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18.02.03 Release Total Commander 5.51 18.02.03 Fixed: Alt+F9 (unpack all): If user gives '.

' as target dir, replace by source dir ('.' was causing problems with multiple selected archives) 18.02.03 Fixed: Added some missing shortcuts to installer 18.02.03 Added: When giving 'random' as the command for FTP keepalive, TC send s commands in random order: 'PWD', 'CWD .', 'SYST', 'FEAT', and 'NOOP'. 14.02.03 Release Total Commander 5.51 RC1 12.02.03 Fixed: Search - go to file in brief view: file was not always visible 11.02.03 Fixed: Invalid floating point operation with some HTTP proxies 07.02.03 Release Total Commander 5.51 Beta 8 07.02.03 Fixed: Short language files (to replace only a few strings) didn't wo rk 07.02.03 Added: Better handling for TAR files containing hard links: If target exists on harddisk, copy it to the hard link location 07.02.03 Fixed: Access violation when clicking on button bar button pointing t o some lnk files 07.02.03 Fixed: No attributes unpacked from ZIP files created on OS/2 07.02.03 Added: When choosing an icon file in change button bar, allow user to choose all files (*.*) filter 07.02.03 Fixed: Immediately change file icon when adding or removing a packer plugin for this file type 07.02.03 Fixed: Problem with Multi-rename tool and branch view: Disabled check ing of duplicate names in subdirs 07.02.03 Fixed: When dropping FTP URL from Web browser on TC, use last used FT P proxy/firewall 04.02.03 Fixed: Synchronize dirs sometimes created unnecessary dirs with 2 byt e Windows (e.g. Japanese) 04.02.03 Fixed: While selecting with right mouse button, start drag&drop with left and release right after left -> selection continued 04.02.03 Fixed: Packing: User packs file with plugin, then removes plugin -> C hange to ZIP 04.02.03 Fixed: Lister: increase maximum length of printer names from 79 to 25 9 characters (some network printers may have very long names). 04.02.03 Fixed: Displaying of special file types didn't take files >2GB into a ccount 04.02.03 Fixed: Try to catch more read exceptions in compare tool (for media w ith a read error) 28.01.03 Fixed: Bad tooltip when adding file system plugin to button bar 28.01.03 Added: Double click on file pair in "synchronize dirs" opens "compare by contents" (was already available via right click) 28.01.03 Fixed: Self-extracting archive: Progress bar display error on Windows NT 4 28.01.03 Fixed: Shift+Enter on files with archive extension did not open exter nal program if file isn't an archive 28.01.03 Fixed: Avoid that the user uses "Connections" as the name of an ftp c onnection, would cause problems with section "Connections" 28.01.03 Fixed: AVI names longer than 54 chars caused crash in lister (Win9x o nly) 28.01.03 Added: Increase FTP download buffer size from 2k to 32k if speed exce eds 50k/s. Useful for brain-dead ftp servers which wait for every packet acknowl edge before sending the next 27.01.03 Fixed: HTTP download abort not always working in background transfer manager 26.01.03 Fixed: No longer request the 'SeBackupPrivilege' privilege for copyin g streams! 26.01.03 Fixed: Problems with counting size of subdirs 22.01.03 Release Total Commander 5.51 Beta 7

22.01.03 Fixed: Background transfer manager: don't beep for every failed trans fer 22.01.03 Fixed: Don't propose names like test.bmp.gz in 16 bit version 21.01.03 Fixed: Plugin to plugin copy: Better handling of file overwrite condi tion 21.01.03 Added: Special handling for TAR files containing hard links: Such fil es get the contents "Link: /link/location". 19.01.03 Added: '\' button now goes to root of file system plugins too 19.01.03 Added: Partial support for Unicode filenames from other codepages: Vi ew, edit, rename, properties, context menu, delete (also in subdirs), copy (only in same dir, but with alias name) 15.01.03 Fixed: Last selection couldn't be restored when switching away from T C and back (e.g. when putting copy operation in background) 15.01.03 Added: By default, the archive bit is now set when renaming files. To turn it off, add wincmd.ini [Configuration] SetArchiveBitOnRename=0 15.01.03 Added: Support for NTFS-compressed files when calculating actual spac e used (Ctrl+Q or calculate occupied space) 14.01.03 Fixed: Ctrl+D could now change to non-existing dir (bug introduced in beta) 14.01.03 Added: FS-Plugins: Copy/Move files between 2 plugins! 14.01.03 Added: FS-Plugin API: Support for Multi-Rename tool! Operation is ann ounced with FS_STATUS_OP_RENMOV_MULTI 14.01.03 Added: When adding FS-Plugin to button bar, use name of FS-Plugin as tip 14.01.03 Fixed: Duplicate error "No files selected" when trying to copy [..] f rom/to file system plugin 14.01.03 Fixed: When zipping multiple files with total size >2GB (but <4GB), t he progress bar will now be correct 14.01.03 Fixed: Problems with lowercase conversion in archives 08.01.03 Release Total Commander 5.51 Beta 6 07.01.03 Added: Keep width of quick view panel (Ctrl+Q) for current session al so when user doesn't choose "save position" 07.01.03 Fixed: Unpacking of password-protected WinACE files with external Win Ace asked twice for the password 07.01.03 Fixed: Dragging file system plugin root to button bar will now add bu tton with correct link and icon 06.01.03 Fixed: Upper->lowercase conversion not correct for dir with extension in archives 06.01.03 Added: Show the first files being deleted in the delete confirmation dialog 06.01.03 Fixed: Could not switch directly from multimedia to html mode 06.01.03 Added: FS-Plugins now also support wildcards when displaying files, e .g. show only *.txt 05.01.03 Fixed: FSPlugin: In RemoteInfoStruct, the attr field was never set 04.01.03 Added: Show error if temp dir doesn't exist (ftp client) 04.01.03 Fixed: In "Drive not found" error box, when choosing another invalid drive, this wasn't remembered 04.01.03 Fixed: Possible reason for stack overflow in plugin search function 04.01.03 Added: cm_usermenu1..cm_usermenu10 to invoke the first 10 commands in the starter menu (e.g. for hotkeys). You can define more in totalcmd.inc. 04.01.03 Added: cm_xxx commands now also work in directory hotlist (Ctrl+D), e .g. for cm_opendesktop 04.01.03 Fixed: Compare contents not working if left side=fs-plugin and right side=archive with both same file name 04.01.03 Fixed: Close inplace rename if listbox is scrolled 04.01.03 Fixed: Crash if plugin returned NULL pointer in source name field in ProgressProc 23.12.02 Fixed: Crash when trying to search for text in a file system plugin w hich didn't support FsGetFile()

19.12.02 Release Total Commander 5.51 Beta 5 19.12.02 Added: Include new unacev2.dll version 2.11 19.12.02 Added: Speedup HTML->TXT converter by approx. 20-30% 19.12.02 Added: Display name of plugin in lister's title bar when a lister plu gin is used 19.12.02 Fixed: Disable Shift+F6 on [..] to change current dir if current dir header hidden 19.12.02 Fixed: time stamp of [..] updir item not shown if dir has hidden attr ibute and hidden/system files are disabled 19.12.02 Fixed: Wildcards in the form *.txt; *.doc no longer worked (note the ; AND space between them) 17.12.02 Fixed: Lister plugin loses focus when user switches with Alt+Tab to o ther app, then back to lister 17.12.02 Fixed: F3 was no longer working in sync dialog 17.12.02 Fixed: Display error on win9x with >3000 files in list also in search results, synchronize dirs and rename tool 17.12.02 Fixed: File system plugins: Avoid infinite loop if dir becomes too de ep (max. 259 chars supported) 17.12.02 Added: Call CoInitialize in thread extracting special icons in the ba ckground 17.12.02 Fixed: Alt+F1 with line Allowed=ADEF causes reread of A: drive (becau se C: was forbidden, so A: became default drive) 15.12.02 Fixed: Right click on item in "Compare by contents" caused a crash if only partial list was shown 11.12.02 Release Total Commander 5.51 Beta 4 11.12.02 Added: Right click on a directory in "Compare by contents" selects al l files in that dir (if no other files selected) 11.12.02 Fixed: Creating dir named \\ caused an access violation 10.12.02 Added: Function added to plugin interface to set default ini file loc ation 10.12.02 Added: Synchronize dirs now also works with file system plugins 06.12.02 Added: New search option to include/exclude specific dirs, e.g. _vt i*\ excludes all dirs starting with "_vti" (search, sync, branch view) 05.12.02 Fixed: Display error on win9x with >3000 files in list (line with cur sor repeated every ~3000 items) 05.12.02 Fixed: Delete icon with DestroyIcon after LoadImage! 02.12.02 Fixed: RPM plugin: Detect new RPM files packed with bz2 packer (requi res bz2 plugin too) 02.12.02 Fixed: FS-Plugin interface: Couldn't open subdirs of dirs containing forward slashes 02.12.02 Added: Shortcuts Ctrl+Left/Right arrow (with+without shift) to in pla ce edit of path 02.12.02 Fixed: Some more association problems (wrong icon shown) 02.12.02 Added: Ctrl+A selects all text in comment edit box (unfortunately the beep cannot be suppressed) 02.12.02 Fixed: Installer now writes "DisplayIcon" field for uninstall (WinXP seems to be too stupid to get the icon from the installer EXE by itself) 02.12.02 Fixed: Files - Pack: No question for part size when choosing multi-vo lume packing and target dir is same dir (archives other than ZIP) 02.12.02 Fixed: Internal Unarj: Unpacking of single files from multi-volume AR J didn't work if more than 10 parts. 02.12.02 Fixed: Couldn't drag URL from Mozilla to TC if the page title contain s an illegal character (e.g. a *, ? etc) 02.12.02 Fixed: Unpack dialog: Unchecking of option 'Overwrite files' wasn't r emembered if confirmations for 'overwrite read only' were disabled 02.12.02 Added: FS-Plugins: Append backslash to name of directory when request ing custom icons 29.11.02 Fixed: FS-Plugins: Cached icon bitmaps were not freed

29.11.02 Fixed: InplaceRenamePath wasn't used, InplaceRename was used instead 29.11.02 Release Total Commander 5.50a (Silent update 2), only 16-bit 29.11.02 Fixed: 16-bit version sometimes deleted files after compare by conten t 28.11.02 Fixed: Don't replace % by %% in URLs if user gave the URL 27.11.02 Release Total Commander 5.51 Beta 3 27.11.02 Added: Sort lister plugins with Shift+cursor keys 27.11.02 Fixed: When user adds or removes lister plugins, wait with reloading until all listers with plugin windows are closed or switched to text mode 26.11.02 Added: Search in file system plugins 26.11.02 Added: cm_CopyNetNamesToClip copies file names with UNC path to clipb oard (Network drives only) 25.11.02 Fixed: cm_editpath always edited the left path 25.11.02 Fixed: Forward slashes in plugin file/dir names not working (some fil e systems allow this, e.g. the registry) 25.11.02 Fixed: HTML viewer: Fixed problems with spaces in links and with spec ial chars 25.11.02 Fixed: HTML viewer: <AREA NOHREF was inserting a link to a non-existi ng site 25.11.02 Fixed: FTP, if file name contains spaces, try chmod command without a nd with double quotes around name (some servers want the first, some the second) 24.11.02 Fixed: If user chose 'Save position' in one screen resolution, then l oaded Totalcmd in other resolution, the tabstops were displaced. Now they should be adjusted correctly. 23.11.02 Fixed: If searching in self extracting archives enabled, problems wit h ACE files 23.11.02 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] RestrictInterface=256 disallows fil e system plugins 23.11.02 Added: If Network Neighborhood is disabled, still show Nethood in dri ve bar/drive combo if plugins installed, but show only plugins in Nethood 23.11.02 Fixed: Lister: Couldn't print if no default printer defined 23.11.02 Added: Lister-Plugin interface officially documented 23.11.02 Added: Button to add Lister plugins 23.11.02 Added: Lister-Plugin interface: parser to check files without loading the plugin 23.11.02 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] InplaceRenamePath=0 turns off in-pl ace changing of current path 22.11.02 Fixed: Don't invoke path edit if user was too slow with double click 22.11.02 Fixed: Don't invoke path edit if window wasn't active 22.11.02 Fixed: Path edit was invoked also when clicking on footer 20.11.02 Release Total Commander 5.51 Beta 2 20.11.02 Added: Internal command cm_editpath allows to edit the current path a bove the active file window 17.11.02 Added: Support for RTF files starting with {\rtf\ instead of {\rtf1 17.11.02 Added: Single click on active file window title allows to change / co py /paste the current dir 17.11.02 Added: Lister: support for "file:///c /subdir/filename" link type 17.11.02 Added: "Skip all" support when deleting also in case of a sharing vio lation 17.11.02 Fixed: Show error if user tries to perform unsupported action on file sys plugin: encode, decode, split, combine, crc, print 17.11.02 Fixed: Clear disk label header when switching to file system plugin w ith Ctrl+D 17.11.02 Fixed: Ctrl+B branch view could show 'compressed' attribute for files which weren't compressed 17.11.02 Fixed: When deleting a dir which has a comment, the associated commen t wasn't deleted 17.11.02 Fixed: FS-Plugin interface: F7 new dir didn't place cursor on newly c

reated dir 17.11.02 Added: 650 MB and 700 MB default CD-R sizes to split function (btw, y ou can enter any value you want by hand) 17.11.02 Fixed: Press F3 twice on small text file in RAR at end of long solid archive -> Access violation 17.11.02 Added: 'Left arrow' in tree view either collapses subtree, or (if alr eady collapsed) jumps to parent directory 17.11.02 Fixed: Packing RAR file from search result -> only short path names w ere stored 17.11.02 Fixed: FTPOPEN command ignored the setting to open an ftp connection e.g. always in the right window 17.11.02 Fixed: F2 redefined to cm_RenameOnly: Press F2 while cursor on comman d line -> Rename not focused 17.11.02 Fixed: Drag&Drop to drive dropdown list didn't move files when right button was held down 15.11.02 Fixed: File system plugin: Yes/No dialog always returned 0. 13.11.02 Release Total Commander 5.51 Beta 1 13.11.02 Fixed: Icons not always shown in a subdir if no access to parent dir 12.11.02 Added: FsPlugin-Interface: Function to extract icons for specific fil es or folders 11.11.02 Fixed: ftp via HTTP proxy: encode % sign to %% (because % is used to escape chars like %20 -> ' ') 11.11.02 Fixed: Only react to WM_DEVICECHANGE messages concerning drives 11.11.02 Fixed: ftp via HTTP proxy: Could show negative total numbers! 09.11.02 Added: Moved OLE comment retrieval to a separate thread, max. wait ti me 1 second 09.11.02 Added: Shift+F4 (edit new file): Use file under cursor as template na me! 09.11.02 Fixed: Click on button in button bar where program isn't found -> but ton stays pushed! 09.11.02 Fixed: Fixed: Ctrl+D slow when switching away from nethood 09.11.02 Added: Split function now uses 256k buffer size (32bit version only) 09.11.02 Fixed: Couldn't split files into parts > 2 GB (but files >2GB could b e split into files <2GB) 09.11.02 Fixed: "Show Win32 tips" checkbox wasn't disabled if tips in general were disabled 09.11.02 Fixed: Couldn't view RTF file currently open in Word (sharing problem ) 09.11.02 Fixed: Comments were not detected if file name and comment were separ ated by a TAB instead of a space 09.11.02 Fixed: After comparing 2 files in sync tool, the main totalcmd window became clickable (no longer disabled) 09.11.02 Added: Placeholders %D and %T (uppercase) in file list print dialog ( margins) add current date/time to header 09.11.02 Fixed: Comment-edit (Ctrl+Z): Show error if comment cannot be saved ( e.g. comment file is read only) 09.11.02 Fixed: FChanged TEMP subdir from $wc to _tc (Reason: some programs li ke RealPlayer had problems with the $ sign!) 09.11.02 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] copystreams=0 turns off copying of NTFS streams 09.11.02 Fixed: Copying files to SAMBA dirs made it impossible to delete them (Reason: Samba reports NTFS file system, but NTFS stream functions fail!) 04.11.02 Release Total Commander 5.50 Silent update (a) 04.11.02 Fixed: File name and comment could overlap when showing extensions di rectly after file names 04.11.02 Fixed: Lister: RTF viewer printed unlimited number of pages 03.11.02 Fixed: Switch /O no longer working

New in Total Commander 5.50 Final (29.10.02): - Name changed to "Total Commander" - see our homepage for the reasons - Change size display of total/marked files in footer below file lists (bytes, k or dynamic) - Copy additional NTFS streams when copying files. - Copy file comments with the files with F5 (optional, needs to be enabled first ) - Create CRC checksums: Function can now also create and check MD5 checksums - Drag a link from Internet Explorer to Total Commander (holding down Shift) to open the URL dialog to download the linked file - File system plugin interface to access external devices or other partitions - In Copy dialog, "Options" button which allows to set "Overwrite all", "Skip al l" etc. before copying - Lister: In 'Fit to window' mode, resize the video window to the lister window - Lister: RTF-Viewer (can be disabled) - Multi-rename tool: Load/Save settings, for often used changes - Multi-rename tool, search+replace: Support for wildcards * and ? - Open partially downloaded ZIP files, even during the download - Option: Always open new FTP connections in the left or right file panel instea d of the active file panel - Show file comments in file lists and as tooltips - Show name of logged-on user in the title bar if the program was started with R unAs - Synchronize dirs, asymmetric mode: Option to delete all empty dirs in right wi ndow (not available in zip or ftp) - The HTML viewer in Lister supports some more tags New in Wincmd 5.11 Final (16.09.02): - Many small corrections and additions New in Wincmd 5.10 Final (28.08.02): - Unpack RAR 3 archives - Support for OTP-MD4 -MD5 and -SHA1-authentication for FTP - Decoder for Yenc-encoded files (Files - decode files) - Many small corrections and additions New in Wincmd 5.0 Silent update (26.02.02): - Many small corrections and additions New in Version 5.0 Final (21.01.02): - Support for Windows XP themes on XP - "Commands" menu split into "Commands" and "Net" - FTP: support for more than 2 definition strings when defining a new server typ e - FTP+HTTP: Auto-Resume download if download-connection lost - FTP: SOCKS4+SOCKS5 Proxy support (active+passive mode!), SOCKS5 without encryp tion - Multi-Rename-Tool: Placeholder [P] puts name of parent dir into file name - Internal command cm_SyncChangeDir makes Commander change to the directory of t he same name also in the other window - Find files: Start search inside an archive - FTP: Option to send keepalive messages (e.g. NOOP) to the server in user-defin ed intervals (for max. 1 hour of inactivity) - Support for packing of TAR/GZ/TGZ archives. Make sure to choose the correct ta rget OS (Linux or SunOS). - Direct packing of TAR.Plugin archives, requires re-download of the plugin (e.g . BZIP2) - Compare by contents: Search for text in both files simultaneously, found text will be underlined - Compare by contents: Button to show the two windows above each other, e.g. for

wide texts - Right click menu in Lister: added "Copy all URLs" command in HTML-Viewer mode - Pack: Option to create a separate archive for each selected file/dir. If no ta rget dir is given, the packed file will be placed in the same dir as the origina l file. - "Branch view" now added to "commands" menu - Create CRC-Checksum files in SFV format - FTP+HTTP in background: Set speed limit for up- and downloads - Pause button for background operations: FTP, HTTP, copy, pack, unpack - FTP download from list: detect if list file was modified, and add new items to current download - Download list can now also copy+move files. Syntax: copy:sourcename -> targe tname or move:sourcename -> targetname - Background transfer manager can now also be started separately without a list file New in Version 4.54 (16.07.01): - Compare by content: Switch between binary and text mode. - Lister: Support word wrap in UTF8 mode New in Version 4.53 (31.05.01): - Display of UTF8 (special 1-6 byte Unicode format) in Lister - Support for ACE 2.0 archives - Support for files > 2 GB in Lister and split/combine functions - Directory print with subdirs: Print only files of certain types, e.g. *.txt *. doc - Change date/time of folders also on Windows NT/2000 (admins only due to restri cted rights) - FTP: Resume upload (binary files only). WARNING: With some versions of the ser ver WarFTPd, the resume seems to work, but the uploaded file is unusable! - Directory hotlist can now contain up to 200 entries - The location of Wincmd.ini and Wcx_ftp.ini can now be set in the registry (32The key may be parameters /i= and new text take precedence over the Thiscommand linecreated under HKEY_CURRENT_USER or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry \SOFTWARE\Ghisler\Windows Commander,/f= still values IniFileName and FtpIniName. bit version only): values. - Special larger block sizes when copying very large files can increase the copy This function is only meant for advanced users, and needs to be enabled through ing speed of these large files quite a bit. wincmd.ini (CopyBlockSize etc). New in Version 4.52 (15.01.01): - Display of Unicode and HTML (as plain text) in Lister - Search for Unicode and Hex in the search function - Print function to print directory lists, trees and compare results in 'Synchro nize dirs'. - Display of all files in the current dir and all subdirs with Ctrl+B - File windows above each other instead of side by side - Display of the file size in kbytes or dynamic depending on the actual size - Multi-rename tool: Enhanced counter settings using definition strings [Cxxx] - Submenu 'New' in the right click context menu allows to create new (empty) fil es New in Version 4.51 (18.07.00): - Bugfix of 4.50 New in Version 4.50 (30.6.00): - Multi-rename tool: Allows to rename multiple files in one step (Hotkey: Ctrl+T ) - Batch rename function with Shift+F6 to quickly rename multiple files one by on e - Rename files and subdirs inside a ZIP archive (Shift+F6) - Parallel port transfer function (direct cable connection), works between Win95

/98/NT/2000/3.1 and DOS! - FTP: Definition of custom host types, using a definition string - FTP: Retry to connect multiple times also for non-anonymous connections - FTP: Support for multiple proxies (separately for FTP and HTTP connections) - FTP: Workaround to bug in some FTP servers: Upload of subdirs failed - Resolve lnk files on the desktop or in the Network Neighborhood - Unpack self-extracting files created by WinACE and WinRAR (open with Ctrl+PgDn ) - "Unpack all and execute" in packer properties allows to try out a program or r un an installer from inside an archive - Define custom colors for different file types, e.g. all directories, all zip f iles etc. - Search for text also inside CAB files - Copying to 'write only' directories (Windows NT, network) - Uninstaller: Automatic removal of the program through the Control Panel Several new commands and parameters for Button bar / Start menu: - cm_List now allows to open a file. The file name must be given directly behind CM_LIST, and not in the parameters field! Example: cm_list c:\windows\wincmd.ini always opens the file wincmd.ini in lis ter. - cm_ShowFileUser: Show which remote user has opened a local file (through a sha red directory) - cm_EditPersmissionInfo: Show permissions dialog on Windows NT (NTFS file syste m) - cm_EditAuditInfo: Show file auditing dialog (NTFS) - cm_EditOwnerInfo: Show "Take ownership" dialog (NTFS) - cm_ShowOnlySelected: Hide all files/dirs which aren't selected when this funct ion is used - cm_OpenRecycled: Open 'recycle bin' - New parameters %L, %l, %F, %f, %D, %d create a list file in the TEMP directory with the names of the selected files and directories. New in Version 4.02 (16.12.99): - Unzip, delete and HTTP downloads (Ctrl+N) in background. - Synchronize dirs now also supports directory from/to ftp synchronization! Conc erning the date/time synchronizing problems with ftp, please read the section im portant note on the page Synchronize dirs. - Tray icon right click menu (context menu). - Direct upload of files from inside an archive to an FTP server. - Better parsing of FTP file lists downloaded via a HTTP proxy. - User-defined keyboard shortcuts. - Split "Equal/Unequal" button into two buttons in sychronize function - Change date/time of directories (Win95/98 only) - FTP server to server transfers (FXP): Always sends PORT command to left server , PASV to right server. This allows for file transfers between a public server a nd one in a private address room, or behind a firewall. The private server must be in the left window. - Find files: Only search in selected files and folders New in Version 4.01 (27.07.99): - This version was mainly a bugfix release - HTTP downloads enhanced (now supports passwords, and special sites which requi re 'host:' line) - Settings what to do when second ftp connection opened in same window: wcx_ftp. ini, [General] AutoDisconnect =1 disconnect previous =2 keep previous =0 ask user New in Version 4.00 (17.06.99): General: - Directory synchronize: Compare two dirs with subdirs, or 1 dir and 1 archive

- Compare files by content - Allow to abort binary compare in 'synchronize' with ESC - Copy/move in the background - 32 bit only - wincmd.ini, [configuration], AlwaysCopyInBackground=1 always copies in backgro und - Connect to UNC path (\\server\path) in background (separate thread), allow to abort after 3 seconds - Dialog box Change Attributes, button to set current date&time - wincmd.ini, [configuration], activeright=1 activates right file listbox at sta rt - Support for virtual folders through button bar. Use commands: cm_OpenDesktop, cm_OpenDrives, cm_OpenControls, cm_OpenFonts, cm_OpenNetwork, cm_OpenPrinters - Copy and Move files from and to virtual folders - Copy to nul, prn, lptx and comx now supported - Rename or append when copying and target exists - Files - Split now also accepts fractions of a number, like 0.5 MB - Use NTFS time compare method (2 seconds difference considered as same) in 'Com pare directories' and 'Synchroinize dirs' User interface: - 2 drive button bars, one per file window (configurable) - 256 color folder icons, and support for external icon library (icl): wincmd.in i, [configuration], iconlib=dllname.dll (sample DLL on www.ghisler.com) - User-defined drive names (for drive list+button bar). Example: wincmd.ini, [Dr iveHints], E=ZIP drive - File window tabstops (column width) are now saved separately by resolution, an d adjust to the right (configurable) - Save current position and maximized state separately for search, compare and s ynchronize dialogs - Show special folder icons for system folders, e.g. the Recycle Bin - Extended selection (Num+ and CTRL+F12) now supports almost all options as the 'search' function - The / key on numeric keypad restores file selection as it was before the last file operation Packer: - Multi-threading of zip function (pack in background) - 32 bit only - Packer/unpacker plugins to add external archiver DLLs - Copy files directly from ZIP to ZIP - Rename while unpacking (internally) and target exists - Support for ARJ SFX 2.62 - LZH files with comment field (starting with -com-) now supported - Configuration - Save settings saves current file display settings and director ies even if auto-save turned off FTP Client: - FTP resume download even if multiple files selected - FTP Connection dialog allows to specify commands executed after connecting, se parated by a ";" - FTP connect dialog, "duplicate entry" added - allows to create new connection from an existing one - CTRL+M allows to select FTP transfer mode (text, binary, auto) with keyboard - Warn if binary file is downloaded or uploaded in text mode (to turn off: modif y wcx_ftp.ini, section [General], WarnWrongMode=0) - Support for some more ftp server types (OS9 etc.) - HTTP proxy for FTP connections - Transparent FTP proxy: Send firewalluser, firewallpass, user, pass Search function: - Search for/select files which do NOT match certain wildcards. Use to separat e, e.g. w*.* *.bak finds all files starting with w, without extension .bak - Search for all files NOT containing a certain string - Duplicate file finder can find files with same name, size, contents or any com bination of the 3

Lister: - Bitmap viewer, more formats through IrfanView plugin (see addons page on www.g hisler.com) - Lister can now play sound and video (configurable) - Printing in lister (Text+Graphics) - Select all in lister: CTRL+A selects whole file - Search for Hexadecimal strings, even mixed. Example: "PK"0102 will find 504B01 02 - Lister now wraps at word boundaries (may be disabled: wincmd.ini, [lister], Wo rdWrap=0) New in Version 3.53 (8.11.98): - Did extensive Year 2000 (Y2k) tests. Results: no internal date problems, only one interface prob to FTP - Possible Y2k problem with FTP servers showing a 2 digit year only. Rule: date< 80 ->20xx, date>=80 -> 19xx - bugfixes New in Version 3.52 (11.08.1998): - cd \\Servername in command line (32 bit) - Added: ACE packer/unpacker support - unrar.dll and unace.dll internal unpackers for RAR and ACE (32 bit) - bugfixes Release Version 3.51 (07.05.1998): - wcx_ftp.ini, [general], LogFile=Path\Log.txt writes FTP log to specified file - Support for creating RAR SFX files - Support for files > 2 GB (display, copy, rename, move, delete; NOT: ZIP, FTP, Lister) - CTRL+P copies current path to command line - FTP: Preserve file dates when downloading (selectable) - FTP: Convert file names to lowercase when uploaded (selectable) - FTP: Change Unix attributes (permissions) dialog for FTP sites (uses 'SITE chm od', which isn't supported by all sites) - Bugfixes New in Version 3.50 (18.3.1998): - FTP client - flat look - Network Neighborhood - IntelliMouse wheel support - Directory history list (alt+cursor down) - Go back, go forward (alt+cursor left / alt+cursor right) - Create self extracting ZIP archive - Expandable tree as in Explorer - UUE/MIME/XXE-encode and decode, Binhex-decode - Split/Combine files - Start menu now supports shortcut keys (Ctrl+Alt+F1-F12) - More command line switches (see help) - ALT+GrayPlus selects all files with the same extension New in Version 3.02 (14.4.1997): - Cut/Copy/Paste of button bar buttons - Deletion method used by explorer can be used also in Wincmd [Configuration] Wi n95Delete=1 - CTRL+Q on archive shows contained file_id.diz, readme*, or *.txt (in this orde r) - Support for archives in archives - CTRL+PgDn to open archives in archives - TAR and GZ packers

- New commands cm_Switch83Names, cm_SwitchDirSort, cm_SwitchHidSys, cm_SwitchLon gNames to button bar commands New in Version 3.01 (31.12.1996): - Bugfixes New in Version 3.00 (15.12.1996): - 32-bit version available - drag&drop from and to explorer (32-bit version only) - enhanced search function - quick view panel (CTRL+Q) - drive bar to select different drives - button bar wraps around to 2 lines when larger than available width - new multi-page configuration dialog - Function to test selected archives for errors - A header now allows to sort the files by name, extension, size, and date - All parts of the user interface (except the file list) can be turned off in th e configuration - The file window separator can now be moved

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