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File Plus Ver 3.11
Copyright (C) 1993-1995 Carl W. Moore
All Rights Reserved
!!!IMPORTANT!!!
If you're a registered user of File Plus, then e-mail me with
you're name and user # and I'll immediatley e-mail back you're user key
so you can un-lock File Plus.
e-mail me at: cmoore@wazoo.com
What's New?
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Ver 3.11
Fixed Windows NT quit exception.
Fixed random Taskbar freeze problem.
Ver 3.1 5 September 96
Fixed some menu item checking bugs.
NEW FEATURE!! All new button based tool bar. Many times more
configurable than the old one. Use your own bitmaps and fonts!
Corrected startup by taskbar icon window restore problems.
Corrected "NEW" registry types naming conventions.
Fixed directory size problems when sizing empty or nearly empty directories.
New History List features added!
Added Screen Blanker controls.
New User Functions:
Run Default File Viewer
Run Default Text Editor
New option in "Path Options" configuration dialog for your default file viewer.
(The author recommends "Quick View Plus" by Inso software).
New Modifiers for user functions:
"Strip File Exensions"
"Don't quote long filenames"
Added More info to the status above each file window.
Ver 3.0 Release 30 April 96
First release of Win95/NT only version of File Plus.
Ver 3.0 Beta 3 24 Jan 96
New Directory Sorting options to Sort files by Date and Time
Drag and Drop preliminary code started.
Ver 3.0 Alpha 17 Jan 96
New Win95 Features options begun.
File Plus can now live in the Taskbar notification area.
See new Startup Settings dialog in the Configuration Menu
Ver 2.13
Right mouse button popup menu operations on Zip files fixed.
Ver 2.12
Fixed one of the polymorphic zip operations that was causing Pkzip to not recognize
the selected source file.
Ver 2.11
User Modifiers for user functions:
New User modifier added so File Plus can detach DOS programs from it's thread.
Check the "Detach DOS Prg" check box while editing a user function.
"Use 8.3 Name" modifier fixed to include full path names when used with %f.
Hard coded .ZIP support for 8.3 filename conversions. So if you want to, you can
rename your .ZIP files to anything you want and still manipulate them.
Ver 2.1
By popular request, the "FLTR" button in each window can now be changed into a
Parent button in the "Layout Options Dialog".
New Functions added "Set Left Filter" and "Set Right Filter", to complement the
above modifications to the normal display layout.
New primary operation mode added: 3-window. Check the "MODE" menu for selection.
Clicking the right mouse button in the tree view window will load that directory
into the right window. See the online manual (help), for more info.
User functions will NOT automatically re-load the directory windows anymore.
(Use "RELOAD Source/Target" in the modifiers section to force reload).
Left and Right window size is now adjustable by dragging in the middle.
Hotkey code re-written. Menus can now have hotkeys assigned. Old hotkey
values are gone.
Ver 2.0 Beta 7
Icons! File Plus now integrates itself into the system registry
under Win95.
Left-Clicking an icon has the same effect as double-clicking
the text portion of the file listing.
Right-Clicking an icon brings up a popup menu with associated
File Types, some Explorer options, and basic file functions.
See the new options in the Configuration Menu.
Multiple associations for a single file available by right-
clicking an icon.
Many more bugs found and fixed in the user program routines.
File typing system now fully active in Shareware version.
Ver 2.0 Beta 6
Possible Hotkey conflict between simple hotkeys and popups corrected.
WINDOWS_FUNC removed from user functions (File Plus will now automatically
scan .EXE files to determine if they're Windows or DOS);
Use old 8.3 file nameing convention added to user function for backward
compatibility with programs that don't understand long-file names.
Optimized the initialization routines to decrease File Plus's startup time.
Win32s and NT Specific Fixes:
Severe resource thrashing problem corrected.
DOS program launching code re-written.
Found and fixed some GDI calls to functions that work well under Win95
but not so well under Win32s and NT.
Ver 2.0 Beta 5
Windows NT startup problems fixed.
Right mouse button window scrolling routines re-written.
Finally caught up on the online help documentation.
Hard crash when doing a byte count on directories with more than
nine chars in the name has been squashed.
Ver 2.0 Beta 4
New Tool bar customization routines.
Ver 2.0 Beta 3
Multiple fixes to small Win95/Win32 bugs.
Ver 2.0 Beta 2
Another Make Directory function added that automatically steps
into the new directory after creation.
File Plus now supports polymorphic operations on .ZIP files.
Use the internal .ZIP viewer to view a .ZIP file. The contents
of the file will appear in your directory window, now you can
copy files to/from, delete and view files within the archives.
Ver 2.0 Beta 1
File Plus is now a full 32-bit Win32s/Win95/NT application.
Long-File name support is now operational.
Ver 1.9 Beta 3
Groups of small interface bugs fixed. Too numerous to list.
Ver 1.9 Beta 2
Fixed <SRC> & <TGT> confusion when File Plus is re-activated.
Ver 1.9 Beta 1
Several Small Bugs fixed in right mouse button routines.
File Commenting system!!!!
Menu bar can now be customized with 10 user menus.
ToolBar along top of file windows can now be turned off and on.
Numerous minor bug fixes and additions.
INI File path problems fixed.
Unknown file types will load up into text editor if they're determined
to be text.
New Directory sorting features.
File Plus can now sort your directories by NAME,EXT, and the natural
order that they're read from disk. You can also change the
order of Files and Dirs in the listers.
28 new path buttons added as Right Mouse Button functions under
the existing path buttons.
Ver 1.81
My apologies to those patching from 1.6D or earlier versions,
The setup program, doesn't convert the Configuration files from
really old versions of File Plus properly.
File Plus will now create new configuration files if they don't
exist.
Also if you want to use a set of default configurations:
Delete "FILEPLUS.INI" and "FPFTC.INI" from your File Plus
current directory and, if they exist, from your Windows
directory.
When you re-run File Plus, it will prompt you to create a new
set of files.
Ver 1.8
New Function--- File Search! Search for strings or hex values in files
spanning your system.
Major bugs fixed in the select by pattern routines.
File Plus will now check its current directory for its .INI files
A common-use Tool Bar and info line now appears above the windows.
Tree Mode displays iconic folders (prettiness feature).
Clicking on the iconic folders in the tree window will have the same
effect as double-clicking the entry.
Added a browse button to the Configure Button Panel, makes tracking
down that program you want to run a lot easier.
Directory and Tree window sizes are now adjustable with mouse
drag in Tree Mode.
New window size code introduced, should eliminate ALL problems
associated with window locations and sizes.
Configure Button mode now blocks input to the directory windows.
New Icon for File Plus
Main executable file changed to FILEPLUS.EXE.
Ver 1.7
Full Color Support Now added!
You can now customize the colors of the Directory and Tree windows.
Includes: Seperate coloring schemes for Files, Directories, and Trees.
New Function:
Clone Files/Dirs
Allows you to make copies of files or directories within the
same directory.
New Features:
Button Copy function.
Button Exchange Function.
Ver 1.6D
Added very powerful file finding functions. Allows you to search
ALL the drives on your system for an occurance of a file o