the size of all the files the currently
                         highlighted diretory or currently tagged directories
                         and displays the result(s) on the file panel in the
                         field that normally says 'SUBDIR'

Open WPS Window          Causes the Workplace Shell to open the window
                         corresponding to the directory that FC/2 is currently
                         displaying.

Register                 Turns a shareware copy of File Commander/2 into a
                         registered version. Once you have entered your name
                         and serial number, you will not see any reminder
                         messages and your name will appear on the Info panel.

Edit Associations        Starts the internal editor on your fc.ini file. Any
                         changes you make to associations will become active
                         immediately.

Edit User Menu           Starts the internal editor on your main fc.mnu file.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.4. Options Menu ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Configuration            Display the Configuration dialog allowing you to alter
                         a number of options.

Colours                  Edit the Colour Scheme

Confirmations            Display a dialog that allows you to disable some of
                         the Confirmations.

Hidden Files             Toggles whether files with their hidden attribute set
                         will be shown on the file panels or not. When hidden
                         files are displayed, they are denoted by a 'Γûæ'
                         character.

Path Prompt              Toggles the display of the current path on FC/2's
                         command line prompt.

Full Screen              Toggles whether the panels occupy the full screen
                         length or just half the screen.

Clock                    Toggles whether a clock will be shown in the top right
                         hand corner or not.

Tag Directories          Enables the mass tagging commands to tag directories
                         also. See Tagging Files for more details.

Thousand Separator       Toggles the use of a thousand separator in the file
                         size column of Full and Wide modes. This reduces the
                         number of significant digits that can be displayed but
                         can increase readability.

Retain Dir Count         When set, the results of a Ctrl-Q Directory Size Count
                         are retained when changing directory. This makes it
                         easier to track down directories that are hogging a
                         lot of disk space. Note that the directory sizes
                         displayed are only as up to date as the last count.

Save Setup               Saves all current settings to the file fc.ini so that
                         all FC/2 options will be set the same the next time
                         you start it up. This can be performed automatically
                         on exit if you wish by setting the autosave option
                         (See Configuration).


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.4.1. Configuration ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 To view the configuration options, select 'Configuration' from the Options
Menu. Any options you change take effect as soon as you click OK (or press
Enter when OK is the default button). If you use Cancel, all changes you've
made are forgotten.

 To select an option to change either click on it with the mouse or use the
TAB, Shift-TAB, Up & Down arrow keys to move to it. The current option is
indicated buy a flashing cursor.

 If you want the changes to still be in effect the next time you start FC/2 you
need to select 'Save Setup' from the Options Menu otherwise the changes will be
lost when you exit. Alternatively, you can switch on 'Autosave Setup' seen
below.

The options are:

Viewer              The file name (with full path if not in a directory on your
                    PATH) of the file viewer to be used when you press F3. All
                    the '!' substitutions described in Associations can be used
                    when specifying a viewer or an editor. If this field is
                    left blank, the Internal Viewer will be used.

Alternate Viewer    As for Viewer but specifies the viewer used when Alt-F3 is
                    pressed.

Editor              Similar to Viewer but specifies the editor used when F4 is
                    pressed. If left empty, the Internal Editor will be used.

Alternate Editor    As for Editor but specifies the editor used when Alt-F4 is
                    pressed.

Left Startup Directory The directory the left panel will display on start up.
                    If left blank, the current directory for the session will
                    be shown.

Right Startup Directory The directory the right panel will display on start up.
                    If left blank, the current directory for the session will
                    be shown.

Separate Session Prefix String added at the start of a command that causes it
                    to be executed in a separate session. Default value is
                    'start /f'. See the OS/2 command reference for more options
                    for the start command.

Tree Data Directory The directory where tree data is stored. If left blank,
                    tree data will be written to the root directory of each
                    drive as "fc2tree.dat". The data stored is a representation
                    of the directory structure of a drive and is used to avoid
                    re-scanning the drive.

Case Filter File Systems A list of file system names (as displayed on the Info
                    panel) that are not case preserving and so need file names
                    to be converted to lower case for easier reading. If not
                    listed here, file names will be displayed as provided by
                    the file system.

Manual              Name of an Information Presentation Facility file (*.inf)
                    that is to be viewed when 'Manual' is chosen from the Files
                    Menu. The default is fc.inf (this file).

Path Extension      A list of directories, separated by semicolons, that are to
                    be searched for executables in addition to those specified
                    in the PATH environment variable.

Auto Save           Switching Autosave on causes FC/2 to automatically perform
                    a 'Save Setup' just before exiting the program.

Num Lock            Specifies if numlock should be fixed on or not. Affects
                    both FC/2 and any program started by FC/2 unless it is in a
                    separate session.

Use 132 Columns     When on, FC/2 will use 132 column display whenever
                    possible. 132 column mode is only supported on some video
                    cards in full screen sessions. Versions of OS/2 before 3.0
                    do not support more than 80 columns in a window.

Use PM Clipboard    When on, FC/2's internal editor will use OS/2s PM'
                    clipboard when performing Copy/Cut/Paste operations
                    allowing it to share clipboard data with other programs.
                    When this option is turned off, FC/2 reverts to using its
                    private clipboard which operates somewhat faster.

Ctrl-R Drv Change   Enables the drive selector dialog when pressing Ctrl-R.

ESC Panel Switch    Enables the use of ESC as a quick key for switching panels
                    off/on when the command line is empty.

Size Count Pause    If enabled, FC/2 will pause at the end of a directory size
                    count activated by Ctrl-Q, allowing you to view the total
                    file and directory counts. Pressing any key dismisses the
                    dialog.

Lines               Sets the number of lines on screen or in window. Can be any
                    number supported by your video card for full screen
                    sessions or any value of at least 25 for a windowed
                    session. Using a number that is not supported by your card
                    in a full screen session will result in the number of lines
                    being set to the next possible value up.

Screen Saver        The number of minutes of idle time before FC/2 activates
                    its screen saver. If set to 0, the screen saver will not
                    activate. Note that the screen saver only operates when in
                    a full screen session.

Mouse Speed         When FC/2 is running in a full screen session, this option
                    specifies the sensitivity of the mouse. The default value
                    is 8 with smaller values giving a faster mouse and larger
                    values slowing it down.

Scroll Delay        The time (in milliseconds) that FC/2 waits between
                    scrolling each line when the mouse has been used to scroll
                    a panel or window. Use of this option stops the text flying
                    past before you've had a chance to see what it is.

Time Mode           The type of time display used on the clock and when file
                    time stamps are viewed in the files panel (Full mode).


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.4.2. Colours ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 The Colours dialog allows you to alter the colour scheme used by FC/2. To
activate it, select 'Colours' from the Options Menu

 You will be presented with a list of items in the colour scheme. Use the up &
down arrow keys to move to the item you wish to change and then use F to cycle
through forground colours and  to cycle through background colours. Holding
SHIFT at the same time will cycle backwards. There are a total of 16 colours to
choose from for both foreground & background.

 When you're done, choose OK to use the changes you've made or ESC to forget
them. Note that the changes will only be remembered for next time if you use
'Save Setup' or have Autosave enabled.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.4.3. Confirmations ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 Before doing anything significantly destructive, FC/2 will ask for
confirmation from the user to prevent accidental loss of data. If you are
confident in your use of FC/2 and don't want to be asked for confirmation all
the time, you can disable some of the more common confirmation prompts by
selecting 'Confirmations' from the Options Menu.

 A dialog displaying a list of confirmation types is then displayed with a
check box next to each one. An 'X' in a check box indicates that the
confirmation is enabled. To disable a confirmation, click its check box with
the mouse and click OK. The keyboard can also be used (Up / Down arrows and
Space, Enter when done).

The confirmations you can alter are:

Delete File/Empty Directory             The first prompt you see after pressing
                                        F8.

Delete Tagged Files                     The second prompt you see after
                                        pressing F8 when there are files
                                        tagged.

Delete Non-empty Directory              The prompt that asks you to type "YES"
                                        before doing a tree delete.

Quit FC/2                               The prompt shown when you press F10.
                                        With this disabled, F10 causes
                                        immediate exit.

"YES" prompt for Non-Empty Directory    Similar to Delete Non-empty Directory
                                        but instead of disabling the "YES"
                                        prompt altogether, it is replaced by an
                                        OK / Cancel / All choice, the default
                                        being Cancel so anyone blindly pressing
                                        ENTER won't get caught.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 11. Viewing / Editing Files ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 FC/2 allows you to view the current file with a choice of two viewers or to
edit the current file with a choice of two editors. To view a file, use F3 or
Alt-F3. To edit a file, use F4 or Alt-F4. The program used to view or edit is
specified in the Configuration dialog. By default, the built in Viewer and the
built in Editor are used for F3 and F4 respectively.

 If you wish to specify the file to view or edit by typing its file name, use
Shift-F3 for view or Shift-F4 for edit. If you specify a file to edit that does
not exist, you will be given the option to create it.

 The viewer or editor can be invoked directly when starting FC/2 using the
command line switches /v or /e followed by the name of the file to be viewed or
edited. This allows other programs to call FC/2 to view or edit files for them.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 11.1. The Internal Viewer ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

  The file viewer built into FC/2 is a basic text viewer that is perfect for
taking a quick look at your text files. You can use the mouse or keyboard to
scroll the text up and down (Keys: Cursor-Up/Down, Page Up/Down, Home, End).

 To scroll the text using the mouse, click the mouse in the top or bottom
thirds of the screen. Using the right mouse button pages up or down. When the
mouse is being used to scroll the text, the speed of scrolling is determined by
the 'scrolldelay' Configuration directive.

 If a line is longer than 80 columns it will be chopped off at that length and
the remainder placed one the next line unless you use F2 to select Unwrap mode.
With the text unwrapped, you can use the Left / Right arrows to scroll the text
horizontally. Ctrl-Left/Right scrolls in a much larger step (40 columns). Also,
the mouse can be used to scroll horizontally by clicking the mouse in the
centre third of the screen on the left or right side. ie

o You can search for a string using F7 (or Shift-F7 to find next). The search
  can be either case sensitive or insensitive and either forwards or backwards
  in the file from the current view point. Using Alt-F7 will search in the
  reverse direction to that currently selected.

o Will correctly interpret UNIX, PC or MAC line terminators (LF, CR/LF, CR) or
  even a mix of all three.

o F4 will toggle between ASCII and Hex view.

o Alt-L can be used to position to a particular line number.

o Alt-O can be used to position to a particular hex offset. Obviously most
  useful when using hex view mode but still works in ASCII view.

o If, while viewing a file, you find you want to edit at the position you're
  currently at, you can jump into edit mode using Alt-F4.

o I think I've got all the bugs out of it but if you ever think it has become
  confused, pressing Ctrl-L will repaint the screen.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 11.2. The Internal Editor ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 The built in editor is a simple text editor that allows you to make quick
changes to any plain text file.

o Like the viewer, the editor will read a file using any type of line
  terminator. The file will normally be written back using the same type of
  line terminator unless overridden by the Alt-U command listed below.

o Although there is no limit on the size of file you can edit, keep in mind
  that the whole file is loaded into memory so opening a multi-megabyte file
  may blow out your swap file.

o The editor uses the OS/2 clipboard allowing you to exchange text with other
  programs.  As text mode applications like FC/2 don't normally have access to
  the PM clipboard, a helper PM process (clipserv.exe) needs to be used. FC/2
  automatically starts this process when needed. This feature may be turned off
  using the Use PM clipboard setting in the Configuration

  Note:  FC/2 allows the copying of blocks of text into the PM clipboard that
  are greater than 64K in size. Attempting to paste such blocks of text into a
  16 bit OS/2 program will usually cause it to fail.

o If you edit the same file again, FC/2 will return you to the same edit
  position as when you last exited the editor.

o Will not expand TABs to spaces so it is safe to edit makefiles that require
  TAB characters. EG GNU Make

The following keys operate in the editor:

Left/Right/Up/Down            As you'd expect

Backspace                     Delete character left of the cursor.

Ctrl-Backspace                Delete word left of the cursor.

Delete                        Delete character under the cursor or, if any text
                              is selected, deletes selected text.

Ctrl-Delete                   Delete word right of the cursor.

Home                          Start of line

End                           End of line.

Page Up/Down                  Up/Down one page

Ctrl-Home                     Top of screen

Ctrl-End                      Bottom of screen

Ctrl-Page Up/Down             Start/End of file

Ctrl-Y                        Erase line

Ctrl-Insert / Ctrl-C          Copy selected text to clipboard

Shift-Insert / Ctrl-V         Paste from clipboard

Ctrl-Delete                   Delete selected text.

Shift-Delete / Ctrl-X         Cut selected text and place on the clipboard.

ESC or F10                    Exit editor (prompts to save if changes made)

Shift-F10                     Save and exit

F2                            Save now without exiting

F3                            Save now with prompt to change file name.

F7                            Search for a word in the text. Case sensitivity
                              is optional as is the direction of the search.

Shift-F7                      Search for the same word again

Alt-F7                        Search for the same word again in the opposite
                              direction to that selected when F7 was used.

F8                            Search and Replace. Similar to the search
                              function (F7) but allows a replacement string to
                              be specified. When a match is found you are given
                              the choice of replacing, skipping, cancelling or
                              replacing all matches.

Ctrl-Q                        Quote next character. This enables you to enter
                              control character into the file that would
                              normally be rejected. For example, pressing
                              Ctrl-Q ESC would insert the ESC character into
                              the text.

Insert                        Toggle Insert/Overstrike mode. When in overstrike
                              mode the cursor becomes a block instead of an
                              underline.

Alt-I                         Toggle Auto Indent mode. When this mode is on
                              (indicated by an 'I' on the status line) Pressing
                              ENTER will start a new line with the same
                              indentation as the line above. This is most
                              useful when editing program source files.

Alt-L                         Used to jump to a given line number.

Alt-U                         Toggle UNIX type line terminators. When this mode
                              is on (indicated by a 'U' on the status line),
                              saving the file will cause it to be written using
                              a LF as the line termiator instead of the usual
                              CR/LF pair. This can be used to convert a text
                              file between PC and UNIX text formats. When the
                              editor is started, this mode will automatically
                              turn on if the file being opened only contains LF
                              terminated lines.

 To select text, hold down Shift and use the above cursor movement keys to move
over the text you want to select. You can also drag the mouse over the text.
The mouse can also be used to perform a page up or down by clicking the right
mouse button in the top or bottom third of the screen.

 The states of the Insert/Overwrite and Auto Indent modes are retained between
edits and will be saved in fc.ini if Save Setup is used.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 12. The User Menu ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 The user menu is a list of functions defined by you to help you carry out
common tasks. It is activated by pressing F2 and then using the Up/Down arrows
and Home/End to choose an item and Enter to select or ESC to cancel. The mouse
may also be used to select a user menu choice.

 To create a user menu you need to create a plain text file (using an editor
like FC/2's internal editor or the OS/2 System editor e.exe) named fc.mnu
containing your list of menu functions in the same directory as fc.exe.  Here
is an example user menu file:

S: Scan for viruses
    os2scan c: d:

D: Dos Window
    start /dos

F12: Pulse
    pulse

Z:Zip tagged files
    zip -r !i"Name of Zip?" -@ < !@

U: Unzip to opposite panel
    cd !P
    unzip !f
    cd !p

 A line that starts in the first column is a description line. The key used to
activate the function is first and may be any single letter or number or one of
the function keys F1-F12. After a separating colon comes the description that
will appear in the menu when it is displayed.

 Any line that starts with a space or tab is a command and will be executed
when the preceding description is chosen from the menu. It may contain the same
'!' substitutions as Associations with the addition of the following:

!t        Substitutes for the name of a file and causes the command to be
          executed once for each tagged file. If no files are tagged, !t is
          just like !.

!l        Substitutes for a list of all tagged files, space separated. The
          command line length will not be allowed to grow beyond 1000
          characters so if many files are tagged, some might not make it. If
          this happens, the files that were not included remain tagged after
          the command is executed.

!L        Same as above but for the opposite panel.

!@        Substitutes for the name of a temporary file that contains a list of
          tagged files, one per line.

!i"Question" Substitutes for a value input from the user. This causes a small
          dialog to appear displaying the supplied question and an input field.
          If ESC is pressed during input the user menu command is terminated.
          If a !i appears on the same line as a !t, the question is asked only
          once even though the command may be executed multiple times.

Local User Menus

 In addition to the main user menu, you may create additional special purpose
user menus by creating an fc.mnu file in directories other than the one
containing fc.exe. When you press F2 to activate the user menu, FC/2 first
looks in the current directory for a local user menu and displays it if found.
If no fc.mnu is found in the current directory the main user menu is displayed.

 You can force the main user menu to show by pressing Shift-F2 instead of F2.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 13. Archives ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 File Commander/2 provides support for archive files (ZIP, ARJ, LZH and RAR
types are currently supported) that makes these files behave in a similar way
to normal subdirectories. To view the contents of an archive you simply press
ENTER when the cursor is located on the archive file. It's possible to navigate
any subdirectories inside the archive just as you would a normal directory
tree.

 When a panel is showing the contents of an archive its top line, showing the
current path, changes colour so you won't forget that you're not looking at a
real subdirectory. While the majority of functions are available inside an
archive, some restrictions do apply.

o Copying files into an archive may only be done when the destination is the
  root directory of the archive.
o It's not possible to change the name of a file while copying it from an
  archive.
o It's not possible to edit the contents of a file in an archive.
o Making a directory (F7) is not supported.
o Changing Date/Time, Attributes or File Case is not supported.
o Making an object isn't supported (wouldn't make any sense anyway)
o File Find isn't able to search into archives (this may change in later
  versions).
o Directories don't show up on the tree.
o Open WPS window obviously can't work.

 After reading all that you may be wondering what does work. The answer (as far
as I'm aware) is everything else. This includes, but is not limited to:

o copy/move files out of archive (extracting) even from subdirs in archive.
o copy/move files into archive (compress) but only into archive's root.
o View file in archive.
o Delete files from inside archive.
o Ctrl-Q on directory inside archive.
o If you use a ! on the command line or in a user menu function, FC/2
  automatically extracts the current file into a temporary directory and
  substitutes the full path of the temporary file for the '!'.
o If you press ENTER on a file that is an executable or is associated with a
  program, it will be extracted temporarily to allow it to be used. Only the
  one file is extracted though so if other files in the archive are required
  (EG DLLs) then it won't work as you intend.
o Self-extracting archives can be entered by using Ctrl-PageDown. As the file
  is an executable, FC/2's normal reaction is to run it if you press ENTER.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 14. Using the Mouse ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

You can use the mouse to perform the following operations:

o Select a file by clicking button 1 on a file name.

o Tag/Untag a file by clicking button 2 on it.

o Execute a file or change into a directory by double clicking button 1 on it.

o Scroll the files up or down by clicking button 1 on the line directly above
  or below the files.

o Tag several files by holding down button 2 and moving the mouse. If, while
  button 2 is pressed, the mouse is moved onto the line above or below the file
  list, the panel will scroll, tagging all files that pass by.

o Select a function to perform by clicking on the function bar at the bottom of
  the screen. Using button 2 Selects the Alt function. This is particularly
  handy for changing drives (Alt-F1/F2). If a Ctrl, Alt or Shift key is pressed
  when button 1 is clicked on the function bar, the function called is modified
  appropriately.

o Activate the menu by clicking button 2 on the top line of the screen. The
  easiest way to make a selection is to hold button 2 down after activating the
  menu, "pull down" the menu you want and release button 2 when you have the
  correct item highlighted. Clicking outside the menu area will dismiss the
  menu.

o Whenever a dialog popup appears that contains push buttons that look like "[
  OK ]", you may click on these with mouse button 1 to select the indicated
  choice. Clicking button 2 will select the highlighted button.

o Whenever a dialog popup appears that requests a string input (eg Make
  Directory), button 1 may be used to position the cursor on the line and
  button 2 is equivalent to pressing ENTER. Clicking button 1 outside the
  dialog box or on a Cancel button, cancels the operation.

o When the results of a 'File Find' operation are showing, double clicking
  button 1 on a file name will cause FC/2 to jump to the directory the file is
  in (like pressing ENTER). The window can be scrolled by clicking on the top
  or bottom lines of the window.

o When using the internal file viewer, clicking button 1 in the top or bottom
  third of the screen scrolls the screen up/down. Using button 2 pages up or
  down.

o When using the internal editor, the mouse may be used to position the cursor
  on the currently displayed page or dragged over a section of text to mark it
  for Cut/Copy/Paste operations.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 15. Notes, Hints and Tips ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

o To associate Netscape or Lynx with HTML files, the command syntax looks like

    *.{htm,html}: netscape file:///!

o FC/2 can be run when booted from OS/2 utility disks as created by the "Create
  Utility Disks" in the System Setup folder. Copy fc.exe and your fc.ini to the
  second disk. You will also need to copy nls.dll from \os2\dll onto this disk.

o If you use 4os2 as your command interpreter, try to keep the contents of your
  4start.cmd to a minimum as it is run every time you execute an external
  command in FC/2.

o The fastest way to select a new drive for a panel using the mouse is to click
  the right mouse button on F1/F2 in the help bar at the bottom of the screen.

o If you attach 4DOS/4OS2 descriptions to your files, they will be preserved if
  you copy or move them using FC/2.

o If you want your viewer or editor to run in a separate session, add the start
  keyword before the name of your viewer / editor.

o If you don't get the blue FC/2 icon when you install FC/2 onto your desktop,
  you've probably lost the EAs attached to fc.exe. Use InfoZip's unzip when
  unzipping the FC/2 distribution.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 16. Obscure Options ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

The following miscellaneous options can only be changed by directly editing
your fc.ini file. Note that it's possible to use multiple INI files by
specifying the name of an alternate INI file as a parameter to fc.exe. If the
specified file doesn't yet exist, the default INI file will be loaded but the
specified file will be written when settings are saved. Running fc /? displays
all command line parameters.

BriefWordRight [ON|Off]            The behaviour of all 'word right' movement
                                   is altered by this option. If this option is
                                   on (which is the default) the cursor will
                                   move to the end of the current word or, if
                                   it is already at the end of a word, to the
                                   end of the next word. When off, the cursor
                                   will always move to the beginning of the
                                   next word.

CmdChar                            This is the character that is interpreted as
                                   FC/2's command character for the
                                   substitutions listed in Associations and
                                   User Menu. As these substitutions are also
                                   applied to commands entered on the command
                                   line, changing this options may be useful if
                                   you have a lot of files with a ! in their
                                   name. Default is !

CodePage                           Sets the codepage that FC/2 will use. A
                                   value of 0 (the default) means use the
                                   current codepage.

DisableInvert [On|OFF]             Disables the Invert Selection function of
                                   the Grey * key, allowing it to resume its
                                   normal function of typing a *. This is
                                   provided for people who's keyboards make it
                                   a chore to get the other * (Shift-8 on a
                                   normal US keyboard). The Invert Selection
                                   function can still be used by selecting it
                                   from the Files menu.

Shadows [ON|Off]                   Enables window shadows. Default is ON.

StickyAlt [ON|Off]                 Affects the behavior of file name seeking
                                   using Alt-[letter] combinations. If this
                                   option is off you need to keep the ALT key
                                   held down for the whole seek string. This
                                   has the advantage of allowing you to start
                                   typing a command as soon as ALT is released.

WaitDOS [On|OFF]                   Normally when FC/2 starts a DOS program it
                                   will start it in a separate session and then
                                   continue without waiting for the DOS session
                                   to finish. While this behaviour can be
                                   changed on a per program basis (see Running
                                   Other Programs) this option sets the global
                                   default.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 17. Contacting the Author ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 If you have any comments, questions, suggestions or bug reports, please feel
free to contact me by any of the following means:

Email               [e-mail]

Web                 http://silk.apana.org.au/fc.html

Snail Mail          Brian Havard
                    PO Box 152
                    Southland Centre 3192
                    Victoria
                    AUSTRALIA

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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 18. Release History ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

o 13/04/93 v0.1  Initial Release
o 28/04/93 v0.11
o 24/05/93 v0.12
o 07/06/93 v0.13
o 21/07/93 v0.14
o 12/08/93 v0.15
o 13/10/93 v0.16
o 17/01/94 v0.17
o 14/03/94 v1.00
o 25/03/94 v1.01
o 28/03/94 v1.02
o 19/04/94 v1.03
o 25/05/94 v1.1
o 03/06/94 v1.11
o 21/10/94 v1.2
o 28/11/94 v1.21
o 06/05/95 v1.3
o 25/05/95 v1.31
o 16/11/95 v1.4
o 15/07/96 v1.41
o 07/08/96 v1.42
o 25/03/97 v1.5
o 12/08/97 v1.51


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 18.1. Version 1.3 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

New Features

o Editor now remembers the edit position between edits.

o CD command used on FC/2's command line will intelligently find the named
  directory using tree data.

o Open WPS window of current directory (with Ctrl-W or menu).

o Shadows on all popups (can be turned off if you really don't like it).

o Trees are now kept sorted by name.

o Modify case (upper/lower/mixed) of selected files.

o Configuration option to specify which file systems are case filtered. Was
  fixed as FAT and NETWARE.

o Read only attributes are no longer copied from CDROM drives.

o Results of a File Find can be recalled using Shift-Alt-F7

o Exiting FC/2 can now leave the calling shell in FC/2's last current directory
  with the help of fc2.cmd

o Shift-Insert (Paste) is now supported on the command line and in entry
  fields.

o Whole contents of the command line or an entry field can be placed on the
  clipboard using Ctrl-Insert.

o In a user menu entry, a !l can be used to insert the list if tagged files
  into a command.

Minor Enhancements

o Directory size calculation shows path of the directory it's counting.

o Stopped flicker of status box during multi-file copy/move.

o Can now run without PM running or PM DLLs available (eg booting from floppy,
  Warp's recovery command line).

o If using a code page other than 437, incorrect characters would be displayed.

o Ctrl-Up/Down does history recall, same as Ctrl-E/X

o File panels can read an unlimited number of files. Was previously limited to
  4096 but a few people hit this.

o People with no Grey +/- can now use Ctrl-T/Y to tag and untag.

o Ctrl-A added as a shortcut key for File Attributes.

o Command line usage with 'fc /?'

o All case conversion is now code page aware.

o Ctrl-Del (delete word after cursor) now works on the command line.

Bug Fixes

o On unsorted panels, files/directories would wrongly become tagged.

o Associations could not contain an '=' symbol.

o EAs on directories were not being copied.

o An empty directory would not show its size as 0 after being counted.

o A directory's size was being calculated before being relocated on the same
  drive which is not necessary as no copying is needed.

o 'Calculate Dir Size' and 'Edit Associations' had the same quick key on the
  Command menu.

o If an error occurred during a tree copy operation, the error was being
  reported once for every level deep the error occurred at.

o If an error occured during a file copy the partially copied destination file
  was not being deleted.

o A "Directory collision" error was being incorrectly reported in a number of
  situations.

o Editor: Using F3 SaveAs didn't store current line changes first.

o Editor: Shift-ENTER would mark text.

o Editor: Delete after  delete would fail.

o When copying a directory tree from a non case preserving file system (eg FAT)
  to a case preserving file system (eg HPFS) the files would end up ALL CAPS
  (yuk!).

o Copying a directory into itself caused a mess. Now disallowed.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 18.2. Version 1.31 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

New Features

o File Find now supports searching files for text and the option to search
  either the current directory tree or the whole drive.

o View & edit now works directly on file find list.

Bug Fixes

o File name was not getting passed to external viewer/editor.

o Using Ctrl-NumPad-[0-9] when no panels were showing would appear to work but
  didn't actually change the current directory for executed commands.

o Ctrl-\ didn't work if panels off.

o If the current directory was changed while the panels were off, the old
  directory's contents would show when the panels were turned back on.

o F1-12 would not work on user menu.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 18.3. Version 1.4 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

New Features

o File Date / Time modifier.

o New improved dialog user interface.

o When counting the size of directories, a running count of directories, files
  & total size is displayed.

o Entry fields now have proper support for cut/past/copy.

o File Find: Dialog has been reworked, combining the query & results dialogs.
  Recursion into subdirectories is now optional and the 'Containing' text
  search can be case sensitive. The three switchable options are savable with
  Save Settings.

o Backwards & case sensitive search in viewer & editor.

o Ctrl-Shift-F copies full path of current file onto the clipboard.

Minor Enhancements

o When creating a program object with Alt-F6, the title of the object can be
  edited first. Full screen session can also be specified.

o Autoindent & Overstrike modes of editor are now savable with Save Settings.

o Ctrl-C added as quick key for File Case

o Shift-F4 edit now starts with name of current file.

o Using ESC to abort file find is now more responsive.

o In User Menu & Associations, !x substitutes for the current file name without
  its extension.

o If a directory read is taking a while, a window will pop up and indicate
  progress.

o Option to make Ctrl-R prompt for a drive to read.

o 4DOS/ "descript.ion" file is excluded from mass tagging to prevent problems
  caused by attempting to copy this file. FC/2 copies descriptions on a per
  file basis.

o Option to enable quick switching panels off/on by pressing ESC when command
  line is empty.

o Menu section separators added.

Bug Fixes

o Netware bug workaround, prevented directory move working properly.

o An executed command was not displayed properly if the panels were off and the
  command was longer than 1 line.

o Year in date of file find details was incorrect.

o Can now handle window sizes other than 80 & 132 columns if set before
  starting FC/2

o If using fc2.cmd to enable exiting to the current panel's directory, exiting
  to a path that contained spaces would not work.

o Edit Associations wouldn't work if there was no fc.ini saved yet.

o Deleting trees on NFS drives didn't work.

o Ctrl-W on tree panel would open the wrong window.

o Count directory size would fail on NFS drives.

o Line overflow caused by using Ctrl-J/Enter would cause a TRAP.

o Changing 'lines' setting in the configuration dialog would't work if original
  was not 0

o PageDn in Brief view would empty right two columns.

o Leading blanks would be entered into the command history.

o User Menu: Ctrl-Z on end of file would cause failure, commands would't run.

o User Menu: Drive changing with just a 'd:' would mess up the panel's path.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 18.4. Version 1.41 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

New Features

o More intelligent execution of external programs including DOS session
  settings and starting of seamless Win-OS/2 programs.

o Netware & LAN requester (inc. Peer) drive mapping added to INFO panel.

o Editor can detect & save text in UNIX  (LF terminated)

o User Menu: !i"Question" substitutes for a value input from the user with
  specified prompt.

o User Menu: !@ substitutes for the name of a temp file containing list of
  tagged files

o All ! operators allowed in User Menus are now available on the command line.

Minor Enhancements

o File names starting with '_' appear at the top of the directory list.

o Bright backgrounds are now allowed.

o Retry option on deleting 'in use' directory.

Bug Fixes

o Pressing Ctrl-PageUp at a root directory would incorrectly zero the tagged
  file count.

o View & Edit: F7 woudn't work as search again.

o Info: drive capacity / free space can now display > 4GB

o PageUp/Down wouldn't work in the File Find list box.

o Shift-Del on numeric keypad with NumLock off now works as Cut in editor.

o Creating a directory at the root of a drive from tree view would fail.

o Creating a directory at the root of a drive kills tree data.

o Drive change with 'd:' in user menu would fail.

o {Shift,Alt}-{F3,F4} would die if the panel was completely empty.

o Renaming a file that has a description would bomb.

o Reverse search in viewer would start at the top of the current page, should
  start at the bottom.

o UNC paths can now be given as the destination directory of a copy/move
  command.

o Renaming a file that had a 4DOS/4 description would bomb FC/2


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 18.5. Version 1.42 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

New Features

o Added {} wildcard operator allowing matching from a selection of strings.

o Added AND/OR/NOT operators + brackets in file masks ( |=OR, &=AND, !=NOT )

o Added option to pause after Ctrl-Q, allowing viewing of file and directory
  count totals.

o Added restore selection function

Minor Enhancements

o Alt-Up/Down now goes to previous/next tagged file if not filename seeking.

o Quick key for Compare directories now Ctrl-K.

o Quick key for Hidden Files toggle now Ctrl-H.

o The files 'EA DATA. SF' or 'WP ROOT. SF' can now only be tagged explicitly
  (by mouse click or INSERT)

Bug Fixes

o Viewing a file with a full path > 140 would bomb.

o Using Shift-F3/F4 with an external viewer would open the file under the
  cursor instead of the name specified.

o Some programs (especially those compiled with the patched Borland Pascal) run
  from the FC/2 command line would lose the first character of supplied
  parameters.

o If Netware requester patches OS2C4.EXE or OS2C5.EXE were installed, FC/2
  would die when activating the Info panel.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 18.6. Version 1.5 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

New Features

o Archive support:

   - Types supported: ZIP, RAR, LZH, ARJ.
   - browsing file list of archive as if disk directory (to any subdir depth).
   - copy/move files out of archive (extracting) even from subdirs in archive.
   - copy/move files into archive (compress) but only into archive's root.
   - View file in archive.
   - Delete files from inside archive.
   - Ctrl-Q on directory inside archive.

o Shift-F8 - Delete file under cursor bar regardless of tagging, with editing
  of file name to be deleted.

o 'Retain directory count' option allows browsing of directories with their
  sizes after a Ctrl-Q.

o Mount point of NFS (and possibly other remote FS types) displayed on Info
  panel.

o Delete file from File Find list using F8.

o Goto line number in viewer & editor (Alt-L).

o Path Extension option added. Allows extra directories to be searched for
  executables by FC/2's command line interpreter.

o Ctrl-[ and Ctrl-] put the left or right panel's path with trailing \ to
  command line.

o Goto offset function in internal viewer using Alt-O.

Minor Enhancements

o File Find directory scan speed improved.

o Alt-Grey-+ quick-key for Restore tagging.

o Optional non 'Brief' Ctrl-Right behaviour.

o Switch to edit from view, maintaining position in file.

o Alt-Up/Down on tree view moves to previous/next sibling.

o Viewer wrap state remembered & saved.

o File names containing '&' are now quoted when being pasted to the command
  line with Ctrl-J/F.

o FC/2's own CLI can now handle standard in/out redirection, including DOS
  programs (no pipe yet)

o If not programmed with a stored path and NumLock is off, Ctrl-NumPad-[0-9]
  should work as Ctrl-PageUp etc.

o Added 'The directories appear to be identical' message to Directory Compare
  that shows when the result is no files tagged.

o Handling of copying from bad disks improved.

o Uses own mouse drawing code for full screen sessions as FP22 (& possibly
  earlier FPs) breaks system mouse pointer.

o Mouse clicks on function bar takes note of Alt/Shift/Ctrl status.

Bug Fixes

o "cd \" on FAT drive would fail with "Invalid directory" error.

o FC/2 would run OS/2 executables flaged as 'Full Screen' in its own window.

o Under certain conditions ( insufficient access rights) a non-root directory
  could be displayed without a ".." entry

o Some quick keys were case sensitive, stopping them working if CapsLock was on

o Some types of errors would put directory delete into an infinite loop.

o Read failures on floppy disks would start back at the beginning of the file
  if retry was selected.

o Cancelling copy of read-only file failed to remove partial copy.

o When external viewer or editor was called from File Find the screen wasn't
  restored properly.

o Ctrl-Grey-{+,-} cause screen junk if panels are off.

o Copying files to drives shared from Windows 95 machines now works (Win95 bug
  workaround)

o F7 wouldn't work if no panels were on.

o When sort by size set, tagging could get lost when doing a reread after
  Ctrl-Q.

o When increasing the number of lines in a full screen session, junk characters
  would appear.

o 'File name too long' error would show source file name but should show
  destination.

o Editor: Ctrl-Del deletes incorrectly if the cursor is on the last letter of a
  word.

o "File cannot write over itself" should have a "cancel" option.

o Pressing Ctrl-Num-[0-9] to change to an invalid drive shouldn't change panel.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 18.7. Version 1.51 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

New Features

o Search & Replace in editor added.

o Added Skip and All options to Directory exists,merge with source? warning.

o Added function to create new archive (Shift-F5).

o Enhanced directory compare with date/size/contents options.

o Option added to delete confirm dialog to force delete files like "DEL /F"
  does.

o Ctrl-Shift-J copies current file name to the clipboard.

o Full support for volumes larger than 4GB (up to 2^63 bytes).

Minor Enhancements

o Speed up reading ZIPs.

o After Shift-F4, move cursor to file just edited.

o Add ! function list to online help of editor when editing user menus.

o If both panels are viewing archives, don't give error immediately after
  pressing F5. Instead give a path to the current panel (directory of archive)
  as the suggested destination.

o Number of files & bytes in the Info panel are now in highlight colour.

o Hex value of character under cursor added to edit status line.

o New colour config dialog. Now easier to add more colour options.

o Cursor now follows a renamed file/dir.

o Redirection that looks like 2> (redirect only stderr) is now understood by
  FC/2's CLI.

o Cleaned up error message in info line on drive read failure. Full text of
  error is now visible in the Info panel.

o Right mouse button click in editor now performs a page up/down.

o Removed 80 character limit on search text.

o Added Ctrl-X/C/V as Cut/Copy/Paste in editor & dialogs.

Bug Fixes

o In Date/Time editor, 0's were being suppressed.

o When using only 1 panel, pressing Ctrl-L twice would give you two.

o Could get two info panels by selecting 'Info' from the Left & Right menu.

o Files in an archive that start with a character > 127 wouldn't show up.

o When extracting a directory from a subdirectory in an archive and target
  directory already exists, error "Directory already exists, cannot overwrite"
  occurs.

o When starting edit, the character code in status line wasn't the character
  the cursor is on, but the first character of the line.

o In older (pre v2) RAR archives, directories would show up as 0 length files.

o If archive being viewed in one panel is deleted in the other, first panel
  would still show archive contents.

o When attempting to F5-Copy to a non-existant directory, the error message
  should give the invalid destination path not the source file/directory name.

o Should be able to delete the contents of a directory even if some process has
  it as current. Just can't delete the directory itself.

o Attempting to enter certain files as a self extractor would crash.

o Some types of ZIP self extractors weren't recognized.

o Ctrl-Left/Right in viewer didn't work with NumPad arrows.

o If mouse hasn't been moved, F9 would always select Left menu even if right
  panel is current.

o Copying files with spaces in their names from a RAR failed.

o Mouse scrolling in history window didn't work.

o Scrolling in history window was broken.

o File names starting with a '-' need to be quoted when passed to an archiver.

o Netware drives with volume names longer than 11 characters were unreadable.

o Extracting tagged directories from a RAR didn't extract directory's contents.

o Fixed RAR reading code where subdir in a subdir was showing as a file as
  well.

o !i prompt doesn't resize if text is larger than default box size.

o Text search in viewer hex mode would highlight wrong position.

o Alt-O in viewer displays partial line at top causing up arrow to give
  duplicate text.

o Viewing a file in an archive would leave the text cursor on (full screen
  only).

o Recalling stored path to the root of an empty drive gave an 'Invalid
  directory' error.

o Trying to enter a ZIP who's name starts with a space failed.

o Adding a tagged file with spaces in its name to a ZIP failed.

o Deleting a tagged file with spaces in its name from a ZIP failed.

o Directory names in an archive were being analysed case-insensitively.

o When holding down SHIFT, the key bar didn't show F8's function.

o When overwriting files with 'Overwrite all' option, case of target file
  remained instead of being replaced by source file.

o Pressing END on a help page that was shorter than one page would crash.

o If Shift-F4 calls an external editor and either panel is off, the dialog
  failed to clear properly.

o Info panel didn't handle archives with 0 total uncompressed size.

o If 'Size Count Pause' enabled, sometimes the final update to the stats
  display wasn't being done.


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