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File Commander v2.21-dev

Download latest snapshot of File Commander for OS/2 and File Commander for Windows 95/98/NT v2.21-dev
The distribution ZIP for FC/2 v2.21-dev is 157,076 bytes. Last updated Sun, Feb 02, 2003
The distribution ZIP for FC/W v2.21-dev is 168,205 bytes. Last updated Sun, Feb 02, 2003

File Commander v2.30-dev

Download latest snapshot of File Commander for OS/2 and File Commander for Windows 95/98/NT v2.30-dev
The distribution ZIP for FC/2 v2.30-dev is 164,948 bytes. Last updated Fri, Dec 31, 2004
The distribution ZIP for FC/W v2.30-dev is 178,756 bytes. Last updated Fri, Dec 31, 2004

Changes with File Commander 2.30

  *) Change Ctrl-\ to exit the current archive if we're in one rather than
     going all the way to the root of the drive.

  *) Win32: Use CopyFileEx() to copy files so that alternate streams are
     preserved.

  *) Using Alt-F1/2 then \ would not turn on the appropriate panel if it was
     hidden.

  *) Add sticky select mode to editor with Alt-S.

  *) Add progress indicator to editor file loading.

  *) Make tree views able to expand/collapse branches. Controlled with Grey +/-
     and Ctrl-Grey +/-. Default tree state can be configured with the
     ExpandedTrees switch in fc.ini.

  *) OS/2: Work around PM insert state change when tagging files.

  *) Remove limit of 4000 matches in File Find.

  *) Include value of PathAppend configuration directive in the PATH
     environment variable of spawned processes.

  *) OS/2: Support BeginLIBPATH & EndLIBPATH pseudo-environment variables for
     extending DLL search path.

  *) In file find results, shift F8 deletion of directories doesn't recognise
     Cancel & All option persists between repeated uses.

  *) Add support for directory store/recall via the normal number keys as well as the numpad.
     (Win32 only).

  *) Add "All Older" option to the overwrite confirmation dialog.

  *) Support environment variable references in stored directory paths.

  *) Change File Find to search directories in alphabetical order instead of
     the LIFO stack it was using.

  *) Add !tx operator, like !t but chops the extension. Handy for converting
     files where the program requies both input & output file names & you want
     to change the extension.

  *) Prevent crash in File Find when searching a path more than 260 characters
     long.

  *) Added support for sub-menus of user menus

  *) Speed up loading of a large command history when MaxHist is set high.

  *) Allow user menu commands to be up to 4096 characters long, up from 259.

  *) Add initial support for UNC paths.

  *) Improve handling of bad sectors while copying files.

  *) Calculate Directory Size: Allow "Total Size" display more room.

  *) Fix retrieval of a stored path that's inside an archive via the Alt-F5
     stored path dialog.

  *) TAR reading: take notice of unix directory mode flag as well as trailing
     slash when deciding if an entry is a directory or file.

  *) Use more efficient memory allocator for storing text lines in editor for
     faster loading of large files.

  *) Optimise use of space in the panel status line when showing quantity &
     size of tagged files.

  *) OS/2: Enable shifted keys to work with keyboard redirectors like the
     telnet server.

  *) In File Find, enable F5/F6 to copy/move all files in the found list.

  *) In File Find, Delete key removes an item from the found list.

  *) Display "dirinfo" file in the lower section of the Info panel. Double
     click of same area or F4 edits the dirinfo file.

  *) Add / and ? keys to viewer as search forwards/backwards as in many unix
     tools (less, vi etc)

  *) Fix menu colouring so that both forground & background of menu highlight
     bar can be configured.

  *) Add built-in "set" command & [Environment] INI file section, allowing
     environment variables to be changed for executed commands. The set
     command allows temporary changes while the INI file section allows more
     permanent settings.

  *) Added Shift-TAB seek name completion


Changes with File Commander 2.21

  *) When copying tagged directories, update the status line after doing the
     size count.

  *) OS/2: Fix code page translation failures after translating large
     quantities of text.     

  *) Translate all paths passed to tar to use forward slashes as some tar
     ports can't understand backslashes.

  *) Move hot key for Brief-Wide in Left/Right menus so as not to clash with
     Info item.

  *) OS/2: Fix sort order of files with some country settings.

  *) Fix rare crash in file contents searching where a negative offset into the
     file was requested when the first byte in the file was present in the
     search string.

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File Commander v2.20 RELEASE

Download releases of File Commander for OS/2 and File Commander for Windows 95/98/NT v2.20
The distribution ZIP for FC/2 v2.20 release is 284,306 bytes. Last updated Sat, Apr 20, 2002
The distribution ZIP for FC/W v2.20 release is 274,427 bytes. Last updated Sat, Apr 20, 2002

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The following changes have been completed since the release of v2.12 and are included in v2.20:

New Features

• Hot keys to change to previous / next file in panel or File Find results when using internal viewer (Alt-Up/Down).
• Position memory for viewer.
• Support for HA archiver.
• Support for GZip files.
• Support for TAR files (and thereby tar.gz files).
• File Find: Added function to delete ALL found files (Shift-F8).
• Editor: Append to clipboard function added (Ctrl-Shift-Insert).
• File Case: optionally recurse subdirectories, modifying files/directories/both.
• Brief-Wide view, like Brief view but 2 column instead of 3.
• File Find: Search multiple drives.
• Panels now adjust their spacing to use any number of columns, not just 80 and 132.
• Added bookmarking facility to editor using Ctrl-Shift-[Num 0-9] and Ctrl-[Num 0-9].
• Provide built-in commands $view and $edit to access the internal viewer & editor.
• Added a separate section in the INI file for directory entry colourization.
• Editor: Added Alt-Comma & Alt-Dot functions to find previous/next occurance of the word the cursor is on.
• Editor: Added Ctrl-W function, mark & copy word.
• Added drive mapping display to the drive change panel in place of the volume label for network drives.

Minor Enhancements

• Work with ARJ SFXs made by the Win32 version of ARJ.
• Editor: Ctrl-A selects all text.
• Add drop down history to Shift-F3/4 dialog.
• OS/2: Sort file names by collating sequence instead of nls_strupr.
• OS/2: Ignore serial number on JFS drives, it changes on every boot.
• OS/2: Make mouse support work correctly on WSeB.
• Win32: Work around NT bug that prevented cursor from being turned off when running full screen.
• Viewer: Allow browsing files that are larger than 2GB.
• Column separator lines on Full/Wide view panels are now consistently the same colour, regardless of the text around it.
• Viewer: Adjusted hex view layout to allow 8 digit offset, providing correct display for files up to 4GB.
• OS/2: Added support for 64 bit file systems (EG JFS).
• Added 'follow' mode in viewer (Alt-F), follows the end of a growing file.
• Added ability to abort a directory compare when comparing file contents.
• Alt-\ now works in Copy/Move dialog, allowing selection of a recently visited directory as the target of the copy/move.
• Ctrl-Shift-F/J now works in File Find result list to copy the full path/name of the file to the clipboard.
• Added command history reverse search function with Shift-Ctrl-J/Enter.
• When a file name won't fit in the space available on a panel, keep the extension visible.
• Added support for Win2K's directory mount points when getting disk space.
• Clear ReadOnly attribute on files from DVD (UDF file system) as well as CD.

Bug Fixes

• !L wasn't putting spaces between file names.
• After using Alt-Enter (Shift-ENTER on Win32), command history position wasn't being reset like it is when just using Enter.
• File Find: Fixed corrupt display when deleting the only match while search is still running.
• Fixed User Menu where last characters of menu text were being truncated if they were non-English.
• Fixed case sensitivity of directory tree quick search with non-English characters.
• Wasn't handling Win32 ARJ self extracting files.
• NT only: Prevent errors being reported when copying directorys to a file system that doesn't support backup semantics flag (esp Netware w/MS client).
• Fixed redirection of input/output from/to a quoted file name.
• Fixed bug where the handling of leading ./ on paths in archives didn't work if there were no other /'s in the path.
• OS/2: Fixed crash if EA data query appears to succeed but invalid data is returned. Caused crash when renaming files on NFS & possibly FTPFS drives.
• Win32: Fixed "Access Violation" errors merging directories including overwriting a directory tree from an archive.

If you haven't been keeping up to date you might like to see :

• What's new in v2.12
• What's new in v2.11
• What's new in v2.10
• What's new in v2.01
• What's new in v2.00
• What's new in v1.51

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Previous versions of File Commander for OS/2

Download FC/2 v0.10 (39,723 bytes.)
Download FC/2 v0.11 (59,736 bytes.)
Download FC/2 v0.12 (49,577 bytes.)
Download FC/2 v0.13 (51,434 bytes.)
Download FC/2 v0.14 (74,849 bytes.)
Download FC/2 v0.15 (78,830 bytes.)
Download FC/2 v0.16 (95,831 bytes.)
Download FC/2 v0.17 (109,433 bytes.)
Download FC/2 v1.00 (121,542 bytes.)
Download FC/2 v1.01 (125,581 bytes.)
Download FC/2 v1.02 (125,823 bytes.)
Download FC/2 v1.03 (128,923 bytes.)
Download FC/2 v1.10 (134,944 bytes.)
Download FC/2 v1.11 (135,789 bytes.)
Download FC/2 v1.20 (164,735 bytes.)
Download FC/2 v1.21 (165,163 bytes.)
Download FC/2 v1.30 (159,651 bytes.)
Download FC/2 v1.31 (160,802 bytes.)
Download FC/2 v1.40 (173,380 bytes.)
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Download FC/2 v2.10 (264,935 bytes.)
Download FC/2 v2.11 (265,221 bytes.)
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Mailing List

A mailing list for File Commander was created in Feb. 1998. The list is intended to be a discussion forum for File Commander users to discuss anything related to File Commander. It is unmoderated and anyone is welcome to join.

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Archivers

To make full use of FC's archive handling you'll need to have appropriate archive programs installed. These are the programs that were tested to work.
NOTE:
- For LZH I have listed LH/2, an OS/2 archiver. The package lh2_222.exe contains a 16 bit OS/2 executable that can be used in Windows NT. Don't bother downloading it if you're using Windows 95.
- For OS/2 and Windows you must use DOS version of ARJ.

Type	OS/2	MS Windows
ZIP	zip23x2.zip(Info-ZIP) pkos2250.exe(PkWare)	zip23xN.zip(Info-ZIP) pk250c32.exe(PkWare)
UNZIP	uzs541x2.exe(Info-ZIP) pkos2250.exe(PkWare)	unz541x.exe(Info-ZIP) pk250c32.exe(PkWare)
RAR	rarx271.exe	wrar271.exe
LZH	lh2_222.exe	lh2_222.exe
ARJ	arj2_275.exe	arj32v3j.exe
GZIP	gz124-32.zip	gzip124xN.zip
TAR	gtar258.zip
ACE	ace12b.zip	ace12b.zip

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Archivers using notes

If you want to use PKZIP v2.5 instead of InfoZip in FC/2 or FC/W I can recommend the following settings in fc.ini :

[Archiver:ZIP]
Compress=pkzip /add /dir /max
CompressListfileSwitch=@
Extract=pkzip /ext /dir
ExtractWithoutPath=pkzip /ext /-dir
ExtractListfileSwitch=@
Delete=pkzip /del

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