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│ The OS/2-Commander v1.10 │
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First of all: Thanks to Frankie "wat denn nu noch" Raether for
his work on the manual and a lot of good ideas!
Thanks to the Musikservice Nord Team for their support,
their ideas and the coffee!
Special thanks to: Goetz "The Boss" Kopmann
Martin "I didn't do that!" Lohnau
Mario "Ossi" Schuldt
Very special thanks to: Thomas "Do you want a Twenkie" Bradford,
his lovely wife Marie
and his kids: Ben "The Wild",
Autumn "I love Marshmallows",
and "smiling" Michael.
And not to forget: Jenni "The Yankee"
for giving me a great time in the USA!
Thank you to my beta-tester for testing every bug and having
much patience with me ;-)
Thanks to Siegfried Hanisch, the author of the ScreenSaver, for
creating and collecting most of the nice maxims and allowing me
to use them for the OS/2-Commander's internal screen-saver.
Thank you to all the people all over the world using this program
and supporting my with their ideas and comments.
News and changes in OS/2-Commander version 1.10
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- for Unix freaks: Now you can start a program in a new task by adding '&'
to the command line. E.g. 'format a: &'.
- added SHIFT-ALT-F7 to show the previous ALT-F7 Findlist without rescanning.
- added "Medium" filelist to menu. The Medium list will show the filename,
file size and file date.
- added CTRL-B to toggle (show/hide) the function key line.
- added CTRL-Z to switch between real filesize and allocated size.
- added allocated size to Info window.
- added Disk-Image function to the Commands menu.
You can create an image from a diskette and write it to another disk.
When creating an image, you'll be prompted for the filename for the
image file, when writing an image to a disk you simply put the scroll bar
onto the image file and start "write image to disk".
The created disk image should be comaptible with OS/2's VMDISK images
and you should be able to boot a DOS session from an image created by
The OS/2-Commander.
- added 132-column mode. Use SHIFT-F10 or the Options menu to switch
between 80 and 132 columns.
- added enhanced search algorythmn to the DFB-Viewer.
For the search string (F7) and the browse filter (F9) the following
rules apply:
Entering a simply search string, e.g. 'warp', will search the whole
record for that string, regardless which field it is in.
If you want to search for a string in a specific field, you have to
use the following syntax: @<fieldname> = <"searchstring">
E.g. '@progname = "warp"'
You have to put the search string into quotation marks.
You can combine up to 5 search strings with logical AND or OR, but
you can not combine AND and OR statements.
Following 2 syntaxes are valid for AND:
@<fieldname> = <"searchstring"> .AND. <fieldname> = <"searchstring">
E.g. '@progname = "os2com" .and. progdesc = "Commander"'
or
@<fieldname> = <"searchstring"> & <fieldname> = <"searchstring">
E.g. '@PROGNAME = "warp" & PROGDESC = "server"'
For OR you can use the following 2 syntaxes
@<fieldname> = <"searchstring"> .OR. <fieldname> = <"searchstring">
E.g. '@progname = "os2com" .or. progdesc = "567890"'
or
@<fieldname> = <"searchstring">, <fieldname> = <"searchstring">
E.g. '@PROGNAME = "warp", PROGDESC = "server"'
It's also valid to seperate an OR statement only with a SPACE.
@<fieldname> = <"searchstring"> <fieldname> = <"searchstring">
E.g. '@progname = "warp" progdesc = "server"'
The following syntax in NOT valid and will result in an AND search:
@NAME = "1234" .AND. TEXT = "5678" .OR. TEXT = "ABCD"
Neither the search strings nor the seperators are case sensitive,
there's no difference between '.AND.' and '.and.'.
The <fieldname> has to match the exact fieldname in the database,
(also not case sensitive).
The <searchstring> can be anywhere in the field, e.g. a search for
'@PROGDESC = "warp"' will return every records containing one of the
following string in the field PROGDESC:
warp
WARP
warp 3.0
Fixpak for Warp 3
- added a Filter to the DBF-Viewer. With F9 you can set the filter.
When a filter is set, the Browser will only show records that contain
that string.
- added DBF-packer to the DBF-Viewer. It removes all deleted records from
the database. Use it with care, if you have index files you might have
to rebuild the indexes! The OS/2-Commander DBF-Viewer does not touch
index files at all!
- the F5, F6 and F7 prompts are now "scrollable" and accept more than
64 characters.
- the DBF-Viewer now has a Browse function.
- new switch "don't scan network drives" in FIND function.
If this switch is enabled together with the "scan all drives" switch,
The OS/2-Commander will scan only local drives.
- the prompt line is now no longer limited to 80 characters.
- internal and external editor available in Find function.
- new switch "Use NCOPY on NETWARE drives" in "Some switches".
If enabled, The OS/2-Commander will use NCOPY to copy files on
NETWARE drives.
- new switch "Scan network drives" in "Some switches".
If disabled, The OS/2-Commander will not scan network drives when creating
the directory database WCD.DB.
- fixed some 'sorting' problems. When sorting by date, the newest files
are now at the top. When switching to 'unsorted', the directory is now
displayed unsorted immediately without having to re-read the directory.
- the cursor-problems should now be history (I hope <g>).
- new path options "Left window path" and "right window path" in "Directories".
Here you can store the paths you want the OS/2-Commander to start in.
- new switch "Restore stored paths" in "window options".
If enabled, OS/2-Commander will start each window in the path stored in
"Left/Right window path"
- new switch "auto-save configuration" in "Some switches". If enabled,
The OS/2-Commander will save the curent setting automatically.
- it's now possible to use high intensity backround colors (values > 7).
- you can now use CTRL-ALT-<number> to Quick-Search for files or
directories beginning with a number.
- it's now possible to specify a special configuration file.
With the command line parameter /C: you can define the configuration
file you want to use.
Example: os2com /C:d:\users\user1\thomas.cfg
The OS/2-Commander will also use a file "thomas.ext" for the extension
definitions.
- new option "Never" when copying or moving and the file exists in the
target directory. When choosing "Never", only non-existing files will
be copied or moved to the target directory.
News and changes in OS/2-Commander version 1.09
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- the configuration has totaly changed!
The OS/2-Commander is now using a configuration file OS2COM.CFG that will
be created automatically if not existing.
Most options now have to be set inside the OS/2-Commander, in the
configuration option of the 'Options' menu. The configuration will be saved
automatically. The OS2COM.INI now only contents the sections [Arcer] and
[AddArcer], all other settings are done with the menu in OS2COM.CFG, except
the extension definitions and the color-definitions for specific extension.
They are now located in the file OS2COM.EXT.
- With ALT-F9 you can now change the case of a file or all selected files.
Of course this only works on HPFS partitions.
- Nested archives are now supported.
You might run into problems when opening two nested archives, one in the left
and one in the right window. You should avoid to do that.
- RAR OS/2 and DOS self-extracting archives are now supported.
- the number of extensions that can be defined in OS2COM.EXT is now unlimited.
- fixed the "lost cursor" with QEdit as external editor.
- fixed the selected item background color.
- fixed the Warp fixpack problem.
- time was not working in a windowed session.
- empty directories were not tagged correctly.
- new switch for lefthand mouse.
This switch will swap the left and right mouse button.
- new switch for window video mode.
This switch defines the video mode when running OS/2-Commander in a
windowed session. If you don't use this switch, the normal 'video mode'
is still used in a window session, but now you can define different
video modes for fullscreen and window sessions.
- new color option for the drive select icon.
With these switches you can define the foreground and background color
of the drive-select click-point in the upper left corner.
- new color option for the function keys.
With these switches you can define the foreground and background color
of the function key numbers in the bottom row.
- new option for a second external editor.
With this option you can define a second external editor that is called
with Shift-Alt-F4.
- DBF-Viewer/Editor implemented.
For files with the extension .DBF the internal DBF-viewer will be used
with F3 and F4 now. With the DBF-viewer you can also delete, undelete and
edit records in a DBF database and you can add records to the database.
The DBF-Viewer is using the following color definitions:
DBF-Viever foreground color
DBF-Viever background color
DBF-Viever field foreground color
DBF-Viever field background color
- Shift-F3 will always call the standard internal viewer.
- New switch 'PrinterPort'.
This switch defines where your printer is connected.
e.g. 'LPT1'
- New switch AutoMenu.
With AutoMenu enabled OS/2-Commander will show the user menu at program
start.
- New variable [%N] for the User-menu.
It's nearly the same as [%F] but will only insert the first part of the
filename and strip the extension.
- Fixed Error 14 in Warp-Function.
- Fixed Error 5 in Archiv-Function
- Delete all read-only files is now working correct for all subdirectories.
- The read-only attribute is now striped when files are copied from a CD-ROM.
- Changed the Extension definition in OS2COM.EXT.
Now you have to enter a variable where and how the filename will be
inserted. It's now possible to append parameters or strip the extension.
If you're upgrading from a previous version, you have to change your
entries!
Examples:
The scroll bar is on the file 'picture.gif' and you press enter:
gif: d:\tools\pmview !.! will be converted to
d:\tools\pmview picture.gif
gif: d:\tools\pmview !.! /v will be converted to
d:\tools\pmview picture.gif /v
gif: d:\tools\pmview ! /v will be converted to
d:\tools\pmview picture /v
gif: d:\tools\pmview !. /v will be converted to
d:\tools\pmview picture. /v
- changed the structure of the directory tree file. The files DTREE.OSC in
the root directory of each drive are no longer needed and can be deleted.
OS/2-Commander now uses the same database that WCD (Wolfgang's Change
Directory) is using and WCD is almost completely included into OS2COM.
OS2COM will now update the database automatically when creating, deleting
or renaming a directory.
The concerning new configuration options are:
- "DirBase" to give the drive and directory where OS2COM should store the
directory database, default is "C:\WCD.DB". You have enter the drive and
directory name, including the filename!
- "WarpFlags" to tell OS2COM how to behave when scanning the drives or
searching for a directory with the "Warp Directory" feature. OS2COM will
no longer use any environment switches!
You have to enter the slash "/". E.g. "/c".
Valid flags are:
/a : list all directories.
If OS2COM finds more than one directory that matches exact
to your search string OS2COM will only list these exact
matching directories by default. Use /a if you want OS2COM
to list all directories that contain the search string
in their name.
/b : list only directories that begin with the searchstring.
By default OS2COM lists all directories that contain the
string somewhere in the name. Use /b if you want OS2COM to
list only directories which begin with your <directory>
parameter.
/c : don't scan CD-ROM drives.
By default OS2COM scans all drives. If you don't want OS2COM
to scan CD-ROM drives by default, use /c and OS2COM will not
scan a CD-ROM drive when (re-)building the database.
/d : search current drive only.
Search for the directory you want to change to only on
the current drive.
/e : if only one exact match, show popup window.
Show popup window if exactly one directory name is found
in the directory database with the exact name to search for.
/s[x] : shrink searchstring.
This option will change OS2COM's behaviour when no directories
are found that match the original searchstring.
0: (/s0) do not shrink searchstring, abort (default).
1: (/s1) shrink searchstring and try again.
2: (/s2) shrink searchstring and try again. Always open window,
even if only one directory matches the shrunk searchstring.
/s (without a number) is equal to /s1.
