This is a BETA release of an yet to come DiskMaster II release version! Use it on your own risk, some things may react a bit strange like causing enforcer-hits (reports welcome). Greetings - Rudolph Changes since the last official release version: 2.5b1 (99-09-11) 61760 Bytes - Added an alias for 'Batch' - 'LoadConfig' Suggested by Jeff Grimmet - Bugfix: terminating an ARex-Script while a requester was open lead to a deadlock - thanks for reporting to Nils Goers! - Bugfix: DM2 now refuses to terminate itself if there are still DM2-launched ARexx-Scripts running. - Bugfix: The path-string is now beeing interpreted by DOS during init of the window - thanks for reporting to Jeff Grimmett! - Bugfix: Swapping two windows did not swap their sort-type. Thanks for reporting to Fredrik Ismyren! - Bugfix: calling 'Root' twice didn`t showed the DEV/VOL/ASN list. Thanks for reporting to Fredrik Ismyren! 2.5b2 (99-10-04) 61896 Bytes - Added pagewise horizontal jumping by pressing shift/cursor. Thanks for reminding me to Fredrik Ismyren! - Asl.library is no longer needed to start DM2! DM2 will now start from a disk having nothing else on it than the executable itself - without Font-/Screenmode-/Color- requester though. - Limited the reader to 256K Suggested by Dirk Teunis - General Speed-Up by eliminating some function-calls that have been called for every single command. - Bugfix: Moving to write-protected media only resulted in deleting the files - thanks for reporting to Jody Tierney ! - Bugfix: Moving a file "x" to a dir "y" that contained a sub-dir also called "x" only resulted in deleting the file "x". Thanks for reporting to Bryan K. Williams ! - Bugfix: "Move %s %d RENAME" only worked between different volumes. Thanks for reporting to Jody Tierney! - Changed the main-loop once again: The main-title with the clock gets updated now every second (more or less). As well as the drawers are scanned in this interval. 2.5b3 (99-10-17) 62124 Bytes - Bugfix: there was a tricky hidden and ancient bug in the drawer-double-click handling that trashed the bottom scroller-gadget of the destination-windwow under special conditions. Thanks to Fredrik Ismyren for reporting and the very detailed information on how to reproduce the bug! - Bugfix: Overseen when I did the speed-up, the dir-window now gets resortet when you are in sort-by-comment mode and modify a file`s comment. - When no active window is left, DM2 drops it`s refresh-rate from once every second to once every four seconds thus saving a few dozen computrons when not beeing used. - Bugfix: Annother speed-up side-effect was that 'SizeCheck' did not update the dir-window properly anymore. Thanks for reporting to Fredrik Ismyren! - Modified the main-loop once again. The title-screen now is updated only once in a minute. - Cut-off the seconds from the clock. 2.5b4 (00-01-29) 62528 Bytes - Flagged out some dead code. - Bugfix: created an Enforcer-Hit when fixing "Move %s RENAME". Thanks for reporting to Xavier Messersmith - DM2 displays the free space on a volume now as B / K / M thus supporting drives beyond 2gigs free. Should work fine with up to 2Tera-Bytes. - Rewritten 'Check' - shouldn`t also have a problem with large drives anymore. - 36 Bytes more and the added sizes of all selected files are also displayed in 'new style'. - Added an exception-handling for zero-sizes as "0 B" looks somewhat odd. - Added new command 'Last' that opens a requester with the last message shown in the title-bar. Suggested by Fredrik Ismyren. - Bugfix: 'Archive' wasn`t updating the file-windows since 2.5b2 Reported first by Michael M. Rye - thanks! - Added support for the 'Del'-Key to 'AddKeyCmd'. The compare-strings are 'del' and 'DEL' for the 'Del'-Key beeing pressed without or together with a 'Shift'-Key. 2.5b5 (00-04-25) 65796 Bytes - Bugfix: 'AddAutoCmd ??-lh,Extern Lha <* x %s;Delete %s' didn`t updated the dir-window properly. Thanks for reporting to Ivan Awfulitch ! - Source for menus rewritten - Hynek Schlawack - Source for reader rewritten - Jody Tierney - Made support for >2gig complete - also size-checking dirs will work now. - Removed 'Print' and 'SetPrinter' upon user-request. - Added new command 'Quiet' that forces silent operation. - Added new option to 'TitleFormat'. %A returns the the total amount of file`s sizes in a dir. Suggested by Nils Goers. - fixed a little bug in 'Pens'. Giving less than the necessary pens will result now in using the rest from the systems default-pens. - Fixed a potential bug in 'DirList'. - Added the new command 'Filestat' that analyzes a given file. Suggested by Nils Goers. - Added the new command 'WinInfo' that returns all windows` ID, path and status - suggested by Nils Goers. - Added support for F1-F10 + shifted as well as HELP. Done by Jody Tierney with some bits from me. - BugFix: removed two Enforcer-Hits that I introduced in 2.4b21 . Just annother "read from ..." issue that appeared under a condition that I wasn`t thinking of... Thanks for reporting to Ivan Awfulitch ! - Bugfix: >2gig support still doesn`t worked properly with >2gig of files in a dir - so my visit of the MS2k didn`t only delayed the release... 2.5b6 (00-06-24) 63500 Bytes - Rewritten 'Parent' and 'Root' again. Links are now resolved only when calling 'Parent' from the 'Root-dir' of a link. - Reimplemented 'Expand'. - Bugfix: 'Auto' won`t be executed inside of auto-cmds anymore. - Bugfix: 'Window' has immediate effect now and is thus working with e.g. 'NewDir' in a single command-line. - Bugfix: Win9x won`t rename locked files so I`ve rewritten 'Rename'. Thanks to Ron Jensen for reporting! - Bugfix: "select dir, click right" and "select dir, click nextwin" features left the former Source-Window with one file selected according to the title bar. - New feature for AddMenu: BARLABEL - SaveMenu code adapted to BARLABELs - New library opening/closing code. - Bug fix: Unsafe loop-exit. - Pack & Unpack rewritten to use XPK & XFD libraries and add features. - Reader can display packed files (using XFD). - Bug fix: Reader would print control characters other than TAB or ANSI sequences. - Improved reader's find next/previous routine. - Bug fix: Added NULL-checks in reader for font & drawinfo. - Bug fix: The reader didn't free all of the memory it allocated. Reported by Fredrik Ismyren. - Bug fix: The reader's display could become out-of-synch with the scroller until the scroller was released. - The reader accepts "c" as find-next ("Shift c" also works as find-next page). Requested by Ivan Awfulitch. - The reader accepts "BackSpace/Space" as page up/down. Requested by Fredrik Ismyren. - Changed some code in the reader's event handling. Saved some bytes. - Bug fix: The reader now interprets s as line breaks when there isn't an adjacent . Reported by Ivan Awfulitch. - Bug fix: The reader would crash when DM was used on the Workbench screen. Reported by Stephan Niehues . - Closing the reader with Ctrl-C also sets DM's global abort flag (leaving any other selected files unread). - The right mouse button may be used to close the reader. Requested by everyone. :-) - Reworked the internal Startup.DM . - Started to replace all c++ style comments by ANSI ones for improved portability. - Reduced "Disk not present" system requesters from three to one by better structure of the code in question. - Fixed annother window-not-beeing-updated bug. 2.5b7 (00-09-03) 68716 Bytes - Added filesystem notification. - The windows are scanned every two seconds now. - Added sub-routine to block user-input, first used with 'About'. (V39+) - New command: 'GUI' - Blocks the windows - requested by Nils Goers. - New command: 'Choose' - A multiple choice requester. - New command: 'Iconify' - does what it sounds like. - Replaced the internal icon with a smarter one. - All simple requesters use system-requesters now. - Internal - replaced nearly all assembly-functions. - 'OpenScreen' removed at last. - Improved auto-commands: the preload buffer is now 500 bytes long and DOS pattern-matching is used for the file-pattern. - Changed internal Startup.DM to new auto-command style. - Removed weekday from filedisplay. - 'Pack'/'Unpack' display there results in the title-bar now. Requested by Lorence Lombardo. - Changed 'Select'/'Deselect' to use DOS pattern-matching. - New command: 'SetX' - arg "digits=n" sets the length of number-strings - Bugfix: 'Check' will display it`s result again. Reported by Richard Mattsson - Bugfix: menus always use pen 1 instead of BARDETAILPEN. Reported by too many to pick one who has been first... - Improved dir-loading on V39 and up system by use of ExAll(). - By using ExAll() it was possible to add better softlink-support. - 'Copy'/'Iconify'/'SaveConfig'/GetDirEntry()/GetCmdFile() share an 128KB buffer now that is only allocated once with one fallback-level to 64KB. - Bugfix: 'SetList' still used 30 chars for the filename. - Added a new sort-type: 'T' - toggle - 'Read' truly multitasks now by launching a daughter-process which takes care of the reader-windows. - Added Tab-cycling between reader windows. - Bugfix: a 'Root' to an assign would jump back only one level instead to the root-dir of this volume. Thanks for reporting to Fredrik Ismyren!