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[1464]7FM/2 3.17: This release provides for loading FM/2 partially in high memory
[1468]8since this won't work on older systems (pre fixpack 13?) or you might have
9other reasons not to use it we provide a low memory version also. Some high
[1496]10loaded programs hang in the exit handler (i.e. don't close). We didn't
[1468]11experience this problem but if you do install the low memory version (3.17.0).
[1464]12The high memory version is 3.17.1.
13
14This release makes changes that should speed the scanning and
15container filling in FM/2. We have added some visual clues to let you know
[1468]16FM/2 is still working. The LED in the lower right hand corner now blinks
[1464]17while long operations are in progress or you can open the thread note
[1468]18window (click on the LED) for even more detailed information about an
19operation in progress. We also added a better "scanning" message.
[1464]20
[1468]21We have updated the look and functionality of the drivebar. It now has the
22drive letters superimposed over the drive icons allowing for larger icons.
23We have add a refresh removable media and rescan button to the beginning
24of the bar to make it a more complete replacement for the tree container
25in FM/2 lite. You can also show the file system type or drive label next
26to the drive letter in the tree container. See the Tree settings notebook
27page to try this option.
[1464]28
[1468]29The INI viewer option on the utilities menu now lets you choose to open
30the user INI, system INI or FM2's INI. We now allow LONGNAMES to be
31displayed for FAT & LAN drives and we delete .LONGNAME EA if it becomes
[1464]32the filename on a copy or move. In addition to these we fixed 2 rare crashes
33and a hang associated with SMP. We also fixed a handful of interface problems.
34See the history file for more information.
35
[1468]36FM/2 3.16: This release makes changes that should allow FM/2 to be
37translated into different languages. It also adds date and number
38formatting based on the system locale settings. We now need to find
39some individuals who are interested in doing the translations.
[1420]40Currently, double bit character sets are not supported in FM/2.
41
42We have also fixed multiple minor annoyances such as improving
43detection of text verses binary files when opening viewers and
44filtering/(de)select mask now works for archives with pathnames.
[1468]45We added the ability to turn error/alert beeps on and off in the
[1420]46settings notebook (General page) and changes to the details switches
47in compare directories are now saved. See the history for more details.
48
[1377]49FM/2 3.15: This release turns on some new features by default
50don't panic they can all be turned off if you don't like them.
51The first is recursive scanning on start up. This slows the initial
52scan a bit but speeds expansion of the tree later. It is on for
53local hard drives and can be turned on for other drive types. The
54second new feature is an automatic rescan of the drive tree on
55eject of removable media keeping the tree container more current.
56Both of these features can be turn on or off on the scanning page
57of the notebook. The third new feature actually turns write verify
58off on a per drive basis. This is to address the fact that many
59USB removables fail or worse (hangs/traps) when write verify is on.
60We turn it off by default for removables other than standard floppies.
61If you want it on/off for a given drive edit that drive's drive flags
62accordingly. The global write verify selector is unchanged and the
63drive flags have no effect if it is off.
64
65We have some additional new items we hope you will find useful. We
66have added the ability to have the extract commands create a
67subdirectory based on the archive file name for the extraction target.
68Seek and Scan has been added to the drives and directories context
[1420]69menu and when selected from there will add the drive or directory as
[1377]70the root for the search. We also added refresh removable media so
71you can scan for newly inserted drives from the tree container
72We did some additional work on the main menus like adding Databar
[1420]73to the utilities menu and we now gray out items that are unavailable
[1377]74or inappropriate and un-grayed some items that were inappropriately
75turned off. We reorganized the internal editor menus as well.
76
77We made changes to the archiver code so that archivers that don't
[1496]78have specific start/end list strings will work (i.e. TAR.EXE). We
[1377]79have included the commands for .tar .tar.gz and .tar.bz in archiver.tmp
80(gzip.exe and/or bzip.exe must be in the path) These only work with tar 1.15
[1381]81or higher. We included a separate entry for TAR 1.10 but versions of TAR prior
82to 1.15 don't work for tar.gz/bz2 files. You can either replace archiver.bb2
83with the archiver.tmp or if you have made changes to archiver.bb2 you can cut
84and paste the new archiver definitions into an appropriate position in your
85existing archiver.bb2
[1377]86
[1381]87Numerous fixes to minor interface appearance and behavior issues are also include.
[1377]88We have added exceptq support to make it easier to track down defects. We
89also eliminated the cause of three rare traps including one associated with
90deleting directories. See the history file for more details.
91
[1278]92FM/2 3.14: This release updates many of the icons and bitmaps
93used in FM/2. In addition, more updates have been made to the
94toolbars to activate the new toolbars follow the instruction for
95using CFGMGR in the section about version 3.13. One other change
96may require some user intervention. Inadvertently the expected
97name of the filters data file was change in version 3.12 from
98filters.dat to filter.dat. We have corrected this, however, this
99means your filters may be spread across 2 different files or may
100seem to have disappeared. If they have disappeared go to the FM/2
101directory and rename the file filter.dat to filters.dat. This should
102restore your saved filters. If you find you have both filter.dat and
103filters.dat use a text editor to add the contents of filter.dat
104to filters.dat.
105
106This release also contains some menu changes with unformatted drives
107using the "drives" context menu, the elimination of more than one
108default on some submenus and menu items such as "format" being
109disabled for network drives and enabled for removables. Some of the
110changes should make FM/2 more responsive (Let us know if you notice
111a difference). We have also included some bug fixes.
112
[1142]113FM/2 3.13: Many of the changes in this release are related to
114the toolbars. A new feature is that the current toolbar, along
115with the current Target directory, are now saved and restored
116with states. Toolbar code and documentation has been improved, new
117toolbar button bitmaps have been added and bugs have been fixed.
118
119The installation of FM/2 will not replace existing user
120customization files like the toolbar files. So, if this is not
121your first installation of FM/2, some of these improvements will
122not be available because of the old, pre v3.13 toolbar files. It
123is therefore recommended that you run the following:
124
125 CFGMGR /INSTALL /DEFAULTS /TOOLBARSONLY /UNATTENDED
[1147]126
[1142]127CFGMGR is a REXX program located in the FM/2 installation directory.
128If run as given above it will copy your existing toolbar files into
129a "User_config_backup" subdirectory and then install FM/2 default
130toolbar files. If you have done some customizations of FM/2 toolbars
131you can use a text editor and/or file comparison utility like GFC
132to "merge" your changes, now found in the backup subdirectory,
133with the default files now found in the FM/2 directory. If you want
134more control over the operation of CFGMGR, then leave off the
[1143]135/UNATTENDED parameter. Without the /UNATTENDED parameter CFGMGR
136will ask your permission before replacing each file.
[1142]137
[1149]138The delete = move to trash can is off by default (turn it on on the
139General settings notebook page). FM/2 now checks for adequate disk
140space to avoid data loss.
141
[1147]142We also fixed some additional bugs and provide some performance
143enhancements. If you have had trouble with "broken pipe" errors
[1496]144copying to a Netdrive samba drive let me know if it now works
[1147]145better. I have built in some retries for this error but can't test
146it since I don't see the problem. Also please report back to us anytime
147you see the Debug error report to author box with as much detail about
148what you were doing as possible. Thanks
149
[1094]150FM/2 3.12 Fixes a bug introduced in 3.11 (trap when viewing
151multiple files from an archive at the same time). It also adds
152Open Default, Open Settings and via an accel key ctrl + l Open
153Multimedia (using FM2play.exe) to the archive viewer. FM/2 now
154uses the system TMP/TEMP directory for it temporary files and
155cleans up after a crash on the next restart. FM/2 creates a
156subdirectory of the pattern $FM2*.*. The settings notebook can
[1496]157now be closed using Esc, F3 or Enter; the last 2 save any
[1094]158changes that have been made. You can now select which environment
159variables to show when using show the environment in the drive
160tree. Just add or remove from the list on the "Tree" page of
161the notebook. It defaults initially to the current list. You can
162now save/append either a full pathname or just a filename or a
163list of either to the clipboard. We have changed the wording
164in the menus to make this easier to find. We fixed a few other
165minor issues see the history for more details.
166
[1057]167FM/2 3.11 adds the option of having delete move the objects
168to the Xworkplace trashcan. Undelete will open the trashcan
169so you can restore deleted files. The only short coming is you
170will need to rescan in order to see the restored file.
171We also added a reserved state which allows you to return
172FM/2 to the state it was in on start up (the shut down state).
173We have improved the filtering of file names that contain
174multiple periods and fixed FM/2's failure to always follow
175the details settings from the setup notebook. The primary
176task achieved for this release was the addition of fortify
177support which allowed us to fix a handful of memory usage
178related bugs. We fixed a few other minor issues see the
179history for more details.
180
[994]181Fm/2 3.10 adds the ability to set the command line length
182to correspond to the command shell you are using. We have
183moved some menu items to submenus to reduce menu clutter
184while adding "unhide" to reveal previously hidden items and
185adding a settings notebook submenu to allow selection of the
186page you wish to visit. We have updated the look of several
187dialogs and containers including adding the ability to remember
188size location and presentation parameters. We have reworked
[1052]189the save state on close so it will save the different states
190of multiple directory containers and in greater detail. This
191state can also be restored at anytime during a session by
[994]192selecting it from the "States" drop down. We have provided better
193progress indicators to update the progress of long operations.
[1496]194We now provide both the SYM & MAP files in a separate WarpIN
[994]195package. This will allow interested individuals the tools needed
[1420]196to assist with analyzing any problem that may occur. This
[994]197package is not needed to run FM/2. As always this update
198provides some performance enhancements and defect fixes.
199
[915]200FM/2 3.09 adds "mailto:" so you can configure the ability to
201double click an email address in the new viewer and have it
202open a new email using that address. The viewer page in the
203settings notebook was split into 2 pages to facilitate the
[1057]204change. Additionally, We fixed some defects and enhanced
[915]205performance in some areas such as commandline quoting.
206
[834]207FM/2 3.08 has had changes to its file filtering logic.
208It now searches for the last extension if a mask like *.zip
209is used. This change was made to over come the problem with
[915]210associations failing on files with multiple ".". You can
[1420]211also search for a complete string within the file names by
[834]212using the pattern *stuff* (stuff can't contain an * or ?).
213If "stuff" contains an * or ? the old method of searching
[866]214(character by character)is used.Large (>4GiB) file support
215has been added.
[834]216
[1496]217FM/2 3.07 had changes made to its INI file structure.
218These changes mean that the INI file is not backward
[811]219compatible. Please backup you FM3.INI file before installing
[915]220so you can revert to an earlier version without losing some
[811]221of your customizations. Please note you need to leave a copy
[915]222of the fm3.ini file in the install directory in order to keep your
223customizations in 3.07. The temp file fm3.!!! will not update
[1496]224the new INI as it is only used when FM/2 is running.
[811]225
[915]226File Manager/2 (FM/2) starting with version 3.6 is being
227built with OpenWatcom. Changing compilers can introduce
[704]228unexpected problem so you may want to backup your current
[915]229install, or at minimum have a working copy of the FM/2
[1496]230version 3.5.9 WarpIN package available for reinstall if problems arise.
[704]231To backup your current install simple zip up your install
232directory with its subdirectories or copy them to a different
[915]233location.To restore simply copy the old FM/2 back to the
[704]234its original location. Remember you can't use the new FM/2
235to do this since if it is running some files will be locked
236and won't be replaced. If you didn't backup and need to go
[1496]237back just install the 3.5.9 WarpIN package over the new
[704]238install. It will warn you that the install is newer but just
[1496]239tell it to install anyway. The WarpIN install process is
[915]240designed to save all your customizations. Don't delete the
241new install if you don't have a backup since this will result
242in the loss of any custom changes you have made. If you need
243to delete it to get the reinstall to work. Backup up the new
244install and then copy the *.bmp, *.tls, *.dat, *.cmd & *.ini
245files back to the install directory after the reinstall.
246Don't copy the *.str files as they are version specific.
[704]247If you have problems be sure to report it (See Support
[915]248at the end of this file).
[704]249
[668]250File Manager/2 (FM/2) is a free OS/2(Warp)/eCS Presentation
[671]251Manager 32-bit file/directory/archive maintenance utility
252(a sort of super-Drives object, something midway between the
253Drives objects and a more traditional file manager) with plenty
[668]254of bells, whistles and utilities, drag and drop, context menus,
[642]255toolbars, bubble help and accelerator keys. If you know how
256to use OS/2, you already know how to use most of FM/2. You
257can easily glean the rest from the extensive online help,
[7]258including tutorials.
259
[642]260This document explains how to install FM/2, including
261upgrading from previous versions. It explains command line
262syntaxes (parameters in a program object) and how to get the
263program(s) running. The online help tells you how to
264actually use FM/2. I'll try to keep this brief.
[7]265
[642]266This program is free software; you can redistribute it
267and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
268License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
269version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
270version.
[7]271
[642]272This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
273useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
274warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
275PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
276details.
[55]277
[642]278You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
279License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
280Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330,
281Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
[55]282
283
[7]284FM/2 3.x installation instructions:
285==================================
286
[642]287Pre-requisite:
[668]288 WarpIN 0.9.20 or higher must be installed.
[7]289
[642]290Install (or re-install) from a FM/2 ZIP file distribution
291---------------------------------------------------------
[7]292
[642]2931. Unpack the FM2*.ZIP archive in a private directory (for
294example, C:\TMP). (UNZIP.EXE works nicely to unpack the
295file.) Two WPI files, FM2.WPI and FM2UTILS.WPI will be
296unzipped.
[7]297
[642]2982. Follow the instructions for installing from WPI file(s)
299below.
[7]300
301
[642]302Install (or re-install) from a FM/2 WPI file distribution
303---------------------------------------------------------
[7]304
[642]3051. Open the WPS folder containing the WPI file(s).
[7]306
[642]3072. Double click on FM2.WPI. Since WarpIN associates itself
308with WPI files this will start WarpIN with FM2.WPI as the
309parameter.
310
3113, You may then install FM/2 to a directory of your choice
312and, if FM2UTILS.WPI is present, install FM/2 Utilities to
313a directory of your choice.
314
315NOTE: If you double click on FM2UTILS.WPI instead of
316FM2.WPI, you will only be able to install the FM/2
317Utilities. It is recommended that, even if you only want to
318install FM/2 Utilities, that you do so using FM2.WPI.
319
320
321Moving FM/2 and/or FM/2 Utilities:
322----------------------------------
323
3241. Copy your existing installation directory to the new
325location.
326
3272. If you have added your own icons to any of the FM/2
328folders, then you should move them elsewhere temporarily.
329
3303. Follow the instructions for de-installing below.
331
3324. Re-install the package using the installation
333instructions above. This will update the WarpIN database and
334reset your icons to the new locations.
335
3365. Move the icons you saved in step #2, back into the FM/2
337folders if you wish.
338
339
340De-installing FM/2 and/or FM/2 Utilities:
341-----------------------------------------
342
[1496]3431. Run WarpIN without parameters.
[642]344
3452. Right click on a package you want to de-install and
346select "de-install all packages".
347
3483. Click on OK in the "De-install Packages" window that
349appears.
350
351
352=================
[7]353First-time notes:
[642]354=================
[7]355
356Starting FM/2 -- how it works, customizing parameters:
357
[642]358If you start File Manager/2 (filename FM3.EXE) with no
359parameters, it opens the Drive Tree window but no directory
360windows (unless the "Save state of dir windows" toggle is
361checked -- see online help).
[7]362
[642]363File Manager/2 optionally accepts names of directories in
364the parameters field of its program object; it'll open a
365directory window for each one. Hint: If you often do
366different specific things with FM/2, you might set up a WPS
367object customized to start up ideally for each activity. For
368example, if you wanted to maintain your BBS areas, you might
369have one object with parameters like: "D:\BBSDIR
370D:\BBSDIR\MAILIN D:\BBSDIR\MAILOUT", and if you also like to
371use FM/2 to set icons on files, you might have another
372object with parameters like: "E:\MYICONS D:\NEWFILES". The
373State quicklist can also be used for this within FM/2 itself
374-- see online help.
[7]375
[642]376You can exclude drives in the parameters by prefacing the
377drive letter with "/", and there can be more than one drive
378letter behind the "/" (i.e. "/BH" to exclude both drives B:
379and H:). Hint: Many people like to use /B to exclude
380"phantom" drive B: if they have a single-floppy system.
381Similarly, you can cause drives NOT to be prescanned by the
382Drive Tree by prefacing the drive letter with ";", drives
383NOT to load icons for objects by prefacing the drive letter
384with ",", drives NOT to load subjects for objects by
385prefacing the drive letter with "`" and drives NOT to load
386longnames for objects by prefacing the drive letter with
387"'". This can be handy if you have a very slow drive like a
388CD-ROM or Zip drive. FM/2 Lite recognizes these switches,
389too. See also the Drive Flags dialog in FM/2.
[7]390
[642]391If you place the plus sign "+" (alone, separated from
392anything else by spaces) in the parameters, FM/2 will log,
393to FM2.LOG, delete, rename, move and copy operations that
394are performed by drag-and-drop or with the menus. FM/2 Lite
395recognizes this switch, too.
[7]396
[642]397The parameter "-" (alone, separated from anything else by
398spaces) causes FM/2 to ignore, not load or save, the
399previous state of directory windows (see the "Save state of
400dir windows" toggle under Config Menu->Toggles in the online
401help) for that invocation.
[7]402
[642]403You can specify the name of an alternate INI file with
404"-<inifilename>" -- for example: "-C:\FM2\MYINI.INI".
[82]405
[642]406You can also specify the INI file location with the
407environment variable FM2INI -- for example:
408 SET FM2INI=C:\FM2\MYINI.INI.
409
410
411------------------------------
[7]412How to get started using FM/2:
413-----------------------------
[642]414Please read the following sections in the online help when
415you start FM/2 for the first time: "How to use FM/2's Help,"
416"Terminology" and "General Help," then "Hints." A peek at
[1420]417the labeled "Window Layouts" pictures would probably be a
[642]418good idea, too. The rest you can browse as you get time/feel
419the need; for instance, if you want to know what a toggle
420does, read the help under Settings notebook for that page
421(each Settings notebook page has its own Help button).
[7]422
[776]423If you prefer hard copy help, print this file, run FM/2,
[668]424press F1, click the "Print" button at the bottom (IBM View)
[671]425or top (Newview)of the help window that appears and then print
[668]426both the "Contents" and "All sections" (keep an eye on the printer,
[642]427after page 100 of "All sections" as the Help Manager will
428begin printing its own help then -- you may want to abort
429printing at that point). Advanced and/or curious users may
430also want to print FM3TOOLS.DAT and ARCHIVER.BB2. Be sure
431you have plenty of paper and ink handy -- the package is
432well documented. You'll probably also want a three-ring
433binder and hole punch to get it bound, as staples aren't
434going through that puppy. You can, of course, print only the
435sections that are of particular interest to you.
[7]436
437Additional documentation:
438------------------------
439 FM3.HLP: FM/2's online help file.
440
[642]441Look in the FM/2 Docs subfolder of the File Manager/2 folder
442for easy access to all documentation.
[7]443
444
445Bonus programs:
446==============
447
[642]448You'll note the extra objects that the Install program
449creates in the FM/2 Tools subfolder of the File Manager/2
450folder. FM/2 is modular, so that you can get directly to
451some of its components without running the entire ball of
452wax. This may allow you to enhance the behavior of some of
453your other applications in the WPS tradition. You don't
454_have_ to keep these around, of course -- FM/2 itself
455contains all their functionality.
[7]456
[642]457ARCHIVE VIEWER/2: Intended for drag-and-drop operation (or
458WPS association) with WPS objects or other applications.
459Drag an archive onto it, drop it, get an archive listing
460box. FM/2's installation program sets up some associations
461between archive files and this program by file extension.
462AV/2 will try to display whatever you give it as
463sensibly as it can. Filename AV2.EXE.
[7]464
[642]465EA VIEWER: Drag a file system object onto it and it'll show
466you the object's extended attributes. Filename EAS.EXE.
[7]467
[642]468INI VIEWER: Drag an .INI file onto it and it'll show you its
469contents. Filename INI.EXE.
[7]470
[642]471BOOKSHELF VIEWER: Shows all .INF files in a listbox and lets
472you pick the one(s) you want to view. If you give any
473command line argument, the .HLP files on the HELP path will
474be shown instead (the Helpfile Viewer object calls
475VIEWINFS.EXE with "dummy" for an argument, for example).
476Filename VIEWINFS.EXE.
[7]477
[642]478PROCESS KILLER: Lets you kill off renegade processes. An
479English version of PSTAT.EXE must be on your PATH. Filename
480KILLPROC.EXE.
[7]481
[1420]482UNDELETE: Lets you undelete files (via interface with
[642]483UNDELETE.COM). Drag a file system object onto it and it'll
484let you undelete files for that drive. Filename UNDEL.EXE.
[7]485
[642]486VISUAL TREE: Opens a Drive Tree window (like the WPS Drives
487object with more horsepower). Filename VTREE.EXE.
[7]488
[642]489VISUAL DIRECTORY: Opens a Directory Container window; drag a
490file system object onto it and this will open its directory
491(like a WPS directory Folder with more horsepower). Filename
492VDIR.EXE.
[7]493
[642]494COLLECTOR: Opens a Collector window. Filename VCOLLECT.EXE.
495Two other objects, "See all files" and "Seek and scan" are
496created which call up the Collector and go directly to
497dialogs for the appropriate purpose.
[7]498
[642]499GLOBAL VIEWER: Opens a global view of a drive or drives.
500Filename GLOBAL.EXE.
[7]501
[642]502DATABAR: Opens a databar showing some system information.
503Filename DATABAR.EXE.
[7]504
[642]505DIRSIZE: Shows where drive usage is concentrated. Filename
506DIRSIZE.EXE.
[7]507
[642]508FM/2 LITE: A simplified interface for "dummies." Filename
509FM4.EXE.
[7]510
[642]511FM/2's install creates FM2.CMD, AV2.CMD, VDIR.CMD,
512VTREE.CMD, VCOLLECT.CMD, UNDEL.CMD, KILLPROC.CMD, INI.CMD,
513EAS.CMD, DIRSIZE.CMD, VIEWINFS.CMD and VIEWHELP.CMD files
514for you in a directory "utils" off the install directory.
515You should add this directory to your PATH= statement in
516CONFIG.SYS (type HELP PATH at a command line for more info).
517If you prefer, FM/2's INSTALL builds a SETENV.CMD in the
518FM/2 directory which you can call to set the PATH for FM/2
519in any given session without modifying CONFIG.SYS.
[7]520
521
522Troubleshooting:
523===============
524
[642]525If FM/2 won't run, the probable culprit is CONFIG.SYS. Your
[668]526LIBPATH statement should contain a ".;" entry. If yours
[642]527doesn't, add it. It's standard for an OS/2 installation, but
528some buggy install programs knock it out because they
529translate entries to their full pathname before rewriting
[668]530(so ".;" gets translated to whatever the current directory
531is for the buggy install program). What this ".;" entry does
[642]532is allow a program to find and use .DLL files in the
533program's current directory -- obviously something you want
534programs to be able to do, otherwise you'd have to put every
535application's .DLLs into directories already on the LIBPATH,
536or add the directories of all applications to the LIBPATH, a
[7]537rather huge pain in the, uh, neck.
538
[642]539If things in FM/2 are suddenly acting strange after an
[671]540upgrade, first check the integrity of the install using
541using WarpIN. If it shows a problem rerun the install
[1493]542package. If that fails try uninstalling with WarpIN and reinstalling.
543Backup your existing directory so you can save any changes
[668]544you made to the template files then uninstall and reinstall.
[671]545Once you have FM/2 working migrate the *.ini, *.dat, *.tls,
546*.bb2 and *.cmd from your old install/backup to recover your
547custom settings
[7]548
[642]549If the "FM/2 Online Help" object in the "FM/2 Docs"
550subfolder won't work properly, you've got a version of
551VIEW.EXE that won't directly display help (.HLP) files. Use
552SEEHELP.EXE from the FM/2 Utilities package to get around
553this problem (or upgrade your version of OS/2).
[7]554
[642]555Don't drag files over Netscape -- it will lock up if files
556(not WPS objects; there's a subtle difference) are dragged
557over it.
[7]558
[642]559If you get a popup dialog that needs to be reported to the
560maintainer, you can either take a screen shot or you can
561capture the information from STDERR with:
[398]562
563 FM3 2>STDERR.LOG
564
[1493]565This technique works for FM/2, FM/2 Lite and all the
[642]566standalone applets.
[398]567
[642]568If you are having trouble with Drag and Drop operations, try
569the + command line switch described above. The content of
570FM2.LOG may be helpful.
[398]571
[1496]572
[55]573Known problems/shortcomings:
574===========================
[11]575
[1496]576- See the section of this name in the FM/2 help file (FM3.hlp).
[1493]577It is installed to the same directory as FM/2.
[11]578
[671]579- See http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/report/1 for a complete list of
[668]580currently active bugs
[55]581
[1496]582
[55]583About FM/2:
[11]584==========
585
586FM/2 was originally written by:
587
588 Mark Kimes
589 <hectorplasmic@worldnet.att.net>
590
[642]591He has kindly allowed me to take over maintenance and
592support of FM/2 and to release the program under the GNU GPL
593license. I'm sure he would appreciate a Thank You note for
594his generosity.
[11]595
[1496]596
[55]597Support:
[11]598=======
599
[183]600There is a Yahoo group devoted to fm/2 at:
[11]601
[549]602 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fm2user/
[1468]603
[1420]604 This group is now closed but it still contains some useful information
[1468]605
[1420]606There is a new mailing list at:
[1468]607
[1420]608 fm2-user@netlabs.org
[1468]609
[1420]610 To subscribe send an email to:
[1468]611
[1420]612 fm2-user-subscribe@netlabs.org
[1468]613
[1420]614 The subject and body can be empty.
[1468]615
[1420]616 This group is mirrored on Gmane at:
[1468]617
[1420]618 http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.fm2.user
[183]619
620You will find lots of friendly folks ready to help.
621
[1420]622FM/2 has moved to Netlabs (thanks Adrian).
[549]623
624Check it out at
625
626 http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2
627
[1420]628To create a ticket reporting a defect or requesting an enhancement.
[1468]629You must be logged into TRAC. Please login with your Netlabs login id.
630If you do not have a login id, you can request one at
631http://www.netlabs.org/en/site/member/member.xml.
632If you have troubles acquiring a Netlabs login id send an e-mail to
[1420]633Netlabs Community Mailing List <community@netlabs.org>.
[549]634
[1420]635You can also browse the source at this site.
636
637To obtain the source from the SVN use something like the following to check out the trunk
638
639 mkdir fm2_workspace
640 cd fm2_workspace
641 svn checkout http://svn.netlabs.org/repos/fm2/trunk trunk
642
[1468]643If you wish commit access please contact us directly.
644
[668]645You can reach us directly at:
[183]646
[11]647 Steven H. Levine
648 steve53@earthlink.net
649
[668]650 or
651
652 Gregg Young
653 ygk@qwest.net
654
[1420]655We also monitor the comp.os.os2.apps newsgroup, several
[1468]656others in the comp.os.os2.* hierarchy and other groups where
657release announcements are made.
[11]658
659Thanks and enjoy.
660
[55]661$Id: README 1496 2009-12-30 16:54:41Z stevenhl $
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