| V1.5
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The following changes have been completed since the release of v1.42 and are included in v1.5:
New Features
- Archive support:
- Types supported: ZIP, RAR, LZH, ARJ
- browsing file list of archive as if disk directory (to any subdir depth)
- copy/move files out of archive (extracting) even from subdirs in archive
- copy/move files into archive (compress) but only into archive's root
- View file in archive
- Delete files from inside archive
- Ctrl-Q on directory inside archive
- Shift-F8 - Delete file under cursor bar regardless of tagging, with editing of file name to be deleted
- 'Retain directory count' option allows browsing of directories with their sizes after a Ctrl-Q.
- Mount point of NFS (and possibly other remote FS types) displayed on Info panel.
- Delete file from File Find list using F8
- Goto line number in viewer & editor (Alt-L)
- Path Extension option added. Allows extra directories to be searched for executables by FC/2's command line interpreter
- Ctrl-[ and Ctrl-] put the left or right panel's path with trailing \ to command line.
- Goto offset function in internal viewer (Alt-O).
Minor Enhancements
- File Find directory scan speed improved
- Alt-Grey-+ quick-key for Restore tagging.
- Optional non 'Brief' Ctrl-Right behaviour
- Switch to edit from view, maintaining position in file.
- Alt-Up/Down on tree view moves to previous/next sibling
- Viewer wrap state remembered & saved.
- File names containing '&' are now quoted when being pasted to the command line with Ctrl-J/F.
- FC/2's own CLI can now handle standard in/out redirection, including DOS programs (no pipe yet)
- If not programmed with a stored path and NumLock is off, Ctrl-NumPad-[0-9] should work as Ctrl-PageUp etc.
- Added 'The directories appear to be identical' message to Directory Compare
- Handling of copying from bad disks improved.
- Uses own mouse drawing code for full screen sessions as FP22 (& possibly earlier FPs) breaks system mouse pointer.
- Mouse clicks on function bar takes note of Alt/Shift/Ctrl status.
Bug Fixes
- "cd \" on FAT drive would fail with "Invalid directory" error.
- FC/2 would run OS/2 executables flaged as 'Full Screen' in its own window.
- Under certain conditions (insufficient access rights) a non-root directory could be displayed without a ".." entry
- Some quick keys were case sensitive, stopping them working if CapsLock was on
- Some types of errors would put directory delete into an infinite loop.
- Read failures on floppy disks would start back at the beginning of the file if retry was selected.
- Cancelling copy of read-only file failed to remove partial copy.
- When external viewer or editor was called from File Find the screen wasn't restored properly.
- Ctrl-Grey-{+,-} cause screen junk if panels are off.
- Copying files to drives shared from Windows 95 machines now works (Win95 bug workaround)
- F7 wouldn't work if no panels were on.
- When sort by size set, tagging could get lost when doing a reread after Ctrl-Q.
- When increasing the number of lines in a full screen session, junk characters would appear.
- 'File name too long' error would show source file name but should show destination.
- Editor: Ctrl-Del deletes incorrectly if the cursor is on the last letter of a word.
- "File cannot write over itself" should have a "cancel" option.
- Pressing Ctrl-Num-[0-9] to invalid drive shouldn't change panel.
I would like to thank all of the Beta testers,
who have made an invaluable contribution to the quality of File Commander/2.