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Changes with File Commander 2.40

  *) Add command line file name completion with Ctrl-TAB.

  *) Add support for 7zip format archives.

  *) Support !include in syntax definition file.

  *) Scroll back function to view console program output beyond the current
     window (Ctrl-B).

  *) File information dialog (Ctrl-I) showing detailed file meta-data.

  *) File Find: Added field to specify the code page used when searching files
     for the "Containing" string.

  *) Copy/Move: Add ability to specify overwrite mode in the initial dialog so
     that you don't have to wait for the first collision to occur.

  *) Add !lf operator to provide a list of tagged files with their full path.

  *) Add ability to remove an entry from command history with Delete key.

  *) Creation & deletion of symbolic links/junctions (Linux,Windows).

  *) Some improvements to Change Case function's Mixed mode.

  *) Display the target of symbolic links (Linux) and junctions (Windows).

  *) Viewer and Editor support for Unicode text files.

  *) Syntax highlighting in the viewer.

  *) Win64 port.

  *) Linux port.

  *) Use Unicode for all file names on Windows & Linux.

  *) Change the search match highlight colour in the viewer from "Menu Bar" to
     "Highlight" which is consistent with the editor and more sensible.

  *) Support includes in user menu files.


Changes with File Commander 2.30

  *) Trees now work in archives, including "Retain Dir Count".

  *) OS/2: Typing "mode 100,40" in FC resets ROWS, but not COLUMNS

  *) Prevent changing into a directory that you don't have rights to read. 
     EG the windows "System Volume Information" directory.

  *) Fix bug where retained directory size counts would get reduced when
     browsing directories containing hidden files with "hidden files" option
     off.

  *) Support file sizes >4GB in RAR archives.

  *) Support ZIP files with more than 64k files.

  *) Enable Ctrl/Alt/Shift-Fkey in user menu.

  *) Add multi-file search/replace function to file finder (Ctrl-R).

  *) Win32: Scroll wheel support in viewer, editor & file panels.

  *) OS/2: Added extra validation to guard against malformed .LONGNAME EAs.

  *) OS/2: Support >2GB files on redirected standard I/O.

  *) Editor: Ctrl-Space wouldn't copy characters >127

  *) Add syntax highlighting to the editor.

  *) Make Alt-F9 more like Shift-Alt-F9 in that it toggles between 25, 50 &
     custom number of lines.

  *) Using Ctrl-U didn't swap the panels' filters.

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

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

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

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

  *) Add progress indicator to editor file loading & saving.

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

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

  *) Remove limit of 4000 matches in File Find.

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

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

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

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

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

  *) Support environment variable references in stored directory paths.

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

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

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

  *) Added support for sub-menus of user menus

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

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

  *) Add initial support for UNC paths.

  *) Improve handling of bad sectors while copying files.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  *) Added Shift-TAB seek name completion


Changes with File Commander 2.21

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

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

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

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

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

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