List of changes (version 4.01 - 4.02)

List of changes (version 4.01 - 4.02) is a list of changes to Total Commander since version 4.01 until the release of version 4.02. The list starts at the latest change and goes back in time.

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List of changes (version 4.01 - 4.02)

(16.12.99) Release Windows Commander 4.02

• (15.12.99) Fixed: Tree display: Free disk space not updated when changing directories
• (15.12.99) Fixed: correctly handle double byte fonts on Win2k even if locale is not set to double byte font country
• (15.12.99) Fixed: Compare by contents may hang with Chinese or Japanese binary files

(14.12.99) Release Windows Commander 4.02 RC1

• (14.12.99) Fixed: Creation of many shortcuts (*.lnk, *.pif) with Ctrl+Shift+F5 could not be aborted
• (13.12.99) Fixed: Couldn't abort stalled HTTP downloads
• (13.12.99) Fixed: Tree in right window, switch from drive c: to Nethood and back to c: -> no tree shown
• (13.12.99) Fixed: No progress bar in 'synchronize dirs'
• (12.12.99) Fixed: FTP upload, when giving subdir (e.g. subdir/*.*), file names may be shortened
• (09.12.99) Fixed: Crash when choosing 'compare by contents' with empty disk
• (09.12.99) Fixed: Search for text: The "_" char is handled like a letter, so when searching for "text", and 'whole words', "text_text" is NOT found
• (09.12.99) Fixed: Pack dialog, switching to plugin with 2 letters could add 2 double quotes
• (09.12.99) Added: Lister, when selecting text, slower scrolling when mouse cursor within 16 pixels above or below window

(07.12.99) Release Windows Commander 4.02 Beta 3

• (06.12.99) Fixed: Wincmd could show an error when starting a program although there was none (16 bit only)
• (06.12.99) Fixed: Add correct path to command line when shift+dragging from FTP connection to command line
• (06.12.99) Fixed: Problems with new TAR files having different header
• (05.12.99) Added: Recompiled ZIP packer DLL with MS VC++ 6.0 -> up to 20% speed increase!
• (03.12.99) Fixed: Drive change (Alt+F1, cursors) problems when BestCrypt with keyboard filter running
• (03.12.99) Fixed: Files-Pack: Wrong extension added when switching from zip to bz2, when name in double quotes
• (03.12.99) Fixed: FTP: Re-upload of file after remote-edit (F4) did work, but Wincmd reported an error
• (03.12.99) Fixed: When trying to download from FTP and connection is lost, directly offer to reconnect without showing 'Transfer failed, continue'
• (03.12.99) Fixed: Compare by contents: External exception for files>1 MB with bad sectors (e.g. on a floppy)
• (03.12.99) Fixed: Slow down window scrolling when selecting with right mouse button
• (03.12.99) Added: Parameter %E in button bar/start menu passes long extension (like .jpeg) to program
• (01.12.99) Fixed: Avoid calculating the size of a subdir twice in ctrl+q
• (01.12.99) Fixed: Files-Associate-Edit type: Couldn't remove DDE settings on NT, because registry subkeys wouldn't be deleted
• (01.12.99) Fixed: Problem with active desktop (click on icon minimizes Wincmd just before 'drive not found' dialog shown -> wincmd blocked)
• (01.12.99) Fixed: WinNT 4 with IE4 desktop enhancements: Random icons showed for EXE files which didn't contain their own icon
• (01.12.99) Fixed: Display problems with font 'lucida sans typewriter' in 'compare by contents': Map chars<32 to space
• (01.12.99) Fixed: Switch away from Wincmd while quick search window shown no longer removed the quick search window
• (01.12.99) Fixed: Couldn't upload files from search result to FTP
• (01.12.99) Fixed: When free disk space changed while tree panel shown, disk size display in three panel isn't updated
• (01.12.99) Fixed: Could no longer unzip to current dir using drag&drop to [..] when other panel contained ftp panel
• (30.11.99) Added: 256 color icons to button bar
• (25.11.99) Fixed: Could not unpack files from CAB which had absolute path (leading backslash)
• (25.11.99) Added: Compare by contents: When files are identical, also show the names of the compared files
• (25.11.99) Fixed: Synchronize dirs: When comparing by content, read only files were not deleted from TEMP dir
• (25.11.99) Fixed: HTTP download in background: show % done in title bar
• (24.11.99) Added: Compare by contents: Dialog box which shows how to abort (by pressing ESC)
• (23.11.99) Fixed: Could not unzip to directory called "--- CD PROJECTS ---"
• (23.11.99) Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Hide directories which do not contain any files matching the display criteria
• (19.11.99) Fixed: FTP download directory: Skip symbolic links pointing to dirs but having an extension (looking like a file)
• (19.11.99) Fixed: When right clicking on file window title in 'My Computer' and clicking the default 'open', Wincmd showed the Network Neighborhood
• (19.11.99) Added: When using the synchronize function, select the option 'only compare selected' by default when files/dirs are selected
• (19.11.99) Added: When using the search function, select the option 'only search selected' by default when files/dirs are selected
• (19.11.99) Fixed: Aborting a foreground download could abort a HTTP download in the background (from list)

(16.11.99) Release Windows Commander 4.02 Beta 2

• (16.11.99) Added: Synchronize dirs allows to compare selected files/dirs only (with or without subdirs)
• (15.11.99) Fixed: Could not unpack multi-volume zip files using the menu (only using ENTER+F5)
• (15.11.99) Fixed: Search settings (duplicate file finder) not correctly saved - you need to re-save the settings
• (14.11.99) Fixed: 'calculate occupied space' was limited to 65535 files, expanded to 32 bit
• (12.11.99) Added: HTTP-Downloads (from URL button) can now be put in the background (separate thread)
• (12.11.99) Added: Ask for Text extensions when choosing automatic ftp transfer mode in configuration - misc.
• (12.11.99) Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Ignore date for servers where the date cannot be determined
• (11.11.99) Fixed: Server to server copy: may display wrong copy direction
• (10.11.99) Fixed: Lister update problems when switching to word wrap mode (with very small fonts only)
• (09.11.99) Fixed: Disable uncontrolled auto-scrolling to the right in 'brief' mode using single mouse click mode
• (09.11.99) Added: During internal Drag&Drop, place cursor on subdirectory in OTHER window and press ENTER to open this subdir!
• (09.11.99) Added: To search dialog: search only in selected directories/files
• (09.11.99) Added: Default to 800x600 window size of 1024x768 screens (as long as user hasn't chosen 'save position')
• (09.11.99) Added: Create new subdirectory inside ZIP archives (ZIP only)
• (08.11.99) Fixed: Problem with some TAR files having right-aligned fields in header (unreadable)
• (07.11.99) Added: "Browse" button to "FTP download from list"
• (07.11.99) Fixed: ZIP in ZIP: When going out of inner ZIP, do not go to outer ZIP when tree is shown, or when user doesn't go to parent dir!
• (07.11.99) Fixed: FTP client would warn about binary data in text mode even when downloading directory contents (e.g. on a far east server)
• (07.11.99) Fixed: Double click on link (*.lnk) which points to non-existing directory, clicking 'Cacnel' -> Hourglass cursor
• (07.11.99) Fixed: Synchronize dirs: When comparing by content, the wrong files were refreshed when clicking one of the = or arrow buttons during the comparison
• (04.11.99) Fixed: Progress dialog not removed after 'synchronize' with zip in 'synchronize dirs'
• (04.11.99) Fixed: Command line: 'md' command did not work
• (04.11.99) Fixed: Windows NT only: unzip in background didn't work (caused a crash!)
• (04.11.99) Fixed: Right click on tray icon, then ESC or click outside didn't close the try icon (Reason: see MSDN Q135788)

(03.11.99) Release Windows Commander 4.11 Beta 1

• (31.10.99) Fixed: Synchronize function: Stop if a directory contains two files with identical name, but different case
• (31.10.99) Fixed: Unix-FTP-Server with two directories having identical names, but different case -> cursor positioned on first item when going up 1 dir
• (31.10.99) Fixed: Wincmd showed hourglass cursor if view zip inside zip failed
• (31.10.99) Added: Show more detailed error message when users tries to modify an archive which requires an external packer
• (31.10.99) Added: 'Browse' button to ftp details dialog (for local path)
• (28.10.99) Fixed: Refresh problems with 'compare files'
• (28.10.99) Fixed: Speedup of progress dialog drawing
• (28.10.99) Fixed: Could not correctly minimize program during synchronize dirs (while copying)
• (26.10.99) Fixed: Problems in search function with illegal file names (longer 259 chars, e.g. in 'temporary internet files') fixed
• (26.10.99) Added: Support for some German Unix FTP servers (sending month names in German)
• (26.10.99) Fixed: HTTP-Download from list (in background) could interfere with foreground processes
• (26.10.99) Fixed: Copy/Move directory inside tree window with drag&drop now supported
• (26.10.99) Added: Synchronize dirs now shows an error if user tries to synchronize unsupported pair (e.g. zip<->ftp or ftp<->ftp)
• (26.10.99) Fixed: Catch upload or download errors in synchronize dirs with ftp
• (22.10.99) Added: 2 timestamps differing by a maximum of 2 seconds are considered identical (until now this was only done with NTFS drives)
• (17.10.99) Added: FTP server to server transfers (fxp): Always send PORT command to left server, PASV to right server. -> Put server in non-public network on LEFT side!
• (17.10.99) Added: Do not re-compare in 'synchronize dirs' after deleting files from local dir (recompare is still necessary when deleting from zip or ftp)
• (17.10.99) Fixed: After opening associated archive in Wincmd, the back button had to be pressed twice to go to previous dir
• (17.10.99) Fixed: FTP to unix server with month name as user or group name - correctly detect dir names with space
• (17.10.99) Added: Code to remove tray icon when Wincmd is closed while in tray
• (17.10.99) Fixed: Rename during file copy -> show new name in progress dialog
• (17.10.99) Fixed: On Alt+F9 (Unpack), Wincmd sometimes showed the short path name instead of the long
• (15.10.99) Added: Direct upload of files from inside archives directly to an FTP server
• (12.10.99) Added: Synchronize local dir with FTP
• (08.10.99) Added: Support for OS/2 FTP servers with y2k bug (they show the year 2000 as 01-01-100 instead of 01-01-00)
• (06.10.99) Added: FTP download from list: Set target file name, like this: ftp://server.com/remote.txt -> c:\path\local.txt or (downloads to default path): ftp://server.com/remote.txt -> local.txt
• (05.10.99) Added: Delete in background (separate thread)
• (28.09.99) Fixed: Remove trailing space from command line. Reason: Windows duplicates the last command line parameter!
• (28.09.99) Fixed: FTP client could switch from passive to port mode after connection loss + reconnect
• (28.09.99) Fixed: FTP Connect fails even after multiple retries -> show only one error message
• (28.09.99) Fixed: FTP through HTTP proxy: better detect links to parent directory, and do not display them
• (20.09.99) Fixed: do not calculate disk space of subdir when creating a shortcut with Ctrl+Shift+F5 (only when copying+moving)
• (20.09.99) Fixed: If rename of hidden/system/read only file canceled, these attributes may be lost
• (20.09.99) Added: New 32-bit ARJ-Selfextractor support
• (20.09.99) Fixed: Problems unzipping archives with more than 16'000 files
• (12.09.99) Added: Synchronize dirs - show progress of compare by content
• (12.09.99) Added: Right click menu in system tray
• (12.09.99) Fixed: After a search -> feed to listbox, F2 or Ctrl+R etc. brings one back to the directory before the search
• (12.09.99) Fixed: Re-Upload to FTP server: File name converted to uppercase if long filename support disabled
• (12.09.99) Fixed: Better parsing of FTP Proxy code (HTML)
• (08.09.99) Fixed: Wincmd still asked for confirmation when overwriting hidden/system files, even if the user turned off this option in configuration - misc
• (08.09.99) Fixed: %name% in paths is used for environment variable substitution - ignore if variable doesn't exist
• (02.09.99) Added: Custom hilight colors in compare by contents: wincmd.ini, [colors], CompareText,CompareTextSel,CompareBinary,CompareBinarySel. Value: 65536*blue+256*green+red
• (02.09.99) Fixed: Unzip problems with archive containing stored file without CRC
• (01.09.99) Added: Unzip in background (only one archives at the time), check integrity in background
• (31.08.99) Added: ZIPFROMLIST command for buttonbar and start menu to create a zip file with all files from a list
• (31.08.99) Fixed: Windows NT: Problems modifying ZIP files containing extra fields (created by pkzip 2.6 or 2.7)
• (30.08.99) Added: User-defined keyboard shortcuts: wincmd.ini, [Shortcuts] CAS+F2=cm_renameonly (CAS means Ctrl+Alt+Shift)
• (30.08.99) Added: Button in configuration dialog "Configure internal viewer..."
• (29.08.99) Fixed: 16-bit: Print in lister didn't work (reason: smart callbacks turned off)
• (25.08.99) Added: Lister: Changed default 'no wrap' line length to 256, maximum configurable length to 512 (text mode only)
• (25.08.99) Fixed: Some problems with plugin interface (recurse subdirs and save paths always assumed to be 'on')
• (25.08.99) Fixed: Warn if files to be packed are > 2 GB, abort if any of them alone is > 2 GB (all due to ZIP format limits)
• (25.08.99) Added: Split "Equal/Unequal" button into two buttons in sychronize function
• (19.08.99) Fixed: Search - feed to listbox gave wrong file display if sorted by size
• (19.08.99) Fixed: Button bar display problems if first item was a separator
• (19.08.99) Added: Allow to unzip even if both windows contain an open archive file
• (19.08.99) Added: FTP client now detects current dir name shown in single quotes like '/curdir'
• (19.08.99) Fixed: Replaced MessageBeep(-1) by MessageBeep(0) when file function ends in background (allows to change default beep)
• (19.08.99) Fixed: FTP download later asked for name of list file even if cancel pressed
• (17.08.99) Added: Change date/time of directories (Win95/98 only) using wc32to16.exe
• (16.08.99) Fixed: Hide the 'read only' checkbox in all Wincmd 'file open' dialogs
• (16.08.99) Added: Some more shortcuts to 'compare by contents', like Insert, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Insert, Shift+F10
• (16.08.99) Fixed: Problems with righ click menu in 'synchronize dirs' (invoked with special Menu key)
• (16.08.99) Fixed: Error connecting through some HTTP proxy servers (SQUID)
• (16.08.99) Fixed: & sign in directories not shown correctly in history list (Alt+Cursor down)
• (16.08.99) Fixed: Make Quick search window child of main window (avoids 2 icons in Alt+Tab)
• (16.08.99) Fixed: Main Window active after minimize/restore of File copy progress window
• (16.08.99) Fixed: Main Window active after minimize/restore of synchronize dialog
• (16.08.99) Fixed: Predefined file types (Gray +): Sort by name
• (16.08.99) Fixed: Error decoding certain BinHex 4.0 files
• (16.08.99) Fixed: Properties of packed file: compression ratio wrong for very big files
• (16.08.99) Fixed: ESC in any program aborts 'synchronize dirs'