List of changes (version 3.02 - 3.50)

List of changes (version 3.02 - 3.50) is a list of changes to Total Commander since version 3.02 until the release of version 3.50. The list starts at the latest change and goes back in time.

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List of changes (version 3.02 - 3.50)

(18.03.98) Release Windows Commander 3.50

• (18.03.98) Added: Do not send 'QUIT' to ftp server if connection was lost
• (18.03.98) Added: Switch [configuration] IgnoreWheel=1 to ignore mouse wheel (to avoid crash with Logitech mice)
• (17.03.98) Added: Resolve LNK files when dragging them to the button bar
• (16.03.98) Added: Recognize .LHA extension as an archive
• (15.03.98) Added: Do not scroll with mouse wheel if no scrollbar present
• (15.03.98) Added: 'cd drive:\path of program' added to button bar local menu
• (13.03.98) Fixed: Do not update file list on device change while copying / deleting etc. files
• (12.03.98) Fixed: Problems with search function (search for start date)
• (10.03.98) Fixed: Method how data is deleted after drag&drop
• (06.03.98) Added: User can specify location of Socket library (for ftp): [configuration], winsock=c:\dir\winsock.dll (16 bit) or wsock32=c:\dir\wsock32.dll (32 bit)
• (05.03.98) Fixed: In ftp client, if URL with path is given (ftp.test.com/subdir), use absolute path: CWD /subdir (with leading slash)
• (03.03.98) Added: wincmd.ini, [configuration], ExplorerForCopy=1 uses copy+paste to copy files (doesn't allow rename during copy)
• (03.03.98) Added: wincmd.ini, [lister], wrap=0 turns line wrap mode off by default
• (03.03.98) Fixed: Problems with AOL-Winsock (Wincmd 16 bit)
• (03.03.98) Fixed: Problems with self extractor and special characters (äöü) ind dir name
• (03.03.98) Added: Use drive on which Windows Commander is installed as default drive if no drive c:\ (LAN machines)
• (26.02.98) Added: Allow parameter %1 or "%1" in editor/default viewer configuration field, e.g. notepad.exe "%1"
• (24.02.98) Fixed: Problems with tree, search result (full view) and brief view switching
• (24.02.98) Added: Allow grayed button in 'change attributes' only if multiple files or a dir selected
• (19.02.98) Added: Sort order in Network Neighborhood: Entire network first, then groups, servers, and shares last
• (19.02.98) Fixed: Do not update Quick View Panel in Network Neighborhood
• (15.02.98) Added: Show comment for Network Neigborhood resources (instead of <DIR>)
• (10.02.98) Added: SHIFT+F2 compare dirs
• (09.02.98) Fixed: Display problem with lister
• (05.02.98) Fixed: SFX module didn't work with non-ASCII characters like German 'umlauts'
• (04.02.98) Fixed: CTRL+Q now also shows space used by root dir of tree
• (04.02.98) Fixed: Replace brackets [] by braces () if given as FTP session name (INI file problem)
• (30.01.98) Fixed: Use directory history of file panel in tree panel
• (30.01.98) Added: Search for date and TIME by giving time separated by space, e.g. 1.1.98 10:30
• (30.01.98) Added: Show name of copied files in tray icon hint
• (30.01.98) Added: Vertical line between root and parent dir buttons (Flat interface)
• (30.01.98) Fixed: Delete open ZIP file -> switch to parent dir
• (27.01.98) Added: 2 commands for button bar/start menu to copy selected file names to clipboard (with or without full path)
• (25.01.98) Added: Wildcard '*' now interpreted more accurately: *n.* now MUST contain 'n' (in DOS, *n.* would match all files)
• (21.01.98) Fixed: Remove spaces from unzipped file names when long filenames are disabled
• (21.01.98) Added: Recognize ARJ and LZH-Packed SFX (self extracting) Windows EXE files
• (21.01.98) Added: Adjusted header widths
• (16.01.98) Fixed: Show file name tips lowercase if name lowercase
• (16.01.98) Added: Allow to pack files with long names also with ARJ
• (16.01.98) Fixed: cd ... works again
• (03.01.98) Added: Unpack special GZIP files containing multiple parts
• (22.12.97) Added: In "Change attributes", set attributes to unchanged if on a directory
• (22.12.97) Added: Delete partial file if "combine files" fails
• (17.12.97) Added: Use same password when re-packing to archive after F4 on encrypted file
• (16.12.97) Added: Only check version info of most common system files when overwriting (speed improvement)
• (16.12.97) Added: Re-load button bar and drive bar on resolution change
• (15.12.97) Added: Flat look of most of the main user interface (configurable)
• (12.12.97) Added: Flat buttons for drive button bar (configurable)
• (09.12.97) Fixed: cd \directory in button bar / start menu now changes to correct dir on same drive
• (07.12.97) Added: New icons for Network Neighborhood and FTP connections in drive bar
• (07.12.97) Added: Accept drag&drop from Exchange attachments
• (01.12.97) Added: Make backup of overwritten file when starting a download (in case the download fails)
• (01.12.97) Added: Offer to disconnect previous FTP connection if new connection opened in same window
• (26.11.97) Fixed: Lister had problems with files which started with 2x 0A (hex)
• (26.11.97) Fixed: Right click on .lnk file pointing to non-existing network drive caused a crash
• (26.11.97) Added: Support long names (up to 32 chars) as NTFS volume labels
• (25.11.97) Fixed: Pass the short (alias) name to the editor with SHIFT+F4, if a long name was entered
• (25.11.97) Fixed: Error in Quoted-Printable (MIME) decoder (Base64 NOT affected)
• (24.11.97) Fixed: Save user name in directory hotlist
• (24.11.97) Fixed: F3 or Shift+F3 inside ZIP file doesn't loose file selection
• (24.11.97) Fixed: Directory menu also works if current dir=ZIP file
• (24.11.97) Fixed: Allow double quotes in command line (cd, md and rd commands)
• (24.11.97) Added: After upload to FTP site, clear selections
• (21.11.97) Added: right click for about 1 second on the file window title bar opens the directory history instead of the context menu
• (21.11.97) Added: ALT+Cursor down shows history list of last visited directories (same as for ALT+Left/Right)
• (20.11.97) Added: IntelliMouse wheel support
• (20.11.97) Fixed: Unpack correct date from LHA32-packed files
• (18.11.97) Fixed: Attribute of file not lost when rename fails
• (18.11.97) Added: Unpack attributes of packed subdirs together with the dir
• (18.11.97) Added: Show ZIP pack progress only for newly added files
• (18.11.97) Added: Use "CompareString" in 32-bit version to sort file lists (lexically correct)
• (25.10.97) Fixed: "Go back" in 16 bit sometimes needed two clicks to go back
• (25.10.97) Fixed: Problems with button bar (two lines in true color not shown)
• (24.10.97) Added: Pack dialog now contains an option to create a self extracting archive
• (24.10.97) Fixed: Unpacking from a RAR subdir had a bug in the batch file
• (23.10.97) Fixed: File tooltip updated also if files have name of same length
• (23.10.97) Fixed: Resolve environment variables in .lnk files (NT)
• (21.10.97) Added: Remember also user name of ftp connection (allows to go back)
• (15.10.97) Added: Wincmd tries to restore previous drive/dir when FTP connection closed
• (15.10.97) Fixed: Drag&Drop also from files with tooltip on top
• (15.10.97) Added: Double click on tree item expands/collapses tree item (as in Explorer)
• (14.10.97) Added: History list of previous connections in CTRL+N "new connection" dialog
• (14.10.97) Added: Right click menu for F8 button (32-bit version only)
• (12.10.97) Added: ALT+Left arrow goes to previous dir, ALT+Right arrow to next dir
• (06.10.97) Added: Icons for text-encoded files (uue,xxe,b64,mim)
• (03.10.97) Added: Wincmd rereads drive panel on WM_DEVICECHANGE
• (03.10.97) Added: switch SortUpper=1 causes underscores to be sorted at the END of the file list
• (03.10.97) Added: (32 bit only) Move Wincmd to system tray area when minimized
• (01.10.97) Fixed: FTP display all uppercase on NT server
• (30.09.97) Fixed: Moved GetFreeSystemresources to external DLL
• (30.09.97) Added: List windows now support different font scripts than 'Western'
• (30.09.97) Added: Allow 12 hour format with AM/PM (configuration - tabstops)
• (29.09.97) Added: Own listbox to avoid slow scrolling in Win98
• (24.09.97) Added: Automatically re-connect FTP if connection is lost (only on changedir or F2)
• (23.09.97) Added: Command: FTPOPEN Sessionname in start menu/Button bar will open FTP session with this name
• (21.09.97) Added: Tooltip for filename in list which is truncated (disabled by default)
• (18.09.97) Added: By default, show only root of drive in tree view (configurable)
• (18.09.97) Added: Special treatment for symlinked FTP files
• (18.09.97) Added: Moved FTP menu items directly to 'commands' menu
• (18.09.97) Added: Do not show Nethood button if no net present
• (17.09.97) Added: Special processing for ftp clients which don't return a current dir name
• (17.09.97) Added: Option to resume download when ftping single file, which exists in target dir
• (17.09.97) Fixed: Cursor up/down now works in overwrite dialog
• (10.09.97) Added: Double click on FTP log list opens the list in a separate lister window
• (10.09.97) Added: FTP client checks CWD command reply for directory name -> saves call to PWD
• (10.09.97) Added: Show progress (in %) when Wincmd is minimized
• (10.09.97) Added: Color common dialog to config dialog if color resolution high color or true color
• (07.09.97) Added: No lowercase conversion of filenames on ftp server (UNIX is case sensitive!)
• (05.09.97) Fixed: Several dialog boxes were sizeable
• (05.09.97) Added: File names starting with a period "." now start in "name" column, not extension column
• (05.09.97) Added: Open second connection on Target=Source
• (02.09.97) Added: cm_maximize and cm_restore commands to maximize/restore the Wincmd window
• (23.08.97) Added: Add shortcut keys to start menu
• (23.08.97) Added: Call internal Wincmd commands from start menu
• (16.08.97) Added: When only 1 instance, a second instance passes the command line (paths) to the previous instance
• (16.08.97) Added: New command line switches: /O activates previous instance, /N creates multiple instances of Wincmd
• (14.08.97) Added: Special processing for files with same name but different case (ftp upload to Unix)
• (14.08.97) Added: Submenus in Start menu and CTRL+D local menu
• (11.08.97) Added: UUE/MIME/XXE-encode and decode, Binhex-decode
• (10.08.97) Added: Split/Combine files added to Wincmd
• (08.08.97) Added: Firewall support for FTP client, translation of FTP client
• (28.07.97) Added: FTP client now working inside Wincmd
• (28.07.97) Added: If target is NTFS drive, set file pointer to length of target file now also before unpacking (if size known)
• (28.07.97) Added: Allow to Skip a bad file when copying (instead of aborting the whole copy)
• (28.07.97) Fixed: Rename in place now works also if target name=alias name of a different file
• (28.07.97) Added: Create many directories at once with F7, like c:\test1\test2\test3\test4
• (23.07.97) Added: Update %-Value in Lister every second when scrolling
• (23.07.97) Added: Resolve shortcuts to directories within Windows Commander (not open Explorer)
• (16.07.97) Added: Remember selected files and current file when switching brief<->full view
• (14.07.97) Fixed: Problem with WinRAR and long archive name
• (08.07.97) Added: Scroll listbox when dragging file to position just above/below listbox
• (29.06.97) Fixed: ALT+ESC now works again in Windows 3.1
• (16.06.97) Fixed: renaming problem with ? wildcard
• (14.06.97) Fixed: Ghost files in RAR files containing recovery data removed
• (13.06.97) Added: Parameter %m in Start menu/Button bar passes target name to program (target name=active file in target directory) -> commands like fc %p%n %t%m
• (12.06.97) Added: Zip-Selfextractor (when renaming .zip to .exe)
• (11.06.97) Added: CTRL+D-Menu now also allows to set the target path with the same shortcut
• (10.06.97) Added: ALT+GrayPlus selects all files with the same extension as the file under the cursor / ALT+GrayMinus unselects
• (09.06.97) Fixed: Problems with ZipMagic
• (03.06.97) Fixed: Wincmd now converts file names to lowercase (not uppercase) when sorting, which puts files with underscore _ first
• (01.06.97) Added: Directory-Menu, can be opened by double click on current directory (title) or by CTRL+D
• (28.05.97) Added: In right mouse button selection mode, selection with left mouse button+CTRL/SHIFT key now also supported
• (28.05.97) Fixed: CTRL+Q sometimes used wrong cluster size for calculating space occupied by a directory
• (28.05.97) Added: Switch LongInStatus in wincmd.ini section [Configuration] shows filenames in status bar also in 'Full' view
• (28.05.97) Fixed: When copying a directory, any subdir starting with a '.' in the name was not copied
• (28.05.97) Fixed: Trying to rename a file starting with a '[' in the name failed
• (28.05.97) Fixed: Changing drive after having a search result in a file window caused an incomplete file list display
• (26.05.97) Fixed: Deleting items from button bar can remove double quotes around names
• (26.05.97) Added: CAB unpacking added to Wincmd's unpacking functions (32 bit version only)
• (15.05.97) Added: Lister can now also search backwards (from end to beginning}
• (11.05.97) Fixed: Could not change date/time of file in Wincmd32 if long names were turned off
• (11.05.97) Added: cm_countdircontent: Calculates the space occupied by all the subdirs in the current directory
• (11.05.97) Added: If target is NTFS drive, set file pointer to length of target file before copying the file -> less fragmentation of NTFS volume
• (11.05.97) Added: Remember last 'search for' in the file search dialog (not only in history list)
• (11.05.97) Fixed: Work around bug in MS Internet Explorer 4.0 (beta), preventing the start of DOS programs with CreateProcess
• (19.04.97) Fixed: Could not open subdir .ttt\.www inside a ZIP file
• (19.04.97) Fixed: Some ZIP archives cannot be unpacked with Wincmd (packed with Dynazip)