| 1 | New stuff's at the top.  This list is not necessarily complete. | 
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| 2 |  | 
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| 3 | 3.04 pre12: | 
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| 4 | o Expose internal errors to user rather than just beeping | 
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| 5 | o Check and report more "should not occur" errors | 
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| 6 | o More new icons (thanks David) | 
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| 7 |  | 
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| 8 | 3.04 pre11: | 
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| 9 | o Add hide not selected to Compare Directories | 
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| 10 | o Add compare content to Compare Directories | 
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| 11 |  | 
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| 12 | 3.04 pre10: | 
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| 13 | o Allow non-null terminated archive signatures | 
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| 14 | o Preserve archiver.bbs comments | 
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| 15 |  | 
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| 16 | 3.04 pre9: | 
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| 17 | o Add archiver defintion add/delete/move support | 
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| 18 |  | 
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| 19 | 3.04 pre8: | 
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| 20 | o Avoid toolbar window list trap (action 9010) | 
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| 21 | o Avoid internal editor file corruption when wrap on | 
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| 22 |  | 
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| 23 | 3.04 pre7: | 
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| 24 | o More archiver.bb2 template rework | 
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| 25 | o Correct archiver window date/time suppress logic | 
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| 26 | o Clean up archiver.bb2 loader | 
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| 27 | o Minor makefile corrections | 
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| 28 |  | 
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| 29 | 3.04 pre6: | 
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| 30 | o Correct typo in MakeValidDir() - avoid drive button RMB trap | 
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| 31 |  | 
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| 32 | 3.04 pre5: | 
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| 33 | o Support archivers with no list headers (tar) | 
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| 34 | o Support archivers that onl extract with directories (tar) | 
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| 35 | o Disable menus for not ready volumes | 
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| 36 | o Correct missing collector view button window updates | 
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| 37 | o Correct fallback logic in MakeValidDir() | 
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| 38 |  | 
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| 39 | 3.04 pre4: | 
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| 40 | o Correct longnames display enable | 
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| 41 | o archiver.tmp (archiver.bb2) updated and optimized | 
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| 42 | o Support archiver.tmp install | 
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| 43 |  | 
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| 44 | 3.04 pre3: | 
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| 45 | o Support jfsopt.cmd install | 
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| 46 | o Support tarlist.cmd install | 
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| 47 | o Ensure install.cmd updates fm/2 Desktop folder icons | 
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| 48 | o Support empty signatures in archiver.bb2 | 
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| 49 |  | 
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| 50 | 3.04 pre2: | 
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| 51 | o More icon updates (David's v18) | 
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| 52 | o Avoid user directory edit crash | 
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| 53 | o Avoid crashing if archiver.bb2 entry has no signature | 
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| 54 |  | 
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| 55 | 3.04 pre1: | 
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| 56 | o Avoid commands menu do it yourself trap | 
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| 57 | o Correct filesystem type details view column selections | 
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| 58 | o Rework resource kit into standard makefiles | 
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| 59 | o Replace bitmaps and icons (thanks to David Graser and others) | 
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| 60 | o Add JFS optimize support (thanks to Gregg Young) | 
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| 61 | o Avoid Directory Sizes hangs | 
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| 62 |  | 
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| 63 | 3.03: | 
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| 64 | o Rework resource kit and reskit readme | 
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| 65 | o Correct directory sizes sort | 
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| 66 | o Correct archive sort again | 
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| 67 |  | 
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| 68 | 3.02i: | 
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| 69 | o Rework Databar to avoid delays for inaccessible volumes | 
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| 70 | o Lots of work on large file support | 
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| 71 | o Switch to VAC 3.65 | 
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| 72 | o Correct name parsing in collector and archive containers | 
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| 73 | o Output popup error messages to stderr and to screen | 
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| 74 | o Correct archive container initial sort setup | 
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| 75 | o Avoid startup trap in FindSwapperDat (VAC3.65 compat) | 
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| 76 | o Correct reversed wrap menu in new viewer | 
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| 77 | o Misc VAC3.65 compat rework | 
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| 78 | o Avoid referencing garbage in collector | 
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| 79 | o Resolve some icon selection inconsistencies | 
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| 80 |  | 
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| 81 | 3.02h: | 
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| 82 | o Show full target path in Drag/Drop dialogs | 
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| 83 | o Add debug support to troubleshoot invisible FAT32 drive | 
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| 84 | o Correct archiver.bb2 editing | 
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| 85 |  | 
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| 86 | 3.02g: | 
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| 87 | o Update removable drive support to work for USB MSD | 
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| 88 |  | 
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| 89 | 3.02f: | 
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| 90 | o Add large drive support to the dirsize applet startup screen | 
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| 91 | o Avoid spurious filldir errors for large drives | 
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| 92 | Will still get get math errors for >4GB directories | 
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| 93 |  | 
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| 94 | 3.02e: | 
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| 95 | o More see all files fixes | 
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| 96 | o Correct internal viewer WM_VSCROLL logic (amouse) | 
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| 97 |  | 
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| 98 | 3.02d: | 
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| 99 | o Clean up icon usage | 
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| 100 | o Add missing refresh after compare subdir toggle | 
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| 101 | o Try to avoid playing non-MM files when use MMOS2 enabled | 
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| 102 | o Rework directory sizes for large drives | 
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| 103 | o Correct Show All Files requests from Tree View context menu | 
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| 104 | o Correct resource strings | 
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| 105 |  | 
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| 106 | 3.02c: | 
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| 107 | o Correct broken assignments | 
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| 108 | o Force Compare Directories window refresh on subdir toggle | 
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| 109 |  | 
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| 110 | 3.02b: | 
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| 111 | o Add JFS and FAT32 support | 
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| 112 |  | 
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| 113 | 3.02a: | 
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| 114 | o Replace corrupted remote.ico. | 
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| 115 | o Correct archive name display | 
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| 116 |  | 
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| 117 | 3.02: | 
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| 118 | o First open source release. | 
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| 119 |  | 
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| 120 | 3.01: | 
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| 121 | o Added another archiver date type for user Jans-Peter Otto. | 
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| 122 |  | 
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| 123 | 3.00d: | 
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| 124 | o FM/2 Lite remembers if a directory pane was maximized when it | 
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| 125 | closed now (duh -- should have all along, I just forgot). | 
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| 126 |  | 
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| 127 | 3.00c: | 
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| 128 | o More minor bug fixes. | 
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| 129 |  | 
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| 130 | 3.00b: | 
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| 131 | o Fix two minor bugs reported by users. | 
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| 132 |  | 
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| 133 | 3.00: | 
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| 134 | o Most of the text in FM/2 is now accessible from outside the source | 
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| 135 | code files, meaning translations to other languages should now be | 
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| 136 | possible without much problem.  A resource translation kit is offered | 
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| 137 | free-of-charge to registered users.  This required some additional | 
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| 138 | files (FM3RES.DLL and FM3RES.STR), but FM3DLL.DLL becomes (at least) | 
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| 139 | correspondingly smaller. | 
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| 140 | o Jazzed up Autoview a bit. | 
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| 141 | o Removed a bug that sneaked in during code optimization detected by | 
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| 142 | a user where archive members couldn't be dragged.  Then optimized | 
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| 143 | some more, thus tempting fate. | 
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| 144 | o Improved FM/2's internal window selection from menus. | 
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| 145 | o The status button in Directory Containers that shows the selected | 
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| 146 | number of files and bytes now displays a select menu when clicked. | 
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| 147 | o Drive buttons will now show free space on drives as bubble help | 
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| 148 | except for CD-ROM drives, diskette drives A: and B:, and drives | 
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| 149 | marked as "slow" in the drive flags dialog.  I also made the buttons | 
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| 150 | a little bigger, and they'll "stack" if required due to insufficient | 
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| 151 | width. | 
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| 152 | o Removed System Information applet from FM/2 -- OS/2 seems to have | 
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| 153 | this stuff built-in now. | 
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| 154 | o Moved MakeArc into the FM/2 Utilities package. | 
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| 155 | o You can now add selected environment variables that list directories | 
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| 156 | (like PATH, LIBPATH and DPATH) to the Drive Tree with a toggle in | 
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| 157 | the internal Settings notebook on the Tree page.  Cool. | 
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| 158 | o You can now set a default Target directory for menu and accelerator | 
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| 159 | key copy and move operations, and choose to confirm (and perhaps | 
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| 160 | change) that directory on each operation, or accept it without | 
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| 161 | confirmation. | 
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| 162 | o FM/2 will now make program object Parameters suggestions the first | 
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| 163 | time it's run (no FM3.INI exists) if you should exclude any drives, | 
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| 164 | and will even set the Parameters for you if you like. | 
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| 165 | o Yet more tweaking that no one will ever notice... | 
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| 166 |  | 
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| 167 | 2.67: | 
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| 168 | o Jazzed up the mini-command line a bit. | 
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| 169 | o Command lines for the Execute dialog and mini-command line are now | 
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| 170 | saved separately (the former in CMDLINES.DAT, the latter in | 
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| 171 | CMDMINI.DAT, same format).  You can save, or not, either type for | 
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| 172 | recall. | 
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| 173 |  | 
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| 174 | 2.66: | 
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| 175 | o Increased duration of error window to 5 seconds from 3 (click it to | 
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| 176 | make it vanish early), changed background color to white and text | 
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| 177 | color to dark red, surrounded with red rectangle to make it stand out | 
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| 178 | more.  Also gave it a distinctive sound.  (This is the error window | 
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| 179 | you get if you do something like try to open the diskette drive when | 
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| 180 | there's no diskette inserted.) | 
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| 181 | o Killed bug reported by Paulo Mario where FM/2 could crash (suddenly | 
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| 182 | exit) after moving a file and overwriting an existing file. | 
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| 183 | o Reworked Databar a bit. | 
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| 184 | o For the adventurous among you, try holding Shift or Ctrl while | 
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| 185 | clicking that second status window in a Directory Container... | 
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| 186 |  | 
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| 187 | 2.65: | 
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| 188 | o You can drag an object onto the Drive tree's Open button now, and | 
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| 189 | a Directory Container for that object will be opened. | 
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| 190 | o Long-overdue code cleanup begins... | 
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| 191 | o Fixed bug in FM/2 Lite where it was sorta paying attention to the | 
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| 192 | "bottom buttons" setting in FM/2 when it should ignore it. | 
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| 193 | o Played with FM/2's default settings for new users -- some of the | 
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| 194 | best stuff was turned off by default! | 
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| 195 | o Changed the behavior of the Rename dialog somewhat per user | 
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| 196 | suggestion.  "Overwrite if target older or same," "Overwrite if | 
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| 197 | target newer" and "Don't ask again" checkboxes now allow you to | 
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| 198 | selectively skip being asked about naming conflicts for the rest of | 
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| 199 | an operation.  Note that clicking the "Okay" button honors these | 
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| 200 | choices, but the "Overwrite" button overrides them for that one file | 
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| 201 | (an overwrite _will_ be performed). | 
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| 202 |  | 
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| 203 | 2.64: | 
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| 204 | o Made Window->Tile a cascade menu with Tile as the default, but you | 
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| 205 | can also set Autotile and Tile backwards toggles (renamed Tile | 
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| 206 | horizontal) there. | 
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| 207 | o More help file work. | 
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| 208 | o Tweaking of a few things no one will ever notice, except perhaps | 
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| 209 | as a feeling of more smoothness in a few places. | 
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| 210 | o Added "Leave all attrs" button to Attributes dialog to make | 
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| 211 | "touching" files easier. | 
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| 212 |  | 
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| 213 | 2.63: | 
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| 214 | o Fixed bug in UNDEL.EXE pointed out by a user. | 
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| 215 | o Added "Double-click" topic to Tutorial section of help.  Did you know | 
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| 216 | that you can make FM/2 do something different when you double-click | 
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| 217 | an object?  Other miscellaneous work on the help file. | 
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| 218 | o Moved "Create shadows" command under "Copy" cascade in menus where no | 
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| 219 | separate "Create objects" cascade is available and a "Copy" cascade | 
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| 220 | is available. | 
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| 221 | o Made the way menus appear on new View and Sort buttons more | 
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| 222 | attractive (IMHO). | 
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| 223 | o Bubble help won't appear if the window isn't active now (oversight). | 
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| 224 | o To make it easier to parse the saved output from a Directory sizes | 
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| 225 | window, directory names containing spaces are now surrounded by quote | 
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| 226 | marks. | 
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| 227 | o Related:  Put SEEHELP.EXE into FM2UTILS.ZIP for those who have | 
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| 228 | versions of OS/2 with VIEW.EXEs that won't read .HLP files directly. | 
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| 229 | You can read the FM/2 help file directly using this program on such | 
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| 230 | systems:  "SEEHELP FM3.HLP". | 
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| 231 |  | 
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| 232 | 2.62: | 
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| 233 | o Added /SAVE and /NOSAVE to mini-command line options for a user. | 
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| 234 |  | 
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| 235 | 2.61: | 
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| 236 | o Added new buttons to Directory Container, Archive Containers and the | 
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| 237 | Collector that allow you to set sort, filter and view.  Removed | 
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| 238 | filter button from bottom of screen (no longer needed).  Revised | 
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| 239 | window layouts help to show modified layouts. | 
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| 240 | o More newuser-friendly junk (more bubble help, etc.). | 
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| 241 | o Added Find first/next to INI viewer.  Listbox command will work in | 
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| 242 | is bordered in red. | 
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| 243 | o Just a BTW -- there's a new IMAGE.EXE (the FM/2 image viewer utility) | 
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| 244 | in FM2UTILS.ZIP, available free-of-charge at | 
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| 245 | http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/fm2 | 
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| 246 | I put some stuff in it that I needed for making pictures for the help | 
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| 247 | files. | 
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| 248 |  | 
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| 249 | 2.60: | 
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| 250 | o Fast internal viewer can start configured editor from menu (Ctrl + e | 
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| 251 | accelerator) per user request.  Remember, to edit files in an | 
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| 252 | archive, you must still use Files->Refresh to cause selected files to | 
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| 253 | be refreshed in the archive. | 
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| 254 | o Added a bit more bubble help (remember, you can turn bubble help on | 
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| 255 | and off (somewhat selectively) in the internal Settings notebook). | 
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| 256 |  | 
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| 257 | 2.59: | 
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| 258 | o Rename dialog will now specifically tell you if the source file is | 
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| 259 | newer, older or same date as target and smaller, larger or same size | 
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| 260 | if there's a conflict with an existing target file, per user request. | 
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| 261 |  | 
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| 262 | 2.58: | 
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| 263 | o Added ability to create a new directory and switch to it in the | 
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| 264 | common directories user list (select <New directory>).  Revised | 
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| 265 | help to reflect this. | 
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| 266 | o Holding down Shift while selecting a state name will prevent FM/2 | 
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| 267 | from closing windows already open now (per user request).  An | 
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| 268 | automatic retile of all windows is then performed. | 
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| 269 |  | 
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| 270 | 2.57: | 
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| 271 | o Added ability to sort by subject per user request (wouldn't it be | 
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| 272 | nice if Netscape put where we got downloaded files from in an EA?  Or | 
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| 273 | let you drag a file over it without locking up the system?). | 
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| 274 |  | 
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| 275 | 2.56: | 
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| 276 | o Added ability to use exclusion masks in the Seek and Scan dialog | 
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| 277 | per Harry Travis' request.  Also added Append checkbox. | 
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| 278 |  | 
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| 279 | 2.55: | 
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| 280 | o Fixed bug reported by Ralph Alvy -- "Append" checkbox being ignored | 
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| 281 | in Save to listfile dialog, FM/2 always appended to listfile. | 
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| 282 |  | 
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| 283 | 2.54: | 
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| 284 | o Small tweaks. | 
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| 285 | o I don't do Compuserve anymore.  Reach me via the net, or just go to | 
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| 286 | FM/2's web page at http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/fm2 | 
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| 287 |  | 
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| 288 | 2.53: | 
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| 289 | o Added Commands user dropdown list for picking commands to run on | 
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| 290 | selected files more quickly and easily. | 
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| 291 | o Removed "#" character from AV/2 temporary directory -- WebEx and | 
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| 292 | Netscape were choking on it (a). | 
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| 293 | o Allow disabling FM/2's custom file dialog so you can use MSE's | 
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| 294 | instead, if you like (the toggle's on the General page).  (What's | 
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| 295 | MSE?  Look at http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/mse) (a). | 
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| 296 | o Added support for PKZIP 2.50 (b). | 
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| 297 |  | 
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| 298 | 2.52: | 
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| 299 | o When the FM/2 main window is resized and a Directory Container is | 
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| 300 | maximized within it, it will remain maximized. | 
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| 301 | o Modified AV/2 and ARCHIVER.BB2 so that RAR v2's woefully NIH | 
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| 302 | listings can be read.  Would it just _kill_ you archiver authors to | 
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| 303 | get together and come up with some sort of easily parsed listing | 
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| 304 | standard, then stick to it?  Please? | 
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| 305 | o FM/2 will now show the current decryption keyword for extra programs | 
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| 306 | like DBFVIEW and FMT from the About box. | 
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| 307 |  | 
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| 308 | 2.51: | 
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| 309 | o Tweaked image viewer initial sizing algorithm to better handle very | 
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| 310 | small bitmaps at more nearly correct perspectives. | 
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| 311 | o Added "No folder menu" toggle to internal Settings notebook by | 
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| 312 | user request. | 
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| 313 | o Put floppy letters back into drives userlist dropdown due to | 
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| 314 | user request. | 
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| 315 | o Made image viewer a separate executable due to a memory leak in | 
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| 316 | OS/2's MMPM/2 (mmio) under Merlin beta and some Warp 3 fixpack | 
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| 317 | configurations -- closing the application frees the memory, but | 
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| 318 | nothing else will, so a small, fast, separate application "fixes" the | 
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| 319 | problem (or, if you prefer, "OS/2 bug").  Like FM2PLAY.EXE, this | 
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| 320 | IMAGE.EXE file will now be in the FM/2 Utilities package (FM2UTL.ZIP | 
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| 321 | on CI$ or FM2UTILS.ZIP on the internet).  You'll probably want to | 
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| 322 | remove any old IMAGE.CMD file built by previous FM/2 installs. | 
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| 323 | o Added ability to view and manipulate files in archives containing | 
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| 324 | spaces in the filename for archivers that provide information in a | 
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| 325 | particular way (see ARCHIVER.BB2 -- ZIP and LZH archives are set up | 
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| 326 | this way).  Other folks who use ARCHIVER.BB2 should take a look at | 
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| 327 | the updated documentation to see how to take advantage of this, but | 
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| 328 | it's backward-compatible, so old versions of those programs will | 
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| 329 | still work correctly with this change. | 
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| 330 | o Removed SEEHELP.EXE -- Warp has the ability to view help files using | 
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| 331 | VIEW.EXE which comes with the OS. | 
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| 332 | o Added "WPS Move" and "WPS Copy" commands. | 
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| 333 | o I no longer accept registrations via direct mail.  Registrations are | 
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| 334 | available through BMT Micro or CIS' SWREG only (BMT recommended -- | 
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| 335 | see REGISTER.TXT).  I just got too much snail mail and couldn't keep | 
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| 336 | up with all of it. | 
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| 337 |  | 
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| 338 | 2.50b: | 
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| 339 | o Added ability to convert an image file to another format from the | 
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| 340 | image viewer window. | 
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| 341 | o All supported multimedia types are now "played" automatically on | 
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| 342 | double-click unless you have an FM/2 Association set for them. | 
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| 343 |  | 
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| 344 | 2.50a: | 
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| 345 | o Added "Run Viewer as child session" toggle -- if used, any open | 
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| 346 | viewers will close when FM/2 closes. | 
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| 347 | o Added "Env" button to Seek and scan dialog (for searching through | 
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| 348 | directories listed in environment variables). | 
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| 349 | o Added "No sort" option to Collector sorting. | 
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| 350 | o FM/2 will now offer to remove old registration when started after | 
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| 351 | registration has expired, making it easy to enter updated | 
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| 352 | registration information. | 
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| 353 | o Directory Containers can now be switched into Tree View.  See also | 
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| 354 | new "Stay in Tree View" toggle. | 
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| 355 | o B2 on Directory Container Folder buttons pulls up an abbreviated | 
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| 356 | popup menu. | 
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| 357 | o Bugfix:  The Autoview window wouldn't let you enter Comments on an | 
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| 358 | object that didn't already have them (duh). | 
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| 359 | o FM/2 now taps into MMPM/2 to display image files, instead of GBM.  To | 
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| 360 | activate FM/2's "internal" image file viewing, be sure to remove any | 
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| 361 | Associations for MMPM/2-supported image file types (JPG, TIF, BMP, | 
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| 362 | PCX, GIF, etc.) using FM/2's Config->Edit Associations command. | 
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| 363 |  | 
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| 364 | 2.50: | 
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| 365 | o Added a horizontal scrollbar to Global files viewer. | 
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| 366 | o Added line wrap (and thus horizontal scrollbar) to fast internal | 
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| 367 | viewer. | 
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| 368 | o Added WWW and FTP component launching to internal viewers per | 
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| 369 | user request.  BTW, testpm.exe from the FM/2 Utilities is handy for | 
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| 370 | deciphering the arguments to FTPPM.EXE, which are a bit bizaare and | 
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| 371 | undocumented.  Just rename FTPPM.EXE to FTPPM.BAK, copy TESTPM.EXE | 
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| 372 | to FTPPM.EXE in the same directory, open the FTP object's Settings | 
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| 373 | notebook, then open the FTP object's program and compare the | 
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| 374 | results. | 
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| 375 | o Added optional blue/yellow LEDs which can be used in place of the | 
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| 376 | default red/green thread LED bitmaps. | 
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| 377 | o Added a toggle to make the databar boring for those who can't stand | 
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| 378 | too much excitement (I have users who are easily worn out :-).  Also | 
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| 379 | added file system type to end of string on user request. | 
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| 380 | o Execute dialog will try to remind you why you called it up in case | 
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| 381 | you fall asleep after double-clicking the mouse and awake confused. | 
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| 382 | It could happen. | 
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| 383 | o Couple of more small workarounds for Merlin beta bugs. | 
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| 384 | o Changed the way the toolbar displays help to eliminate capturing | 
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| 385 | the mouse (kludge, OS/2 should have a WM_MOUSELEAVING message). | 
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| 386 | o Added mini-toolbar to fast internal viewer. | 
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| 387 | o Note new internet address. | 
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| 388 | o Price reduction for commercial registrations. | 
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| 389 | o SET environment variable DOS_SHELL in CONFIG.SYS if you want to use | 
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| 390 | an alternate command processor in DOS sessions (for example, | 
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| 391 | SET DOS_SHELL=C:\4DOS\4DOS.EXE). | 
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| 392 | o Remap command now uses NET USE, enhancements (like it works, for | 
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| 393 | one :-). | 
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| 394 | o Added Miscellaneous->Detach (Ctrl + H) command to Drive Tree drive | 
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| 395 | popup to detach local drives from remote resources. | 
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| 396 | o Updated FM2PLAY.EXE (in FM2UTL.ZIP on CIS, FM2UTILS.ZIP elsewhere), | 
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| 397 | including more controls and ability to load list of files from a | 
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| 398 | listfile.  FM/2 will use this listfile method when playing more | 
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| 399 | multimedia files than will fit on a command line using the | 
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| 400 | View->Multimedia (Ctrl + l) command.  OS/2 command lines are | 
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| 401 | limited to about 1000 characters, if you're interested. | 
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| 402 | o Lots of other little tweaks and improvements -- some you might | 
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| 403 | even notice. | 
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| 404 |  | 
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| 405 | 2.49: | 
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| 406 | o More cosmetic tweaking -- for example, changing status line or bottom | 
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| 407 | button text font will now result in resizing of control to match new | 
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| 408 | font.  BTW, if you set ugly fonts or colors and want the defaults | 
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| 409 | back, one way to do it completely is to delete the window position | 
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| 410 | entry in OS2.INI and start from scratch... | 
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| 411 | o Work around for nasty bug in Merlin beta Voice Manager. | 
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| 412 | o Remap drives command added -- untested at this time, as I have no | 
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| 413 | LAN.  If you try it and it doesn't work, please report the error | 
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| 414 | code displayed.  If it works, let me know that, too. | 
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| 415 | o Fixed bug in Merge code. | 
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| 416 | o Added mini-toolbars to Archive Containers and the Collector (visible | 
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| 417 | only if you have the toolbar in FM/2 turned on, of course). | 
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| 418 | o A couple of other little things folks asked for -- I forget. | 
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| 419 |  | 
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| 420 | 2.48a: | 
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| 421 | o Lots of cosmetic stuff (for example, check out the Databar). | 
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| 422 | o Additional help, partitioned Context menu help into smaller "chunks." | 
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| 423 | o Added Find button to Archive dialog. | 
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| 424 | o More Merlin preparations. | 
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| 425 | o Added UserDirs dropdown to standard OS/2 file dialogs used by FM/2. | 
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| 426 | o Added Duplicates command to Global file viewer. | 
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| 427 | o More (subtle) tweaking of Seek and Scan dialog. | 
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| 428 | o Anybody else notice how the competition is trying (in vain) to | 
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| 429 | copy FM/2, but having a great deal of trouble keeping up with | 
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| 430 | the Joneses?  :-) | 
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| 431 |  | 
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| 432 | 2.48: | 
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| 433 | o Ideal size button logic adjusted so it will work as might be expected | 
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| 434 | with Merlin's new Warpcenter. | 
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| 435 | o Logic for sizing of titlebar buttons adjusted so they look better | 
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| 436 | under Merlin. | 
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| 437 | o Fixed bug in EA editor's MLE control -- an apparent change in the way | 
|---|
| 438 | Warp handles the MLM_QUERYFORMATTEXTLENGTH with an overlong length | 
|---|
| 439 | parameter has changed, resulting in the MLE not being cleared properly. | 
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| 440 | o Autoviewing file comments (.COMMENTS EA) now displays the comments in | 
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| 441 | an MLE rather than static text control, allowing editing.  Moving the | 
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| 442 | focus from the MLE after making a change saves the new EA.  Note:  if | 
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| 443 | a .COMMENTS EA is damaged, FM/2 won't let you edit it in this window | 
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| 444 | for safety (maybe some strange program wanted it that way).  You can | 
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| 445 | fix it in the EA viewer (Ctrl + Shift + E) if you know it's an anomoly. | 
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| 446 | Use the Ctrl + Tab accelerator key to switch focus to the Autoview | 
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| 447 | MLE if you're keyboarding.  FM/2 supports .COMMENTS EAs up to 32767 | 
|---|
| 448 | characters in length.  Each line of the MLE (newline, not wrap) | 
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| 449 | creates a separate EAT_ASCII value, in case you care and know what | 
|---|
| 450 | the heck I'm talking about...  BTW, GCP downloads automatically fill | 
|---|
| 451 | in the .COMMENTS and .SUBJECT EAs for you if so configured, though | 
|---|
| 452 | it seems to save the .COMMENTS EA in a weird (different from the | 
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| 453 | WPS) format -- but it's readable. | 
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| 454 | o You can use command line switch -<ininame> to start FM/2 with a | 
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| 455 | different INI file (i.e. "FM3.EXE -C:\MYINI.INI").  This means | 
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| 456 | that different users can set up FM/2 to taste and use separate | 
|---|
| 457 | FM/2 objects to start their "version" of the program on the same | 
|---|
| 458 | machine. | 
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| 459 | o FM/2 will try to remind you why the Walk directories dialog was | 
|---|
| 460 | invoked, per forgetful, worn-out user request.  :-) | 
|---|
| 461 | o Keys help added per user request. | 
|---|
| 462 |  | 
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| 463 | 2.47: | 
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| 464 | o Added "View->As archive" context menu option per user request. | 
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| 465 | o Added maximize/restore button to "FM/2 Lite" Directory Containers. | 
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| 466 | o Added Autoview window to "FM/2 Lite." | 
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| 467 | o Added "View archive" button to Archive List Error window. | 
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| 468 | o Fixed bug -- Ctrl + F7 not bringing up context menu with Sort | 
|---|
| 469 | submenu selected. | 
|---|
| 470 | o Jazzed up direct renaming of files and directories. | 
|---|
| 471 | o Jazzed up Seek and Scan dialog per user request. | 
|---|
| 472 | o AV/2 will now accept wildcarded filenames and view the first matching | 
|---|
| 473 | file in whatever manner seems most appropriate. | 
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| 474 | o Delete key deletes files, Ctrl + Delete is permanent delete, Shift + | 
|---|
| 475 | Delete is save to clipboard, Ctrl + Insert is make directory, Ctrl + | 
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| 476 | Pageup is parent directory, Ctrl + Pagedown is previous directory, | 
|---|
| 477 | Ctrl + Home is root directory.  Obviously, not all these keystrokes | 
|---|
| 478 | are meaningful in all windows (for instance, parent directory doesn't | 
|---|
| 479 | do anything in the Collector).  These new shortcut keys are in | 
|---|
| 480 | addition to existing accelerators.  Applicable windows (see previous | 
|---|
| 481 | caveat): Directory Containers, Drive Tree, Archive Containers, | 
|---|
| 482 | Collector, Global files windows.  Per user request.  These are not | 
|---|
| 483 | "real" accelerator keys as they tend to bleed through and mess with | 
|---|
| 484 | normal interactions (even these bleed through here and there, but | 
|---|
| 485 | it's benign), but hopefully you'll never notice the difference. | 
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| 486 | o In "FM/2 Lite," you can direct-edit the title of a Directory | 
|---|
| 487 | Container to change directories. | 
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| 488 | o Install now accepts /UNATTENDED argument to run without asking any | 
|---|
| 489 | questions. | 
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| 490 |  | 
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| 491 | 2.46: | 
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| 492 | o Fixed drive button bug. | 
|---|
| 493 | o Added "FM/2 Lite" (or whatever you want to call it), a new | 
|---|
| 494 | "personality" for FM/2 intended for those who can't deal with | 
|---|
| 495 | the real thing. | 
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| 496 |  | 
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| 497 | 2.45: | 
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| 498 | o When selecting or deselecting by mask, you can specify a text string | 
|---|
| 499 | to be used.  First the file is tested against the mask(s), then | 
|---|
| 500 | tested to see if it contains the text (if any is specified). | 
|---|
| 501 | o Fixed bug -- context menus quit working after a Directory Container | 
|---|
| 502 | was closed. | 
|---|
| 503 | o Added Makearc module, mainly for access from NTree. | 
|---|
| 504 | o Fixed bug -- "case sensitive" flag was being reversed for Seek and | 
|---|
| 505 | Scan. | 
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| 506 |  | 
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| 507 | 2.44: | 
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| 508 | o "Thread busy" LED added per user request. | 
|---|
| 509 | o Toolbar buttons now allow you to use different bitmaps of your own | 
|---|
| 510 | design.  Notes:  using user-defined bitmaps in the toolbar can slow | 
|---|
| 511 | loading of FM/2 slightly, but probably not noticably unless you | 
|---|
| 512 | replace all of them.  Request a context menu on a toolbar button and | 
|---|
| 513 | pick "Edit button" to get the dialog where you tell FM/2 to use a | 
|---|
| 514 | user-defined bitmap. | 
|---|
| 515 | o External Archive Containers, Collector, VTree and VDirs now have | 
|---|
| 516 | their own pulldown menu for Files and Views (the shadow menus) and | 
|---|
| 517 | Help for easy keyboard access and/or novice users. | 
|---|
| 518 | o Command lines executed through the command line dialog are remembered | 
|---|
| 519 | for possible later retrieval. | 
|---|
| 520 | o Directory sizes dialog reworked (prettier, sizeable).  DIRSIZE.EXE | 
|---|
| 521 | program provided for accessing this function directly (object placed | 
|---|
| 522 | in FM/2 Tools subfolder by INSTALL.CMD). | 
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| 523 |  | 
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| 524 | 2.43: | 
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| 525 | o Added optional drivebar per user request. | 
|---|
| 526 | o Added Lock and Unlock commands for removable drives. | 
|---|
| 527 | o Added UUDecode command and Merge command (yep, got another internet | 
|---|
| 528 | connection, finally). | 
|---|
| 529 | o When presented with a list of objects in a dialog (as in the Edit EAs | 
|---|
| 530 | or Attributes dialogs), double-clicking a file object will bring up | 
|---|
| 531 | the configured viewer with the file loaded.  This is just a quick | 
|---|
| 532 | view purely for convenience; no attempt is made to view the file as | 
|---|
| 533 | an archive or check Associations.  You can double-click it in the | 
|---|
| 534 | Directory Container if you need to go that far. | 
|---|
| 535 | o Added "Thread notes" window -- if you don't like it, minimize it and | 
|---|
| 536 | it should stay that way.  When a thread does something that takes | 
|---|
| 537 | awhile, like copying a file, it tells you when it starts and when | 
|---|
| 538 | it finishes. | 
|---|
| 539 | o Under Warp, FM/2 will now query the active desktop in a documented | 
|---|
| 540 | manner when asked to create objects.  There is no reliable method | 
|---|
| 541 | under older OS/2 versions. | 
|---|
| 542 | o Improved FM/2's built-in printing somewhat.  Still not as good as | 
|---|
| 543 | printing from the appropriate application, of course. | 
|---|
| 544 | o Confirmation lists will now display a bitmap representing the command | 
|---|
| 545 | to be executed on the dialog, where applicable, as a quick visual | 
|---|
| 546 | reminder. | 
|---|
| 547 | o When switching a Directory Container to the parent, FM/2 will | 
|---|
| 548 | make the vacated directory's object the current object. | 
|---|
| 549 |  | 
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| 550 | 2.42: | 
|---|
| 551 | o More threading in strategic spots to make response when moving around | 
|---|
| 552 | really slow drives (like ZIP and EZ drives) snappier.  The drivers | 
|---|
| 553 | for these drives need a bit more work, developers -- think "cache," | 
|---|
| 554 | especially for things like providing the label and usage info.  When | 
|---|
| 555 | it's slower than the floppy drives, some work needs to be done, eh? | 
|---|
| 556 | o Edit->Drive flags dialog now available from a drive (root dir) object | 
|---|
| 557 | in the Drive Tree -- lets you set flags you used to _have_ to set | 
|---|
| 558 | from the command line (and a couple of new ones).  You can still set | 
|---|
| 559 | flags from the command line as an override. | 
|---|
| 560 | o Files can be included in the Drive Tree display on a per-drive basis | 
|---|
| 561 | if you can actually think of a reason to do it (I can't, but someone | 
|---|
| 562 | asked).  If you do find a use for it, tell me what the heck it is. | 
|---|
| 563 | o See all files can be invoked on directory (folder) objects | 
|---|
| 564 | (Miscellaneous->Show all files) or the directory into which a | 
|---|
| 565 | Directory Container looks. | 
|---|
| 566 | o See all files window and Collector now have new "Move and preserve" | 
|---|
| 567 | and "Copy and preserve" commands to move or copy objects while | 
|---|
| 568 | preserving their directory relationship (see online help for | 
|---|
| 569 | examples). | 
|---|
| 570 | o Double-clicking on an empty part of the Drive Tree now invokes the | 
|---|
| 571 | Make Directory command.  Double-clicking on an empty part of a | 
|---|
| 572 | Directory Container opens its WPS folder. | 
|---|
| 573 | o Target of a drag and drop operation can be changed from the FM/2 | 
|---|
| 574 | drag and drop dialog (if you're using the dialog, of course). | 
|---|
| 575 | o Improved directory comparison dialog (no, it's still no PMDirMatch | 
|---|
| 576 | and never will be, and yes, you can still tell FM/2 to use PMDirMatch | 
|---|
| 577 | instead of the internal). | 
|---|
| 578 | o Added Utilities->Compare directories command. | 
|---|
| 579 | o Sorting an Archive Container by date is now possible, at least for | 
|---|
| 580 | some archive types.  See ARCHIVER.BB2 for details.  You can also | 
|---|
| 581 | Alt-B1 click the titles of sortable fields in Archive Containers now | 
|---|
| 582 | to change the sort type (just like you can in a Directory Container). | 
|---|
| 583 |  | 
|---|
| 584 | 2.41: | 
|---|
| 585 | o VTree now runs Directory Containers (VDirs) as part of its process, | 
|---|
| 586 | which should save on a little memory for those of you using FM/2 as | 
|---|
| 587 | as "super drives objects."  To take full advantage of this, the | 
|---|
| 588 | "Separate parameters" toggle should be checked. | 
|---|
| 589 | o External FM/2 windows can be closed from the PM Window List without | 
|---|
| 590 | closing the entire program (excepting the main window, of course). | 
|---|
| 591 | o Fixed bug:  last line of a hex view wasn't formatted very | 
|---|
| 592 | attractively. | 
|---|
| 593 | o Fixed bug:  quick config page didn't work right anymore. | 
|---|
| 594 | o Fixed bug:  VDir and AV/2 windows would show external FM/2 windows | 
|---|
| 595 | but not switch to them. | 
|---|
| 596 | o Window dialog now shows and acts on external FM/2 windows. | 
|---|
| 597 | o Checking "Separate parameters" toggle now saves all parameters | 
|---|
| 598 | under the new appname immediately when the Settings notebook | 
|---|
| 599 | is closed.  You'll want to be careful here -- think before choosing. | 
|---|
| 600 | BTW, a backup of your FM3.INI file, once you get it set up to your | 
|---|
| 601 | liking, is always a good idea.  Don't use FM3INI.BAK as the filename, | 
|---|
| 602 | since FM/2 automatically does a one-generation backup to that name. | 
|---|
| 603 | o Warp no longer allows a container item to be hidden by a thread other | 
|---|
| 604 | than the thread that controls the container if the item is selected | 
|---|
| 605 | (Why?  Who knows?  Why don't DrgQueryDraginfoPtrFromDragitem() and | 
|---|
| 606 | CN_DROPHELP work?). Since this forces single threaded hiding of | 
|---|
| 607 | objects, I must conclude this is a bug in OS/2.  However, since it's | 
|---|
| 608 | in "GA" OS/2 code, I reluctantly worked around it by making Hide | 
|---|
| 609 | objects single-threaded -- you'll have to wait for it to get done. | 
|---|
| 610 | Shouldn't be a major problem. | 
|---|
| 611 | o Added codepage 1004 to codepage dialog.  Someone asked, I didn't even | 
|---|
| 612 | know the blamed thing was there. | 
|---|
| 613 | o Added Ctrl + F10 and Ctrl + F11 accelerators to start/end a direct | 
|---|
| 614 | edit of a filename for the rodently challenged. | 
|---|
| 615 | o Added Next/Prev blank line menu items and buttons to new internal | 
|---|
| 616 | viewer (accelerators were there before).  In text where paragraphs | 
|---|
| 617 | are separated by blank lines, these go down or up to the next | 
|---|
| 618 | paragraph.  Something I use. | 
|---|
| 619 | o Added Recent Directories dropdown list to Walk Directories dialog, | 
|---|
| 620 | which separates the recently used directories from the user-defined | 
|---|
| 621 | directories in that dialog.  Just wanted to. | 
|---|
| 622 | o Added "DOS-think" and "Windoze-think" quick-config options to | 
|---|
| 623 | internal Settings notebook. If you use 'em they'll stunt your growth. | 
|---|
| 624 | o Fixed an obscure tile bug no one else seems to have noticed. | 
|---|
| 625 | o Changed Shift + F? accelerators to Ctrl + F? to avoid conflicting | 
|---|
| 626 | with a couple of OS/2-used keys. | 
|---|
| 627 | o Further tightened integration between VTree and its Directory | 
|---|
| 628 | Containers. | 
|---|
| 629 | o Made Tree (optionally) smart. | 
|---|
| 630 | o Reorganized internal Settings notebook for more "logical" grouping | 
|---|
| 631 | (some things grow with a life of their own). | 
|---|
| 632 | o Changed Install so that it puts many objects in a separate Toolbox | 
|---|
| 633 | folder (someone who's not even registered suggested it, and I decided | 
|---|
| 634 | to give it a try -- tell me what you think.  If upgrading, delete the | 
|---|
| 635 | old FM/2 folder before running Install again.). | 
|---|
| 636 |  | 
|---|
| 637 | 2.40: | 
|---|
| 638 | o Added "All" button to Filter dialog. | 
|---|
| 639 | o Added more optional buttons to main window. | 
|---|
| 640 | o Added %u/%U metastrings. | 
|---|
| 641 | o Added hex/ASCII + drag-me window to bottom of new internal text | 
|---|
| 642 | viewer. | 
|---|
| 643 | o Added %! metastring. | 
|---|
| 644 | o Added default archiver setting. | 
|---|
| 645 | o PM uses several ALT + F? accelerators to control frame windows. | 
|---|
| 646 | However, this applies to the current frame window, which can be | 
|---|
| 647 | within the main FM/2 window when run monolithically.  Add Ctrl to | 
|---|
| 648 | these accelerators to affect the main window in that case.  I don't | 
|---|
| 649 | change the system menu text to reflect this as it may be in a foreign | 
|---|
| 650 | language, and I'm an ignorant, ugly one-language American. | 
|---|
| 651 | o Added "Separate parameters" toggle. | 
|---|
| 652 | o Added "Treetop on expand" toggle. | 
|---|
| 653 | o Windows pulldown now lists external FM/2 windows, as does a submenu | 
|---|
| 654 | on the container popup in VTree, VDir and AV/2 windows. | 
|---|
| 655 | o Fixed some minor bugs in Commands menu generation. | 
|---|
| 656 | o Fixed bug in Collector -- unshifted double-click didn't work on | 
|---|
| 657 | directories. | 
|---|
| 658 | o VDirs, external Archive Containers and Viewers now retain their last | 
|---|
| 659 | set window size -- position is still determined by the Shell (PM). | 
|---|
| 660 | o Lots of little tweaks no one but me will ever notice. | 
|---|
| 661 |  | 
|---|
| 662 | 2.39: | 
|---|
| 663 | o Fixed weird bug -- apparently IBM changed the behavior of | 
|---|
| 664 | MLM_QUERYFORMATTEXTLENGTH in Warp.  This change may only take effect | 
|---|
| 665 | at FP10+ levels. | 
|---|
| 666 | o Added Open Directory Container button to Drive Tree titlebar -- only | 
|---|
| 667 | shows up when FM/2 is run as a monolithic app. | 
|---|
| 668 | o Added "Directory" attributes to Filter dialog per user request -- | 
|---|
| 669 | lets you exclude directories from Directory Containers, or show only | 
|---|
| 670 | directories.  NOTE:  if you are upgrading, you may need to go into | 
|---|
| 671 | the Filter and turn on the Directory attribute -- it's on by default | 
|---|
| 672 | for new installations.  Use the internal Settings notebook to | 
|---|
| 673 | activate the Filter dialog (DirView and ColView pages) by setting the | 
|---|
| 674 | focus to the Filter: entryfield, so that the "general" filter is | 
|---|
| 675 | changed. | 
|---|
| 676 | o Help file improvements (a neverending saga). | 
|---|
| 677 |  | 
|---|
| 678 | 2.38: | 
|---|
| 679 | o Walk Directories dialog will now display non-writeable drives unless | 
|---|
| 680 | the directory selection is for an action that requires writing to the | 
|---|
| 681 | selected directory (for example, copy or move, set extract directory, | 
|---|
| 682 | etc.). | 
|---|
| 683 | o Filtering in Drive Tree now available, per user request.  NOTE: | 
|---|
| 684 | filtering is performed _after_ expansion; therefore, it is possible | 
|---|
| 685 | for the Tree to "lie" to you until you expand a branch (i.e. indicate | 
|---|
| 686 | that other directories are available, but remove the "+/-" when you | 
|---|
| 687 | attempt to expand the branch.  If it's important for you to know what | 
|---|
| 688 | the entire tree of a drive looks like with filtering applied, use the | 
|---|
| 689 | Expand/Collapse->Expand command from the Files menu or a popup.  You | 
|---|
| 690 | can thereafter collapse and expand the tree as desired.  Tricks can | 
|---|
| 691 | be played with the filter mask; for instance, "/C:\OS2*;/C:\MMOS2*; | 
|---|
| 692 | /C:\TCPIP*;*" will exclude some system directories on drive C: and | 
|---|
| 693 | show everything else. | 
|---|
| 694 | o Got rid of the annoying (to me, anyway) extra refresh when the | 
|---|
| 695 | "Immediate Updates" toggle is not used (more cheating). | 
|---|
| 696 | o Windows will now be created with the WS_ANIMATE style if "Animate" | 
|---|
| 697 | toggle on internal Settings notebook's Windows page is checked.  Of | 
|---|
| 698 | course, system animation must still be turned on to see any effect. | 
|---|
| 699 | o Keyboard input of "standard" characters now performs a text search | 
|---|
| 700 | to find the closest matching file system object in the container. | 
|---|
| 701 | You can get the old (OS/2 default) behavior (move to nearest object | 
|---|
| 702 | starting with the pressed letter) by holding down the shift key. | 
|---|
| 703 | o When a background task that FM/2 is waiting on takes more than about | 
|---|
| 704 | two seconds to complete its job, FM/2 will switch it to the | 
|---|
| 705 | foreground.  This means that if an archive is encrypted (passworded), | 
|---|
| 706 | you'll get the oportunity to enter a password without having to | 
|---|
| 707 | resort to the Window List to manually bring the window to the | 
|---|
| 708 | foreground. | 
|---|
| 709 |  | 
|---|
| 710 | 2.37: | 
|---|
| 711 | o Added "Autoview comments" notebook toggle (page 2) and Config menu | 
|---|
| 712 | items for same.  You can have FM/2 autoview file contents _or_ | 
|---|
| 713 | .COMMENTS EAs -- handy for looking at files that were downloaded by | 
|---|
| 714 | a package that puts the file description in that EA.  You can also | 
|---|
| 715 | get to that EA on the third page of a WPS object's File page or via | 
|---|
| 716 | FM/2's Edit EAs dialog, BTW. | 
|---|
| 717 | o CTRL + Shift + B1 doubleclick opens an object's WPS Settings notebook. | 
|---|
| 718 | o You can now link-drag a root directory (drive) from the Drive Tree. | 
|---|
| 719 | For cryin' out loud, BE CAREFUL! | 
|---|
| 720 | o Credit card registrations via BMT Micro are now available. | 
|---|
| 721 | o Directory Containers can now have independent sorts if you DON'T use | 
|---|
| 722 | the "Immediate Updates" toggle.  When you set a sort (or filter) in | 
|---|
| 723 | the internal Settings notebook, you're setting a default for | 
|---|
| 724 | subsequently created Directory Containers.  When you set a sort (or | 
|---|
| 725 | filter) using the popup menu of a Directory Container, you're | 
|---|
| 726 | changing only that container.  States will now also save the type of | 
|---|
| 727 | view (Icon, Details, etc.), sort and filter settings for each open | 
|---|
| 728 | Directory Container. | 
|---|
| 729 |  | 
|---|
| 730 | 2.36: | 
|---|
| 731 | o Added "Rename existing" button to Rename dialog -- allows you to | 
|---|
| 732 | rename (move) an existing target file system object out of the way | 
|---|
| 733 | before moving or copying another file system object to that name. | 
|---|
| 734 | o Fixed "obscure" bug (reporting user's words :-) causing FM/2 to | 
|---|
| 735 | enter a loop when "Views" cascade was selected from the action | 
|---|
| 736 | bar menu when an internal Archive Container was the current window. | 
|---|
| 737 | o Tutorial section added to online help. | 
|---|
| 738 | o When a bitmapped graphic file is viewed, the window is sized to fit | 
|---|
| 739 | on the screen even when the image is larger than the screen. | 
|---|
| 740 | Proportion is maintained for the initial window positioning.  You can | 
|---|
| 741 | stretch the size of the window.  The bitmap is scaled to fit. GBM is, | 
|---|
| 742 | of course, still required to directly view images in FM/2. | 
|---|
| 743 | o Changed toolbar button help to "bubble" style, added toggle to disable. | 
|---|
| 744 | o Added Directory Compare (DirCmp:) field to Files/Dirs page of internal | 
|---|
| 745 | Settings notebook. | 
|---|
| 746 | o Added %d and %D metastrings for Commands. | 
|---|
| 747 | o Percentages in Directory Sizes dialog more accurate (to nearest | 
|---|
| 748 | thousandth). | 
|---|
| 749 | o "Include subdirectories" toggle in Directory Compare dialog. | 
|---|
| 750 | o Fixed bug in 2.35a's INSTALL.CMD.  Can you say "duh?"  Apparently I can. | 
|---|
| 751 | o As usual, many little things no one will notice. | 
|---|
| 752 |  | 
|---|
| 753 | 2.35: | 
|---|
| 754 | o Performance tuning. | 
|---|
| 755 | o Implemented "minor" user suggestions. | 
|---|
| 756 | o Added "Recent Dirs" toggle -- automatically adds temporary | 
|---|
| 757 | directories to UserList as you change directories.  You can make them | 
|---|
| 758 | permanent by Adding them as usual. | 
|---|
| 759 | o FM/2 may handle DOS archivers now (actually, it does -- I tested with | 
|---|
| 760 | ARJ); however, you'll have to set them up for yourself and I won't | 
|---|
| 761 | support them.  Don't forget that DOS archivers don't support EAs. | 
|---|
| 762 | AVOID WHENEVER POSSIBLE OR YOU'LL GET BURNED. | 
|---|
| 763 | o If you have GBM.DLL on your LIBPATH or in the FM/2 directory, FM/2 | 
|---|
| 764 | will use it to display GBM-supported raster file types when they're | 
|---|
| 765 | double-clicked.  GBM currently supports most OS/2 and Windows | 
|---|
| 766 | bitmaps, .GIF, .PCX, .TIF, .TGA, .IFF, .VID, .PGM, .KPS, .IAX, .XBM, | 
|---|
| 767 | .SPR, and .PSE files.  And it's free. | 
|---|
| 768 | o Changed some icons around for a fresher look, added some for display | 
|---|
| 769 | when you aren't loading icons from disk (for scanning speed). | 
|---|
| 770 | o Added "Settings" button to Info dialog. | 
|---|
| 771 |  | 
|---|
| 772 | 2.34: | 
|---|
| 773 | o Added "Tile backwards" toggle, but don't use it (it's a DOS-think | 
|---|
| 774 | knee-jerk thing to do). | 
|---|
| 775 | o Viewer won't "restore" the container that called it when it closes if | 
|---|
| 776 | the container is maximized. | 
|---|
| 777 | o Filtering speeded up when Autoview window is open. | 
|---|
| 778 | o Show a little patch of color beside color names in Colors dialogs. | 
|---|
| 779 | o Added "Folder after extract" toggle. | 
|---|
| 780 | o Added ^F3 close monolithic app toggle (command id 1111 if anyone's | 
|---|
| 781 | interested). | 
|---|
| 782 | o More commands in INI viewer (rename, copy appname/keyname) and | 
|---|
| 783 | enhanced existing Add/Edit INI record commands. | 
|---|
| 784 | o Changed method of storing a few things so that they're both easily | 
|---|
| 785 | human editable (for power users) and so they allow me to | 
|---|
| 786 | "preconfigure" some things (for new users).  If you're upgrading from | 
|---|
| 787 | previous versions, there's a CONVERT.EXE that'll copy your old | 
|---|
| 788 | settings to the appropriate format and get rid of old baggage. | 
|---|
| 789 | o Added "Userlist switches" toggle to internal Settings notebook. | 
|---|
| 790 | o Added "%r/%R" to metastrings. | 
|---|
| 791 | o Added "Extract" to drag and drop dialog. | 
|---|
| 792 | o Height of autoview window can be changed. | 
|---|
| 793 | o More info displayed in drive info dialog. | 
|---|
| 794 | o INSTALL is a bit smarter. | 
|---|
| 795 | o Added two new buttons on status line -- different behaviors depending on | 
|---|
| 796 | whether you click with B1 or B2 and the shift state. | 
|---|
| 797 |  | 
|---|
| 798 | 2.33: | 
|---|
| 799 | o Added new internal viewer -- loads files at least five times faster | 
|---|
| 800 | than the old viewer (which is still available via a toggle in the | 
|---|
| 801 | internal Settings notebook). | 
|---|
| 802 | o See all files window retains settings, is a bit slicker. | 
|---|
| 803 | o Fixed bug -- rename box came up for each file moved/copied. | 
|---|
| 804 | o Fixed bug -- FM/2 didn't start right with toolbar turned off.  Weird. | 
|---|
| 805 | o Worked around Warp bug -- PM locks up if you select a codepage that | 
|---|
| 806 | hasn't been prepared.  This should be ignored as in previous versions | 
|---|
| 807 | of OS/2, but crashes the system instead (sheesh). | 
|---|
| 808 | o Warp apparently still has a 64k limit to what the clipboard can hold. | 
|---|
| 809 | While I could limit what you send to the clipboard, this is (hopefully) | 
|---|
| 810 | one of those limits which will vanish with further updates to OS/2 | 
|---|
| 811 | itself, so I'll just caution you about it. | 
|---|
| 812 | o Colors are adjustable in See all files windows. | 
|---|
| 813 | o Several fonts are available in See all files windows (all fixed width). | 
|---|
| 814 | o See all files window allows entering multiple keys to find a file if | 
|---|
| 815 | the keys are entered within one second of each other. | 
|---|
| 816 | o System info command made somewhat more human-readable. | 
|---|
| 817 |  | 
|---|
| 818 | 2.32: | 
|---|
| 819 | o See all files window fleshed out. | 
|---|
| 820 | o Added "Viewer outside," "Arcboxes outside," "INI viewer outside" and | 
|---|
| 821 | "Collector outside" toggles to Toggles2 page of internal Settings | 
|---|
| 822 | notebook. | 
|---|
| 823 | o Added "Save" button to Directory Sizes dialog | 
|---|
| 824 | o Sort type can now be changed in Details view by holding ALT and | 
|---|
| 825 | clicking the title of the field to sort on (assuming titles are | 
|---|
| 826 | turned on and the field is one for which sorting is available, | 
|---|
| 827 | of course). | 
|---|
| 828 | o Added toggle to allow user to select default delete type. | 
|---|
| 829 | o Added "toolbox" dropdown to user lists. | 
|---|
| 830 | o Added sample toolboxes to archive. | 
|---|
| 831 | o Info and EA dialogs now include listbox, lets you scroll through all | 
|---|
| 832 | objects instead of popping up for each selected object.  EAS.EXE | 
|---|
| 833 | mini-app inherits this; now accepts multiple filenames. | 
|---|
| 834 | o Check list dialogs now allow calling up the Info dialog for files in | 
|---|
| 835 | the list. | 
|---|
| 836 |  | 
|---|
| 837 | 2.31: | 
|---|
| 838 | o Added "Minimize to databar" toggle, also accessible as a standalone | 
|---|
| 839 | miniapp. | 
|---|
| 840 | o Tree remembers directories, once expanded. | 
|---|
| 841 | o An individual drive may now be rescanned in the Drive Tree (related | 
|---|
| 842 | to the above). | 
|---|
| 843 | o More keyboard shortcuts for the rodently challenged. | 
|---|
| 844 | o Drag from recessed text fields in Directory and Archive Containers | 
|---|
| 845 | now possible (drags the directory or archive, respectively). | 
|---|
| 846 | o Default Commands command (Do it yourself) added. | 
|---|
| 847 | o Extract path can now be assigned "*" meaning "use directory in which | 
|---|
| 848 | the archive resides." | 
|---|
| 849 | o More menu compaction (well, you think of a term for it). | 
|---|
| 850 | o New "See all files" window (still under construction, but already | 
|---|
| 851 | much faster and very functional, without the standard listbox | 
|---|
| 852 | limitation of 32767 maximum items).  Loads, sorts and displays | 
|---|
| 853 | 15,792 files from two local fixed drives in 18 seconds on my | 
|---|
| 854 | 486/66DX2 with normal (for me, of course) background load. | 
|---|
| 855 | o Fixed buglet in Archive Container status display. | 
|---|
| 856 | o More user suggestions implemented. | 
|---|
| 857 |  | 
|---|
| 858 | 2.30: | 
|---|
| 859 | o I forget. | 
|---|
| 860 |  | 
|---|
| 861 | 2.29: | 
|---|
| 862 | o Added "Topic" entry field in Bookshelf Viewer dialog. | 
|---|
| 863 | o Added "Quick arc find" toggle in Settings notebook; can speed up | 
|---|
| 864 | drag and drop operations on floppy/network drives. | 
|---|
| 865 | o Worked around PM bug in custom frame controls. | 
|---|
| 866 | o Added "Directory Container state" saving and restoring in a dropdown | 
|---|
| 867 | list (turned on with "Toggle quicklists" under Config menu). | 
|---|
| 868 | o Fixed drag and drop bug (couldn't move, duh).  Smartened up drag and | 
|---|
| 869 | drop while I was at it; no sense offering options not really | 
|---|
| 870 | available due to media type (i.e. can't copy to a CD-ROM). | 
|---|
| 871 | o Added "Launch" button to drag and drop dialog. | 
|---|
| 872 | o Added quick-help for dropdown lists (in status box 2). | 
|---|
| 873 | o Added ability to drop onto userlist dropdown to add a directory. | 
|---|
| 874 | Also added popup maintenance menu (add and delete directories to/from | 
|---|
| 875 | list). | 
|---|
| 876 |  | 
|---|
| 877 | 2.28: | 
|---|
| 878 | o Added optional user directory list dropdown box on main window | 
|---|
| 879 | (maintenance of the list is still performed in the Walk Directories | 
|---|
| 880 | dialog). | 
|---|
| 881 | o Added Drives submenu on Drive Tree's views context menu -- select a | 
|---|
| 882 | drive from it and the tree scrolls to show it and makes it the | 
|---|
| 883 | current object. | 
|---|
| 884 | o Restricted filename quoting in command lines to absolute essentials | 
|---|
| 885 | -- some programs are broken and choke on quoted filenames.  We | 
|---|
| 886 | absolutely cannot have LIST choking if it can be avoided. | 
|---|
| 887 | o Double-clicking a directory in the Drive Tree container will cause an | 
|---|
| 888 | existing Directory Container looking into that directory, if one | 
|---|
| 889 | exists, to come to the foreground rather than opening a new one; if | 
|---|
| 890 | the existing window is minimized, it'll be restored. Ditto for new | 
|---|
| 891 | userlist dropdown. | 
|---|
| 892 | o FM/2 can now launch Windows apps seamless -- maybe.  Sheesh, I'd | 
|---|
| 893 | use a DOS app first... | 
|---|
| 894 |  | 
|---|
| 895 | 2.27: | 
|---|
| 896 | o Added "Move & rename" and "Copy & rename" commands per user request. | 
|---|
| 897 | This extends into the drag and drop dialog (said dialog is now on by | 
|---|
| 898 | default, BTW). | 
|---|
| 899 | o Many tiny tweaks that no one will ever notice (for instance, | 
|---|
| 900 | filenames containing "&" are now quoted on command lines where they | 
|---|
| 901 | weren't before). | 
|---|
| 902 | o Added EXAMPLE.CMD to archive as an example of how REXX scripts can | 
|---|
| 903 | manipulate files listed in listfiles created by FM/2.  This allows | 
|---|
| 904 | Commands to circumvent the apx. 1000 character limit of OS/2 command | 
|---|
| 905 | lines. | 
|---|
| 906 | o Made notification window look more homogenous. | 
|---|
| 907 |  | 
|---|
| 908 | 2.26: | 
|---|
| 909 | o Fixed stupid new bug in moving files from HPFS->FAT with long | 
|---|
| 910 | filenames. | 
|---|
| 911 | o Fixed bug in RemoteBug fix that conflicted with another fix for | 
|---|
| 912 | remote FSD bugs.  I'm getting sick of working around remote FSD | 
|---|
| 913 | bugs -- think I'll just let the LAN folks fix _their_ stuff from | 
|---|
| 914 | now on... | 
|---|
| 915 | o Made titlebar of Drive Tree containers respond to request for context | 
|---|
| 916 | menu as if it were container whitespace per user request. | 
|---|
| 917 | o Added "Min on dir open" toggle -- a more elegant solution to a taste | 
|---|
| 918 | thing (IMHO) than a user requested feature. | 
|---|
| 919 | o Chord on status windows brings up window dialog like it does on | 
|---|
| 920 | client window whitespace. | 
|---|
| 921 | o Added "Append to clipboard" command to internal viewer/editor's | 
|---|
| 922 | Edit menu. | 
|---|
| 923 | o Moved "Write block" command out of Edit->Blocks submenu of internal | 
|---|
| 924 | viewer/editor to the main Edit submenu as "Copy to file" so it's | 
|---|
| 925 | accessible in readonly (viewing) mode while I was at it. | 
|---|
| 926 | o Added informational tweaking to viewer/editor's Edit->Undo menu | 
|---|
| 927 | command. | 
|---|
| 928 | o Added "Walk" button to Seek and scan dialog. | 
|---|
| 929 | o Added special FM/2 Association command line "<>" to indicate that the | 
|---|
| 930 | default WPS view should be opened for matching files. | 
|---|
| 931 |  | 
|---|
| 932 | 2.25: | 
|---|
| 933 | o Added "Edit" and "Refresh" to Archive Containers per user request. | 
|---|
| 934 | o Added Drag and drop dialog and corresponding toggle per user request. | 
|---|
| 935 |  | 
|---|
| 936 | 2.24: | 
|---|
| 937 | o Added "Remote bug" toggle since network FSD developers can't seem to | 
|---|
| 938 | consistently produce working DosFindFirst/Next code to save their | 
|---|
| 939 | lives. | 
|---|
| 940 | o Undelete enhancements. | 
|---|
| 941 |  | 
|---|
| 942 | 2.23: | 
|---|
| 943 | o Enhancements to potential dupe finder per user requests and other | 
|---|
| 944 | stuff I thunk up all by my lonesome. | 
|---|
| 945 | o Placed "Seek and scan" on the Utility pulldown.  All it does is | 
|---|
| 946 | start the Collector and post it a WM_COMMAND message as though you'd | 
|---|
| 947 | clicked Seek and scan on its context menu.  Maybe even folks who | 
|---|
| 948 | don't read the help can find it now (who knows?). | 
|---|
| 949 |  | 
|---|
| 950 | 2.22: | 
|---|
| 951 | o Additional detail and options are presented when FM/2 can't figure | 
|---|
| 952 | out how to list the contents of an archive (ARCHIVER.BB2 | 
|---|
| 953 | misconfigured or archive bad) via new dialog.  This should make | 
|---|
| 954 | determining what the archive problem is much easier when the | 
|---|
| 955 | inevitable problem arises. | 
|---|
| 956 | o Added duplicate file finder to Seek-and-Scan dialog.  Finds files | 
|---|
| 957 | with same name and/or size and filedate. | 
|---|
| 958 |  | 
|---|
| 959 | 2.21: | 
|---|
| 960 | o Shift and CTRL modifiers for double-clicking objects in Drive Tree, | 
|---|
| 961 | Directory Containers and Collector implemented.  Shift causes new | 
|---|
| 962 | FM/2 window to open (directories; direct to View for files), CTRL | 
|---|
| 963 | causes default WPS open. | 
|---|
| 964 | o More stuff in the help file (sheesh -- this has gotta stop).  The | 
|---|
| 965 | online help should now make a rather complete manual when printed | 
|---|
| 966 | together with the READ.ME file (see READ.ME for suggestions). | 
|---|
| 967 | o INSTALL now makes an object for the online help so that it can be | 
|---|
| 968 | viewed without starting FM/2 (using SEEHELP.EXE, included). | 
|---|
| 969 | o Added Filter "Always show directories" toggle. | 
|---|
| 970 | o Ideal size button supports a psuedo-restore operation, allowing | 
|---|
| 971 | toggling between two sizes (mine and yours). | 
|---|
| 972 | o Other stuff I forget. | 
|---|
| 973 |  | 
|---|
| 974 | 2.20: | 
|---|
| 975 | o Fixed stupid bug that made FM/2 freak out on restart if you turned the | 
|---|
| 976 | toolbar off and left it off (duh). | 
|---|
| 977 | o Move-drag onto archives allowed now (if you have the archiver for that | 
|---|
| 978 | archive type configured to allow moving files, of course). | 
|---|
| 979 | o Fixed bug in longname<->shortname conversion (FAT<->HPFS). | 
|---|
| 980 | o Found a nasty way to get Warp's printer objects to recognize FM/2's | 
|---|
| 981 | D&D. | 
|---|
| 982 | o Extract dialog can be told to remember its settings (extract directory, | 
|---|
| 983 | masks, "with directories") distinctly from those set in Archive | 
|---|
| 984 | Containers. | 
|---|
| 985 | o Added a few pictures to the online help for extreme novices. | 
|---|
| 986 | o Added new "Compare Select" submenu with commands that can make | 
|---|
| 987 | selections based on comparing unfiltered files in all open Directory | 
|---|
| 988 | Containers.  Powerful stuff. | 
|---|
| 989 | o Added "Hide objects" command (selective individual object filtering). | 
|---|
| 990 | o Fixed bug -- drag to toolbar quit working when toolbar code rewritten. | 
|---|
| 991 | o Slight modification to ARCHIVER.BB2 -- -1 for filename position means | 
|---|
| 992 | to use the last "field" of an archive listing for the filename. | 
|---|
| 993 | o FM/2 is compiled with optimization turned off now -- caught it | 
|---|
| 994 | generating bad code in the new Compare Select module and don't trust | 
|---|
| 995 | it (again). | 
|---|
| 996 |  | 
|---|
| 997 | 2.19: | 
|---|
| 998 | o Added "Ideal size" System Menu command and titlebar button -- an | 
|---|
| 999 | alternative to maximizing. | 
|---|
| 1000 | o More work on help file hypertext links using suggestions from a | 
|---|
| 1001 | registered user.  Added a labelled bitmap showing the layout of FM/2 | 
|---|
| 1002 | windows. | 
|---|
| 1003 | o Worked around weird bugs in Sizes and deleting toolbar buttons that | 
|---|
| 1004 | shouldn't be bugs but nonetheless cause problems on some machines. | 
|---|
| 1005 | o Added some one-line help fields to some dialogs to guide the user | 
|---|
| 1006 | along. | 
|---|
| 1007 | o Added the "Close" checkbox to the Edit Associations dialog, to allow | 
|---|
| 1008 | executing an association to shut down FM/2 (or a VDir window, mainly | 
|---|
| 1009 | for use by folks using FM/2 to replace the Drives objects). | 
|---|
| 1010 | o Added "Start Minimized" and "Start Maximized" buttons to the Windows | 
|---|
| 1011 | page of the Settings notebook.  FM/2 starts normal size then adjusts | 
|---|
| 1012 | (that lets it size all its windows right first, and gives you something | 
|---|
| 1013 | to return to from the maximized state). | 
|---|
| 1014 |  | 
|---|
| 1015 | 2.18: | 
|---|
| 1016 | o Added ability to use the undocumented DosQProcStat API in the Process | 
|---|
| 1017 | Killer.  While this will enable the Process Killer to work without an | 
|---|
| 1018 | English version of PSTAT.EXE being present, DosQProcStat is an API | 
|---|
| 1019 | subject to change by IBM, so beware. | 
|---|
| 1020 | o Added FATOPT.EXE program to optimize FAT drives.  THIS IS A BETA | 
|---|
| 1021 | PROGRAM AND USES LOW-LEVEL DRIVE ACCESS -- BACK UP BEFORE USING! | 
|---|
| 1022 | o Tweaked the online help, adding more hypertext links and detail. | 
|---|
| 1023 |  | 
|---|
| 1024 | 2.17: | 
|---|
| 1025 | o Optimized for speed:  Quick trees, tree sizes. | 
|---|
| 1026 | o Dug the names of the new color palettes out of Warp's INI files. | 
|---|
| 1027 | Under 2.x both color palette commands (one new) load the same object. | 
|---|
| 1028 | Under Warp they load the two different palette objects available. | 
|---|
| 1029 | o Added swapfile/memory watch when Drive Tree is active window in FM/2. | 
|---|
| 1030 | o Added HPFSOPT.EXE program to optimize HPFS drives. | 
|---|
| 1031 |  | 
|---|
| 1032 | 2.16: | 
|---|
| 1033 | o Added "Update objects" command. | 
|---|
| 1034 | o Added "Optimize" command.  Be sure to read the online help on this | 
|---|
| 1035 | one (under "Context Menus"). | 
|---|
| 1036 | o Added toolbar changing buttons (buttons that automatically load a | 
|---|
| 1037 | new toolbox into the toolbar).  See comments in online help under | 
|---|
| 1038 | "Toolbar->Add Tool." | 
|---|
| 1039 | o Hmmm...Warp has broken the DM_DROPHELP message within an application | 
|---|
| 1040 | -- the passed DRAGINFO structure is inaccessible (apparently already | 
|---|
| 1041 | deallocated).  An appropriate error message will be displayed, and | 
|---|
| 1042 | the code's still there so that when IBM fixes it it'll automagically | 
|---|
| 1043 | start working again. | 
|---|
| 1044 |  | 
|---|
| 1045 | 2.15: | 
|---|
| 1046 | o Added "Collect list in file(s)" command. | 
|---|
| 1047 | o Added "Collect from a list file" command. | 
|---|
| 1048 | o Added "Select List" command. | 
|---|
| 1049 | o System VIO fonts have been renamed, jumping between "System" and | 
|---|
| 1050 | "System VIO", a couple of times now.  To top it off, when the name | 
|---|
| 1051 | changes, the sizes do, too (i.e. 7.System == 5.System VIO, more or | 
|---|
| 1052 | less).  Warp is now GA and uses "System VIO" again, so I've changed | 
|---|
| 1053 | it back to that.  If some fonts don't look right on your 2.11 system, | 
|---|
| 1054 | I'm sorry, but I'm trying to hit a moving target.  Don't shoot me, | 
|---|
| 1055 | I'm just the piano player. | 
|---|
| 1056 | o Did some other stuff, but forgot to write it down and have now | 
|---|
| 1057 | forgotten what it was.  Old age is hell. | 
|---|
| 1058 |  | 
|---|
| 1059 | 2.14: | 
|---|
| 1060 | o FM/2 will now detect that a CD-ROM drive which didn't have a disk in | 
|---|
| 1061 | it or had a music disk in it when FM/2 was started is a CD-ROM drive | 
|---|
| 1062 | when accessed later with a data disk in it, and change the icon | 
|---|
| 1063 | accordingly.  This also applies to hard drives that were locked when | 
|---|
| 1064 | FM/2 started, by happy coincidence, and should work on other | 
|---|
| 1065 | removable media drives. | 
|---|
| 1066 | o Hints given in error popup for some access errors (for example, when | 
|---|
| 1067 | clicking on an empty diskette drive). | 
|---|
| 1068 | o Install.cmd will not change the parameters field of objects that it | 
|---|
| 1069 | creates if the File Manager/2 folder already existed.  It will still | 
|---|
| 1070 | update the paths. | 
|---|
| 1071 | o VTree honors drive exclusions like it should have in the first place. | 
|---|
| 1072 | o VTree will delete a directory if the Shredder refuses for some reason. | 
|---|
| 1073 | o Added VTree->WPS folder toggle. | 
|---|
| 1074 | o Shortened VTree tasklist title for registered users. | 
|---|
| 1075 | o FM/2 will attempt to fit smaller files onto diskettes when a larger | 
|---|
| 1076 | file in the list to be moved/copied won't fit before prompting you to | 
|---|
| 1077 | change diskettes due to a disk full condition. | 
|---|
| 1078 | o Help for toolbar buttons shows up when mouse passes over them -- | 
|---|
| 1079 | figured out how to implement without excessive message passing (IOW, | 
|---|
| 1080 | to my satisfaction). | 
|---|
| 1081 |  | 
|---|
| 1082 | 2.13: | 
|---|
| 1083 | o Added ability to set type of selection used in some containers (in | 
|---|
| 1084 | the Settings Notebook on the "Windows" page). | 
|---|
| 1085 | o Selecting "Settings Notebook" in the FM3.EXE monolithic app, even | 
|---|
| 1086 | from container context menus, will always bring up a full settings | 
|---|
| 1087 | notebook. | 
|---|
| 1088 | o Slightly reduced memory usage for HPFS drives (ah, another reason | 
|---|
| 1089 | to use HPFS...). | 
|---|
| 1090 | o Fixed bug in SetIcon. | 
|---|
| 1091 | o Did some more work on FM2PLAY.EXE to make it more eye-appealing and | 
|---|
| 1092 | maybe a bit more functional. | 
|---|
| 1093 | o Shortened tasklist title for registered users. | 
|---|
| 1094 |  | 
|---|
| 1095 | 2.12: | 
|---|
| 1096 | o AV/2 will now ignore an association if it contains the string | 
|---|
| 1097 | "AV2.EXE" in the command line (meaning it might call itself). | 
|---|
| 1098 | o Fixed "Lowercase name" bug. | 
|---|
| 1099 | o Worked over the context menus again, added a couple more | 
|---|
| 1100 | accelerator keys. | 
|---|
| 1101 | o Hooked Help button in Child Window dialog to some help. | 
|---|
| 1102 |  | 
|---|
| 1103 | 2.11: | 
|---|
| 1104 | o Fixed odd bug in second status line in Directory Containers. | 
|---|
| 1105 | o Fixed rename buglet that caused rename from menu/button to | 
|---|
| 1106 | give funny default drive. | 
|---|
| 1107 | o Added drag and drop to INI Viewer to allow moving and copying | 
|---|
| 1108 | data between different INI files. | 
|---|
| 1109 | o Added FM2PLAY.EXE to allow playing multimedia files (via MMPM/2) | 
|---|
| 1110 | from FM/2 easily.  Usage:  FM2PLAY.EXE <file> [<file> <file...>]. | 
|---|
| 1111 | There's a menu item for it. | 
|---|
| 1112 | o Added "associat.txt" containing recommended associations for use | 
|---|
| 1113 | with FM/2.  Please send your ideas for this list. | 
|---|
| 1114 | o Enhanced the Bookshelf Viewer. | 
|---|
| 1115 |  | 
|---|
| 1116 | 2.10: | 
|---|
| 1117 | o Added Undo buttons to Settings notebook pages. | 
|---|
| 1118 | o Fixed bug wherein Save state of dir windows toggle was ignored. | 
|---|
| 1119 | o Put in some comma formatting to prevent an untimely death. | 
|---|
| 1120 | o Fixed bug wherein Doubleclick Opens toggle was ignored. | 
|---|
| 1121 | o Added a couple more Settings pages. | 
|---|
| 1122 | o Made appropriate Settings pages available to standalone modules. | 
|---|
| 1123 | o Tweaked a few menus for a more consistent appearance. | 
|---|
| 1124 |  | 
|---|
| 1125 | 2.09: | 
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| 1126 | o Changed things so the little notification box doesn't steal the | 
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| 1127 | focus when it comes up.  Duh. | 
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| 1128 | o Added "Backup Profile", "Change System Profiles" and "Replace System | 
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| 1129 | Profiles" to the INI viewer. | 
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| 1130 | o Fixed some glitches in new mask "must have" attribute processing. | 
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| 1131 | o Found and fixed bug in Collector's Seek & Scan that could cause FM/2 | 
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| 1132 | to trap. | 
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| 1133 | o Added a Settings notebook containing global toggles and such. | 
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| 1134 | Slower than the menus, but Ron Hester asked for it, and I allus do | 
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| 1135 | what Ron says... | 
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| 1136 | o Return of the weirding ... but that'd be telling. | 
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| 1137 | o Added optional split status line. | 
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| 1138 |  | 
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| 1139 | 2.08: | 
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| 1140 | o Added "must have" attributes to Filter. | 
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| 1141 | o Fixed Undelete dialog so selecting a new drive from the combobox | 
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| 1142 | causes the listbox to be refreshed for that drive, and so a missing | 
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| 1143 | DELETE environment variable for the selected drive doesn't cause the | 
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| 1144 | dialog to abort unless you select Cancel in the information box (so | 
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| 1145 | you can pick a different drive). | 
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| 1146 | o Added limited optional logging for some simple but critical | 
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| 1147 | operations (copy, move, rename, delete). | 
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| 1148 | o Documented "start minimized" command line argument. | 
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| 1149 | o Added "don't save/restore state of dir windows this time" command | 
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| 1150 | line argument. | 
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| 1151 |  | 
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| 1152 | 2.07: | 
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| 1153 | o Added "View Bookshelf" and "View Helpfiles" utilities. | 
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| 1154 | o Fixed bug in Quick Tree added while fixing the last one... | 
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| 1155 | o VTree now saves its size and position on desktop (Ron Gawer wanted | 
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| 1156 | that).  VDir doesn't, as you can have several of them open at once | 
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| 1157 | and it would be somewhat irritating to have them all on top of each | 
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| 1158 | other. | 
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| 1159 |  | 
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| 1160 | 2.06: | 
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| 1161 | o In the Collector's Seek-and-scan dialog, the All HDs button now skips | 
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| 1162 | removable drives (like CD-ROMs) for convenience. | 
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| 1163 | o Quick tree works around the OS/2 DosFindFirst bug that prevents FAT | 
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| 1164 | root drives from being found. | 
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| 1165 | o Added "separator" attribute for tool buttons -- causes a small amount | 
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| 1166 | of space to be added after the button with the attribute, for | 
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| 1167 | appearance (grouping of buttons). | 
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| 1168 | o Added ability to turn on titles below bitmap buttons in toolbar (it'll | 
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| 1169 | have to be short and sweet) and grouped all toolbar toggles under a | 
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| 1170 | Toolbar conditional cascade submenu. | 
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| 1171 |  | 
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| 1172 | [lazy bum skipped a few...] | 
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| 1173 |  | 
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| 1174 | 2.00: | 
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| 1175 | o A whole new look for FM/2 -- the same thing, only more so.  Some | 
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| 1176 | things were enhanced, some dropped, some replaced or superceded. | 
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| 1177 | Still, if you used 1.x you should feel at home. | 
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| 1178 |  | 
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| 1179 | $Id: HISTORY 388 2006-07-27 18:11:39Z root $ | 
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