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FM/2 3.25 Modifies the layiut of the dialogs some they will work better with larger
font sizes. It fixes several traps/potential traps. Occasional tree container
corruption on scan/rescan should be gone. The "0" ea size, date and time on
nonexistent files in the compare directory are gone. Fix a problem with the first
subdirectories in the tree container spuriously reporting "no drop". See the
history for more details.

FM/2 3.24 includes a major performance enhancement by moving almost all the file
scanning onto a background thread leaving the user interface accessible during
scans. The only negative side effect of this is that expand all runs slower. However,
I am not sure why anyone would use this regularly on large drives (except me of 
course to get it working with the scanning changes). This release should also be
much more stable as we identified several areas (apparently little used) where 
reproducible traps occurred. We also eliminated a major potential cause of 
random hard to reproduce traps and hangs when we re-did the scanning code. Some
tree container cosmetic issues have been fixed including removal of occasional
blank lines and double enters; fixing CD/DVD drives so they always change icon
and if needed display name on eject; improved the consistency of the "make top"
code and fixed it so the container updates on renaming a directory. We also
fixed the failure to generate multiple real objects (broken in 3.23 my bad), 
some issues with the direct edit code and fix the directory container compare
select code. See the history for more details.

FM/2 3.23 provides several enhancements. Implemented creation of a JAVA executable
object from a jar file. Select a jar file and "Real object" from the "Create 
object" sub-menu. You will be prompted to select the JAVA exe you wish to use.
Your choice will be recorded for use in the future. You will then be prompted
to select an icon for the object. Once the object is created you will be prompted
to restart the desktop. I highly recommend you do so. If you don't the object icon 
will be lost if you open the object in settings view. Additionally, I have 
experienced WPS hangs forcing a reboot when accessing the desktop or trashcan
context menu following the icon loss described above. I have not had any problem
if I restarted the desktop. We have added menu toggles for confirm delete and the 
drag & drop dialog options. Newview now handles selecting and utilizing email 
addresses and URLs much better and more completely (https is supported) than 
in previous versions. The EA editor now checks for EAs marked as critical and
report this to the user.

We have also fixed multiple defects including eliminating redundant error messages
from unlock and read only checking code and now only trying to unlock exes or dlls.
Fixed a string handling problem with the extract directory and a trap that sometimes
occurred when closing or starting a rescan while scanning was in progress. Limited
auto open of help to the first time the quick settings configuration page is open
each session. Finally we stopped using FM2Play to open multimedia files. The 
problem was caused by the fact that mmioMP3 would report it could handle most
any thing (exes for example). This lead to FM2Play trying to play them. I have
fixed and updated mmioMP3 and it should be available on Hobbes by the time you 
read this. See the history file for more details. Please let us know if you find 
a defect.

FM/2 3.22 provides enhancements to compare directories, seek and scan and the 
archive viewer. It fixes the check for readonly files on delete to work in all 
cases. It fixes some problems with the installer. We have also fixed a number 
of cosmetic issues and several traps. We no longer load FM/2 in high memory as 
we determined that was causing some of the traps. We tried to improve the speed
of drive scans and the responsiveness of the UI during long seek and scans.
See the history file for more details. Please let us know if you find a defect.

FM/2 3.21 has a few enhancement which we hope you will find useful. Since eCS 
includes unlock.exe I have added unlock file to the file (directory container 
context) menu so you can easily unlock a dll or exe file. Delete, copy and move 
operations will open a dialog which allow you to unlock files as part of these 
operations. An icon is included if you wish to add unlock to a toolbar button.
(See the help file for the unlock id and instruction on adding a button).
Search for duplicate files now sorts results by filename. Updated the help file 
adding information on FM/2 as a WPS replacement. Enhance compare directories to 
allow inclusion of subdirectories or use of a list file on opening and fixed 
a list file load failure. Added a warning dialog for a delete, copy or move 
operation which replaces/deletes a read only file. Finally,the "target 
directory" is now a drop target for move/copy or conditionally to change the target.
See the history file for more details. Please let us know if you find a defect.

FM/2 3.20 mainly addresses things that were annoying me. The only new item
is a new date type for ARCHIVER.BB2 which allows for the viewing of .tar.gz
archives directly using Tar 1.15 or higher. You will need to either replace
your ARCHIVER.BB2 with ARCHIVER.TMP from the package or replace/add Entry #10
(tar.gz) from the .TMP file to your existing ARCHIVER.BB2. We don't do this
automatically to avoid breaking any custom changes you may have made. We updated
some of the help information, fixed several rare traps and little things like
the failure to create a list file if it didn't already exist. See the history
file for more details. Please let us know if you find a defect.

FM/2 3.19.1 This is a bug fix release. Most of these have existed for a
very long time but were only discovered recently. Included is a fixed
FM/2 utilities wpi file. None of the utilities have been updated. The
fix allows you to install the utilities without having to install FM/2.
See the history file for more details. Please let us know if you find
a defect.

FM/2 3.19 I am dedicating this release of FM/2 to the memory of my
parents Ralph and Helen Young both of whom passed away earlier  this
year. It has been over a year since the last release. The FM/2 team has
been busy with a lot of other projects. This release mostly fixes bugs.

The major change is that this version uses high memory to
load much of FM/2's code, data and resources. If your version of OS/2
(Warp 4 pre about Fixpack 13 or Warp 3 pre about Fixpack 37) doesn't
support high memory please contact me and I will provide a low memory
version. If anyone contacts me, I will plan on both a high and low
memory version (or a way to convert one to the other) for future
releases.

You can now open a directory container from an item in the collector and
the EA editor now has a file open option. We also made some improvements
to FM/2's handling of containers holding large numbers of files
(greater than 64k). Please see the history file for more details.

FM/2 3.18 This release removes high memory support at least for now.
Changes made to the openwatcom compiler which adds large file support to the
open file functions created a problem since DosOpenL doesn't work correctly
with high memory. This change also fixes the paste failure in VIO windows
when copying from FM/2.

We have provided an archiver description for use with unzip ver 6. It is contained
in ARCHIVER.TMP. The installer copies the description to ARCHIVER.BB2 (last entry).
If you plan on using ver 6 as your default unzip you will need to activate this
description. The instructions follow:

- This archiver definition assumes that UNZIP v6
  a) is named UNZIP.EXE
  b) is on the PATH
  c) precedes all other UNZIP.EXE versions on the PATH.
  If any of these are not true, then either correct the problem listed above or:
     1) Select the UNZIP v6 definition. (See below.)
     2) Click on the "Edit" button
     3) Modify all instances of UNZIP.EXE to include a full path for UNZIP.EXE v6.
     4) Click on "OK", then "Close" and then "Yes" to exit and save your changes.
     5) Restart FM/2

- FM/2 will not use this entry unless
  a) It is the only UNZIP definition; or
  b) You select it manually; or
  c) You move UNZIP v6 ahead of all the UNZIP's in the list of archivers.
     In order to move UNZIP v6 ahead of the other UNZIP's:
     1) Select the UNZIP v6 definition. (See below.)
     2) Click on the "Up" button until the UNZIP v6 entry precedes all other
        UNZIP definitions.(If you have never modified ARCHIVER.BB2 it will
        need to be moved to the very top)
     3) Click on "Close" and then "Yes" to exit and save your changes
     4) Restart FM/2

- Selecting the UNZIP v6 definition:
     1) Start FM/2
     2) Select the "Config" menu
     3) Select the "Edit" submenu
     4) Select the "Edit an archiver..." menu item
     5) In the dialog that appears scroll the list, if necessary, and select
        the UNZIP v6 definition

We have made changes to the open files logic to correct some odd issues
caused by MMPM when ogg, flac and/or mpg IOProcs are installed. MPGs are now
recognized as media and zero byte files trigger a dialog offering to open
them in the text editor. We now pass .wpi files to the WPS if no association
is set for them. If you see FM/2 attempt to open non-media files as a media file
or fails to open a media file recognized as such by OS/2 as media, let us know.

We reworked the user commands. Doing so makes COMMANDS.DAT obsolete with the
commands moving to FM3INI.INI. We did this to eliminate toolbar entry failures
caused by reordering the commands. It also keeps the hotkey the same following
a reorder and allows the user to select the hotkey they wish to use. The first
time you run 3.18, it will copy the commands information from COMMANDS.DAT to
the INI. COMMANDS.DAT isn't deleted or changed so you can revert to an earlier
version without losing old commands. However, any commands you add or change
with this version will not be seen by older versions.

You can use Ctrl-click to select state or commonly used directory quicklist entries
or walk dialog user list entries without activating them. This is handy for deleting
entries without changing the window's state.Compare directories has been rework to
enhance its speed, allow for quick cancel and provide the option of AND'ed
selection (CTRL click). AND'ed selection selects from currently selected entries
as opposed to all entries. See the help file for more information. We have fixed
some rare traps and hangs and a few annoying bugs like the failure of the append
checkbox in the list file dialog to append. Please see the history file for a more
complete list of changes.

FM/2 3.17: This release provides for loading FM/2 partially in high memory
since this won't work on older systems (pre fixpack 13?) or you might have
other reasons not to use it we provide a low memory version also. Some high
loaded programs hang in the exit handler (i.e. don't close). We didn't
experience this problem but if you do install the low memory version (3.17.0).
The high memory version is 3.17.1.

This release makes changes that should speed the scanning and
container filling in FM/2. We have added some visual clues to let you know
FM/2 is still working. The LED in the lower right hand corner now blinks
while long operations are in progress or you can open the thread note
window (click on the LED) for even more detailed information about an
operation in progress. We also added a better "scanning" message.

We have updated the look and functionality of the drivebar. It now has the
drive letters superimposed over the drive icons allowing for larger icons.
We have add a refresh removable media and rescan button to the beginning
of the bar to make it a more complete replacement for the tree container
in FM/2 lite. You can also show the file system type or drive label next
to the drive letter in the tree container. See the Tree settings notebook
page to try this option.

The INI viewer option on the utilities menu now lets you choose to open
the user INI, system INI or FM2's INI. We now allow LONGNAMES to be
displayed for FAT & LAN drives and we  delete .LONGNAME EA if it becomes
the filename on a copy or move. In addition to these we fixed 2 rare crashes
and a hang associated with SMP. We also fixed a handful of interface problems.
See the history file for more information.

FM/2 3.16: This release makes changes that should allow FM/2 to be
translated into different languages. It also adds date and number
formatting based on the system locale settings. We now need to find
some individuals who are interested in doing the translations.
Currently, double bit character sets are not supported in FM/2.

We have also fixed multiple minor annoyances such as improving
detection of text verses binary files when opening viewers and
filtering/(de)select mask now works for archives with pathnames.
We added the ability to turn error/alert beeps on and off in the
settings notebook (General page) and changes to the details switches
in compare directories are now saved. See the history for more details.

FM/2 3.15: This release turns on some new features by default
don't panic they can all be turned off if you don't like them.
The first is recursive scanning on start up. This slows the initial
scan a bit but speeds expansion of the tree later. It is on for
local hard drives and can be turned on for other drive types. The
second new feature is an automatic rescan of the drive tree on
eject of removable media keeping the tree container more current.
Both of these features can be turn on or off on the scanning page
of the notebook. The third new feature actually turns write verify
off on a per drive basis. This is to address the fact that many
USB removables fail or worse (hangs/traps) when write verify is on.
We turn it off by default for removables other than standard floppies.
If you want it on/off for a given drive edit that drive's drive flags
accordingly. The global write verify selector is unchanged and the
drive flags have no effect if it is off.

We have some additional new items we hope you will find useful. We
have added the ability to have the extract commands create a
subdirectory based on the archive file name for the extraction target.
Seek and Scan has been added to the drives and directories context
menu and when selected from there will add the drive or directory as
the root for the search. We also added refresh removable media so
you can scan for newly inserted drives from the tree container
We did some additional work on the main menus like adding Databar
to the utilities menu and we now gray out items that are unavailable
or inappropriate and un-grayed some items that were inappropriately
turned off. We reorganized the internal editor menus as well.

We made changes to the archiver code so that archivers that don't
have specific start/end list strings will work (i.e. TAR.EXE). We
have included the commands for .tar .tar.gz and .tar.bz in archiver.tmp
(gzip.exe and/or bzip.exe must be in the path) These only work with tar 1.15
or higher. We included a separate entry for TAR 1.10 but versions of TAR prior
to 1.15 don't work for tar.gz/bz2 files. You can either replace archiver.bb2
with the archiver.tmp or if you have made changes to archiver.bb2 you can cut
and paste the new archiver definitions into an appropriate position in your
existing archiver.bb2

Numerous fixes to minor interface appearance and behavior issues are also include.
We have added exceptq support to make it easier to track down defects. We
also eliminated the cause of three rare traps including one associated with
deleting directories. See the history file for more details.

FM/2 3.14: This release updates many of the icons and bitmaps
used in FM/2. In addition, more updates have been made to the
toolbars to activate the new toolbars follow the instruction for
using CFGMGR in the section about version 3.13. One other change
may require some user intervention. Inadvertently the expected
name of the filters data file was change in version 3.12 from
filters.dat to filter.dat. We have corrected this, however, this
means your filters may be spread across 2 different files or may
seem to have disappeared. If they have disappeared go to the FM/2
directory and rename the file filter.dat to filters.dat. This should
restore your saved filters. If you find you have both filter.dat and
filters.dat use a text editor to add the contents of filter.dat
to filters.dat.

This release also contains some menu changes with unformatted drives
using the "drives" context menu, the elimination of more than one
default on some submenus and menu items such as "format" being
disabled for network drives and enabled for removables. Some of the
changes should make FM/2 more responsive (Let us know if you notice
a difference). We have also included some bug fixes.

FM/2 3.13: Many of the changes in this release are related to
the toolbars. A new feature is that the current toolbar, along
with the current Target directory, are now saved and restored
with states. Toolbar code and documentation has been improved, new
toolbar button bitmaps have been added and bugs have been fixed.

The installation of FM/2 will not replace existing user
customization files like the toolbar files. So, if this is not
your first installation of FM/2, some of these improvements will
not be available because of the old, pre v3.13 toolbar files. It
is therefore recommended that you run the following:

        CFGMGR /INSTALL /DEFAULTS /TOOLBARSONLY /UNATTENDED

CFGMGR is a REXX program located in the FM/2 installation directory.
If run as given above it will copy your existing toolbar files into
a "User_config_backup" subdirectory and then install FM/2 default
toolbar files. If you have done some customizations of FM/2 toolbars
you can use a text editor and/or file comparison utility like GFC
to "merge" your changes, now found in the backup subdirectory,
with the default files now found in the FM/2 directory. If you want
more control over the operation of CFGMGR, then leave off the
/UNATTENDED parameter. Without the /UNATTENDED parameter CFGMGR
will ask your permission before replacing each file.

The delete = move to trash can is off by default (turn it on on the
General settings notebook page). FM/2 now checks for adequate disk
space to avoid data loss.

We also fixed some additional bugs and provide some performance
enhancements. If you have had trouble with "broken pipe" errors
copying to a Netdrive samba drive let me know if it now works
better. I have built in some retries for this error but can't test
it since I don't see the problem. Also please report back to us anytime
you see the Debug error report to author box with as much detail about
what you were doing as possible. Thanks

FM/2 3.12 Fixes a bug introduced in 3.11 (trap when viewing
multiple files from an archive at the same time). It also adds
Open Default, Open Settings and via an accel key ctrl + l Open
Multimedia (using FM2play.exe) to the archive viewer. FM/2 now
uses the system TMP/TEMP directory for it temporary files and
cleans up after a crash on the next restart. FM/2 creates a
subdirectory of the pattern $FM2*.*. The settings notebook can
now be closed using Esc, F3 or Enter; the last 2 save any
changes that have been made. You can now select which environment
variables to show when using show the environment in the drive
tree. Just add or remove from the list on the "Tree" page of
the notebook. It defaults initially to the current list. You can
now save/append either a full pathname or just a filename or a
list of either to the clipboard. We have changed the wording
in the menus to make this easier to find. We fixed a few other
minor issues see the history for more details.

FM/2 3.11 adds the option of having delete move the objects
to the Xworkplace trashcan. Undelete will open the trashcan
so you can restore deleted files. The only short coming is you
will need to rescan in order to see the restored file.
We also added a reserved state which allows you to return
FM/2 to the state it was in on start up (the shut down state).
We have improved the filtering of file names that contain
multiple periods and fixed FM/2's failure to always follow
the details settings from the setup notebook. The primary
task achieved for this release was the addition of fortify
support which allowed us to fix a handful of memory usage
related bugs. We fixed a few other minor issues see the
history for more details.

Fm/2 3.10 adds the ability to set the command line length
to correspond to the command shell you are using. We have
moved some menu items to submenus to reduce menu clutter
while adding "unhide" to reveal previously hidden items and
adding a settings notebook submenu to allow selection of the
page you wish to visit. We have updated the look of several
dialogs and containers including adding the ability to remember
size location and presentation parameters. We have reworked
the save state on close so it will save the different states
of multiple directory containers and in greater detail. This
state can also be restored at anytime during a session by
selecting it from the "States" drop down. We have provided better
progress indicators to update the progress of long operations.
We now provide both the SYM & MAP files in a separate WarpIN
package. This will allow interested individuals the tools needed
to assist with analyzing any problem that may occur. This
package is not needed to run FM/2. As always this update
provides some performance enhancements and defect fixes.

FM/2 3.09 adds "mailto:" so you can configure the ability to
double click an email address in the new viewer and have it
open a new email using that address. The viewer page in the
settings notebook was split into 2 pages to facilitate the
change. Additionally, We fixed some defects and enhanced
performance in some areas such as commandline quoting.

FM/2 3.08 has had changes to its file filtering logic.
It now searches for the last extension if a mask like *.zip
is used. This change was made to over come the problem with
associations failing on files with multiple ".". You can
also search for a complete string within the file names by
using the pattern *stuff* (stuff can't contain an * or ?).
If "stuff" contains an * or ? the old method of searching
(character by character)is used.Large (>4GiB) file support
has been added.

FM/2 3.07 had changes made to its INI file structure.
These changes mean that the INI file is not backward
compatible. Please backup you FM3.INI file before installing
so you can revert to an earlier version without losing some
of your customizations. Please note you need to leave a copy
of the fm3.ini file in the install directory in order to keep your
customizations in 3.07. The temp file fm3.!!! will not update
the new INI as it is only used when FM/2 is running.

File Manager/2 (FM/2) starting with version 3.6 is being
built with OpenWatcom. Changing compilers can introduce
unexpected problem so you may want to backup your current
install, or at minimum have a working copy of the FM/2
version 3.5.9 WarpIN package available for reinstall if problems arise.
To backup your current install simple zip up your install
directory with its subdirectories or copy them to a different
location.To restore simply copy the old FM/2 back to the
its original location. Remember you can't use the new FM/2
to do this since if it is running some files will be locked
and won't be replaced. If you didn't backup and need to go
back just install the 3.5.9 WarpIN package over the new
install. It will warn you that the install is newer but just
tell it to install anyway. The WarpIN install process is
designed to save all your customizations. Don't delete the
new install if you don't have a backup since this will result
in the loss of any custom changes you have made. If you need
to delete it to get the reinstall to work. Backup up the new
install and then copy the *.bmp, *.tls, *.dat, *.cmd & *.ini
files back to the install directory after the reinstall.
Don't copy the *.str files as they are version specific.
If you have problems be sure to report it (See Support
at the end of this file).

File Manager/2 (FM/2) is a free OS/2(Warp)/eCS Presentation
Manager 32-bit file/directory/archive maintenance utility
(a sort of super-Drives object, something midway between the
Drives objects and a more traditional file manager) with plenty
of bells, whistles and utilities, drag and drop, context menus,
toolbars, bubble help and accelerator keys. If you know how
to use OS/2, you already know how to use most of FM/2. You
can easily glean the rest from the extensive online help,
including tutorials.

This document explains how to install FM/2, including
upgrading from previous versions. It explains command line
syntaxes (parameters in a program object) and how to get the
program(s) running. The online help tells you how to
actually use FM/2. I'll try to keep this brief.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
License along with this program; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330,
Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA


FM/2 3.x installation instructions:
==================================

Pre-requisite:
   WarpIN 0.9.20 or higher must be installed.

Install (or re-install) from a FM/2 ZIP file distribution
---------------------------------------------------------

1. Unpack the FM2*.ZIP archive in a private directory (for
example, C:\TMP). (UNZIP.EXE works nicely to unpack the
file.) Two WPI files, FM2.WPI and FM2UTILS.WPI will be
unzipped.

2. Follow the instructions for installing from WPI file(s)
below.


Install (or re-install) from a FM/2 WPI file distribution
---------------------------------------------------------

1. Open the WPS folder containing the WPI file(s).

2. Double click on FM2.WPI. Since WarpIN associates itself
with WPI files this will start WarpIN with FM2.WPI as the
parameter.

3, You may then install FM/2 to a directory of your choice
and, if FM2UTILS.WPI is present, install FM/2 Utilities to
a directory of your choice.

NOTE: If you double click on FM2UTILS.WPI instead of
FM2.WPI, you will only be able to install the FM/2
Utilities. It is recommended that, even if you only want to
install FM/2 Utilities, that you do so using FM2.WPI.


Moving FM/2 and/or FM/2 Utilities:
----------------------------------

1. Copy your existing installation directory to the new
location.

2. If you have added your own icons to any of the FM/2
folders, then you should move them elsewhere temporarily.

3. Follow the instructions for de-installing below.

4. Re-install the package using the installation
instructions above. This will update the WarpIN database and
reset your icons to the new locations.

5. Move the icons you saved in step #2, back into the FM/2
folders if you wish.


De-installing FM/2 and/or FM/2 Utilities:
-----------------------------------------

1. Run WarpIN without parameters.

2. Right click on a package you want to de-install and
select "de-install all packages".

3. Click on OK in the "De-install Packages" window that
appears.


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First-time notes:
=================

Starting FM/2 -- how it works, customizing parameters:

If you start File Manager/2 (filename FM3.EXE) with no
parameters, it opens the Drive Tree window but no directory
windows (unless the "Save state of dir windows" toggle is
checked -- see online help).

File Manager/2 optionally accepts names of directories in
the parameters field of its program object; it'll open a
directory window for each one. Hint: If you often do
different specific things with FM/2, you might set up a WPS
object customized to start up ideally for each activity. For
example, if you wanted to maintain your BBS areas, you might
have one object with parameters like: "D:\BBSDIR
D:\BBSDIR\MAILIN D:\BBSDIR\MAILOUT", and if you also like to
use FM/2 to set icons on files, you might have another
object with parameters like: "E:\MYICONS D:\NEWFILES". The
State quicklist can also be used for this within FM/2 itself
-- see online help.

You can exclude drives in the parameters by prefacing the
drive letter with "/", and there can be more than one drive
letter behind the "/" (i.e. "/BH" to exclude both drives B:
and H:). Hint: Many people like to use /B to exclude
"phantom" drive B: if they have a single-floppy system.
Similarly, you can cause drives NOT to be prescanned by the
Drive Tree by prefacing the drive letter with ";", drives
NOT to load icons for objects by prefacing the drive letter
with ",", drives NOT to load subjects for objects by
prefacing the drive letter with "`" and drives NOT to load
longnames for objects by prefacing the drive letter with
"'". This can be handy if you have a very slow drive like a
CD-ROM or Zip drive. FM/2 Lite recognizes these switches,
too. See also the Drive Flags dialog in FM/2.

If you place the plus sign "+" (alone, separated from
anything else by spaces) in the parameters, FM/2 will log,
to FM2.LOG, delete, rename, move and copy operations that
are performed by drag-and-drop or with the menus. FM/2 Lite
recognizes this switch, too.

The parameter "-" (alone, separated from anything else by
spaces) causes FM/2 to ignore, not load or save, the
previous state of directory windows (see the "Save state of
dir windows" toggle under Config Menu->Toggles in the online
help) for that invocation.

You can specify the name of an alternate INI file with
"-<inifilename>" -- for example: "-C:\FM2\MYINI.INI".

You can also specify the INI file location with the
environment variable FM2INI -- for example:
   SET FM2INI=C:\FM2\MYINI.INI.


------------------------------
How to get started using FM/2:
-----------------------------
Please read the following sections in the online help when
you start FM/2 for the first time: "How to use FM/2's Help,"
"Terminology" and "General Help," then "Hints." A peek at
the labeled "Window Layouts" pictures would probably be a
good idea, too. The rest you can browse as you get time/feel
the need; for instance, if you want to know what a toggle
does, read the help under Settings notebook for that page
(each Settings notebook page has its own Help button).

If you prefer hard copy help, print this file, run FM/2,
press F1, click the "Print" button at the bottom (IBM View)
or top (Newview)of the help window that appears and then print
both the "Contents" and "All sections" (keep an eye on the printer,
after page 100 of "All sections" as the Help Manager will
begin printing its own help then -- you may want to abort
printing at that point). Advanced and/or curious users may
also want to print FM3TOOLS.DAT and ARCHIVER.BB2. Be sure
you have plenty of paper and ink handy -- the package is
well documented. You'll probably also want a three-ring
binder and hole punch to get it bound, as staples aren't
going through that puppy. You can, of course, print only the
sections that are of particular interest to you.

Additional documentation:
------------------------
  FM3.HLP:        FM/2's online help file.

Look in the FM/2 Docs subfolder of the File Manager/2 folder
for easy access to all documentation.


Bonus programs:
==============

You'll note the extra objects that the Install program
creates in the FM/2 Tools subfolder of the File Manager/2
folder. FM/2 is modular, so that you can get directly to
some of its components without running the entire ball of
wax. This may allow you to enhance the behavior of some of
your other applications in the WPS tradition. You don't
_have_ to keep these around, of course -- FM/2 itself
contains all their functionality.

ARCHIVE VIEWER/2: Intended for drag-and-drop operation (or
WPS association) with WPS objects or other applications.
Drag an archive onto it, drop it, get an archive listing
box. FM/2's installation program sets up some associations
between archive files and this program by file extension.
AV/2 will try to display whatever you give it as
sensibly as it can. Filename AV2.EXE.

EA VIEWER: Drag a file system object onto it and it'll show
you the object's extended attributes. Filename EAS.EXE.

INI VIEWER: Drag an .INI file onto it and it'll show you its
contents. Filename INI.EXE.

BOOKSHELF VIEWER: Shows all .INF files in a listbox and lets
you pick the one(s) you want to view. If you give any
command line argument, the .HLP files on the HELP path will
be shown instead (the Helpfile Viewer object calls
VIEWINFS.EXE with "dummy" for an argument, for example).
Filename VIEWINFS.EXE.

PROCESS KILLER: Lets you kill off renegade processes. An
English version of PSTAT.EXE must be on your PATH. Filename
KILLPROC.EXE.

UNDELETE: Lets you undelete files (via interface with
UNDELETE.COM). Drag a file system object onto it and it'll
let you undelete files for that drive. Filename UNDEL.EXE.

VISUAL TREE: Opens a Drive Tree window (like the WPS Drives
object with more horsepower). Filename VTREE.EXE.

VISUAL DIRECTORY: Opens a Directory Container window; drag a
file system object onto it and this will open its directory
(like a WPS directory Folder with more horsepower). Filename
VDIR.EXE.

COLLECTOR: Opens a Collector window. Filename VCOLLECT.EXE.
Two other objects, "See all files" and "Seek and scan" are
created which call up the Collector and go directly to
dialogs for the appropriate purpose.

GLOBAL VIEWER: Opens a global view of a drive or drives.
Filename GLOBAL.EXE.

DATABAR: Opens a databar showing some system information.
Filename DATABAR.EXE.

DIRSIZE: Shows where drive usage is concentrated. Filename
DIRSIZE.EXE.

FM/2 LITE: A simplified interface for "dummies." Filename
FM4.EXE.

FM/2's install creates FM2.CMD, AV2.CMD, VDIR.CMD,
VTREE.CMD, VCOLLECT.CMD, UNDEL.CMD, KILLPROC.CMD, INI.CMD,
EAS.CMD, DIRSIZE.CMD, VIEWINFS.CMD and VIEWHELP.CMD files
for you in a directory "utils" off the install directory.
You should add this directory to your PATH= statement in
CONFIG.SYS (type HELP PATH at a command line for more info).
If you prefer, FM/2's INSTALL builds a SETENV.CMD in the
FM/2 directory which you can call to set the PATH for FM/2
in any given session without modifying CONFIG.SYS.


Troubleshooting:
===============

If FM/2 won't run, the probable culprit is CONFIG.SYS. Your
LIBPATH statement should contain a ".;" entry. If yours
doesn't, add it. It's standard for an OS/2 installation, but
some buggy install programs knock it out because they
translate entries to their full pathname before rewriting
(so ".;" gets translated to whatever the current directory
is for the buggy install program). What this ".;" entry does
is allow a program to find and use .DLL files in the
program's current directory -- obviously something you want
programs to be able to do, otherwise you'd have to put every
application's .DLLs into directories already on the LIBPATH,
or add the directories of all applications to the LIBPATH, a
rather huge pain in the, uh, neck.

If things in FM/2 are suddenly acting strange after an
upgrade, first check the integrity of the install using
using WarpIN. If it shows a problem rerun the install
package. If that fails try uninstalling with WarpIN and reinstalling.
Backup your existing directory so you can save any changes
you made to the template files then uninstall and reinstall.
Once you have FM/2 working migrate the *.ini, *.dat, *.tls,
*.bb2 and *.cmd from your old install/backup to recover your
custom settings

If the "FM/2 Online Help" object in the "FM/2 Docs"
subfolder won't work properly, you've got a version of
VIEW.EXE that won't directly display help (.HLP) files. Use
SEEHELP.EXE from the FM/2 Utilities package to get around
this problem (or upgrade your version of OS/2).

Don't drag files over Netscape -- it will lock up if files
(not WPS objects; there's a subtle difference) are dragged
over it.

If you get a popup dialog that needs to be reported to the
maintainer, you can either take a screen shot or you can
capture the information from STDERR with:

  FM3 2>STDERR.LOG

This technique works for FM/2, FM/2 Lite and all the
standalone applets.

If you are having trouble with Drag and Drop operations, try
the + command line switch described above. The content of
FM2.LOG may be helpful.


Known problems/shortcomings:
===========================

- See the section of this name in the FM/2 help file (FM3.hlp).
It is installed to the same directory as FM/2.

- See http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/report/1 for a complete list of
currently active bugs


About FM/2:
==========

FM/2 was originally written by:

  Mark Kimes
  <hectorplasmic@worldnet.att.net>

He has kindly allowed me to take over maintenance and
support of FM/2 and to release the program under the GNU GPL
license. I'm sure he would appreciate a Thank You note for
his generosity.


Support:
=======

There is a Yahoo group devoted to fm/2 at:

  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fm2user/

  This group is now closed but it still contains some useful information

There is a new mailing list at:

  fm2-user@netlabs.org

  To subscribe send an email to:

  fm2-user-subscribe@netlabs.org

  The subject and body can be empty.

  This group is mirrored on Gmane at:

  http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.fm2.user

You will find lots of friendly folks ready to help.

FM/2 has moved to Netlabs (thanks Adrian).

Check it out at

  http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2

To create a ticket reporting a defect or requesting an enhancement.
You must be logged into TRAC. Please login with your Netlabs login id.
If you do not have a login id, you can request one at
http://www.netlabs.org/en/site/member/member.xml.
If you have troubles acquiring a Netlabs login id send an e-mail to
Netlabs Community Mailing List <community@netlabs.org>.

You can also browse the source at this site.

To obtain the source from the SVN use something like the following to check out the trunk

  mkdir fm2_workspace
  cd fm2_workspace
  svn checkout http://svn.netlabs.org/repos/fm2/trunk trunk

If you wish commit access please contact us directly.

You can reach us directly at:

  Steven H. Levine
  steve53@earthlink.net

    or

  Gregg Young
  ygk@qwest.net

We also monitor the comp.os.os2.apps newsgroup, several
others in the comp.os.os2.* hierarchy and other groups where
release announcements are made.

Thanks and enjoy.

$Id: README 1908 2024-06-03 14:28:00Z gyoung $