List of changes (version 5.0 - 5.10)

List of changes (version 5.0 - 5.10) is a list of changes to Total Commander since version 5.0 until the release of version 5.10. The list starts at the latest change and goes back in time.

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List of changes (version 5.0 - 5.10)

(28.08.02) Release Windows Commander 5.10 Final

• (27.08.02) Fixed: When copying to removable NTFS volume, don't call "Flush" every xx seconds (causing problems with preallocation)
• (22.08.02) Fixed: Installer hangs if any of the target files has the hidden attribute

(21.08.02) Release Windows Commander 5.10 RC1

• (20.08.02) Fixed: Diskdir plugin: Extract file date/time with files
• (20.08.02) Fixed: Ctrl+B Branch view: Drag file from subdir with spaces in it to button bar button would not open the file
• (20.08.02) Fixed: FTP: When editing a file with F4, then disconnecting and reconnecting to other server, the file was re-uploaded to the wrong server

(14.08.02) Release Windows Commander 5.10 Beta 2

• (14.08.02) Fixed: Crash on Alt+Enter if WinRAR 3 installed
• (13.08.02) Fixed: Moved creation of sound registry keys to configuration dialog - only if "Configure sounds" button is clicked
• (12.08.02) Fixed: Make Wincmd work with current RAR.EXE version (Winrar.exe already worked, use this if possible)
• (07.08.02) Fixed: Shift+Enter didn't work inside of archives
• (07.08.02) Fixed: "Show (Lister)" no longer working in context menu

(06.08.02) Release Windows Commander 5.10 Beta 1 (without the new features, just the fixes)

• (06.08.02) Fixed: Parameter %P in button bar: Remove "0:" pseudo drive for ftp connections
• (04.08.02) Fixed: Search function unpacked ACE archives even when it didn't search for text
• (31.07.02) Added: Show name of logged-on user in the title bar if the program was started with RunAs
• (30.07.02) Fixed: Win32-style hints crash in Ctrl+B mode
• (30.07.02) Fixed: Compare by contents: If one listbox has a horizonal scrollbar and the other hasn't, scrolling to the end brings lists out of sync
• (30.07.02) Fixed: User-defined hotkeys didn't work with RestrictInterface=1 (turning off the start menu)
• (28.07.02) Added: Support for TAR files >2GB (the individual packed files must be smaller than 2 GB!)
• (28.07.02) Fixed: On Win9x+ME, the parallel port driver cannot be loaded if the directory contains a non-English accented character -> copy driver temporarily to system directory
• (28.07.02) Fixed: Parameter /L=//servername/ didn't work, only /L=//servername/share
• (26.07.02) Added: Drag a link from IE to Wincmd to open the URL dialog to download the linked file
• (26.07.02) Fixed: Shift+F4 (new file) didn't work if editor was defined with "%1" parameter
• (26.07.02) Added: Translate environment variables in the command line, e.g. cd %windir% -> cd c:\windows
• (26.07.02) Fixed: Right click on drive button and choosing a command from the 'New' submenu sometimes created the new item in the current directory
• (23.07.02) Added: wincmd.ini, [Configuration], XPMoveMethod=1/0 sets move method described below also on other operating systems (Win2k/NT4)
• (23.07.02) Added: WinXP: Make Wincmd behave like Explorer when moving files: The target file always gets the permissions of the target directory and doesn't keep its own
• (23.07.02) Fixed: WinXP shows other computers in Nethood subdirs in the form "Server Comment (servername)". Changed to "servername".
• (23.07.02) Added: Show warning in sync function and in "compare by contents" if source and target contain the same dir
• (23.07.02) Fixed: When unpacking to temp dir on ENTER, remove read-only attribute so file can be deleted later
• (19.07.02) Added: Multi-rename tool, search+replace: added wildcard '*' which stands for 0 or more characters
• (19.07.02) Added: Multi-rename tool, search+replace: added wildcard '?' which stands for a single character
• (19.07.02) Fixed: FTP: access violation if local name too long
• (19.07.02) Fixed: Sync tool: German 'sz' letter was detected as being the same as 'ss' in sync tool ('feature' of the 'CompareString' function of Windows...)
• (19.07.02) Fixed: background transfer manager: Total length of source+target dir couldn't exceed 259 characters
• (14.07.02) Added: Updated help files to reflect the new functions
• (14.07.02) Fixed: FTP always open in left or right window wasn't correctly saved
• (10.07.02) Added: Changed shortcut to edit comments to Ctrl+Z
• (02.07.02) Fixed: Compare by content, if file too big, the file handle wasn't always closed after compare failed
• (25.06.02) Fixed: Configuration dialog, when changing fonts, the preview shows the wrong fonts after clicking "Apply"
• (25.06.02) Added: Change size display of total/marked files in footer below file lists (bytes, k or dynamic)
• (25.06.02) Added: On FTP downloads, replace colon ":" by underscore "_" because otherwise Windows creates a named substream on NTFS
• (25.06.02) Added: New drag&drop method: Before releasing the left mouse button, hold down the right button -> Files will be moved! (same as Shift+Drop)
• (20.06.02) Added: Option in Configuration - Misc to always open new FTP connections in the left or right file panel instead of the active file panel
• (20.06.02) Added: Command line during FTP connection: "PUT" command now supports absolute paths, e.g. PUT c:\files\file.txt
• (20.06.02) Added: Synchronize dirs, asymmetric mode: Option to delete all empty dirs in right window (not available in zip or ftp)
• (19.06.02) Added: File system plugin configuration dialog to load .wfx plugins
• (18.06.02) Fixed: Creating multi-volume ZIP archives slow on Win2k
• (18.06.02) Fixed: Background transfer manager: "-" button removed wrong items from list if already downloaded a file
• (18.06.02) Fixed: Show file sizes >2 GB also in overwrite confirmation dialog
• (18.06.02) Added: Wincmd now shows name of user account used to launch it, if different from current session (e.g. using RunAs)
• (11.06.02) Added: In Copy dialog, "Options" button which allows to set "Overwrite all", "Skip all" etc. before copying
• (11.06.02) Fixed: Parallel port server in Wincmd16: Could not access empty drives (e.g. floppy with no files)
• (11.06.02) Fixed: Command line: Forward slashes will now be converted to backslashes on local drives
• (11.06.02) Added: Lister: Show frame numbers if avi format doesn't support time format
• (01.06.02) Added: Current transfer speed and approx. remaining time to file system plugin
• (31.05.02) Fixed: Selection with Shift+Left click didn't always work after selecting first item with right click
• (31.05.02) Added: Synchronize dirs: Total % of comparison now calculated by file size, not number of files
• (31.05.02) Added: Support for <XMP> tag in lister (same as <PRE>)
• (31.05.02) Fixed: In place rename in ZIP can now also be invoked by a slow double click
• (31.05.02) Added: Search for multiple paths in search function now also works with UNC paths, e.g. \\server\share1;\\server\share2
• (31.05.02) Added: Multi-rename tool: Load/Save settings, for often used changes
• (30.05.02) Added: Lister: In 'Fit to window' mode, resize the video window to the lister window
• (29.05.02) Added: FTP: When using auto-retry, also wait for the retry timeout after the first connection attempt
• (27.05.02) Added: Remove file tip window when any key is pressed
• (14.05.02) Added: Copying of comments (descript.ion and files.bbs)
• (14.05.02) Added: SHA1 authentication to FTP client
• (14.05.02) Fixed: Drag other window over drive button bar could show frame
• (14.05.02) Fixed: In the button bar, a button was shown as down after right clicking on it
• (13.05.02) Added: YENC decoder in files - decode files (with CRC and size check, supports multi-part)
• (13.05.02) Added: FTP client will send FEAT command to ask for ftp server features MDTM and LIST -lT (full date/time display)
• (10.05.02) Added: SFV function can now also create and check MD5 checksums. The created format is <checksum> <filename>, but verification also accepts <filename> <checksum>
• (10.05.02) Added: FTP client: Upload/download files > 4 GB, also with resume
• (05.05.02) Added: Show comments from descript.ion, files.bbs, Word documents and NTFS streams in a tooltip (needs to be enabled in Configuration - Display)
• (05.05.02) Added: Show comments from descript.ion and files.bbs with Ctrl+Shift+F2
• (05.05.02) Fixed: Lister standalone: Mouse scrolling didn't work
• (21.04.02) Added: Plugin interface: "Overwrite all older" on downloads, uploads and remote transfers
• (17.04.02) Fixed: After changing attributes in subdirs, the current selection wasn't removed if nothing had changed in the current directory
• (17.04.02) Added: Also copy date/time of IStream objects on drag&drop (doesn't work with Outlook Express, because OE doesn't pass them)
• (17.04.02) Fixed: Zip subdir was removed when clicking "encrypt" in pack dialog
• (17.04.02) Fixed: Compare by contents could fail with a single character at the end
• (16.04.02) Added: Copy additional NTFS streams when copying files. If the user doesn't have enough privileges, only the SummaryInformation stream is copied
• (16.04.02) Added: Internal unpacking of single files from multi-volume RAR archives (requires new unrar.dll)
• (16.04.02) Fixed: Multi-volume RAR files: Only show files which start in that volume!
• (16.04.02) Fixed: Support for new multi-volume RAR files (requires external winrar for unpacking)
• (15.04.02) Fixed: Problem with copying huge files using the special copying modes
• (15.04.02) Fixed: Pausing a HTTP download moved to the background also paused a foreground ftp download
• (15.04.02) Fixed: No error messages when trying to compare a file on an ftp server, or copying from ftp to an archive
• (15.04.02) Fixed: FTP download later: didn't save firewall type for http firewalls
• (15.04.02) Added: Support for bmp files with negative height (stored upside down)
• (15.04.02) Added: Support for *.jp2 and *.j2k (Jpeg 2000) through Irfanview
• (15.04.02) Added: Open link (*.lnk) in other window with Ctrl+Right arrow (or left arrow, respectively)
• (15.04.02) Fixed: Background transfer manager didn't remember max. transfer speed during multiple http downloads or ftp via http downloads
• (15.04.02) Added: Call MessageLoop only every 200 ms during a transfer, may make transfer faster
• (15.04.02) Added: Timeout to "Download complete" message from ftp server - Wincmd should try to continue if no reply for 15 seconds
• (09.04.02) Fixed: If opening of a subdir in a plugin fails, don't jump to local drive (but do it if refresh fails)
• (09.04.02) Added: Ctrl+D menu now also supports the file system plugins (requires that plugin order isn't changed)
• (09.04.02) Fixed: After sorting list in plugin display, cannot switch to subdirs
• (25.03.02) Fixed: By mistake, quotation marks were removed from command line parameters of 2 character commands.
• (25.03.02) Fixed: Ctrl+B in packer plugin: Extract of files from subdirs didn't work (because subdir wasn't created)
• (25.03.02) Fixed: Background transfer manager didn't rename files on same drive, instead it copied+deleted them
• (25.03.02) Fixed: Check for a colon ":" when copying/moving with F5 or F6 to avoid the copying of the data to a named substream
• (25.03.02) Fixed: Explicitely check for a colon ":" when renaming with Shift+F6 to avoid moving the data to a named substream on NTFS drives
• (25.03.02) Fixed: If deletion of non-empty dir is canceled, the dir loses any special attributes like hidden or system
• (11.03.02) Fixed: Problems with internal HTML links without double quotes
• (05.03.02) Added: RTF-Viewer in Lister, can be disabled in Lister's configuration (override with '4'=Multimedia)
• (05.03.02) Fixed: Don't get special icons for folders with read-only attribute on UNC network drives
• (28.02.02) Fixed: FTP transfer log sometimes contained duplicate slashes in URLs

(26.02.02) Release Windows Commander 5.0 Silent update (only contains the fixes, no new features)

• (25.02.02) Fixed: Couldn't copy file on remote share to other dir with file of same name
• (25.02.02) Fixed: Extension was removed from xyztar.zip when clicking on 'create self-extracting archive' in pack dialog

(24.02.02) Release Windows Commander 5.01 Beta 2

• (24.02.02) Fixed: Detect if source and target file are identical even if they are on network drives with different names pointing to the same location (e.g. H: and I: poining both to \\server\share)
• (22.02.02) Added: Show error when writing to wcx_ftp.ini fails in Net - FTP new connection
• (22.02.02) Added: Show error when writing to button bar fails in Configuration - Button bar
• (22.02.02) Added: Show error when writing to wincmd.ini fails in Configuration - Options
• (22.02.02) Fixed: Access violation in new unrar.dll when trying to search in multi-volume archive
• (21.02.02) Fixed: Problems in Ctrl+Q with [..] directory
• (21.02.02) Fixed: Different way to draw footer, to avoid possible drawing errors
• (20.02.02) Added: "+" and "-" keys on numeric keypad now work in background transfer manager
• (20.02.02) Fixed: HTTP download in background, better function to abort a download
• (20.02.02) Added: Quick search with search dialog now allows to find files with multiple dots. Eact typed dot is expanded to "*.", e.g. part1.part2.part3 -> part1*.part2*.part3
• (19.02.02) Fixed: When moving files to RAR archives, directories were not deleted (only partially resolved, when recursing subdirs)
• (19.02.02) Fixed: Lister F3 crashed with AVI files with a name longer than 193 characters (bug in media player) -> use dos name
• (19.02.02) Fixed: Wrong unzip progress if selecting dirs in zip with Spacebar
• (19.02.02) Fixed: Updated default Tandem FTP server template
• (19.02.02) Fixed: Alt+F4 in verify checksums dialog didn't re-enable the main Wincmd window
• (15.02.02) Added: Unpack ZIP files up to 4 GB (pack up to 2 GB)
• (15.02.02) Added: Support for RAR files > 4 GB

(13.02.02) Release Windows Commander 5.01 Beta 1

• (13.02.02) Fixed: Background button not working if a background delete operation was canceled after copying started
• (13.02.02) Fixed: HTTP download in background didn't show name of downloaded file if clicking 'Background' during the connect
• (12.02.02) Fixed: Pressing underlined key of the "Exit" button while in Ctrl+Q mode closes Wincmd (e.g. 'X' in German version)
• (12.02.02) Fixed: Lister: in html link hints, replace hex values by the characters, e.g. %20 -> " " (space)
• (12.02.02) Fixed: Open bad ZIP self-extracting modules which contain PK#3#4 signature in the sfx code
• (12.02.02) Fixed: Background transfer manager: When using "add URL", don't ask for the password for anonymous FTP URLs
• (12.02.02) Added: Support for F3 and F4 on the desktop (only user-specific files, not those belonging to all users)
• (11.02.02) Added: wincmd.ini, [Configuration], UseShellConnect=1 lets Wincmd use the old (4.53) method to connect to network shares (in Ctrl+D etc.)
• (10.02.02) Added: Support for OTP secure FTP authentication (not encryption!), e.g. for Serv-U, supports MD4 and MD5 (not working through all proxies)
• (10.02.02) Fixed: Search function: "Search in" field set to c: instead of c:\ in the root
• (10.02.02) Fixed: Switch to wrong FTP directory when synchronize is closed and connection was lost
• (06.02.02) Fixed: Deadlock situation when background thread tries to show dialog box and main menu is open (could be resolved with alt+tab)
• (06.02.02) Added: Search function can now correctly find files >2 GB
• (04.02.02) Added: Auto-install feature to installer (no questions asked). In install.inf, section [auto], set auto=1
  lang= sets language, alllang=1 installs all other languages, iniloc=c:\wincmd sets ini location
  iniall=1 sets ini location for all users, mkgroup=1 creates Start menu group, mkdesktop=1 makes desktop icon
  Install dir is determined by previous installation location, or [Destination], Dir=
• (04.02.02) Fixed: Ignore junk data after the end of a .GZ file (e.g. padding with 0 bytes)
• (04.02.02) Fixed: Lister scrollbar problems when switching from image view to text view
• (04.02.02) Fixed: Unicode big endian files not shown correctly when switching to hex and back to Unicode view
• (04.02.02) Added: Include new unrar.dll to unpack version 1+3 files in addition to version 2
• (04.02.02) Added: Don't use compression for help files, makes download archive 100k smaller(!)
• (04.02.02) Added: Allow extension .crc when verifying checksums (in addition to .sfv)
• (03.02.02) Fixed: Replaced NOOP by PWD in various places, because some servers dislike it
• (03.02.02) Fixed: FTP server may return another wrong reply on NOOP command
• (03.02.02) Fixed: Read WinXP-specific registry keys only on XP, some installers may write them on older versions of Windows
• (01.02.02) Fixed: WinXP supports yet another new type of association, added to Wincmd too
• (01.02.02) Fixed: Click on parent button in search result while other window open refreshes wrong window
• (01.02.02) Fixed: Errors in German, French, Spanish, Slovak and Polish language files
• (01.02.02) Added: cm_focusleft, cm_focusright internal commands set focus on left or right file window
• (01.02.02) Added: Ctrl+X in command line now means 'cut' (was next command in history, for compatibility reasons)
• (01.02.02) Fixed: Couldn't go up to the Desktop from Recycle Bin
• (01.02.02) Fixed: Buttons like "Mail" on newer keyboards stopped working with Wincmd in foreground (only Win2k and newer)
• (28.01.02) Fixed: Show larger rename edit box (Shift+F6) for very small fonts
• (28.01.02) Fixed: If append to file fails, the file is now truncated to its original size
• (28.01.02) Fixed: No error was shown when trying to pack to write-protected zip
• (28.01.02) Fixed: Long directory names, or file names without extension are cut off by 1 character in brief mode
• (22.01.02) Fixed: included style WS_CLIPCHILDREN in lister creation
• (22.01.02) Fixed: Compare by contents crash with "ignore case" and DBCS characters