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- History of Changes
- The Volkov Commander versions 4.99.00 - 4.99.03
-
- - Fixed bugs
- + New features
- * Changes
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- Changes in version 4.99.00 alpha (10-Jun-1997)
-
- First version for testing
-
- + EMS, XMS memory or swap file can be used to load program code
- + Temporary files are created in the directory of environment
- variables VCTEMP= or TEMP=, or in the home directory of VC
- + It's possible to enter to archives as directories
- + Optionally Ins key calculates directory size
- + Shift-Gray+ and Shift-Gray* select files and directories
- * Maximal size of *.MNU and *.EXT files now is unlimited
- + More than one extension or file mask can be associated with
- every command in *.EXT files
- + All filters are defined by user
- + Size of panels and width of 'Name' columns in panels can be
- changing by mouse
- + Mouse cursor is changing depending of its position to prompt
- available action
- + All text modes including VESA modes are supported
- + Clicking mouse on key bar when Shift, Ctrl or Alt key is
- pressed call the same action as F1...F10 keys with Shift,
- Ctrl or Alt
- + Descriptions of files are shown in file panels
- + Added command line switches. Run VC /? to view all available
- switches
- * File TREEINFO.VCD instead of TREEINFO.NCD is used to store
- directory tree information
- + TREEINFO.VCD is updated when create, remove or delete
- subdirectory
- * When executing group operations, window is not blinking
- + Added new macros for inactive panel: %, %.%, %:, %\
- + Environment variable PATH= is used for executing all external
- viewers and editors
- + Critical error dialog box have 'Ignore' choise
- * Executing command from history moves this command to the
- bottom of history
- * Alt-F6 key is removed. Use Ctrl-F7 key to calculate size of
- selected directories
- * 'Change label' function only shows volume lebel of network
- drives and CD-ROM
- + Attributes of directories can be changed in tree panel
- + Extended attributes .LONGNAME of OS/2 are shown as description
- * Symbol after * in file masks are not ignored
- + List of masks separated by coma or semicolon can be used
- instead of mask
- + Screen saver is disabled in windowed DOS sessions under OS/2
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- Changes in version 4.99.01 alpha (27-Jun-1997)
-
- - Video Mode function (Ctlr-F9) is not displayed in KeyBar
- - Tabs in descriptions are displayed as ASCII characters 09h
- - Trying to press Enter when cursor bar is set on file without
- extension and there is no local VC.EXT file in the current
- directory executes incorrect command
- - Error reading empty disks under Windows 95
- - Trying to read extended attributes under OS/2 from remote disk
- of Windows NT Server when reading panels, copying and changing
- attributes causes critical error
- * No files were displayed when custon filter is a blank line.
- Now all files displayed in this case
- - Error moving not empty directories from remote disk of Windows
- NT Server
- + Hidden files are marked with symbol '░' when long names mode
- is switched on
- - Error reading root directory of NFS volume mounted under OS/2
- - 'Mouse options' and 'Zoom options' in Interface dialog box are
- mixed
- - Enter and Ctrl-Enter on key pad don't work
- * New description file is created with the same name and
- attributes as source description file
- - Deleting of description file and all files which are contained
- in this description file causes beep
- - Trying to delete description file and one or more files which
- are contained in this description file recreates description
- file
- - Trying to start VC from OS/2 session locks DOS session if
- current path is illegal for DOS session (for example C:\.NAME)
- - Entering to remote directory with 'no access' permissions
- causes hanging
- - Reading panel with directory deleted from another session
- under Windows 95 causes hanging
- - Date and time of some subdirectories in archives are displayed
- incorrectly
- - Date and time of directory entry .. in archives are displayed
- incorrectly
- - Trying to call external editor calls external viewer
- - Reading directories contained a lot of files (for example
- 5000) causes hanging
- - Reading directories of archives contained a lot of files (for
- example 5000) causes hanging
- - Incorrect order of files in unsorted mode when reading
- contents of archive by external utility
- + New switch '\' of archive parser line (VCARCH.EXT)
- - Error reading archives with invalid parser line
- - Incorrect values of macros !, !.!, %, %.% are substituted when
- viewing or editing file from archive by external program
- - Incorrect values of macros ! and % are substituted for files
- with more than one points
- - Temporary file is not removed arter viewing or editing file
- from archive by external program
- - Subdirectories with calculated size and subdirectories of
- archives are not displayed when option 'Offlines' in Filter is
- switched off
- - VC does not release time slices in windowed DOS sessions under
- OS/2
- - Screen saver does not work under DOS and Windows 95
- - Mouse cursor is blinking under DOS and Windows 95
- - Error deleting archive which is opened in panel
- + Using environment variable PATH for searching external viewers
- and editors
- - Searching text is displayed incorrectly in 'Search' dialog box
- of internal viewer
- + Command line switches /VESA and /noVESA
- - Shadow is not displayed under pull down menus Left and Right
- - Functions 'Select group' and 'Invert group' from pull-down
- menu act on files and directories. They should act on files
- only
- + New keystrokes Ctrl-Gray+, Ctrl-Gray- and Ctrl-Gray* act on
- all files without dialog box
- - Pressing Ctrl-C keystroke causes ^C is displayed on the screen
- - Descriptions of files with mixed case are displayed as
- offlines
- - Starting VC when 150 Kbytes memory free causes hanging or
- strange behaviour
-
-
- Changes in version 4.99.02 alpha (05-Aug-1997)
-
- - Can't copy, move, delete and calculate size of not empty
- subdirectory, if both panels are in Brief and Long names mode
- and width of columns with files are 12 characters
- - Long path in command prompt overlaps key bar
- + Some input lines in dialog boxes now are longer than 64
- characters and can be scrolled left or right
- - First symbol in 'Auto change directory time delay' field of
- 'Panel options' is ignored
- - Lines of description files containing symbols those can't be
- in file names are displayed as offline files
- - Random strings are appeared at the top of history window when
- history buffer is full
- + Symbol '+' as first character of description line means
- continuation of the description
- - Trying to enter to the directory longer than 64 characters
- causes closing task under Windows 95
- - Current path and path in title line of file panel sometimes is
- displayed in short form
- - Function 'Directory sizes' resorts subdirectories when panel
- is sorted by size, but cursor bar stays on previous position
- - If directories in file panel were sorted by size and sizes of
- directoties were calculated using Ins key then trying to set
- sort order by size does not resorts directories
- - Searched substring in hexadecimal viewer is highlighted by
- wrong colors
- - Switching to another text video mode with higher resolution
- causes a crash when there is not enough momory to increase the
- size of intrnal video buffer
- - Some external viewers and editors change video mode that
- violates representation of text on the screen if this viewer
- or editor is placed in VCVIEW.EXT or VCEDIT.EXT file in the
- following format: EXT: VIEWER.EXE
- + Video mode is restored after executing programs from VC.EXT,
- VCVIEW.EXT and VCEDIT.EXT files
- - Menu 'Files' is highlighted in menu bar instead of 'Commands'
- when changing volume label and menu bar is swithed on
- - Renaming file to itself under DOS causes following dialog:
- 'File already exists. Overwrite/All/Append/Skip/Cancel'
- - Multiple switching panel between Tree and file list or Info
- causes strange behaviour or crash of program
- - If one file is present in description more then one time and
- file with such name exists on a disk, first description
- belongs to this file, other descriptions are displayed as
- offlines. Trying to copy, move, rename, delete or change
- attributes of those offline files make action on real file
- - Incorrect date is set when copying a directory and incorrect
- date is displayed when changing attributes of a directory
- under Windows 95
- + It is possible to copy, move or rename offline files
- - Pressing End or Ctrl-PgDn in internal viewer after loading
- file with size 16-32 Kbytes causes empty screen and strange
- behaviour when press PgUp and PgDn keys
- - Copying of file with fully uppercased name creates target file
- with lowercased name under Windows 95
- - Part of menu bar stays on the screen when switching menu bar
- off and one of panels is switched off
- - Files of archives which have \, .\, ..\, C: at the beginning
- of file names are not displayed
- + The most of input lines in dialog boxes have local history
- which can be accessed by pressing Ctrl-E and Ctrl-X keystrokes
- * New description files were created with the same attributes as
- source description files. Now new description files are
- created without read-only attribute even if source description
- files have this attribute
- - Error copying or moving files to or from drive X: when
- archiver X1 is defined in VCARCH.EXT file to support archives
- with extension .X
- - Deleting the directory of mounted under Windows 95 disk of
- Windows NT Server which is displayed in inative panel leaves
- path of this panel the same
- - When copying directories to remote disk of Windows NT Server
- created directories sometimes have incorrect attributes
- + Ctrl-Enter, Ctrl-[ and Ctrl-] keystrokes pressed in input
- lines of dialog boxes make the same actions as in command line
- * When copying or renaming/moving single file or directory path
- and name of this file or directory were substituted as default
- target. Now only path is substituted
- - Contents of the panels are not refreshed after saving settings
- * Pressing Ctrl-\ keystroke causes cursor bar is put on
- directory which was current before
- * Left part of long name was displayed in mini status line. Now
- right part is diplayed
- - Copying of moving directory into itself causes recursion
- - The following conditions cause crash: inactive panel contains
- tree of directories, floppy disk is not inserted in drive A:,
- type 'A:' in command line and press Enter
- - When directory for temporary files is displayed on a panel
- temporary file is appeared on this panel after viewing file
- from archive
-
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- Changes in version 4.99.03 alpha (31-Oct-1997)
-
- - Copying description file and one or more files which are
- contained in this description file updetes target description
- if it exists
- + Trying to enter to directory of tree panel which does not
- exist on a disk causes this directory is removed from TREEINFO
- - Starting VC sometimes causes hanging
- - Error reading empty disks under Windows 95
- - 'Not enough memory' warning appears when splitting file and
- there is enough free space on a target disk for the rest of
- source file but not enough for the whole file
- - 'Change drive' dialog box sometimes appears on the bottom of
- screen when copying/moving/renaming the files
- - Copying or moving file from substed drive to its real location
- tryes to copy this file to itself
- - When changing directory by Ctrl-\ from archive included in
- archive, last one stays in the temporary directory
- * Ctrl-Enter, Ctrl-[, Ctrl-] and Ctrl-I keystrokes insert quoted
- names in command line if these names cantain spaces
- + Ctrl-Enter, Ctrl-[, Ctrl-] and Ctrl-I keystrokes insert short
- names in command line when Shift is pressed
- + Ctrl-Enter, Ctrl-[ and Ctrl-] keystrokes insert short names in
- dialogs when Shift is pressed
- + New macros for short names added in *.MNU, VC.EXT, VCVIEW.EXT
- and VCEDIT.EXT files: !~, %~, !~.!, %~.%, !~\, %~\
- + Macros !@, %@, !~@, %~@ work now
- + Added new macros ![text], !0,..., !9
- * Term 'offline' is changed to 'absent'
- * Names of files are transformed to short names when executing
- standard viewers
- * Keystrokes Ctrl-Enter, Ctrl-[, Ctrl-], Ctrl-E and Ctrl-X don't
- work now in short (up to 10 chars) input lines of dialog boxes
- + New dialog box 'Characters' in pull-down menu 'Options' allows
- to edit characters of borders and mouse pointers
- + Added hot key Shift-F1 for change attributes function
- * Changed '^M' to 'Ctrl-M' in 'Restore selection' line of
- pull-down menu 'Files'
- * Hot keys of pull-down menu items are marked only by color,
- they are not uppercased now
- * Input string of Speed search dialog box is increased from 12
- to 24 characters
- * Speed search accepts wildcard characters ? and *
- + Added option 'Command shell options' in 'General options'
- + Extension or file mask in files VC.EXT, VCVIEW.EXT, VCEDIT.EXT
- can be associated with menu file (*.MNU)
- - Can not execute standard viewer with long name
- - Can not execute archiver with long name
- - Wrong position of cursor in 'Choose drive' dialg box on right
- panel when number of drive letters is 16 or 18
- - Can not select/unselect file without extension by Grey +/-
- when it is specified as a file mask
- - Error executing number of commands from VC.EXT, VCVIEW.EXT,
- VCEDIT.EXT and *.MNU files in XMS mode
- - Overwritting file with long name using its short name causes
- new target file is created with long name of overwtited file
- - Copy/Move/Rename/Delete by mask functions match files only by
- their long names
-