18.02.03 Fixed: Alt+F9 (unpack all): If user gives '.' as target dir, replace by source dir ('.' was causing problems with multiple selected archives)
18.02.03 Fixed: Added some missing shortcuts to installer
18.02.03 Added: When giving 'random' as the command for FTP keepalive, TC sends commands in random order: 'PWD', 'CWD .', 'SYST', 'FEAT', and 'NOOP'.
14.02.03 Release Total Commander 5.51 RC1
12.02.03 Fixed: Search - go to file in brief view: file was not always visible
11.02.03 Fixed: Invalid floating point operation with some HTTP proxies
07.02.03 Release Total Commander 5.51 Beta 8
07.02.03 Fixed: Short language files (to replace only a few strings) didn't work
07.02.03 Added: Better handling for TAR files containing hard links: If target exists on harddisk, copy it to the hard link location
07.02.03 Fixed: Access violation when clicking on button bar button pointing to some lnk files
07.02.03 Fixed: No attributes unpacked from ZIP files created on OS/2
07.02.03 Added: When choosing an icon file in change button bar, allow user to choose all files (*.*) filter
07.02.03 Fixed: Immediately change file icon when adding or removing a packer plugin for this file type
07.02.03 Fixed: Problem with Multi-rename tool and branch view: Disabled checking of duplicate names in subdirs
07.02.03 Fixed: When dropping FTP URL from Web browser on TC, use last used FTP proxy/firewall
04.02.03 Fixed: Synchronize dirs sometimes created unnecessary dirs with 2 byte Windows (e.g. Japanese)
04.02.03 Fixed: While selecting with right mouse button, start drag&drop with left and release right after left -> selection continued
04.02.03 Fixed: Packing: User packs file with plugin, then removes plugin -> Change to ZIP
04.02.03 Fixed: Lister: increase maximum length of printer names from 79 to 259 characters (some network printers may have very long names).
04.02.03 Fixed: Displaying of special file types didn't take files >2GB into account
04.02.03 Fixed: Try to catch more read exceptions in compare tool (for media with a read error)
28.01.03 Fixed: Bad tooltip when adding file system plugin to button bar
28.01.03 Added: Double click on file pair in "synchronize dirs" opens "compare by contents" (was already available via right click)
28.01.03 Fixed: Self-extracting archive: Progress bar display error on Windows NT 4
28.01.03 Fixed: Shift+Enter on files with archive extension did not open external program if file isn't an archive
28.01.03 Fixed: Avoid that the user uses "Connections" as the name of an ftp connection, would cause problems with section "Connections"
28.01.03 Fixed: AVI names longer than 54 chars caused crash in lister (Win9x only)
28.01.03 Added: Increase FTP download buffer size from 2k to 32k if speed exceeds 50k/s. Useful for brain-dead ftp servers which wait for every packet acknowledge before sending the next
27.01.03 Fixed: HTTP download abort not always working in background transfer manager
26.01.03 Fixed: No longer request the 'SeBackupPrivilege' privilege for copying streams!
26.01.03 Fixed: Problems with counting size of subdirs
22.01.03 Release Total Commander 5.51 Beta 7
22.01.03 Fixed: Background transfer manager: don't beep for every failed transfer
22.01.03 Fixed: Don't propose names like test.bmp.gz in 16 bit version
21.01.03 Fixed: Plugin to plugin copy: Better handling of file overwrite condition
21.01.03 Added: Special handling for TAR files containing hard links: Such files get the contents "Link: /link/location".
19.01.03 Added: '\' button now goes to root of file system plugins too
19.01.03 Added: Partial support for Unicode filenames from other codepages: View, edit, rename, properties, context menu, delete (also in subdirs), copy (only in same dir, but with alias name)
15.01.03 Fixed: Last selection couldn't be restored when switching away from TC and back (e.g. when putting copy operation in background)
15.01.03 Added: By default, the archive bit is now set when renaming files. To turn it off, add wincmd.ini [Configuration] SetArchiveBitOnRename=0
15.01.03 Added: Support for NTFS-compressed files when calculating actual space used (Ctrl+Q or calculate occupied space)
14.01.03 Fixed: Ctrl+D could now change to non-existing dir (bug introduced in beta)
14.01.03 Added: FS-Plugins: Copy/Move files between 2 plugins!
14.01.03 Added: FS-Plugin API: Support for Multi-Rename tool! Operation is announced with FS_STATUS_OP_RENMOV_MULTI
14.01.03 Added: When adding FS-Plugin to button bar, use name of FS-Plugin as tip
14.01.03 Fixed: Duplicate error "No files selected" when trying to copy [..] from/to file system plugin
14.01.03 Fixed: When zipping multiple files with total size >2GB (but <4GB), the progress bar will now be correct
14.01.03 Fixed: Problems with lowercase conversion in archives
08.01.03 Release Total Commander 5.51 Beta 6
07.01.03 Added: Keep width of quick view panel (Ctrl+Q) for current session also when user doesn't choose "save position"
07.01.03 Fixed: Unpacking of password-protected WinACE files with external WinAce asked twice for the password
07.01.03 Fixed: Dragging file system plugin root to button bar will now add button with correct link and icon
06.01.03 Fixed: Upper->lowercase conversion not correct for dir with extension in archives
06.01.03 Added: Show the first files being deleted in the delete confirmation dialog
06.01.03 Fixed: Could not switch directly from multimedia to html mode
06.01.03 Added: FS-Plugins now also support wildcards when displaying files, e.g. show only *.txt
05.01.03 Fixed: FSPlugin: In RemoteInfoStruct, the attr field was never set
04.01.03 Added: Show error if temp dir doesn't exist (ftp client)
04.01.03 Fixed: In "Drive not found" error box, when choosing another invalid drive, this wasn't remembered
04.01.03 Fixed: Possible reason for stack overflow in plugin search function
04.01.03 Added: cm_usermenu1..cm_usermenu10 to invoke the first 10 commands in the starter menu (e.g. for hotkeys). You can define more in totalcmd.inc.
04.01.03 Added: cm_xxx commands now also work in directory hotlist (Ctrl+D), e.g. for cm_opendesktop
04.01.03 Fixed: Compare contents not working if left side=fs-plugin and right side=archive with both same file name
04.01.03 Fixed: Close inplace rename if listbox is scrolled
04.01.03 Fixed: Crash if plugin returned NULL pointer in source name field in ProgressProc
23.12.02 Fixed: Crash when trying to search for text in a file system plugin which didn't support FsGetFile()
19.12.02 Release Total Commander 5.51 Beta 5
19.12.02 Added: Include new unacev2.dll version 2.11
19.12.02 Added: Speedup HTML->TXT converter by approx. 20-30%
19.12.02 Added: Display name of plugin in lister's title bar when a lister plugin is used
19.12.02 Fixed: Disable Shift+F6 on [..] to change current dir if current dir header hidden
19.12.02 Fixed: time stamp of [..] updir item not shown if dir has hidden attribute and hidden/system files are disabled
19.12.02 Fixed: Wildcards in the form *.txt; *.doc no longer worked (note the ; AND space between them)
17.12.02 Fixed: Lister plugin loses focus when user switches with Alt+Tab to other app, then back to lister
17.12.02 Fixed: F3 was no longer working in sync dialog
17.12.02 Fixed: Display error on win9x with >3000 files in list also in search results, synchronize dirs and rename tool
17.12.02 Fixed: File system plugins: Avoid infinite loop if dir becomes too deep (max. 259 chars supported)
17.12.02 Added: Call CoInitialize in thread extracting special icons in the background
17.12.02 Fixed: Alt+F1 with line Allowed=ADEF causes reread of A: drive (because C: was forbidden, so A: became default drive)
15.12.02 Fixed: Right click on item in "Compare by contents" caused a crash if only partial list was shown
11.12.02 Release Total Commander 5.51 Beta 4
11.12.02 Added: Right click on a directory in "Compare by contents" selects all files in that dir (if no other files selected)
11.12.02 Fixed: Creating dir named \\ caused an access violation
10.12.02 Added: Function added to plugin interface to set default ini file location
10.12.02 Added: Synchronize dirs now also works with file system plugins
06.12.02 Added: New search option to include/exclude specific dirs, e.g. | _vti*\ excludes all dirs starting with "_vti" (search, sync, branch view)
05.12.02 Fixed: Display error on win9x with >3000 files in list (line with cursor repeated every ~3000 items)
05.12.02 Fixed: Delete icon with DestroyIcon after LoadImage!
02.12.02 Fixed: RPM plugin: Detect new RPM files packed with bz2 packer (requires bz2 plugin too)
02.12.02 Fixed: FS-Plugin interface: Couldn't open subdirs of dirs containing forward slashes
02.12.02 Added: Shortcuts Ctrl+Left/Right arrow (with+without shift) to in place edit of path
02.12.02 Fixed: Some more association problems (wrong icon shown)
02.12.02 Added: Ctrl+A selects all text in comment edit box (unfortunately the beep cannot be suppressed)
02.12.02 Fixed: Installer now writes "DisplayIcon" field for uninstall (WinXP seems to be too stupid to get the icon from the installer EXE by itself)
02.12.02 Fixed: Files - Pack: No question for part size when choosing multi-volume packing and target dir is same dir (archives other than ZIP)
02.12.02 Fixed: Internal Unarj: Unpacking of single files from multi-volume ARJ didn't work if more than 10 parts.
02.12.02 Fixed: Couldn't drag URL from Mozilla to TC if the page title contains an illegal character (e.g. a *, ? etc)
02.12.02 Fixed: Unpack dialog: Unchecking of option 'Overwrite files' wasn't remembered if confirmations for 'overwrite read only' were disabled
02.12.02 Added: FS-Plugins: Append backslash to name of directory when requesting custom icons
29.11.02 Fixed: FS-Plugins: Cached icon bitmaps were not freed
29.11.02 Fixed: InplaceRenamePath wasn't used, InplaceRename was used instead
29.11.02 Release Total Commander 5.50a (Silent update 2), only 16-bit
29.11.02 Fixed: 16-bit version sometimes deleted files after compare by content
28.11.02 Fixed: Don't replace % by %% in URLs if user gave the URL
27.11.02 Release Total Commander 5.51 Beta 3
27.11.02 Added: Sort lister plugins with Shift+cursor keys
27.11.02 Fixed: When user adds or removes lister plugins, wait with reloading until all listers with plugin windows are closed or switched to text mode
26.11.02 Added: Search in file system plugins
26.11.02 Added: cm_CopyNetNamesToClip copies file names with UNC path to clipboard (Network drives only)
25.11.02 Fixed: cm_editpath always edited the left path
25.11.02 Fixed: Forward slashes in plugin file/dir names not working (some file systems allow this, e.g. the registry)
25.11.02 Fixed: HTML viewer: Fixed problems with spaces in links and with special chars
25.11.02 Fixed: HTML viewer: <AREA NOHREF was inserting a link to a non-existing site
25.11.02 Fixed: FTP, if file name contains spaces, try chmod command without and with double quotes around name (some servers want the first, some the second)
24.11.02 Fixed: If user chose 'Save position' in one screen resolution, then loaded Totalcmd in other resolution, the tabstops were displaced. Now they should be adjusted correctly.
23.11.02 Fixed: If searching in self extracting archives enabled, problems with ACE files
23.11.02 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] RestrictInterface=256 disallows file system plugins
23.11.02 Added: If Network Neighborhood is disabled, still show Nethood in drive bar/drive combo if plugins installed, but show only plugins in Nethood
23.11.02 Fixed: Lister: Couldn't print if no default printer defined
23.11.02 Added: Lister-Plugin interface: parser to check files without loading the plugin
23.11.02 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] InplaceRenamePath=0 turns off in-place changing of current path
22.11.02 Fixed: Don't invoke path edit if user was too slow with double click
22.11.02 Fixed: Don't invoke path edit if window wasn't active
22.11.02 Fixed: Path edit was invoked also when clicking on footer
20.11.02 Release Total Commander 5.51 Beta 2
20.11.02 Added: Internal command cm_editpath allows to edit the current path above the active file window
17.11.02 Added: Support for RTF files starting with {\rtf\ instead of {\rtf1
17.11.02 Added: Single click on active file window title allows to change / copy /paste the current dir
17.11.02 Added: Lister: support for "file:///c|/subdir/filename" link type
17.11.02 Added: "Skip all" support when deleting also in case of a sharing violation
17.11.02 Fixed: Show error if user tries to perform unsupported action on filesys plugin: encode, decode, split, combine, crc, print
17.11.02 Fixed: Clear disk label header when switching to file system plugin with Ctrl+D
17.11.02 Fixed: Ctrl+B branch view could show 'compressed' attribute for files which weren't compressed
17.11.02 Fixed: When deleting a dir which has a comment, the associated comment wasn't deleted
17.11.02 Fixed: FS-Plugin interface: F7 new dir didn't place cursor on newly created dir
17.11.02 Added: 650 MB and 700 MB default CD-R sizes to split function (btw, you can enter any value you want by hand)
17.11.02 Fixed: Press F3 twice on small text file in RAR at end of long solid archive -> Access violation
17.11.02 Added: 'Left arrow' in tree view either collapses subtree, or (if already collapsed) jumps to parent directory
17.11.02 Fixed: Packing RAR file from search result -> only short path names were stored
17.11.02 Fixed: FTPOPEN command ignored the setting to open an ftp connection e.g. always in the right window
17.11.02 Fixed: F2 redefined to cm_RenameOnly: Press F2 while cursor on command line -> Rename not focused
17.11.02 Fixed: Drag&Drop to drive dropdown list didn't move files when right button was held down
15.11.02 Fixed: File system plugin: Yes/No dialog always returned 0.
13.11.02 Release Total Commander 5.51 Beta 1
13.11.02 Fixed: Icons not always shown in a subdir if no access to parent dir
12.11.02 Added: FsPlugin-Interface: Function to extract icons for specific files or folders
11.11.02 Fixed: ftp via HTTP proxy: encode % sign to %% (because % is used to escape chars like %20 -> ' ')
11.11.02 Fixed: Only react to WM_DEVICECHANGE messages concerning drives
11.11.02 Fixed: ftp via HTTP proxy: Could show negative total numbers!
09.11.02 Added: Moved OLE comment retrieval to a separate thread, max. wait time 1 second
09.11.02 Added: Shift+F4 (edit new file): Use file under cursor as template name!
09.11.02 Fixed: Click on button in button bar where program isn't found -> button stays pushed!
09.11.02 Fixed: Fixed: Ctrl+D slow when switching away from nethood
09.11.02 Added: Split function now uses 256k buffer size (32bit version only)
09.11.02 Fixed: Couldn't split files into parts > 2 GB (but files >2GB could be split into files <2GB)
09.11.02 Fixed: "Show Win32 tips" checkbox wasn't disabled if tips in general were disabled
09.11.02 Fixed: Couldn't view RTF file currently open in Word (sharing problem)
09.11.02 Fixed: Comments were not detected if file name and comment were separated by a TAB instead of a space
09.11.02 Fixed: After comparing 2 files in sync tool, the main totalcmd window became clickable (no longer disabled)
09.11.02 Added: Placeholders %D and %T (uppercase) in file list print dialog (margins) add current date/time to header
09.11.02 Fixed: Comment-edit (Ctrl+Z): Show error if comment cannot be saved (e.g. comment file is read only)
09.11.02 Fixed: FChanged TEMP subdir from $wc to _tc (Reason: some programs like RealPlayer had problems with the $ sign!)
09.11.02 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] copystreams=0 turns off copying of NTFS streams
09.11.02 Fixed: Copying files to SAMBA dirs made it impossible to delete them (Reason: Samba reports NTFS file system, but NTFS stream functions fail!)
04.11.02 Release Total Commander 5.50 Silent update (a)
04.11.02 Fixed: File name and comment could overlap when showing extensions directly after file names
04.11.02 Fixed: Lister: RTF viewer printed unlimited number of pages
03.11.02 Fixed: Switch /O no longer working
New in Total Commander 5.50 Final (29.10.02):
- Name changed to "Total Commander" - see our homepage for the reasons
- Change size display of total/marked files in footer below file lists (bytes, k or dynamic)
- Copy additional NTFS streams when copying files.
- Copy file comments with the files with F5 (optional, needs to be enabled first)
- Create CRC checksums: Function can now also create and check MD5 checksums
- Drag a link from Internet Explorer to Total Commander (holding down Shift) to open the URL dialog to download the linked file
- File system plugin interface to access external devices or other partitions
- In Copy dialog, "Options" button which allows to set "Overwrite all", "Skip all" etc. before copying
- Lister: In 'Fit to window' mode, resize the video window to the lister window
- Lister: RTF-Viewer (can be disabled)
- Multi-rename tool: Load/Save settings, for often used changes
- Multi-rename tool, search+replace: Support for wildcards * and ?
- Open partially downloaded ZIP files, even during the download
- Option: Always open new FTP connections in the left or right file panel instead of the active file panel
- Show file comments in file lists and as tooltips
- Show name of logged-on user in the title bar if the program was started with RunAs
- Synchronize dirs, asymmetric mode: Option to delete all empty dirs in right window (not available in zip or ftp)
- The HTML viewer in Lister supports some more tags
New in Wincmd 5.11 Final (16.09.02):
- Many small corrections and additions
New in Wincmd 5.10 Final (28.08.02):
- Unpack RAR 3 archives
- Support for OTP-MD4 -MD5 and -SHA1-authentication for FTP
- Decoder for Yenc-encoded files (Files - decode files)
- Many small corrections and additions
New in Wincmd 5.0 Silent update (26.02.02):
- Many small corrections and additions
New in Version 5.0 Final (21.01.02):
- Support for Windows XP themes on XP
- "Commands" menu split into "Commands" and "Net"
- FTP: support for more than 2 definition strings when defining a new server type
- FTP+HTTP: Auto-Resume download if download-connection lost
- FTP: SOCKS4+SOCKS5 Proxy support (active+passive mode!), SOCKS5 without encryption
- Multi-Rename-Tool: Placeholder [P] puts name of parent dir into file name
- Internal command cm_SyncChangeDir makes Commander change to the directory of the same name also in the other window
- Find files: Start search inside an archive
- FTP: Option to send keepalive messages (e.g. NOOP) to the server in user-defined intervals (for max. 1 hour of inactivity)
- Support for packing of TAR/GZ/TGZ archives. Make sure to choose the correct target OS (Linux or SunOS).
- Direct packing of TAR.Plugin archives, requires re-download of the plugin (e.g. BZIP2)
- Compare by contents: Search for text in both files simultaneously, found text will be underlined
- Compare by contents: Button to show the two windows above each other, e.g. for wide texts
- Right click menu in Lister: added "Copy all URLs" command in HTML-Viewer mode
- Pack: Option to create a separate archive for each selected file/dir. If no target dir is given, the packed file will be placed in the same dir as the original file.
- "Branch view" now added to "commands" menu
- Create CRC-Checksum files in SFV format
- FTP+HTTP in background: Set speed limit for up- and downloads
- FTP download from list: detect if list file was modified, and add new items to current download
- Download list can now also copy+move files. Syntax: copy:sourcename -> targetname or move:sourcename -> targetname
- Background transfer manager can now also be started separately without a list file
New in Version 4.54 (16.07.01):
- Compare by content: Switch between binary and text mode.
- Lister: Support word wrap in UTF8 mode
New in Version 4.53 (31.05.01):
- Display of UTF8 (special 1-6 byte Unicode format) in Lister
- Support for ACE 2.0 archives
- Support for files > 2 GB in Lister and split/combine functions
- Directory print with subdirs: Print only files of certain types, e.g. *.txt *.doc
- Change date/time of folders also on Windows NT/2000 (admins only due to restricted rights)
- FTP: Resume upload (binary files only). WARNING: With some versions of the server WarFTPd, the resume seems to work, but the uploaded file is unusable!
- Directory hotlist can now contain up to 200 entries
- The location of Wincmd.ini and Wcx_ftp.ini can now be set in the registry (32-bit version only):\SOFTWARE\Ghisler\Windows Commander, new text values IniFileName and FtpIniName.This key may be created under HKEY_CURRENT_USER or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINEThe command line parameters /i= and /f= still take precedence over the registry values.
- Special larger block sizes when copying very large files can increase the copying speed of these large files quite a bit.This function is only meant for advanced users, and needs to be enabled through wincmd.ini (CopyBlockSize etc).
New in Version 4.52 (15.01.01):
- Display of Unicode and HTML (as plain text) in Lister
- Search for Unicode and Hex in the search function
- Print function to print directory lists, trees and compare results in 'Synchronize dirs'.
- Display of all files in the current dir and all subdirs with Ctrl+B
- File windows above each other instead of side by side
- Display of the file size in kbytes or dynamic depending on the actual size
- Multi-rename tool: Enhanced counter settings using definition strings [Cxxx]
- Submenu 'New' in the right click context menu allows to create new (empty) files
New in Version 4.51 (18.07.00):
- Bugfix of 4.50
New in Version 4.50 (30.6.00):
- Multi-rename tool: Allows to rename multiple files in one step (Hotkey: Ctrl+T)
- Batch rename function with Shift+F6 to quickly rename multiple files one by one
- Rename files and subdirs inside a ZIP archive (Shift+F6)
- Parallel port transfer function (direct cable connection), works between Win95/98/NT/2000/3.1 and DOS!
- FTP: Definition of custom host types, using a definition string
- FTP: Retry to connect multiple times also for non-anonymous connections
- FTP: Support for multiple proxies (separately for FTP and HTTP connections)
- FTP: Workaround to bug in some FTP servers: Upload of subdirs failed
- Resolve lnk files on the desktop or in the Network Neighborhood
- Unpack self-extracting files created by WinACE and WinRAR (open with Ctrl+PgDn)
- "Unpack all and execute" in packer properties allows to try out a program or run an installer from inside an archive
- Define custom colors for different file types, e.g. all directories, all zip files etc.
- Search for text also inside CAB files
- Copying to 'write only' directories (Windows NT, network)
- Uninstaller: Automatic removal of the program through the Control Panel
Several new commands and parameters for Button bar / Start menu:
- cm_List now allows to open a file. The file name must be given directly behind CM_LIST, and not in the parameters field!
Example: cm_list c:\windows\wincmd.ini always opens the file wincmd.ini in lister.
- cm_ShowFileUser: Show which remote user has opened a local file (through a shared directory)
- cm_EditPersmissionInfo: Show permissions dialog on Windows NT (NTFS file system)
- cm_EditAuditInfo: Show file auditing dialog (NTFS)
- cm_EditOwnerInfo: Show "Take ownership" dialog (NTFS)
- cm_ShowOnlySelected: Hide all files/dirs which aren't selected when this function is used
- cm_OpenRecycled: Open 'recycle bin'
- New parameters %L, %l, %F, %f, %D, %d create a list file in the TEMP directory with the names of the selected files and directories.
New in Version 4.02 (16.12.99):
- Unzip, delete and HTTP downloads (Ctrl+N) in background.
- Synchronize dirs now also supports directory from/to ftp synchronization! Concerning the date/time synchronizing problems with ftp, please read the section important note on the page Synchronize dirs.
- Tray icon right click menu (context menu).
- Direct upload of files from inside an archive to an FTP server.
- Better parsing of FTP file lists downloaded via a HTTP proxy.
- User-defined keyboard shortcuts.
- Split "Equal/Unequal" button into two buttons in sychronize function
- Change date/time of directories (Win95/98 only)
- FTP server to server transfers (FXP): Always sends PORT command to left server, PASV to right server. This allows for file transfers between a public server and one in a private address room, or behind a firewall. The private server must be in the left window.
- Find files: Only search in selected files and folders
New in Version 4.01 (27.07.99):
- This version was mainly a bugfix release
- HTTP downloads enhanced (now supports passwords, and special sites which require 'host:' line)
- Settings what to do when second ftp connection opened in same window: wcx_ftp.ini, [General] AutoDisconnect =1 disconnect previous =2 keep previous =0 ask user
New in Version 4.00 (17.06.99):
General:
- Directory synchronize: Compare two dirs with subdirs, or 1 dir and 1 archive
- Compare files by content
- Allow to abort binary compare in 'synchronize' with ESC
- Copy/move in the background - 32 bit only
- wincmd.ini, [configuration], AlwaysCopyInBackground=1 always copies in background
- Connect to UNC path (\\server\path) in background (separate thread), allow to abort after 3 seconds
- Dialog box Change Attributes, button to set current date&time
- wincmd.ini, [configuration], activeright=1 activates right file listbox at start
- Support for virtual folders through button bar. Use commands: cm_OpenDesktop, cm_OpenDrives, cm_OpenControls, cm_OpenFonts, cm_OpenNetwork, cm_OpenPrinters
- Copy and Move files from and to virtual folders
- Copy to nul, prn, lptx and comx now supported
- Rename or append when copying and target exists
- Files - Split now also accepts fractions of a number, like 0.5 MB
- Use NTFS time compare method (2 seconds difference considered as same) in 'Compare directories' and 'Synchroinize dirs'
User interface:
- 2 drive button bars, one per file window (configurable)
- 256 color folder icons, and support for external icon library (icl): wincmd.ini, [configuration], iconlib=dllname.dll (sample DLL on www.ghisler.com)
- 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
- Search for all files NOT containing a certain string
- Duplicate file finder can find files with same name, size, contents or any combination of the 3
Lister:
- Bitmap viewer, more formats through IrfanView plugin (see addons page on www.ghisler.com)
- Lister can now play sound and video (configurable)
- Printing in lister (Text+Graphics)
- Select all in lister: CTRL+A selects whole file
- Search for Hexadecimal strings, even mixed. Example: "PK"0102 will find 504B0102
- Lister now wraps at word boundaries (may be disabled: wincmd.ini, [lister], WordWrap=0)
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
