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Global ▀▀▀▀▀▀ [!] DN is now using extended (AT) keyboard so this version is not possible to run on old machines... [!] Code is optimized for 286+ CPU, so now works slightly faster, but is not able to run on 8086-based computers. New HotKeys ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ [+] 'Hotkey Overview' topic added to 'Help on Help' [*] Ctrl-K toggles descriptions in file panel. [*] Ctrl-Y toggles full display mode in file panel. [*] Alt-F11 runs Navigator Link. [*] Shift-F11 opens Spreadsheet. [*] Ctrl-F11 runs CD Player. [*] Alt-G in editor - 'goto line number'. [*] Quick Dirs came back in Tree Panel. UU Decode / Encode ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ [+] "Recover Broken Files" option. [+] Can process LowNoizeUUE. [-] Fixed bug with decoding binary files and single-line sections. [-] Prefix 'table' is now processing without troubles. [-] Fixed bug with encoding on large sections (>700 lines) Viewer ▀▀▀▀▀▀ [+] Possible to edit fields while viewing DBF-files (by pressing F4 on field). [*] Date in DBF Viewer is shown accordingly to Country setup. [*] Shift+F2 hotkey for saving changes in Hex mode in Viewer and Disk Editor. [-] Some bugs in DBF Viewer causing Share Violation and 'forgetting' temporary files in the TEMP directory. [-] Structure of empty database files is displayed without dropping to hex-view mode. [-] Fixed bug, caused crashes while viewing files with more than 128 tab characters in a row. [-] While Tracking Viewing History, file could be truncated (by another process), and DN tried to achieve unexisted data beyong end-of-file, displaying "dirty memory dump". [-] Fixed crash when trying to scroll down emty file by mouse. [-] Fixed bug with loosing last character on line while scrolling up UNIX-style text files (0A as a new-line character). [-] Bug in when wrapping lines with Tabs. [-] Fixed percent calculation while searching substrings. Editor ▀▀▀▀▀▀ [!] Confirmation about modifing files with Read-Only attribute is now asked. [+] "Optimal Fill" in local editor options. [+] Tab size in Editor Setup. [*] Alt-G hotkey came back - 'goto line number'. [*] Improved speed of Vertical Block Sorting. [*] It is now possible to save large blocks in editor [*] Autobrackets facility is working only if the cursor character is space or the cursor is beyond the end of the current line. [-] Bug with moving block in "freshly" edited line. [-] Heap memory blocks have not been allocated correctly - it caused memory losses. [-] The first line of text file might have been lost while loading within invalid XMS/EMS environment. [-] Fixed autowrap - DeltaX allways corresponds to Left Side. [-] AutoWrap/AutoIndent local and global setting might have been ignored. [-] Fixed bug with calling 'Undo' by clicking the menu item. [-] The following block commands came back: Mode │ Ctrl-B V Justify │ Ctrl-B J Rigth │ Ctrl-B R Left │ Ctrl-B L Center │ Ctrl-B æ (Ctrl-B called ASCII table before) Archives ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ [+] Size of '..' entry indicates the total amount of bytes of all files in current archive directory. [*] Speed of reading archives improved. [*] "Archiver Setup" dialog box (Options|Archives) now have displayed on its title the name of archiver currently being setting up. [-] Fixed multiple-volumed ARJ archives reading. [-] Fixed bug, which caused to determine wrongfully some files as ZOO or ARC archives. [-] TDRs being extracted from archive for viewing no more stay in temp dir unerased. [-] Options|Archives|Current archiver setup did not work properly - it was always tuning ARJ's settings, instead of "Archive Type" checkbox value of "Archive Files" dialog. [-] RAR archives with dot-ended directory names (e.g. 'DN.\*.*', created using 'rar a -r dn dn.' command) are now viewing OK. [-] Fixed "Swap when unpack/del/test" option in archiver setup. Now an archiver can be safely called without swapping DN (but in shorter memory space), and it significally improves the speed of archives processing. [-] Turning on QuickView on open archive, and extracting a file, caused system crash, until desktop file was not erased from elsewhere. [-] After extracting files from an open archive, or executing DOS commands, archive date ('..' entry) became undefined. [-] Fixed percent calculation of large files in archive viewer. File Manager / Panels & Drives ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ [+] File|Unpack diskette images (Ctrl-I). [+] "Do not kill descriptions" option added to Options|File Manager|Setup dialog box. It's now possible to control whenever the descritions should be preserved or removed from "descript.ion"-like files, when the descripted panel elements (files/directories) are removed by Erase/Move operation. [+] Shift-Enter works on TEMP/List panels as well as on Find one. [+] Seconds are now used in time comparing, also DN would not be confused with dates in 21'th sectury. [+] Added Ctrl+R hotkey for re-reading tree. [+] Del key for removing directories from Tree Panel (if appropriate option is set). [*] It is now possible to call Directory Tree dialogue from Archive/Find/ Branch/Temp file panel. [*] File Manager: it's not possible to drop a directory to itself (if confirmation of mouse operations is switched off). [*] Full-new 'Advanced Filter' (Alt-Del) logic. [*] 'All drives' option of FileFind doesn't scan CD-Drives when not necessary as well as floppies. [*] The dot does not appear after directory name when dropping it to cmdline by pressing Ctrl+[Shift]+Enter. [*] Directories history can be obtained also from archive/find/temp drive panel. [-] "Long Descriptons" in info panel disappeared after rereading (Ctrl-L) or changing "Columns Setup" (Alt-K) or "Description Mode" (Ctrl-K). [-] Long descriptions are taken considerably to contens of Options| File Manager|Setup field, unlike 'files.bbs', hardcoded into previous versions. [-] File manager did not operate huge numbers (>2^31) - now fixed due to large drives and archives/TDRs. [-] Confirmation about launching AUTOEXEC.BAT no more asked from FileFind panel. [-] DN could not operate with files, which has percent characters in its names - bug in earlier versions took these characters as string format specifiers. [-] Fixed bug with reading empty root directories (e.g. formatted diskettes). In some cases it could corrupt the heap. [-] Fixed bugs, caused system crashes and memory losses of 'Change Directory' Tree Dialog (Alt-T). [-] Bug with dragging files with tilda characters in the name. [-] Quick file rename with Alt-F6 doesn't lose file descriptions anymore (if the description was visible during renaming). [-] Weird bug with cursor appearing in both panels after a disk error. [-] Directories descriptions are no longer forgotten in the source directory during copy/rename operation. [-] Fixed bug with Copy / "Refresh old files". [-] Was unable to call Copy/Move and some other dialogs just after making list file. Miscellaneous ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ [+] Long time operations (loading files for edit, scanning drive trees, directory branching and sizing) can be cancelled by pressing ESC key. [+] 'Multilanguage' critical errors. [+] Options|Configuration|Startup|TimeSlicing Options [ ] DOS Idle (Int28) ─ periodically returns to DOS remainings of time intervals by calling Int28. This option alone is compatible with timeslicing mechanism of previous versions of DN. [ ] Sleep when inactive ─ when it is nothing to do, and no key pressed during several seconds, DN falls asleep. [+] Options|Configuration|System Setup|Options|Flush disk buffers - if set on, DN forces File System Manager to flush immediately all write-back buffers after copying/erasing files [+] Options|Configuration|System Setup|Options|Advanced copy [ ] When this options is set off, DN doesn't use EMS/XMS memory for filecopy buffering (the only conventional - all amount). It always copies only one file at a time - doesnt open a next file for reading before finished writing the current one. [+] "Autodetermine" checkbox in Make List File dialog. If this option is set "on", every call to this dialog will make to determine the necessaty of paths (and set "Store path names in list files" automatically). Considered path names are useful only on Branch/Find/Temp-Drives, instead of a similar diskdrive panel. If "Autodetermine" option is set "off", the value of "Store path names" checkbox is not set automatically when calling dialog, but is preserving since last call. [+] Screen Grabber now handles PgUp/PgDn and Home/End keys. Movement / resizement scale is also affected by Ctrl key. [*] Semicolon is used as comment character in .MNU file. [*] Improved speed of copying files. [*] Empty field of "Temporary Directory" (Options|Configuration|System Setup) is treated as a value of %TEMP% (or %TMP%) environment variable. [*] DN doesn't allocate more than 8 MB RAM for copy buffer to avoid unnecessary virtual memory swapping under multitasking envoronment. [*] Branch, FileFind and Archive Viewers are now able to use EMS/XMS/SwapFiles, so their file storage possibities are expanded. [*] Workaround for a bug of OS2 Warp 4 (Merlin) gammas - turn off Options|Configuration|System Setup|Options|Advanced copy - it will slow down copying and erasing, but will prevent system traps while erasing subdirectories. [*] Windows 95 doesn't try to switch windowed session to full screen every time when DN examines VESA-BIOS presence on startup. [*] Validating file creation date in 'Change File Attributes' dialog. [*] When Screen Mode is changed, the clock is now properly positioned. [*] Disk Formatter: Volume Label length is now correct (11 characters). [*] Formatter and File Search windows are now shown in Window Manager. [-] Fixed bugs with displaying copy gauges on large files (>~30Mb). [-] Improved speed of erasing files. Earlier were doing it not so fast because of always trying to clear ReadOnly attribute before erasing file, even if this flag was absent. [-] Value of "Options|Configuration|System Setup|Disable XMS/EMS usage" checkbox have been ignored in earlier versions - now fixed. [-] Fixed calculator's "power" operation. [-] Bugs with numbers beginning with '.' in Calculator and Spreadsheet. [-] Fixed traps, appeared in calculator when character data was passed to function's argument, e.g. "EXP(A)". [-] After modifying spreadsheets (WKZ) panel still left unrefreshed until pressing Ctrl-R. [-] Now now DN asks to overwrite before copying (F5/F6) read-only files too - bug in earlier versions overwrote them without any confirmation, unlike normal files. [-] Button width in message boxes now corresponds to caption width to prevent wrapping in international builds. [-] Reanimator and Environment editor windows did not answered on Ctrl-F5 keyboard combination (Size/Move Window command). [-] "!\" and "!/" extension specifiers are now parsed normally, without a last character loss. [-] Answering 'Cancel' on confirmation to save modified file before running external program or archive swapping, caused crash. Now fixed. [-] When the amount of available extended/expanded memory was not enough to allocate overlays completly, DN halted with fatal error. Now in this case it leaves overlays on disk, but uses extended/expanded memory for other needs. [-] Fixed problems with Advanced Format Dialog Box disposing. [-] Terminal window resizing painted background with an invalid color. [-] Redial timeout in autodialer is now working. [-] Scrollback buffer overflow did not handled correctly and could hang the system. [-] Printer Setup | Ending string value was ignored, it was always taken from Initial string. [-] DN could not change the descriptions of TDR's with ReadOnly attribute, which is default for this type of files. [-] Fixed problems, caused memory losses on TDR processing. [-] Fixed displaying of tilda character in file name of copy dialog boxes. Navigator Link ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ [!] Navigator Link allows to access remote computer by a common file panel. The following features are implemented: Create/Remove directories, Copy, View and Erase files. Navigator Link uses its own communication protocol, a kind of Niagara(tm) block transfer protocol, developed by RIT. Advantages: - block streaming mode: Navigator Link works seamlessly in server/slave mode and doesn't take full CPU time during link session. Using of FOSSIL interface allows you to work via packet transport protocols (ipx/spx, tcp/ip) and other hardware (parallel port), if you have an appropriate FOSSIL driver. We left FOSSIL-driver writing for third-parties yet... - bi-directional mode and true full duplex: Both machines linked by DN have equal rights on each other's drives, and both can work with remote simultaneously. - advanced errror correction: Navigator Link uses double-level selective reject method, so it works even on high-noise lines. - real-time data compression: Link allows to transfer text files and directory data twice faster on the same line. The compression works more efficient than modems' internal compression methods.