17.06.99 Release Windows Commander 4.0 16.06.99 Fixed: Possible problem with very fast FTP servers 16.06.99 Fixed: Use ExtractIconEx for taskbar icon (when external icon library is used) 15.06.99 Added: Allow to abort binary compare in 'synchronize' with ESC 15.06.99 Fixed: Tab order in some dialogs 14.06.99 Fixed: 16 bit: compare files didn't work with hidden/system files 11.06.99 Release RC1 11.06.99 Added: In Mark - Compare directories, also use NTFS time compare method (2 seconds difference considered as same) 09.06.99 Fixed: Increased minimum name column width when autoresizing columns 07.06.99 Fixed: Line above buttonbar not wide enough when increasing screen resolution 07.06.99 Added: In Synchronize dirs, if at least one dir is on NTFS, two files are considered the same age even if their time differs by 2 seconds max. (NTFS<->FAT problem) 07.06.99 Fixed: Change font of hints and duplicates/singles button in synchronize if font charset different 03.06.99 Added: Working on new incoming languages 01.06.99 Added: Supported for some zip files which contain accents in ANSI instead of OEM font, not following the pkzip standard 31.05.99 Fixed: Tree (Alt+F10) lost dirs when moving, creating or deleting dirs (error added in beta 4) 31.05.99 Added: New layout for help file 28.05.99 Fixed: FTP client beeped on EXE files (only if option to show EXE/LNK icons on diskette) 26.05.99 Added: Redesigned 'select/unselect group' dialog 26.05.99 Added: Use icon from icl icon library in tray icon too 26.05.99 Added: When packing to bz2, suggest file.ext.bz2 as filename (not file.bz2) 26.05.99 Added: Alt+F9 (unpack without selecting) now also supports zip passwords (patched version only) 20.05.99 Release beta 4 20.05.99 Fixed: Start of DOS program from path with long filename with shift+enter failed 18.05.99 Fixed: Quick View window crash if pressed Ctrl+Q during program loading 18.05.99 Fixed: Removed dashed lines from duplicate file finder when resorting files 14.05.99 Fixed: Problems with files having a full path name > 259 chars (the official maximum) 14.05.99 Fixed: System menu of background thread window had 'maximize' and 'size' menu items! 14.05.99 Fixed: Bad error message when encoding/decoding and target path is invalid 07.05.99 Added: 256 color folder icons (Win2000) 06.05.99 Fixed: Lister crashed in some cases when reading damaged disk 06.05.99 Added: Speedup of Copy&Delete of many subdirs (update treeinfo.wc only once AFTER copying all dirs) 06.05.99 Fixed: Limit minimum size of 'synchronize dirs' window to avoid overlapping buttons 06.05.99 Fixed: Find files: file may stay open when aborting search for text 06.05.99 Fixed: Download through HTTP proxy: overwrite files didn't work 04.05.99 Fixed: Bug in synchronize dirs function with many subdirs 04.05.99 Added: HTTP downloads also from download list 04.05.99 Added: Redesigned all dialogs to have similar button sizes and positions 04.05.99 Added: FTP allow resume download even if multiple files are selected 04.05.99 Fixed: In Synchronize dirs, right click -> delete files will delete to recycle bin (if enabled in Wincmd) 03.05.99 Added: In directory history (Alt+Cursor down), do not show the same directory multiple times 03.05.99 Fixed: When copying multiple files to floppy - disk full - user swaps disk - Wincmd now creates all necessary subdirs 03.05.99 Fixed: Do not set focus to Wincmd's menu if user pressed F10 in lister 03.05.99 Fixed: When opening the same FTP connection in other window (by using the drive combobox), set the current dir as in the first window 03.05.99 Fixed: Use same font for button bar tooltips as for dialog boxes 03.05.99 Fixed: Support double byte characters in 'compare files' function 03.05.99 Fixed: Compare by contents: Not enough digits shown for binary files 03.05.99 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Wincmd asked for confirmation when packing even if that option was unchecked 03.05.99 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: User could select reverse copy direction even if there was no file on the other side 03.05.99 Fixed: 'Compare by contents' now also works with files in zip-subdirs 03.05.99 Fixed: No right click menu in lister after 'select all' 03.05.99 Fixed: .lst plugin put files in wrong subdir 03.05.99 Added: Use .wcx as extension for packer plugins 03.05.99 Added: Use .icl as icon library (can be used by 16+32bit wincmd) 03.05.99 Fixed: New user-defined selection types were not shown (in select files function) 03.05.99 Added: Select items in 'synchronize dirs' with spacebar and insert (which moves down the cursor without changing the selection) 22.04.99 Release beta 3 22.04.99 Added: Use external icon DLL for default file list icons: wincmd.ini, [configuration], iconlib=dllname.dll (sample DLL on www.ghisler.com) 22.04.99 Fixed: ALT+F9 unpacking of CAB files didn't support wildcards 20.04.99 Fixed: Do not move hints for icons/file names into visible area (causes problems with multi-monitor support) 20.04.99 Added: Support environment variables (like %WINDIR%) also in viewer/editor file names 20.04.99 Added: "Compare by contents": detect if the user modified one of the two compared files, and offer to recompare 20.04.99 Added: "Compare by contents" function non-modal (separate window like lister) 20.04.99 Added: Support for ARJ SFX 2.62 20.04.99 Fixed: WinRAR created wrong part size when creating multi-volume archives with default value (e.g. 1440) 19.04.99 Fixed: 'Skip files' didn't work when packing (bug only in beta1+2) 18.04.99 Added: Use optimized palette for 24 bit bmp files in 256 color screen mode 15.04.99 Added: Packer/unpacker plugins to add external archiver DLLs 12.04.99 Added: Compare by contents now also works if one of the files is inside an archive 09.04.99 Fixed: Move Window for ALT+TAB (if Wincmd in tray) further out of the screen 09.04.99 Added: Lister saves the setting 'wrap' on close 09.04.99 Added: Compare by contents now shows only different chars of a line in a different color (except for double byte Windows) 07.04.99 Fixed: Right click on button bar button - 'cd directory' didn't work if dir was surrounded by double quotes 06.04.99 Added: Connect to UNC path in background (separate thread), allow to abort after 3 seconds 06.04.99 Added: Duplicate file finder can now find files with same name, size, contents or any combination of the 3 (of course, same contents also means same size) 06.04.99 Fixed: Use language-specific decimal separator in 'file split' command (e.g. 1,44 MB) 06.04.99 Fixed: Changed option in lister to 'Fit Image to window' with shortcut 'F'. 06.04.99 Added: When unpacking multiple archives at once with ALT+F9, 'Overwrite all' now applies to all files, not only the currently unpacked archive 06.04.99 Fixed: Rename with F6 didn't position cursor on renamed file. (Btw, use Shift+F6 to rename!} 28.03.99 Fixed: Current dir wasn't selected in ALT+F10 tree display 28.03.99 Fixed: CTRL+Q inside archives no longer worked 28.03.99 Fixed: Disable menu items not used by lister (in bitmap mode) 28.03.99 Fixed: Replaced critical stop beep by information beep in lister when search aborted 24.03.99 Fixed: Adjust columns to window width didn't work together with extensions directly after filenames 24.03.99 Fixed: Could not switch from video display or sound player to text view in lister 23.03.99 Beta2 released 23.03.99 Added: wincmd.ini, [configuration], AlwaysCopyInBackground=1 always copies in separate thread (32 bit version only) 23.03.99 Added: Duplicate file finder: also compare files with different names 23.03.99 Fixed: Reserved more space to display disk space in drive button bar 23.03.99 Added: Lister, Edit->Select all 23.03.99 Added: Remember last settings in 'Synchronize dirs' dialog 23.03.99 Added: Get supported multimedia file extensions from win.ini, section [mci extensions] 22.03.99 Fixed: Unzip empty subdirs inside other subdirs in a zip file 22.03.99 Added: Use % display in split panel in compare file function 22.03.99 Fixed: Problems with split panel in compare file function 22.03.99 Fixed: Remove selection from files when uploaded or downloaded in background (restore with NUM / key) 20.03.99 Added: File window tabstops are now saved separately by resolution, and adjust to the right (configurable) 19.03.99 Fixed: Printer setup used wrong factor for inch<->mm conversion 19.03.99 Fixed: Scroll up in lister with word wrap failed for some files 16.03.99 Fixed: Problems with dialog box font change 16.03.99 Added: Lister can now play sound and video (configurable) 16.03.99 Fixed: Quick search (letters only, with dialogbox) could not search for letter n 16.03.99 Fixed: The main window size % stayed on the screen if task switch during file window resize 15.03.99 Added: Synchronize dirs now also with zip-subdirs! 15.03.99 Added: Allow to rename if target exists also when packing files 15.03.99 Added: Close button for synchronize dirs 15.03.99 Added: ESC to close window for compare files 15.03.99 Added: Dialog box Change Attributes, button to set current date&time 15.03.99 Added: Refresh dirlist when thread copy or pack done 15.03.99 Added: wincmd.ini, [configuration], rightlist=1 activates right listbox at start 15.03.99 Added: Hourglass during compare files 15.03.99 Fixed: Compare files may crash with some binary files 15.03.99 Fixed: Append file didn't work on NTFS 11.03.99 Fixed: Image position in lister/quick view may be wrong (not as displayed by the scrollbars) 11.03.99 Fixed: File compare by content now also shows tabstops (same width as in lister) 11.03.99 Fixed: Test for shared dirs in tree removed for speed reasons 11.03.99 Added: Rename button also when moving files at target exists (append not possible) 11.03.99 Fixed: Click on Bitmap in Quick View didn't set focus 11.03.99 Fixed: When calling tree function, keep the file name in the edit field 11.03.99 Fixed: Copy dialog cannot be removed after copy->rename->tree->rescan tree 11.03.99 Fixed: Wrong error message for FTP download from file 11.03.99 Fixed: Reduce background flashing when going to next image in lister 11.03.99 Fixed: Files not copied with drag&drop when overwrite confirmation turned off! 11.03.99 Fixed: Rename on copy no longer requires a target path 11.03.99 Added: Synchronize: Show overwrite dialog only once for both directions 11.03.99 Fixed: cm_RestoreSelection not in inc file 11.03.99 Fixed: Scrollbar problems in lister with images 11.03.99 Fixed: Save current position and maximized state separately for search, compare and synchronize dialogs 11.03.99 Fxied: Access violation when opening 'compare files' with only one file selected 11.03.99 Fixed: Double drive button bar not removed when disabled 05.03.99 Added: Print in lister (Text+Graphics) 02.03.99 Added: Search for/select files which do NOT match certain wildcards. Use | to separate, e.g. w*.*|*.bak finds all files starting with w, without extension .bak 01.03.99 Fixed: Restore Wincmd didn't work if minimized to tray in Win98 (with the "Show Desktop" button) 01.03.99 Fixed: Lister may jump to first line when maximized 22.02.99 Added: Combine function now also combines files numbered file1..file9,file10.. etc., not only file01..file10.. (note the '0' in front of the '1') 22.02.99 Added: Also count hidden files when calculating occupied space 22.02.99 Added: Files - Split now also accepts fractions of a number, like 0.5 MB 22.02.99 Fixed: accept environment variables (like %windir%) in icon file names 22.02.99 Added: Option to create new ZIP file for removable disks in temp dir: wincmd.ini, [packer], RemovableInTemp=1 22.02.99 Added: User-defined drive names (for drive list+button bar). Example: wincmd.ini, [DriveHints], E=ZIP drive 22.02.99 Added: CTRL+A in Lister selects whole file 19.02.99 Added: Search for all files NOT containing a certain string (especially useful for CTRL+F12 function) 19.02.99 Added: Extended selection (Num+ and CTRL+F12) now supports almost all options as the 'search' function 18.02.99 Added: Support for some OS9 ftp servers 15.02.99 Added: FTP Connection dialog allows to specify commands executed after connecting, separated by a ";" 11.02.99 Added: F8/Delete now also works with virtual folders 09.02.99 Added: wcx_ftp.ini, [General], WarnWrongMode=0 turns off warning if binary file is downloaded in text mode 09.02.99 Added: FTP client: Warn if binary file is downloaded or uploaded in text mode (which would damage the file) 05.02.99 Added: Show configured icons for PIF files 05.02.99 Added: Copy and Move files from and to virtual folders, like recycle bin 05.02.99 Added: Support for virtual folders through button bar: cm_OpenDesktop, cm_OpenDrives, cm_OpenControls, cm_OpenFonts, cm_OpenNetwork, cm_OpenPrinters 05.02.99 Fixed: Cursor positioning problem if renaming file in right window, and both windows show same dir 05.02.99 Fixed: Convert short DOS names to long names when passed to Wincmd through command line 04.02.99 Added: Configurable: 2 drive button bars, one per file window! Both have same width, independent from file list width 31.01.99 Added: File compare command, index 2022, added to menu 31.01.99 Added: Directory synchronize, index 2020, added to menu 26.01.99 Added: In Lister, search for Hex strings, and even mixed, e.g. "PK"0102 will find 504B0102 26.01.99 Added: Save search window pos automatically for full search (ALT+F7) 26.01.99 Added: 4. option to do "Quick search" in file windows: Letters only, but with quick search dialog 26.01.99 Fixed: Removed 'c' shortcut from Cancel button in FTP upload dialog (use ESC instead) 26.01.99 Added: Do not allow to change LNK association in Wincmd 26.01.99 Added: CTRL+M allows to select FTP transfer mode (text, binary, auto) with keyboard 26.01.99 Added: In FTP connect dialog (CTRL+F), the last started connection is selected 25.01.99 Added: Copy to nul, prn, lptx and comx now supported 25.01.99 Added: Show special folder icons for system files, e.g. the Recycle Bin 25.01.99 Added: Reduce scroll speed on file selection and drag&drop in file windows 25.01.99 Fixed: Drag FTP dir to button bar now also adds user name to URL 25.01.99 Fixed: ALT+F3 now can handle files with extensions>=4 characters too 25.01.99 Added: FTP: If remote rename fails, allow to continue rename with other files 25.01.99 Added: LZH files with comment field (starting with -com-) now supported 25.01.99 Fixed: Dir list not refreshed after split to current dir ('.') 25.01.99 Fixed: 'Find whole words' now looks for letters AND numbers, e.g. Test123 is considered as a word 25.01.99 Fixed: Wrong display of mixed case files in Zip files (shown as lowercase) 25.01.99 Added: Use critical section for access to idlist cache 25.01.99 Fixed: Test archives, bug in archive found -> cursor in file panel disappears 25.01.99 Fixed: In lister, ALT+Spacebar also scrolled one page down 15.12.98 Fixed: Copy from UNC dir -> version info not shown when file overwritten 15.12.98 Added: FTP connect dialog, "duplicate entry" 15.12.98 Added: In FTP connection, entering string PASS in command line will ask for password for sub-login 15.12.98 Fixed: Problems viewing file inside ZIP file if filename contains ; 15.12.98 Fixed: When packing a single file with ALT+F5, only replace the extension after the last "." 15.12.98 Fixed: Cursor in wrong place after deleting files from search result 15.12.98 Fixed: System-Info dialog, strings on Network page could be changed 09.11.98 Added: Transparent FTP proxy: Send firewalluser, firewallpass, user, pass 04.11.98 Fixed: Do not start program if drag&drop aborted in single click mode 04.11.98 Fixed: Move ZIP file into itself deleted the ZIP file if it had no extension 02.11.98 Fixed: Update quick view window if user presses \ or .. button 02.11.98 Fixed: Catch if user enters empty name in rename function (shift+f6) 27.10.98 Added: FTP-New connection (URL button, CTRL+N) can now download with HTTP protocol - use http://server/path syntax 26.10.98 Added: *.CMD to list of executable file extensions (NT batch files) 26.10.98 Fixed: Open file in sharing mode to avoid overwriting file with itself on UNC path 26.10.98 Added: Allow to copy/move to current dir if other window shows a search result 26.10.98 Fixed: After 'Search' - 'Go to file', set shift+click selection index to current file 23.10.98 Fixed: More tolerant to wrong FTP server response to PWD command (without double quotes) 23.10.98 Fixed: Encrypted file: send password to pkunzip with double quotes if it contains a space 23.10.98 Fixed: Do not try to calculate occupied space inside archives or on FTP drives 23.10.98 Fixed: Opening ZIP archive on UNC path passed to wincmd EXE was not possible 23.10.98 Fixed: Error trying to create 259 char dir 23.10.98 Fixed: Problems in sfx header with very long file names 14.10.98 Added: Split function now more fault tolerant: Accepts path without file name, detects if no disk inserted 14.10.98 Fixed: Problems with ACE packer (subdirs containing German letters, hidden/system subdirs) 12.10.98 Added: RestrictInterface=128 -> no EXEC (ENTER) 07.10.98 Added: Lister now wraps at word boundaries (may be disabled: [lister] WordWrap=0 ) 07.10.98 Added: Search for duplicate files (by name+size, or additionally by content) - in normal search dialog 05.10.98 Added: Re-upload modified file to FTP (after edit F4) also if remote dir was changed 02.10.98 Added: Multi-threading of unzip function; unzip speedup (assembler) 29.09.98 Fixed: Possible Y2k problem with FTP servers showing a 2 digit year only. Rule: date<80 ->20xx, date>=80 -> 19xx 29.09.98 Fixed: Did extensive Year 2000 (Y2k) tests. Results: no internal date problems, only one interface prob to FTP 29.09.98 Fixed: Better tree handling in single click selection mode 24.09.98 Fixed: Font color of several dialog boxes corrected from clWindowText to clBtnFace 24.09.98 Fixed: Rename directory on FTP server -> clear cache 24.09.98 Fixed: CAB multipart read error 24.09.98 Added: FTP configuration items to main config dialog (on 'misc.' page) 24.09.98 Added: ZIP-Pack in background (separate thread) - 32 bit only 23.09.98 Added: / key on numeric keypad restores file selection as it was before the last file operation 18.09.98 Added: Internal modification of all functions (brackets around dirs removed) 16.09.98 Added: Copy files directly from ZIP to ZIP 15.09.98 Added: Multiple copy functions can now work in background (at the same time) 10.09.98 Added: Moved copy function to its own thread 08-09.98 Extrn: Work on external file compare and directory compare programs, to be included later 24.08.98 Added: Configuration - Save settings saves current file display settings and directories even if auto-save turned off 24.08.98 Added: BMP viewer 23.08.98 Fixed: Set status bar panel hight to hight corresponding to the font used 23.08.98 Added: Support for new Pkzip 2.5 format: ZIP file starts with PK00 (packed to removable disk) 18.08.98 Added: Option to rename when unpacking (internally) and target exists 17.08.98 Added: Option to rename or append when copying and target exists 17.08.98 Fixed: Changed switch for ACE packer to overwrite files when unpacking New in Version 3.53 (8.11.98): - Did extensive Year 2000 (Y2k) tests. Results: no internal date problems, only one interface prob to FTP - Possible Y2k problem with FTP servers showing a 2 digit year only. Rule: date<80 ->20xx, date>=80 -> 19xx - bugfixes New in Version 3.52 (11.08.1998): - cd \\Servername in command line (32 bit) - Added: ACE packer/unpacker support - unrar.dll and unace.dll internal unpackers for RAR and ACE (32 bit) - bugfixes Release Version 3.51 (07.05.1998): - wcx_ftp.ini, [general], LogFile=Path\Log.txt writes FTP log to specified file - Support for creating RAR SFX files - Support for files > 2 GB (display, copy, rename, move, delete; NOT: ZIP, FTP, Lister) - CTRL+P copies current path to command line - FTP: Preserve file dates when downloading (selectable) - FTP: Convert file names to lowercase when uploaded (selectable) - FTP: Change Unix attributes (permissions) dialog for FTP sites (uses 'SITE chmod', which isn't supported by all sites) - Bugfixes New in Version 3.50 (18.3.1998): - FTP client - flat look - Network Neighborhood - IntelliMouse wheel support - Directory history list (alt+cursor down) - Go back, go forward (alt+cursor left / alt+cursor right) - Create self extracting ZIP archive - Expandable tree as in Explorer - UUE/MIME/XXE-encode and decode, Binhex-decode - Split/Combine files - Start menu now supports shortcut keys (Ctrl+Alt+F1-F12) - More command line switches (see help) - ALT+GrayPlus selects all files with the same extension New in Version 3.02 (14.4.1997): - Cut/Copy/Paste of button bar buttons - Deletion method used by explorer can be used also in Wincmd [Configuration] Win95Delete=1 - CTRL+Q on archive shows contained file_id.diz, readme*, or *.txt (in this order) - Support for archives in archives - CTRL+PgDn to open archives in archives - TAR and GZ packers - New commands cm_Switch83Names, cm_SwitchDirSort, cm_SwitchHidSys, cm_SwitchLongNames to button bar commands New in Version 3.01 (31.12.1996): - Bugfixes New in Version 3.00 (15.12.1996): - 32-bit version available - drag&drop from and to explorer (32-bit version only) - enhanced search function - quick view panel (CTRL+Q) - drive bar to select different drives - button bar wraps around to 2 lines when larger than available width - new multi-page configuration dialog - Function to test selected archives for errors - A header now allows to sort the files by name, extension, size, and date - All parts of the user interface (except the file list) can be turned off in the configuration - The file window separator can now be moved