History of Changes The Volkov Commander versions 4.99.00 - 4.99.03 - Fixed bugs + New features * Changes Changes in version 4.99.00 alpha (10-Jun-1997) First version for testing + EMS, XMS memory or swap file can be used to load program code + Temporary files are created in the directory of environment variables VCTEMP= or TEMP=, or in the home directory of VC + It's possible to enter to archives as directories + Optionally Ins key calculates directory size + Shift-Gray+ and Shift-Gray* select files and directories * Maximal size of *.MNU and *.EXT files now is unlimited + More than one extension or file mask can be associated with every command in *.EXT files + All filters are defined by user + Size of panels and width of 'Name' columns in panels can be changing by mouse + Mouse cursor is changing depending of its position to prompt available action + All text modes including VESA modes are supported + Clicking mouse on key bar when Shift, Ctrl or Alt key is pressed call the same action as F1...F10 keys with Shift, Ctrl or Alt + Descriptions of files are shown in file panels + Added command line switches. Run VC /? to view all available switches * File TREEINFO.VCD instead of TREEINFO.NCD is used to store directory tree information + TREEINFO.VCD is updated when create, remove or delete subdirectory * When executing group operations, window is not blinking + Added new macros for inactive panel: %, %.%, %:, %\ + Environment variable PATH= is used for executing all external viewers and editors + Critical error dialog box have 'Ignore' choise * Executing command from history moves this command to the bottom of history * Alt-F6 key is removed. Use Ctrl-F7 key to calculate size of selected directories * 'Change label' function only shows volume lebel of network drives and CD-ROM + Attributes of directories can be changed in tree panel + Extended attributes .LONGNAME of OS/2 are shown as description * Symbol after * in file masks are not ignored + List of masks separated by coma or semicolon can be used instead of mask + Screen saver is disabled in windowed DOS sessions under OS/2 Changes in version 4.99.01 alpha (27-Jun-1997) - Video Mode function (Ctlr-F9) is not displayed in KeyBar - Tabs in descriptions are displayed as ASCII characters 09h - Trying to press Enter when cursor bar is set on file without extension and there is no local VC.EXT file in the current directory executes incorrect command - Error reading empty disks under Windows 95 - Trying to read extended attributes under OS/2 from remote disk of Windows NT Server when reading panels, copying and changing attributes causes critical error * No files were displayed when custon filter is a blank line. Now all files displayed in this case - Error moving not empty directories from remote disk of Windows NT Server + Hidden files are marked with symbol '°' when long names mode is switched on - Error reading root directory of NFS volume mounted under OS/2 - 'Mouse options' and 'Zoom options' in Interface dialog box are mixed - Enter and Ctrl-Enter on key pad don't work * New description file is created with the same name and attributes as source description file - Deleting of description file and all files which are contained in this description file causes beep - Trying to delete description file and one or more files which are contained in this description file recreates description file - Trying to start VC from OS/2 session locks DOS session if current path is illegal for DOS session (for example C:\.NAME) - Entering to remote directory with 'no access' permissions causes hanging - Reading panel with directory deleted from another session under Windows 95 causes hanging - Date and time of some subdirectories in archives are displayed incorrectly - Date and time of directory entry .. in archives are displayed incorrectly - Trying to call external editor calls external viewer - Reading directories contained a lot of files (for example 5000) causes hanging - Reading directories of archives contained a lot of files (for example 5000) causes hanging - Incorrect order of files in unsorted mode when reading contents of archive by external utility + New switch '\' of archive parser line (VCARCH.EXT) - Error reading archives with invalid parser line - Incorrect values of macros !, !.!, %, %.% are substituted when viewing or editing file from archive by external program - Incorrect values of macros ! and % are substituted for files with more than one points - Temporary file is not removed arter viewing or editing file from archive by external program - Subdirectories with calculated size and subdirectories of archives are not displayed when option 'Offlines' in Filter is switched off - VC does not release time slices in windowed DOS sessions under OS/2 - Screen saver does not work under DOS and Windows 95 - Mouse cursor is blinking under DOS and Windows 95 - Error deleting archive which is opened in panel + Using environment variable PATH for searching external viewers and editors - Searching text is displayed incorrectly in 'Search' dialog box of internal viewer + Command line switches /VESA and /noVESA - Shadow is not displayed under pull down menus Left and Right - Functions 'Select group' and 'Invert group' from pull-down menu act on files and directories. They should act on files only + New keystrokes Ctrl-Gray+, Ctrl-Gray- and Ctrl-Gray* act on all files without dialog box - Pressing Ctrl-C keystroke causes ^C is displayed on the screen - Descriptions of files with mixed case are displayed as offlines - Starting VC when 150 Kbytes memory free causes hanging or strange behaviour Changes in version 4.99.02 alpha (05-Aug-1997) - Can't copy, move, delete and calculate size of not empty subdirectory, if both panels are in Brief and Long names mode and width of columns with files are 12 characters - Long path in command prompt overlaps key bar + Some input lines in dialog boxes now are longer than 64 characters and can be scrolled left or right - First symbol in 'Auto change directory time delay' field of 'Panel options' is ignored - Lines of description files containing symbols those can't be in file names are displayed as offline files - Random strings are appeared at the top of history window when history buffer is full + Symbol '+' as first character of description line means continuation of the description - Trying to enter to the directory longer than 64 characters causes closing task under Windows 95 - Current path and path in title line of file panel sometimes is displayed in short form - Function 'Directory sizes' resorts subdirectories when panel is sorted by size, but cursor bar stays on previous position - If directories in file panel were sorted by size and sizes of directoties were calculated using Ins key then trying to set sort order by size does not resorts directories - Searched substring in hexadecimal viewer is highlighted by wrong colors - Switching to another text video mode with higher resolution causes a crash when there is not enough momory to increase the size of intrnal video buffer - Some external viewers and editors change video mode that violates representation of text on the screen if this viewer or editor is placed in VCVIEW.EXT or VCEDIT.EXT file in the following format: EXT: VIEWER.EXE + Video mode is restored after executing programs from VC.EXT, VCVIEW.EXT and VCEDIT.EXT files - Menu 'Files' is highlighted in menu bar instead of 'Commands' when changing volume label and menu bar is swithed on - Renaming file to itself under DOS causes following dialog: 'File already exists. Overwrite/All/Append/Skip/Cancel' - Multiple switching panel between Tree and file list or Info causes strange behaviour or crash of program - If one file is present in description more then one time and file with such name exists on a disk, first description belongs to this file, other descriptions are displayed as offlines. Trying to copy, move, rename, delete or change attributes of those offline files make action on real file - Incorrect date is set when copying a directory and incorrect date is displayed when changing attributes of a directory under Windows 95 + It is possible to copy, move or rename offline files - Pressing End or Ctrl-PgDn in internal viewer after loading file with size 16-32 Kbytes causes empty screen and strange behaviour when press PgUp and PgDn keys - Copying of file with fully uppercased name creates target file with lowercased name under Windows 95 - Part of menu bar stays on the screen when switching menu bar off and one of panels is switched off - Files of archives which have \, .\, ..\, C: at the beginning of file names are not displayed + The most of input lines in dialog boxes have local history which can be accessed by pressing Ctrl-E and Ctrl-X keystrokes * New description files were created with the same attributes as source description files. Now new description files are created without read-only attribute even if source description files have this attribute - Error copying or moving files to or from drive X: when archiver X1 is defined in VCARCH.EXT file to support archives with extension .X - Deleting the directory of mounted under Windows 95 disk of Windows NT Server which is displayed in inative panel leaves path of this panel the same - When copying directories to remote disk of Windows NT Server created directories sometimes have incorrect attributes + Ctrl-Enter, Ctrl-[ and Ctrl-] keystrokes pressed in input lines of dialog boxes make the same actions as in command line * When copying or renaming/moving single file or directory path and name of this file or directory were substituted as default target. Now only path is substituted - Contents of the panels are not refreshed after saving settings * Pressing Ctrl-\ keystroke causes cursor bar is put on directory which was current before * Left part of long name was displayed in mini status line. Now right part is diplayed - Copying of moving directory into itself causes recursion - The following conditions cause crash: inactive panel contains tree of directories, floppy disk is not inserted in drive A:, type 'A:' in command line and press Enter - When directory for temporary files is displayed on a panel temporary file is appeared on this panel after viewing file from archive Changes in version 4.99.03 alpha (31-Oct-1997) - Copying description file and one or more files which are contained in this description file updetes target description if it exists + Trying to enter to directory of tree panel which does not exist on a disk causes this directory is removed from TREEINFO - Starting VC sometimes causes hanging - Error reading empty disks under Windows 95 - 'Not enough memory' warning appears when splitting file and there is enough free space on a target disk for the rest of source file but not enough for the whole file - 'Change drive' dialog box sometimes appears on the bottom of screen when copying/moving/renaming the files - Copying or moving file from substed drive to its real location tryes to copy this file to itself - When changing directory by Ctrl-\ from archive included in archive, last one stays in the temporary directory * Ctrl-Enter, Ctrl-[, Ctrl-] and Ctrl-I keystrokes insert quoted names in command line if these names cantain spaces + Ctrl-Enter, Ctrl-[, Ctrl-] and Ctrl-I keystrokes insert short names in command line when Shift is pressed + Ctrl-Enter, Ctrl-[ and Ctrl-] keystrokes insert short names in dialogs when Shift is pressed + New macros for short names added in *.MNU, VC.EXT, VCVIEW.EXT and VCEDIT.EXT files: !~, %~, !~.!, %~.%, !~\, %~\ + Macros !@, %@, !~@, %~@ work now + Added new macros ![text], !0,..., !9 * Term 'offline' is changed to 'absent' * Names of files are transformed to short names when executing standard viewers * Keystrokes Ctrl-Enter, Ctrl-[, Ctrl-], Ctrl-E and Ctrl-X don't work now in short (up to 10 chars) input lines of dialog boxes + New dialog box 'Characters' in pull-down menu 'Options' allows to edit characters of borders and mouse pointers + Added hot key Shift-F1 for change attributes function * Changed '^M' to 'Ctrl-M' in 'Restore selection' line of pull-down menu 'Files' * Hot keys of pull-down menu items are marked only by color, they are not uppercased now * Input string of Speed search dialog box is increased from 12 to 24 characters * Speed search accepts wildcard characters ? and * + Added option 'Command shell options' in 'General options' + Extension or file mask in files VC.EXT, VCVIEW.EXT, VCEDIT.EXT can be associated with menu file (*.MNU) - Can not execute standard viewer with long name - Can not execute archiver with long name - Wrong position of cursor in 'Choose drive' dialg box on right panel when number of drive letters is 16 or 18 - Can not select/unselect file without extension by Grey +/- when it is specified as a file mask - Error executing number of commands from VC.EXT, VCVIEW.EXT, VCEDIT.EXT and *.MNU files in XMS mode - Overwritting file with long name using its short name causes new target file is created with long name of overwtited file - Copy/Move/Rename/Delete by mask functions match files only by their long names