31.05.05 Release Total Commander 6.53 31.05.05 Fixed: Unicode search not working on Windows 9x/ME 31.05.

05 Fixed: Corrections to help file and keyboard.txt 31.05.05 Fixed: Delete temp dir when re-packing archive to packer plugin archiv e (only if the archiver deleted the files in it) 29.05.05 Fixed: Win9x only: some media files not playing with F3 when name long er than 97 characters (bug in media player window) 27.05.05 Fixed: Watchdirs=32 option: Free space in other panel was not updated if showing same disk, but other directory 25.05.05 Release Total Commander 6.53 RC 1 25.05.05 Fixed: Executing command like "notepad.exe" on the command line (incl uding the double quotes) passed invalid parameters to the launched program 25.05.05 Added: Two new WatchDirs options: 16: Update footer (total file sizes ), 32: Update header (free disk space). May slow down operation, so enable only if really necessary. 25.05.05 Fixed: Content plugins: Support field of type FullText also before ot her variables (TC reports plugin interface version 1.5 or later) 25.05.05 Fixed: Alt+F9 unpack: When using external unrar, setting option "unpa ck to separate dirs" and leaving path field empty, the files may be unpacked to the target instead of the source path 25.05.05 Fixed: Increased limit of packer plugins (extension list can now take 1 kbyte instead of 512 bytes) 24.05.05 Fixed: Trying to access a server with cd \\server in the command line where the server has no guest account causes connect dialog. Clicking on cancel shows again connect dialog when trying to open subdir 24.05.05 Added: Increased width of dropdown box in synchronize dirs - wildcard s 24.05.05 Fixed: Two folders aaaa and aaaaa. Rename aaaaa to a Russian 4 charac ter name with English language settings -> it was moved to aaaa 24.05.05 Fixed: Could not inplace rename a directory to a Unicode name (e.g. R ussian on English Windows) containing spaces 24.05.05 Fixed: If a hotkey like F2 is mapped to cm_renameonly, pressing this hotkey multiple times will select name part/name+ext of the file in alternating way 22.05.05 Fixed: Brief view: made inplace rename window 4 pixels wider to fit i n entire name (except if edit box would exceed list window width) 19.05.05 Release Total Commander 6.53 beta 1 19.05.05 Fixed: Plugin detect string was cut at 259 chars when adding OTHER pl ugin 18.05.05 Fixed: F3 view remote ftp file twice was sometimes not working (downl oad OK, but file not found) 18.05.05 Fixed: If WatchDirs is enabled and a file appears above the current i tem during inplace rename, the wrong file may be renamed 18.05.05 Fixed: temp dirs created under %temp%\_tc were no longer removed afte r deleting the file itself 18.05.05 Added: New command line parameters /P=L and /P=R to set the active fi le panel (left or right panel) 18.05.05 Fixed: Don't set attributes to 0 when creating new directory (it's no longer necessary on Win32, and causes problems with Samba) 18.05.05 Fixed: When using the color scheme "high contrast black", the lister search dialog options were also black on black 18.05.05 Fixed: When using the color scheme "high contrast black", print previ ew showed text black on black and sometimes printed white on white -> explicitly set font color to color_windowtext for preview, and black (0) for printing 18.05.05 Fixed: FTP to IBM MVS Mainframe: Switching between tabs was not worki ng due to error in path/url handling 18.05.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Duplicate name warning when comparing Unicod e names which have the same name pattern (same length, English and spaces in sam

e places) 17.05.05 Fixed: Watchdirs: When a file was added above the current position wh ile outside of TC, the selection became wrong if restoring it with '/' after swi tching back to TC 17.05.05 Fixed: Watchdirs: When a file was added above the current position, t he current file index changed 16.05.05 Fixed: Tab order in search - plugins wasn't top to bottom 16.05.05 Fixed: FTP resume upload: Some FTP servers seem to return wrong (down loaded in text mode) file size on SIZE command -> call TYPE I before calling SIZ E 15.05.05 Fixed: Command line: Executing an URL like http://www.ghisler.com/ind ex.htm didn't work if the default verb for .htm wasn't 'open'. Same fix also in button bar and start menu 15.05.05 Fixed: Shift+F6 (inplace rename) directly at program start -> longer file name was shown displaced 15.05.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Function "Set local date to remote" was no l onger available 10.05.05 Fixed: Could not correctly switch between connections to the same FTP server with different dirs on two tabs 10.05.05 Fixed: Unpack and Execute on NT4 with file containing a space causes file not found error 10.05.05 Fixed: Drag&Drop: "drop forbidden" cursor circle not visible on black ground - added white border 10.05.05 Fixed: Gzip archive with invalid extra field length could cause acces s violation (read beyond buffer length, no security risk since read only) 10.05.05 Fixed: Self-extracting RAR-Archive containing ARJ archive with compre ssion rate 0 -> TC opened the inner ARJ instead of the outer RAR archive 10.05.05 Fixed: Lister: Trying to view AVI file with access denied error shows lister window over TC and does not repaint it 09.05.05 Fixed: Apply button not enabled when checking the "USB stick" option 09.05.05 Fixed: Compare between ftp and Samba network-attached drive in sync n ot working (reason: Samba case-sensitive) 09.05.05 Fixed: Compare between ftp and local file in sync not working if ftp on the left side 09.05.05 Fixed: Could no longer open compare by contents dialog if only one fi le or no files were selected 09.05.05 Fixed: Mime-decoding created invalid output if the name of the file c ontained =? encoding and used base64 as the encoding method 30.04.05 Release Total Commander 6.52 30.04.05 Fixed: Could not view 2 identically named files on remote ftp with ex ternal viewer 29.04.05 Release Total Commander 6.52 Release Candidate 2 29.04.05 Fixed: Search in content plugins not working if type of value differe nt from type of variable, e.g. floating instead of integer. Now integer and floa ting values are interchangeable 29.04.05 Fixed: Right click on current path - New - xyz file: In addition to D ocuments and settings, look in Windows\ShellNew for template files (some Microso ft programs seem to use this location) 29.04.05 Fixed: Netware version: Ctrl+Shift+F5 dialog: Remove netware copy opt ions, they are irrelevant for creating shortcuts 29.04.05 Fixed: Create CRC checksums: files were created in the target instead of the source when specifying no target path and the last directory change was on the target side 27.04.05 Release Total Commander 6.52 Release Candidate 1 24.04.05 Fixed: Default string in delayed/on demand fields not shown in first custom column

21.04.05 Release Total Commander 6.52 Beta 3 21.04.05 Fixed: Pack multiple files to zip:"*.*.zip" deleted the first charact er of each name (correct syntax would have been zip:*.*.zip without the double q uotes anyway) 21.04.05 Fixed: Command line command del /q /s *.tmp deleted all files. Reas on: TC tries to insert current path to avoid that the wrong dir is deleted if th ere is a .pif file for command.com with a default dir 21.04.05 Fixed: Right-aligned custom columns not shown correctly on some syste ms (because of addition of TABs) 21.04.05 Added: Korean is now included as a default language due to the increa sed number of registrations from Korea 17.04.05 Fixed: Changing sort order while in tree view changed the sort order for full and brief view without changing the sort indicator arrows 17.04.05 Added: cm_SwitchWatchDirs command to turn off (and back on) watching of directory changes with the wincmd.ini option WatchDirs= 17.04.05 Fixed: Don't show hidden/system files with WatchDirs option when the display of hidden/systerm files is disabled in the configuration 16.04.05 Fixed: Sometimes there was an access violation when closing TC while in a rapidly changing dir with WatchDirs enabled 16.04.05 Fixed: With Watchdirs option 8 added, Watchdirs sometimes stopped wor king until the next dir change 13.04.05 Release Total Commander 6.52 Beta 2 13.04.05 Added: Support gzip archives >4GB, both creation and extraction 13.04.05 Added: When restarting Total Commander, and the current path is repla ced (e.g. via the command line), then add the previous path to the history 12.04.05 Fixed: Memory leak in Netware function to copy trustees (Netware vers ion only) 12.04.05 Fixed: Removed code which sets directory attributes to 0 after creati on - this is already done automatically by all 32-bit operating systems! 11.04.05 Added: New wincmd.ini section: WatchDirsExclude= (defaults to empty s tring): set drives which should be excluded from WatchDirs directory monitoring 11.04.05 Added: New wincmd.ini section: noreread2= (which defaults to the cont ent of noreread=): set drives which should not be remembered when restarting TC. Until now, this was part of noreread= See example in help. 11.04.05 Fixed: Tabs in content plugin strings should now be shown correctly i n custom columns view 11.04.05 Fixed: Turn off watchdirs between copy dialog and progress dialog to avoid error that directory contents have changed 11.04.05 Fixed: Lister now shows "access denied" instead of "file not found" i f there is a sharing violation accessing a file (e.g. it's opened in a different program) 10.04.05 Fixed: Reset directory checksum after receiving a directory change no tification - will cause TC to always reread the directory on F2 or when switchin g back to it 10.04.05 Fixed: USB stick copy option turned off - not saved permanently 08.04.05 Fixed: Don't count dir content of target of a junction when deleting the junction 08.04.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Sync with ftp could cause access violation i f path longer than 259 characters 08.04.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: return to root not working when syncing with ftp root 08.04.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Compare two files by content didn't work wit h files in ftp subdirs 07.04.05 Fixed: TC uses 100% CPU when WatchDirs option enabled, and trying to access dir which cannot be monitored, e.g. a Win9x share 06.04.05 Release Total Commander 6.52 Beta 1 06.04.05 Added: wincmd.ini, [Configuration], WatchDirs= determines operation o f automatic dir updates: 1: turn option on, 2: detect changes to size, date, att

ributes, 4: put newly added files at the END, 8: don't react to updates while TC isn't in the foreground 06.04.05 Fixed: WinXP: Playing a CD with F3 didn't stop when closing lister 06.04.05 Fixed: Could no longer access "tar" archives after associating extens ion "ar" with any packer plugin ("tar" was interpreted as "tar.ar") 06.04.05 Fixed: 16-bit version: Invalid time stamp written to .tar files 05.04.05 Added: Watch changes of directories, and update them immediately on c hanges (using ReadDirectoryChangesW function). Requires Windows NT, 2000 or XP 03.04.05 Added: Support for BSD-style MD5 checksum files, e.g. MD5 (./subdi r/somefile.ext) = e573fe599272957b234dba19e41237a1 03.04.05 Fixed: Lister: When playing multimedia via built-in media player plug in, allow to use hotkeys like pageup/pagedown/home/end even if the scrollbar doe sn't have the focus 01.04.05 Fixed: Custom columns view with horizontal scollbar: When using a rec tangle as cursor, don't draw right line unless scrolled to the end of the row (o therwise drawing artifacts will result) 01.04.05 Fixed: ftp ctrl+left or right tries to open directory with two consec utive slashes, e.g. /subdir//subdirundercursor 30.03.05 Added: Experimental IPv6 http support (both proxy-ftp and http downlo ads). 30.03.05 Added: Compatibility mode copying: Now also copies thumbnails with fi les (if enabled in configuration - thumbnails) 30.03.05 Added: Compatibility mode copying: Now also allows to copy NTFS permi ssions (checkbox in copy dialog) 30.03.05 Added: Compatibility mode copying: Now also removes the "read only" a ttribute when copying from CD 30.03.05 Fixed: Access violation trying to download a file from FTP via HTTP w hen the local path became longer than 259 characters 30.03.05 Fixed: Browsing of network paths not working correctly when double cl icking on "share x on server y" in nethood 30.03.05 Added: Experimental IPv6 ftp support. To use it, add to wcx_ftp.ini s ection [General], PreferIPv6=1 if you want to prefer IPv6 for servers which supp ort both IPv4 and IPv6, or PreferIPv6=0 to prefer IPv4 (default=-1: IPv6 off) 22.03.05 Fixed: Alt+F1 Alt+F7 opened search window with only the height of the title bar if the window was maximized 22.03.05 Added: Compare by content (in main window) now also works with FTP 22.03.05 Added: Synchronize dirs: Compare by content of single files (double c lick on file pair) now also works with FTP and file system plugins 22.03.05 Added: Synchronize dirs: When creating dirs during copying, also copy dir time stamp (if configured), NTFS permissions, and Netware trustees (Netware version only). The dir timestamp is NOT copied (NTFS changes it when copying fi les to the dir). 20.03.05 Fixed: Unicode search for whole words not working properly in lister and search 20.03.05 Fixed: Unicode case-insensitive search not working properly for encod ings other than latin-1 (English, German etc.) 20.03.05 Fixed: Lister: Selecting text in Unicode mode in the first line of a file selected displaced by 1 character 18.03.05 Fixed: FTP templates dialog: switch back to "Courier New" when loadin g the dialog even if the user has changed the default dialog font. Otherwise it' s quite impossible to create detect strings. 18.03.05 Fixed: FTP over HTTP: First item in list not always shown if <PRE> fo rmatting was used without a <br> or <p> in front of it 18.03.05 Fixed: FTP not always working correctly if the user name had the form user@host 18.03.05 Added: Multi-rename tool: Two new rename strings [N2--5] means the se cond character until the fifth-last. [N-5-] means the 5fth-last until the end of the name 16.03.05 Fixed: Better caching of item idlists on network shares should speed up browsing network paths

16.03.05 Fixed: Drawing of XP themed speed buttons and bit buttons (e.g. in Co mpare by contents): Erase background before drawing button, draw highlight of bi t buttons 16.03.05 Fixed: Compare by contents: Removed WS_BORDER style, looks ugly (on W inXP only) 16.03.05 Fixed: Compare by contents: moved listboxes down 2 pixels to avoid ov erlapping of checkboxes under XP 16.03.05 Fixed: XP listbox bug: In sychronize dirs, clicking or double clickin g below last listbox item affected the last item in the list 15.03.05 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: access violation after renaming when soring by extension needed 15.03.05 Fixed: Unpacking single archive containing " -" with option "unpack t o separate subdirs" didn't work correctly (" -" was interpreted as command line parameter) 13.03.05 Added: Auto-detect USB sticks and use compatibility mode to copy to t hem (can be disabled in configuration - copy/delete). Reason: USB sticks have no write cache on WinXP. 13.03.05 Fixed: Some TC functions not working properly if the TEMP variable po inted to the root of a drive WITHOUT a trailing backslash, e.g. TEMP=f: 11.03.05 Added: Decoding MIME-encoded files: Accept file names in the form =?I SO-8859-1?Q?filename.ext?= (see RFC2047) 11.03.05 Added: Ftp over http proxy: upload entire dir trees, also to non-exis ting subdirs (proxy needs to support uploading of files to not yet existing subd irs) 11.03.05 Fixed: Lister html viewer: show &lsquo and &rsquo as normal single qu ote characters: ' 11.03.05 Fixed: On WinXP, CopyFileEx (compatibility mode) couldn't copy encryp ted files if the destination couldn't be encrypted 09.03.05 Fixed: Slow access to network admin shares like \\server\d$ because T C tried to get attributes/time stamp of \\server\d$ directory itself, which caus ed Windows to access \\server\d instead 8without the $) 08.03.05 Added: If ZIP encryption dll is installed, also allow to encrypt with external RAR, ACE, ARJ, ZIP 08.03.05 Added: Quick search: Letters only with no search dialog now also supp orts the * wildcard 08.03.05 Fixed: Top file list at wrong position with the following settings: v ertical arrangement, always show dir tabs, drive bar, not drive dropdown list 03.03.05 Fixed: Regular expression search in text: $ or \b at end of search st ring sometimes matched strings in the middle of a file, when the match was at th e end of the search buffer 01.03.05 Fixed: Speed limit for FTP and HTTP not working properly for high bit rates 01.03.05 Fixed: Could not switch through custom column views with cm_SrcNextCu stomView etc. if the view had no additional columns defined 01.03.05 Added: Middle click on drive button in drive button bar opens drive i n new tab 27.02.05 Added: Lister and Compare by Content now display tab characters corre ctly in Unicode mode (only on Windows NT/2000/XP, function is missing on Win9x) 27.02.05 Added: Path above file lists: Accept also forward slashes, e.g. //ser ver/share (auto-convert to backslashes) 25.02.05 Added: Synchronize dirs now also supports unicode names (normal files only, no archives, ftp or plugins) 25.02.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with zip-subdirs: using the wildcards selecti on box in the middle didn't find files by name (e.g. a*.*) when in subdirs, by e xtension worked fine 24.02.05 Fixed: Unpacking of files >2GB and <4GB from ZIP archives (>4GB alrea dy worked) 24.02.05 Added: Unpacking of ZIP archives >4GB 23.02.05 Fixed: Custom columns: tc.comment field wasn't refreshed if shown in the same column as a delayed field like shelldetails.comment

23.02.05 Fixed: F3 on file when path not accessible -> wait cursor shown 23.02.05 Added: Plugin columns with string content now also use the sort metho d defined via SortUpper= in wincmd.ini 23.02.05 Fixed: EXE icons initially didn't show up if share_nt.exe wasn't foun d 23.02.05 Added: Calculate occupied space (also before copying) now also suppor ts Unicode file names+dirs, as long as they have a valid alternate DOS name 23.02.05 Added: Change attributes now also works with Unicode file names+dirs, as long as they have a valid alternate DOS name 23.02.05 Fixed: Alt+F1 while quick view is open on the desktop -> drive dropdo wn list opens and quickly closes again 23.02.05 Fixed: FTP: CDUP command on command line didn't refresh the current d ir and directory listing 23.02.05 Fixed: CRC check: support file names starting with a space, or multip le spaces 23.02.05 Added: wcx_ftp.ini, [General], GetModeFromLocalFile=1 : The name of t he local file determines the transfer mode (binary, text) in automatic mode (nor mally: the name of the remote file) 23.02.05 Fixed: Multi-Rename-Tool: "Load results" button didn't take content p lugins into account 23.02.05 Added: New function ContentPluginUnloading in content plugin interfac e 23.02.05 Fixed: Content plugin returning different type on extraction than whe n loading -> crash in search function. Solution: Ignore such values in search (T C reports content plugin interface version >=1.3) 23.02.05 Fixed: Duplicate hotkey Alt+P in multi-rename tool 23.02.05 Fixed: Search - feed to listbox - lock tab - double click on director y -> search result was lost 23.02.05 Added: Drag&Drop to external programs now also works when using Alt+T ab instead of moving the cursor out of the program window 23.02.05 Fixed: Some functions didn't function correctly if the TEMP environme nt variable contained / instead of \, e.g. c:/temp instead of c:\temp 23.02.05 Fixed: Viewing files with Alt+F3 no longer working after "feed to lis tbox" 23.02.05 Fixed: Custom columns appeared to be sorted by non-existing column wh en sorting by the last column and then deleting that column 22.02.05 Fixed: Double click on configuration in custom columns dialog -> afte r closing the dialog, drag&drop of items was active 22.02.05 Fixed: LOAD-SAVE panel in FIND FILES not always refreshed correctly ( when saving with name which is part of another existing name) 22.02.05 Fixed: Changed quick search cursor color back to what it was in TC 6. 50, because the cursor became almost invisible with some configurations 22.02.05 Tested:Shell overlay icons definitely do NOT work on WinNT4 even with IE6, IShellIconOverlay interface is NOT available 22.02.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs of 2 archives, deleting file via right click menu sometimes deleted file from the wrong archive 02.02.05 Release Total Commander 6.51 Final 02.02.05 Fixed: Windows XP: underlined characters and focus lines were not sho wn in dialogs, except when entering them with the keyboard. Solution: call to WM _CHANGEUISTATE 02.02.05 Fixed: Custom columns configuration dialog: Set minimum width, so the checkboxes and buttons at the bottom can no longer overlap each other 02.02.05 Fixed: Alt+F3 on file in archive stored with absolute path "\filename " passed wrong name with two \\ to external viewer 02.02.05 Fixed: FTP over HTTP didn't recognize <hr /> tag (horizonal line) 01.02.05 Fixed: Help file: replaced Helv font by Arial 01.02.05 Fixed: Switching from vertical arrangement to side by side panel view with two lines of tab headers in comment view showed wrongly sized listbox 01.02.05 Fixed: Compare by contents: Search function didn't search beyond the

end of the shorter file 01.02.05 Fixed: Wrong number of selected files shown after changing attributes if nothing changed in the current dir 01.02.05 Fixed: Don't show any error when clicking on "Start" in "Compact thum bnail database" when no database exists yet 01.02.05 Fixed: Switching to TC via a hotkey of TC's desktop icon no longer wo rked (except when minimizing to the system tray) 30.01.05 Release Total Commander 6.51 Beta 1 30.01.05 Fixed: Switching between two ftp connections 0: and 1: both pointing to the root of the SAME server didn't update the tab header 28.01.05 Fixed: Hourglass cursor sometimes remained on panel when switching fr om normal tab to search results tab 28.01.05 Fixed: Access violation unpacking AES-encrypted ZIP archive if AES pl ugin installed under different extension than .AES 28.01.05 Fixed: Duplicating search results tab with Ctrl+T no longer worked 26.01.05 Fixed: F7 create directory: Couldn't create directory with Chinese ch aracters where the second byte had the same code as " " used to create multiple dirs in one step. Same problem in MRT Search+Replace 26.01.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs between subdir in archive other than zip and normal dir didn't correctly take that archive subdir into account 26.01.05 Fixed: tc.size and tc.writedate columns in custom columns view will n ow be sorted (and show sorting headers) also via shortcuts Ctrl+F6 and Ctrl+F5 26.01.05 Fixed: Pressing Ctrl+Shift+F1 twice from custom view will switch to t humbnails view and back to the previous custom view, same for Ctrl+Shift+F2 26.01.05 Fixed: Auto-install plugins remembered wrong base path "plugins\w" in stead of just "plugins" 26.01.05 Fixed: Shift+F7 also searched backwards instead of forwards (only Shi ft+F3 should have done that) 26.01.05 Added: Custom columns view: Show <DIR> instead of size if dir size is n't counted 26.01.05 Fixed: Text thumbnails: use DEFAULT_FONT instead of ANSI_FONT to use default language settings 26.01.05 Fixed: Multi-rename-tool: Didn't remember spaces at the beginning/end of the string 25.01.05 Fixed: FTP: When connection is lost and a reconnect is needed, MODE Z isn't re-activated but TC still assumes that it is active -> empty dir lists 25.01.05 Fixed: pluginbasedir wasn't described in the help 25.01.05 Fixed: Rename field width wrong under custom columns view 25.01.05 Fixed: Deleted some unsupported internal commands from 16bit inc file 25.01.05 Fixed: Changed error message shown when a plugin with the same name i s already installed in a different dir 25.01.05 Fixed: After "disk full" message, copying was aborted - now the user can continue with the next file by clicking "Skip" 25.01.05 Fixed: Resume copying in background transfer manager was not working after clicking on the close button 25.01.05 Fixed: Print dialog: using right mouse button to change borders cause d unwanted results 25.01.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, FTP downloads: Allow to continue sync even w hen there is a transfer error (user will be asked) 25.01.05 Fixed: Trying to download a file which is locked on the server while MODE Z is enabled hangs TC (only with Filezilla server, not with other servers) 25.01.05 Fixed: When switching back from custom columns view with only 2 colum ns (name+ext) in both windows to full view on the left, the header titles were n ot restored 25.01.05 Fixed: When changing the header width in one window, change it in the other window too ONLY if both show the same view (full view or same custom fiel ds) 21.01.05 Fixed: When moving the re-packing of archives (e.g. zip->rar) to back ground, the rest of the files wasn't repacked

21.01.05 Fixed: Checking of md5sum.txt worked, but md5sum (without extension) wasn't recognized 21.01.05 Fixed: Search max. 5 seconds for other installed plugins when auto-in stalling (to avoid that an entire drive is searched) 21.01.05 Fixed: Dotted frame arround current quick search item had strange col ors (and not the normal inverse color) with some color settings 21.01.05 Fixed: Unwanted beep when connecting to FTP server supporting MODE Z compression 17.01.05 Release Total Commander 6.50 Final 17.01.05 Fixed: Configuration dialog: Show (Language) in addition to the trans lated term meaning language 17.01.05 Fixed: Configuration dialog: changing both custom fields in thumbnail s view and language left the custom field names in the old language 17.01.05 Fixed: Deleting or sorting custom column views didn't update the main menu 16.01.05 Fixed: tcuninst.exe didn't consider UseIniInProgramDir option in winc md.ini 16.01.05 Fixed: Bug in WinXP listbox control: lparam of lb_setcaretindex is ig nored (items are always scrolled completely into view) -> move mouse cursor as a workaround 16.01.05 Fixed: Left mouse selection mode: Right clicking on partially visible thumbnail still caused unwanted scrolling 14.01.05 Release Total Commander 6.50 RC2 14.01.05 Fixed: Rename/lock tab dialog: disallow to check both lock options si multaneously 14.01.05 Fixed: Error "function not implemented" when deleting last custom col umns view, while both panels show that view 14.01.05 Fixed: Use cabinet.dll coming with Windows (if available) instead of cabrk.dll (made from cabinet sdk) 12.01.05 Fixed: 'Save position' with 100% width of right panel caused left lis tbox to be lost if the menu bar has more than 1 line 12.01.05 Fixed: Right clicking on partially visible thumbnail caused unwanted scrolling 12.01.05 Fixed: Support for CurVer redirection key in registry e.g. Acrobat.Re ader\CurVer pointing to Acrobat.Reader.7 <- only on Win2k, XP and ME (and newer) 11.01.05 Release Total Commander 6.50 RC1 11.01.05 Fixed: When user entered environment variable like %commander_path% i n auto-install plugins, the env var wasn't resolved 09.01.05 Fixed: Shift+click on current path to go up one or more dirs: place c ursor on dir from which we were coming 09.01.05 Fixed: Delayed custom fields lost when changing sort order while cust om fields are still being retrieved 07.01.05 Fixed: Sort order in ft_datetime fields wasn't always correct 07.01.05 Fixed: ZIP packer: Overwriting of a file starting with a dual byte ch aracter not working, the file ended up twice in the zip 07.01.05 Fixed: Changedir to path in the form ::{idlist} not working in button bar if current dir was already a virtual folder 07.01.05 Fixed: When overwriting a file >2 GB, the remaining space wasn't corr ectly checked - TC gave a disk space warning even if size of newfile-size of old file >= free space 07.01.05 Fixed: Search dialog: "Plugins" header lost if not translated 07.01.05 Fixed: Using stored search with search in plugins always used AND and never OR to combine the rules 07.01.05 Fixed: Changed date from 2004 to 2005 in help, nag screen, about box 07.01.05 Fixed: Switch back to sorting by name when switching from custom colu mns view to thumbnails view 06.01.05 Fixed: Problem with non-appearing icons and/or custom fields on the r

ight panel only 05.01.05 Added: Removed duplicate checking when mass-adding thumbnails to prel oading 05.01.05 Added: Abort preloading of thumbnails with ESC with Preloadthumbnails =1 and Preloadthumbnails=2 (especially for big branch views) 04.01.05 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 12 04.01.05 Added: wincmd.ini, [Configuration] ThumbnailMemoryLimit= sets number of thumbnails per panel cached in memory (default: 200 in Win9x, 500 on NT/2000 /XP, minimum: 100) 04.01.05 Fixed: Sometimes when entering a dir while in thumbnails mode, one th umbnail wasn't shown 04.01.05 Fixed: Packing problem: Last character of Chinese names cut off in ha lf when packing to .GZ or other packers which can hold only 1 file 04.01.05 Fixed: WinXP: Custom Column configurations dialog list out of bounds error when dragging items 04.01.05 Fixed: Opening drive dropdown combo, then clicking on folder tab head er changed order of tab headers 02.01.05 Added: Search dialog: moved 'Plugins' page in front of 'Load/Save' pa ge. Note to translators: Do NOT change the order of these strings! 02.01.05 Fixed: Comments from subdirs not deleted when moving a directory to a different drive 31.12.04 Fixed: Compare by contents, Unicode: Last character of last line miss ing if line wasn't ended with a newline character 31.12.04 Fixed: Compare by contents: newline at end was not always detected co rrectly 31.12.04 Added: More preloadthumbnails options: 0: no preload, 1: preload, but not in branch view, 2: preload all, 3: preload next 2 lines beyond last file 31.12.04 Added: Calls to Irfanview/Xnview now protected by their own critical section separate from icon load section 31.12.04 Fixed: New Irfanview extraction method: Avoid deadlocks by using a ca llback window belonging to the calling thread 31.12.04 Added: Internal content plugin: in addition to tc. the old form (int) . is again allowed (for people using the leaked beta version) 31.12.04 Added: ignore redefinition of LEFT+RIGHT (cursor keys without any shi ft keys) in thumbnails view 29.12.04 Added: Thumbnail database: wincmd.ini, [Configuration], ThumbnailPrea lloc= sets number of bytes to pre-allocate for thumbnails database to avoid frag mentation (default: 100'000) 29.12.04 Added: Protect thumbnail database via a Mutex global object to avoid problems when a user tries to compact the database in one program and shows thum bnails in another 29.12.04 Fixed: Do not load two or more content plugins with the same name 29.12.04 Added: Explanation of CompareIgnoreRepSpace to help file 29.12.04 Fixed: Multi-rename tool couldn't show file sizes >2 GB in the list ( didn't affect rename function) 29.12.04 Fixed: FTP download from list: Don't ask for target dir if there are Header: or Firewall: lines and all other lines contain a target path 29.12.04 Fixed: Changing from one virtual folder to another via command line p arameters didn't work 28.12.04 Added: Update quick view panel also when quick search dialog is up 28.12.04 Fixed: Access violation when trying to open item in control panel 28.12.04 Fixed: Several problems with thumbnail loading 24.12.04 Fixed: File list sometimes empty when switching from tree view to nor mal view (when tree view was empty) 24.12.04 Fixed: Icon display problem corrected 22.12.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 11 22.12.04 Fixed: XP: No thumbnails for folders with PreloadThumbnails=0 (the de fault)

22.12.04 Fixed: Changing custom fields below thumbnails didn't update view whe n database disabled 22.12.04 Fixed: When deleting the last custom columns view, TC now switches to full view 22.12.04 Fixed: NT4: List index out of bounds when deleting last custom column s view and clicking apply 21.12.04 Added: Custom columns view: call to contentstopgetvalue also when swi tching to a different view 21.12.04 Fixed: Don't show an error when pressing Ctrl+C on [..] with no files selected. Reason: Some translation programs send Ctrl+C on double clicks 21.12.04 Fixed: Decoding of base64 multipart files not working when other part s didn't contain encoding (e.g. base64) 19.12.04 Added: Changed last access and creation date to new ft_datetime forma t 19.12.04 Added: Changed name of Total Commander's internal content plugin from (int) to tc, e.g. tc.size 19.12.04 Added: New internal command cm_FocusCmdLine puts focus on command lin e 17.12.04 Fixed: Shift+Up/Down while in the command line caused strange file se lection changes 17.12.04 Fixed: Better handling of CRC file creation in search - feed to listb ox: Store full paths to files when creating one crc file, or store the files in the same dir as the files (one crc per file) 17.12.04 Added: New search direction option for lister: Shift+F3 now always se arches backwards, and resets search direction for F3 to forward (Ctrl+F3 still s witches between forward+backward search) 17.12.04 Fixed: Don't try to load tree view in file system plugins 17.12.04 Added: More default date/time formats (D-M-Y) 17.12.04 Fixed: Sometimes the thumbnail for 1 file wasn't shown after copying 15.12.04 Fixed: Alt+Enter on archive inside archive showed open packer icon 15.12.04 Added: Quick search in thumbnails view: Draw dotted line around entir e item, not just the name 15.12.04 Added: Show checkmark for left and right branch view commands 15.12.04 Added: Command to configure current custom columns view: cm_CustomCol umnDlg 14.12.04 Fixed: When the %TEMP% variable points to a junction, using %L as par ameter would delete the junction when closing the called app 14.12.04 Added: When dragging file to a tab with locked but dir changes allowe d, offer to copy to the locked root instead of the current dir 14.12.04 Added: 16-bit version: all cm_vis... commands now also supported, e.g . cm_visHistHotButtons to show/hide history+hotlist buttons 14.12.04 Fixed: Background transfer manager wasn't using custom icon (when usi ng the iconlib= option in wincmd.ini) 14.12.04 Fixed: Typing cd . in command line after search results was leading to strange results 14.12.04 Fixed: Ctrl+Z edit comment didn't show & character in names 12.12.04 Added: When adding a new column in custom columns configuration, defa ult to right aligned for all numeric fields 12.12.04 Added: New internal command cm_ToggleLockDcaCurrentTab same as cm_Tog gleLockCurrentTab but with directory changes allowed 12.12.04 Fixed: Ctrl+Shift+U not correctly working with "locked but directory changes allowed" 12.12.04 Added: Don't show plugin install dialog when entering plugin archive with Ctrl+PageDown instead of Enter 10.12.04 Fixed: Double click behind last item (of not full row) in thumbnails view still launched the last item. 09.12.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 10a 09.12.04 Fixed: Crash when starting with option iconsinthread=0 09.12.04 Fixed: Image loading via Irfanview stopped working with some newer Ir

faview versions 08.12.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 10 08.12.04 Added: New content plugin function to define the default sort order, e.g. ascending for name/extension, descending for size+date/time 07.12.04 Added: New content plugin field type ft_datetime (combined date+time) 07.12.04 Added: Clear file lists before switching to new tab, to avoid sorting of the old list by the new sort order (slow) 07.12.04 Added: totalcmd.inc: Moved section FileOperations in front of section Configuration (necessary so cm_Edit is found before cm_EditConfig!) 07.12.04 Added: Win9x/ME: Show error "Too many files" with lists longer than 3 2700 files, the maximum supported by standard listbox controls 07.12.04 Fixed: 16-bit version: Show error "Too many files" with lists longer than 16380 files, the maximum supported by 16-bit tcollection 07.12.04 Fixed: Multiline files.bbs comments: Remove leading spaces and from additional lines when editing and displaying hints 07.12.04 Added: Windows NT/2000/XP: Copy file lists to clipboard as Unicode te xt (cm_copynamestoclip etc.) 07.12.04 Fixed: Changed MD5 checksum format to Unix standard: MD5 checksum, on e space, an asterisk "*" indicating binary check, then the file name 07.12.04 Added: Search dialog: Move "encrypted" checkbox to location of "compr essed" on Win9x 05.12.04 Fixed: Could not unpack while in thumbnails view 05.12.04 Fixed: Name+Ext. columns weren't initially translated when TC started with custom columns view 05.12.04 Fixed: Move current thumbnail into view when resizing panel or maximi zing Total Commander 05.12.04 Added: Correctly truncate file extension also in Show - Brief with Br iefViewWidthLimit= set 05.12.04 Added: Custom columns view: cut off name only at end of ext column wh en there is no extension 03.12.04 Added: Thumbnails view: Show extension always attached to name (not r ight-aligned) if thumbnail width <72 pixels 03.12.04 Fixed: Tabstops lost in custom columns configuration list 03.12.04 Fixed: restrictinterface=4 blocked only the context menu, not cm_butt onconfig 03.12.04 Added: Search by content plugins: translated operators can now have a length of max. 48 characters 03.12.04 Fixed: Switching away from a custom columns view tab and back reverte d sort order to "by name" 03.12.04 Fixed: Resorting custom columns view to "unsorted" mode made on deman d extra fields disappear! 03.12.04 Fixed: Better centering of icons in thumbnails view 01.12.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 9 01.12.04 Fixed: Using backslash in search function (content plugins) not corre ctly saved 01.12.04 Added: 16-bit version (without the thumbnail+custom view features, th ey require options not available on Win16) 30.11.04 Fixed: Icons in Nethood sometimes not shown 30.11.04 Fixed: FTP over HTTP: File sizes >2 GB not always working 30.11.04 Fixed: FTP over HTTP not working if the proxy was sending a login ban ner larger than 8 kBytes (now: up to 16 k possible) 30.11.04 Fixed: Close TC 6.5 with custom columns mode sorted by one of the col umns, start older TC version -> crash. Solution: Save custom sort orders in sepa rate variables 30.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns view: Sorting by (int).size or (int).date not w orking in FTP, plugins and Nethood 30.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnail view: Ignore invalid thumbnails returned by the Expl orer method

30.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnail view: Don't send notification for thumbnails without an image 29.11.04 Fixed: (again, see 19.11.) Clicking behind LAST column in thumbnail v iew selected first item on the next line 29.11.04 Fixed: Disabled Ctrl+PageDown on files in plugins or ftp, it could ha ng the program for a while 29.11.04 Fixed: Don't create quick search dialog when typing letters during dr ag&drop, could lead to freezing of TC 29.11.04 Fixed: Maximized custom-columns dialog was shown at the wrong positio n 29.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns view: vertical position thumb wasn't updated wh en changing sort order 29.11.04 Fixed: Update header position in custom columns view also when scroll ing horizontally with an Intellimouse (untested) 28.11.04 Fixed: LongInStatus=1 not updating status line when switching to thum bnails view 28.11.04 Fixed: Don't count dir size on <spacebar> in custom columns mode if ( int).size isn't shown 28.11.04 Fixed: Scroll back to 0 horizontal position when switching between cu stom column views 28.11.04 Added: Larger width of dropdown comboboxes in search - plugins 28.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns view: Revert to sort by name when switching bet ween custom column views 28.11.04 Fixed: Sorting with on demand or delayed custom columns not always wo rking 28.11.04 Fixed: Wrong icon shown for junctions in thumbnail view 24.11.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 8 24.11.04 Added: More options for UseIniInProgramDir: Add 2 for wcx_ftp.ini als o in TC dir, add 4 to override registry settings 24.11.04 Added: wincmd.ini, [Configuration] UseIniInProgramDir=1 causes TC to use wincmd.ini in program dir (must be written in that ini!) 24.11.04 Added: Content plugins now support on demand retrieval of fields (fie lds may not be mixed with delayed fields in same section) 24.11.04 Fixed: Button bar edit misbehaviour on Win9x only (click on icon some times selects wrong item) 23.11.04 Added: Show big icons (32x32) in thumbnails view, also added Win2k 32 x32 folder icons 23.11.04 Added: FTP: New firewall/proxy type: HTTP CONNECT (tunnels ftp throug h a HTTP proxy like SQUID). 23.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnails mode: Thumbnail extraction stopped when changing so rt order 23.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnails mode: LongInStatus=1 not updating status line when using left/right cursor keys 23.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnails mode: Thumbnails are now horizontally centered with in their cell 23.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnails mode: current item frame now around the entire item including the thumbnail 23.11.04 Added: wincmd.ini [Colors] ThumbnailFrame= sets color of frame around thumbnails. -1=default, -2=invisible, or RGB value red+256*green+65536*blue 21.11.04 Added: Translation of bytes, kBytes and and MBytes in Search dialog ( second page) 21.11.04 Added: New default hotkey for custom columns mode list: Shift+F1 21.11.04 Fixed: Wrong icon displayed in zip files for file types like .bmp wit h icons per file 21.11.04 Fixed: No extension shown in Search - feed to listbox when using a cu stom view 19.11.04 Fixed: Clicking behind LAST column in thumbnail view selected first i tem on the next line 19.11.04 Fixed: Wrong report for equal/unequal files in the status line of syn

c dirs 19.11.04 Fixed: Some corrections to totalcmd.inc 19.11.04 Fixed: Internal content plugin: dosname: Show uppercase long name whe n no short name is returned by FindFirstFile() 19.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns configuration list: show spaces instead of \n 19.11.04 Fixed: Return results from slow content plugins not ignored when chan ging dirs 19.11.04 Added: Changed order of thumbnail extraction options to order used by Total Commander 19.11.04 Added: New item in tabstop header right click menu: "Configure this c ustom columns view" 19.11.04 Fixed: Apply button not enabled when changing horizontal scrollbar or auto-adjust options in custom columns dialog 19.11.04 Added: New internal field "offline" for files with offline attribute 17.11.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 7 17.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns view: Invalid date/time shown for virtual file items 17.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns view: Resorting by columns requested custom fie lds for ".." updir item by mistake 17.11.04 Added: Show warning to plugin writers and translators when a custom f ield contains an invalid character .=:" [] which are used for special purposes 17.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns configuration: Views with no additional columns were not shown in the list 17.11.04 Added: Support for environment variables in local dir of configured f tp server connection 17.11.04 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] BriefViewWidthLimit= sets width lim it (in pixels) for a column in brief view 17.11.04 Fixed: Packer problem with latest rar version 3.4x packing subdirs tw ice 16.11.04 Added: New internal content value 'directory' 16.11.04 Added: Custom view modes support two new options: horizontal scrollba r on/off, auto-adjust name field width to window width 14.11.04 Fixed: Big fonts mode: Horizontal scrollbar was shown in custom colum ns dialog 16.11.04 Added: Show XP-style thin frames for thumbnails instead of 3d frames 16.11.04 Added: Refresh comment also in extra fields view when editing it with Ctrl+Z 16.11.04 Added: F2/Ctrl+R will now also cause a reload of all custom fields 16.11.04 Added: Win32-style hints can now also contain custom fields from cont ent plugins 14.11.04 Added: wincmd.ini PreloadThumbnails=1 pre-load thumbnails when enteri ng a dir (not only when scrolling to the file) 14.11.04 Added: Thumbnail extraction queue: Extract those thumbnails first whi ch are in the currently visible part of the list 14.11.04 Fixed: Stop wild flickering when changing width of panel with thumbna ils (sometimes even causing a crash) 14.11.04 Added: New internal field (int).path 14.11.04 Added: New internal commands to cycle through custom views: cm_srcne xtcustomview, cm_srcprevcustomview, cm_trgnextcustomview, cm_trgprevcustomview, cm_leftnextcustomview, cm_leftprevcustomview, cm_rightnextcustomview, cm_rightpr evcustomview 14.11.04 Fixed: Ctrl-F5 and Ctrl-F6 in custom columns view didn't sort in desc ending order by default 14.11.04 Fixed: Some search parameters were no longer saved 12.11.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 6 12.11.04 Fixed: Quick search with search dialog, click on file -> dotted frame around last match not removed 12.11.04 Fixed: Field (int).VersionString was broken

12.11.04 Added: Custom columns dialog: Only show up/down column sorting scroll er when a line is active 12.11.04 Added: Listbox for custom columns: Edit configuration with double cli ck 12.11.04 Added: Changed title of listbox for custom columns to Custom column c onfigurations (sort with drag&drop): 12.11.04 Fixed: Search files dialog: When saving a search, don't save plugins if the option "Search plugins" is NOT checked 12.11.04 Added: Save screen position of custom columns configuration dialog 12.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns dialog header wasn't translated 11.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnails via Irfanview/Xnview stopped working correctly 10.11.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 5 10.11.04 Fixed: Switching directly from custom columns view to thumbnails view showed wrong sorting headers 10.11.04 Fixed: DetectString for WDX plugin didn't work with checks by content , e.g. [0]="M" & [1]="Z". However, this is really not recommended, because it ca nnot be postponed and will slow down file display a lot. 10.11.04 Added: Alt+Shift+F3 now also works in search function 10.11.04 Added: Auto-install plugins: Support 2 cases: all plugins in their ow n dir below the plugin base dir, and all plugins in subdirs below plugin type su bdir 10.11.04 Added: Auto-install plugins: If a plugin with the same name is alread y installed, TC will suggest its directory for the installation 10.11.04 Added: Internal plugin (int).dosname field containing the 8.3 form of the file name used by dos 10.11.04 Added: VersionInOverwrite=0 turns off display of file version informa tion in overwrite dialog 09.11.04 Added: Allow to check md5 checksums from files named md5sum.txt 09.11.04 Added: Support for content plugins in spread/shrink selection 09.11.04 Added: WinXP: Configuration - Misc - Sounds: Try to open second page of sounds panel 09.11.04 Added: New configuration dialog for custom columns view 07.11.04 Added: New internal command cm_visHistHotButtons to switch history+ho tlist button on/off 07.11.04 Fixed: Option "remove thumbnails for inaccessible disks" had no effec t for USB disks 07.11.04 Fixed: Colors by content plugins were no longer shown 07.11.04 Fixed: Crash when closing all duplicate tabs via right click menu cau ses tab header to disappear 07.11.04 Fixed: Tab header right click menu wasn't translated 05.11.04 Added: Support for environment variables in parameters /L= and /R= 05.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns not working with translated strings if they con tained conditional text in "", e.g. [=(int).taille" k"] 05.11.04 Fixed: Disallow \n string in custom columns view (it's used to separa te fields) 05.11.04 Fixed: Unpacking Cab file to a Windows 2000 share (UNC path) creates truncated files, due to a bug in Windows (SetFileAttributes truncates open file! ) 05.11.04 Added: Try to remove background color borders from Explorer thumbnail s 05.11.04 Fixed: Sometimes Explorer returned thumbnails larger than requested ( e.g. always the Explorer standard of 128x128) 05.11.04 Added: Call to GdiFlush in Icon thread to ensure that all images are fully drawn 03.11.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 4 03.11.04 Added: Custom columns: Always show size field (and other fields of ty pe int64) with thousands separators as configured in control panel 03.11.04 Fixed: Plugin detect strings were sometimes truncated in the configur

ation dialog, now strings up to 2000 characters should work 03.11.04 Added: Limit the number of loaded thumbnail images per side to 500 (W in9x: 200) in very large dirs to keep resource+memory usage low 03.11.04 Fixed: Find files - Plugins page: Help didn't work 03.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnails view: Ctrl+Home/End now places cursor on first/last item 03.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnails view: Shift+cursor up/down now selects all files be tween the current item and the previously current item 03.11.04 Added: Some more strings can now be translated: RegEx, LS Plugins, Li ster Plugins 02.11.04 Added: Don't save custom columns having only name+extension columns a nd no name 02.11.04 Added: TC now supports a maximum of 29 custom view modes, only the co nfigured modes with a name are listed in the menu! 02.11.04 Added: cm_LeftDirBranch and cm_RightDirBranch activates branch view i n left/right panel 02.11.04 Fixed: No custom fields and no EXE icons shown for files with Unicode names 02.11.04 Fixed: Always scroll viewed file name into view when activating quick view (Ctrl+Q) 02.11.04 Fixed: Removed some more calls to content plugins which cannot work ( e.g. for ftp in multi-rename tool, or archives in search) 02.11.04 Fixed: Could not sort by [=(int).size] field 02.11.04 Fixed: Re-display thumbnails when switching between two thumbnail dat abase locations (e.g. with different thumbnail sizes) 02.11.04 Added: "Configure custom columns" to sorting header right click menu also on inactive panel 02.11.04 Added: "Comments view" and "Thumbnails view" to sorting header right click menu 31.10.04 Fixed: Auto-install plugins: wrong base dir saved if proposed install path contained a backslash 31.10.04 Fixed: Color filters not working properly after feed search results t o panel when using content plugins 31.10.04 Fixed: switching directly from custom columns to thumbnails view show s distorted text 31.10.04 Fixed: cm_ReloadSelThumbs selected current file if nothing was select ed 31.10.04 Fixed: Some problems with locked tabs containing search results 31.10.04 Added: wincmd.ini [Lister] IviewAdditionalTypes=*.xyz *.abc will pa ss files matching these filters to Irfanview/Xnview (note that these programs ma y not be able to handle them) 31.10.04 Fixed: Thumbnails view: Fields by file type not shown when slow-loadi ng (in background) 31.10.04 Fixed: Thumbnails view: Fields by file type configuration didn't work correctly 31.10.04 Fixed: Long delay when trying to switch from a virtual folder to a pa th starting with an invalid environment variable 31.10.04 Added: Custom columns view: Left/right keys switch to command line if there is no horizontal scrollbar 31.10.04 Added: The following internal content plugin fields now also work in archives, ftp etc: size, writedate, writetime, attributes, attributestr 31.10.04 Fixed: Compact thumbnails database: USB sticks were treated like CDs, but they have a separate menu option 31.10.04 Fixed: Show smaller vertical scroller in compare by contents listbox with better resolution on large screens 31.10.04 Fixed: Custom columns configuration: '+' buttons were 'translated' w hen changing language 31.10.04 Fixed: Memory leak in overlay icon extract function 29.10.04 Added: Made the option to show custom fields below thumbnails indepen dent from the default custom field, so it's now possible to have no default cust

om field, but per file type custom fields. 29.10.04 Fixed: Win9x: Compact thumbnail database + delete thumbnails for no l onger existing files deleted all thumbnails 29.10.04 Added: Don't drop search results when switching between full, custom columns and thumbnail views (selecting long view in long view will revert to nor mal file list as in previous versions) 29.10.04 Added: wincmd.ini: Added new option AlwaysUnpackInBackground=, moves unpacker dialog to background automatically: 1 only unzip, 2 also external, 3 sh ow external minimized 29.10.04 Added: Synchronize dirs: Ctrl+F3 to compare left and right 29.10.04 Fixed: Alt+F10 tree not shown correctly when in thumbnails view 29.10.04 Fixed: Thumbnails view: Rightmost thumbnail column could be partly hi dden below right scrollbar 29.10.04 Fixed: [(int) Plugin] size.Mbytes no longer showed size in Megabytes 29.10.04 Fixed: Content plugins were also called for FTP, packers, file system plugins and virtual folders, where they cannot work but cause slowdowns 29.10.04 Fixed: No ole drag&drop (e.g. from other windows) when starting up in thumbnail view 29.10.04 Fixed: When unchecking "locked with dir changes allowed", the tab was n't really unlocked 29.10.04 Fixed: TC sometimes crashed when switching from/to tab "locked with d ir changes allowed" containing a virtual folder 27.10.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 3 27.10.04 Fixed: OLE drag&drop (right mouse button) no longer working after swi tching to thumbnail view 27.10.04 Added: Internal command cm_GoToLockedDir: Go to the base dir of locke d tab (locked with directory changes allowed) 27.10.04 Fixed: [install plugin] Confirm overwrites modified the file name (th e dialog was re-used from a different function) 27.10.04 Fixed: Files with unknown size in virtual folders got wrong color fil ters color 27.10.04 Fixed: When pressing Ctrl+Q during thumbnail view and the quick view panel has different width, the thumbnail could have scrolled out of view 27.10.04 Added: wincmd.ini, LockedGoToDriveRoot=1: Clicking the "\" button or pressing Ctrl+\ goes to drive root instead of locked tab root 27.10.04 Added: Custom columns view: The first unit name is now not shown as e mpty but as "<default>" 27.10.04 Added: Custom columns view: The total of all fields can now be 1023 c haracters (before: 259 characters) 27.10.04 Added: Thumbnails view will now no longer expect images of the full s ize (96x96), but max. with this size. Smaller images will be centered. Reason: T he border will have TCs background color! 26.10.04 Added: Allow to "lock-with dir change" also virtual folders, if they can be represented in the form ::{idlist}::{idlist} ... 26.10.04 Fixed: Virtual folders on Tabs were no longer remembered 26.10.04 Fixed: When packing file with spaces to same dir and switching to one archive per file, the initial " was forgotten 26.10.04 Added: Sort named filters in copy dialog by name (those with a > in f ront) 26.10.04 Added: When switching from/to branch view with Ctrl+B, keep the curso r on the file currently under the cursor 26.10.04 Added: Save thumbnail size also in wincmd.ini for the case when the d atabase is deleted by accident 26.10.04 Added: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F5 (when assigned manually to cm_packfiles) ope ns pack dialog for moving to archive in same dir 26.10.04 Fixed: Sorting by custom fields not working correctly in branch view (slow field wasn't pre-fetched) 26.10.04 Added: Support for zip-nt 2.3 for packing 26.10.04 Fixed: Internal content plugin: field versionnr was sometimes returni

ng invalid values 26.10.04 Added: Synchronize dirs: Show small dotted rectangle around selected copy filters (reason: on WinXP it's often hard to distinguish pressed and non-pr essed buttons) 26.10.04 Added: Content plugin variables can now contain conditional text whic h is only displayed if the variable exists, e.g. [="text1"plugin.variable.unit:4 -7"text2"] 26.10.04 Fixed: cm_CompareDirs didn't select a file when a directory with iden tical name existed in the other panel 26.10.04 Added: New internal command cm_CompareDirsWithSubdirs: Like cm_Compar eDirs, but also mark subdirs not present in other dir 26.10.04 Added: Changed default location for thumbnail database on non-win9x s ystems to %$LOCAL_APPDATA%\GHISLER (reverts to %APPDATA% if local appdata doesn' t exist) 26.10.04 Added: wincmd.ini: Added new option AlwaysPackInBackground=, moves pa cker dialog to background automatically: 1 only zip, 2 also external, 3 show ext ernal minimized 26.10.04 Fixed: There was a critical stop sound when pressing ESC in inplace r ename when the edit field was empty 26.10.04 Fixed: Custom view: Selection not cleared when changing dirs 26.10.04 Fixed: The first char was cut off when using "Create separate archive s, one per selected file/dir" and packing to the same dir 26.10.04 Fixed: Win98SE - Compact thumbnail database caused crash when selecti ng to delete no longer existing files (cause: missing Unicode function) 24.10.04 Added: "Size" field in custom columns mode can now show the size of d irectories when counting with spacebar or alt+shift+enter 24.10.04 Added: Custom columns: For size field, added options bkM and bkM2 to show in bytes/kbytes/Mbytes mode (2: with 1 fractional digit) 24.10.04 Fixed: Limit thumbnail dimensions to multiples of 8, otherwise some E xplorer extensions seem to crash when extracting plugins! 24.10.04 Fixed: Setting a custom column width of 0 causes access violation 24.10.04 Fixed: Search results (feed to listbox) now also work with custom col umns view 24.10.04 Added: QuickSearchExactMatch=1 in wincmd.ini matches exact string in quick search (except for first dot), e.g. typing win.i matches win.ini but not w incmd.ini 24.10.04 Fixed: System information: Detect Intel Itanium (if the operating sys tem supports it) 24.10.04 Fixed: Win98: long delay when entering root dir when color filter def ined for internal content plugin - comments 22.10.04 Added: Synchronize dirs: Show more details in footer 22.10.04 Fixed: Search: When selecting a previous regex search from history, r egex was checked, but not unchecked when selecting normal item. Fix only possibl e when history list dropped down. 22.10.04 Added: New internal command cm_ListInternalOnly calls lister without plugins or multimedia, same as Alt+Shift+F3 22.10.04 Added: Always show tip windows (when enabled) in thumbnail view with search results 22.10.04 Added: When displaying search result in thumbnail view (after feed to listbox), show only the file names, without the full path 22.10.04 Fixed: Custom columns view: After switching to a different dir while fields were still being loaded could send field contents to wrong file 22.10.04 Added: Plugin auto-installation now also supports translated plugin d escriptions, just append 3 character language string xyz from wcmd_xyz.lng file. Example: descriptiondeu=<description in German> 22.10.04 Added: AutoInstallPlugins=0 in wincmd.ini turns off automatic install ation dialog for plugins 20.10.04 Added: Use Shift+Cursor keys to activate command line in thumbnails v iew 20.10.04 Fixed: (again) When using separate Left/Right menus, the checkmarks f

or thumbnail+custom columns view weren't always correct 20.10.04 Added: Copy function: After clicking Abort, it's now possible still t o continue the copy operation 20.10.04 Added: Toggling comment view or thumbnails view will remember brief v iew (will switch back to brief view if it was previously active) 20.10.04 Fixed: Avoid delay when trying to switch to file system plugin via bu tton bar button or directory menu 20.10.04 Added: InplaceRenamePath=2: Disable inplace rename of path, but enabl e quick directory changes with single click (no shift needed) 20.10.04 Added: New pseudo-environment variable $COMMON_PICTURES 19.10.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 2 19.10.04 Added: Overlay icons are now off by default, because some testers com plained about slow file listings 19.10.04 Fixed: cm_ChangeStartMenu causing access violation if start menu was disabled via RestrictInterface=1 19.10.04 Fixed: Horizontal scrollbar disappeared after icon or font size chang e 19.10.04 Added: Custom colors now also supports content plugins (warning, this can slow down directory listings) 19.10.04 Added: Custom fields: use 'y' for 2 digit year, 'Y' for 4 digit year 19.10.04 Added: New right click menu item "Re-load selected thumbnails", inter nal command cm_ReloadSelThumbs 19.10.04 Fixed: Option "EXE/LNK not on net" wasn't correctly detected in UNC s earch results 19.10.04 Added: When the option "EXE/LNK not on net" is checked, then overlay icons will not be retrieved on network drives either 19.10.04 Added: Revert to stored root already when switching away from locked tab with dir changes allowed (affects drag&drop to that tab) 19.10.04 Fixed: Set font size in configuration - plugins to 8 for explanations to avoid that they are cut off 19.10.04 Fixed: Gray+ now works in background transfer manager even if no cont rol has focus 19.10.04 Fixed: Custom columns: zero floating point values showed as 0.0000000 000E0000 instead of 0 19.10.04 Added: New pseudo-environment variables $MYPICTURES,$LOCAL_APPDATA,$C OMMON_APPDATA,$COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY,$COMMON_DOCUMENTS,$COMMON_PROGRAMS,$COMMO N_STARTMENU,$COMMON_STARTUP 19.10.04 Fixed: Sometimes access violation when trying to sort columns in cust om columns configuration 19.10.04 Fixed: Custom columns search page was sometimes opened without any ed it box line (not correctly saved) 18.10.04 Fixed: When MD5 creation was remembered, the wrong extension .sfv was used 18.10.04 Fixed: Don't check directory tab contents at every program start (TC was checking whether an archive was open) 17.10.04 Fixed: Problem switching to locked tab containing either thumbnail vi ew or custom columns 17.10.04 Fixed: Keep selection and current item when switching to/from thumbna il view 17.10.04 Fixed: When using separate Left/Right menus, the checkmarks for thumb nail+custom columns view weren't always correct 17.10.04 Fixed: Drag&Drop on archive or dir in thumbnail view copied the files to the wrong location 17.10.04 Added: On slow drives, when pressing ENTER on ZIP files, show open pa ckage icon earlier, before checking that it is really an archive (better feedbac k) 14.10.04 Fixed: Thumbnails view not working for BMP etc. if Explorer method di sabled or unavailable 14.10.04 Fixed: Custom fields not on same base line as name+ext!

14.10.04 Fixed: Problem with Tab in search dialog 14.10.04 Fixed: Use DIBs instead of DDBs for thumbnails, should avoid problems with black thumbnails 14.10.04 Fixed: Custom columns+thumbnails view: Specified field units (e.g. kb ytes) were not always working 14.10.04 Fixed: Win9x: F6 or Shift+F6 during rename didn't select the correct name part for multi-dot file names 14.10.04 Fixed: Plugin installation: a string wasn't translated yet 14.10.04 Added: Custom column mode: append extension to name if this is set in full view too! 14.10.04 Fixed: Custom column mode: Extension wasn't correctly truncated (too short) 14.10.04 Fixed: Thumbnail database configuration: >> button pointed to file se lection dialog instead of tree dialog 14.10.04 Added: Thumbnail database can now be disabled by specifying empty dir (the thumbnail size will then be stored in wincmd.ini) 14.10.04 Fixed: Thumbnail database location change became effective only after restarting TC 14.10.04 Added: Ctrl+Shift+F1 hotkey for thumbnail view 14.10.04 Fixed: Disable overlay icon checkbox if option unavailable (it only w orks on Windows ME/2000/XP) 14.10.04 Added: Synchonize: When 2 files with same name but different case are found, then show them both in the error dialog 14.10.04 Added: Changed attribute character for encrypted files to 'e', compre ssed to 'c' 13.10.04 Fixed: Unchecking "Show custom fields below thumbnais" wasn't working 13.10.04 Fixed: Apply button not shown when deleting last column in custom vie w 13.10.04 Added: Commands for thumbnail view and custom view modes to totalcmd. inc 12.10.04 Fixed: Thumbnail view couldn't be activated with internal English lan guage 12.10.04 Fixed: MODE Z wasn't activated because tcunzlib.dll wasn't loaded aut omatically 12.10.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 1 12.10.04 Fixed: Color filters were not working correctly with files or dirs >4 GB (when comparing by size) 12.10.04 Added: New command cm_switchOverlayIcons to switch overlay icons on a nd off 06.10.04 Added: Right click menu to tab headers to select between brief, full, and custom columns mode, and to configure custom columns 06.10.04 Added: When selecting a previously unused custom columns mode, TC wil l now open the configuration dialog to define the columns 06.10.04 Fixed: Custom columns mode wasn't markted in the menu after switching to it 05.10.04 Added: Increased max. button count per button bar to 299 05.10.04 Fixed: Crash when trying to edit button bar with more than 199 button s 03.10.04 Added: FTP: Option to only use ports from limited range for PORT conn ections, useful when behind a NAT firewall. 03.10.04 Added: Moved zlib unpacking (for thumbnails and MODE Z) to separate D LL tcunzlib.dll, so wcmzip32.dll from previous version can be kept 24.09.04 Added: Configuration - Display: Show overlay icons allows to show/hid e the little overlay icons shown for links, shares, etc. 22.09.04 Added: Search in plugins: restore last used plugin search when switch ing to plugins page of the search dialog 21.09.04 Added: Content plugins: Support for detect strings (only call plugin for those files for which it was written, e.g. the id3 plugin only for mp3 files )

21.09.04 Added: Remember special display modes (thumbnails, comments, custom c olumns) when closing TC 21.09.04 Added: Remember special display modes (thumbnails, comments, custom c olumns) separately per tab 21.09.04 Fixed: Problem with thumbnail database packing (image dimensions were lost) 19.09.04 Added: Delete thumbs database in uninstall function when choosing to delete settings files 17.09.04 Fixed: Thumbnail view: Avoid that the empty space after the last item could get focus 17.09.04 Fixed: gray+ no longer working in background transfer manager 15.09.04 Added: Synchronize dirs: Also allow to set copy direction of equal fi les (via right click menu only!), e.g. for copying them to a different location 15.09.04 Fixed: Search window: Tab key allowed to switch to search results lis t even if it was invisible 10.09.04 Added: Subdir filters now also work when copying (only files of this type). Syntax: Include: somedir1\ somedir2\ Exclude: *.* somedir1\ somedir2\ 10.09.04 Fixed: Multi-rename file with comment -> comment preserved. Choose "u ndo" -> comment was lost! 10.09.04 Fixed: Brief view: if extension is very long, and displayed in second or later column, it may overlap with next column 08.09.04 Added: Hints for cut file names in custom view 07.09.04 Added: Store image dimensions in thumbnail database, not in wincmd.in i 07.09.04 Added: Custom column modes 1-9 can be given names 07.09.04 Added: Custom column mode: Column widths of name+ext column can be ch anged individually per mode 07.09.04 Added: Custom column mode: Store width in dialog units, added up/down selector 01.09.04 Fixed: When copying files in background (F5-F2), no additional NTFS s treams were copied 01.09.04 Fixed: Access violation when entering a zip file name longer than 255 characters in Files - Pack 01.09.04 Fixed: Append to read only file failed -> TC asked to overwrite, and then overwrote the file instead of appending 01.09.04 Added: Shift+Click on a part of the current path switches up to that dir 31.08.04 Added: Configuration of multiple (up to 9) custom views 22.08.04 Added: Sorting by custom fields (in custom field view only). Note: Th is can be slow because the field by which we sort has to be loaded for ALL items before a single item can be shown 17.08.04 Added: Copy/Delete thumbs now in background thread 11.08.04 Added: Compacting thumbs database now works 11.08.04 Added: New configuration page for configuring all plugin types 08.08.04 Added: Improved thumb database: Re-use space freed when deleting imag es (store free blocks in free list tcthumbs.frl), combine subsequent free blocks to one, split reused block if remaining space >1/2 of inserted image size 04.08.04 Added: Content plugins: New flag to ContentGetValue which asks to del ay info extraction if it is slow. The info will then retrieved in a background t hread 04.08.04 Added: New Internal commands cm_GotoDriveA..cm_GotoDriveZ to switch t o one of these drives (same as "cd c:\", but also works for hotkeys) 04.08.04 Added: Two new internal commands cm_GotoNextDrive and cm_GotoPrevious Drive to switch to next/previous available drive 04.08.04 Added: New pseudo environment variables supported, pointing to locati ons of virtual folders: %$APPDATA%, %$DESKTOP%, %$PERSONAL% (My Documents), %$PR OGRAMS%, %$STARTMENU%, %$FONTS%, %$STARTUP% (use lowercase to access env vars wi th these names) 03.08.04 Added: F5 - F2 now transfers in background also for FTP uploads+downl oads (without affecting the checkbox)

01.08.04 Fixed: When deleting first tab while cursor on another tab, the curre nt tab is moved 01.08.04 Added: New function "Close duplicate tabs" in tab header right click menu 30.07.04 Fixed: Inplace rename not working in thumbs view 27.07.04 Added: CRC-checksum: remember whether md5 is checked or not 27.07.04 Added: MD5-checksum: use lowercase characters for MD5 20.07.04 Fixed: OLE documents support only names up to 31 chars <- problem wit h thumbs database. Fix: Split long names into parts of 30 chars starting with '? ' as indicator 16.07.04 Added: New internal command cm_GoToFirstFile places cursor on first f ile (not dir) in list 13.07.04 Added: Added: time modifiers for am/pm: A=hour in am/pm format, P=am/ pm string, p=a/p string. Example: [=filesys.writetime.A-M-SP] pastes e.g. 11-3005am 13.07.04 Added: Multi-rename tool: Added date modifiers for plugins in multi-r ename tools, e.g. [=filesys.writedate.Y-M-D] pastes time in format year-month-da y. Uppercase letters mean fixed with (2004-06-02), lowercase means variable widt h (2004-6-2) 13.07.04 Added: Multi-rename tool: Added time modifiers for plugins in multi-r ename tools, e.g. [=filesys.writetime.H-M-S] pastes time in format hours-minutes -seconds. Uppercase letters mean fixed with (05-03-01), lowercase means variable width (5-3-1) 07.07.04 Added: Content plugins in multi-rename tool. Format: [=pluginname.fie ldname.unit] or [=pluginname.fieldname.unit:4-7] for partial string 07.07.04 Added: First implementation of content plugins 07.07.04 Added: Option to resize lister plugin configuration dialog (and fs pl ugin dlg too), size not remembered 06.07.04 Added: Support for the new AES plugin supporting WinZIP 9 decryption 06.07.04 Added: Show number of selected / total dirs in footer, configurable v ia Configuration - Tabstops - "Show directory count in footer" 06.07.04 Added: When leaving branch view mode with Ctrl+B and the cursor stand s on a file in a subdir, go to that subdir instead of the branch view root (use F2 or Ctrl+R to go to branch view root) 06.07.04 Added: Create multiple dirs (with F7) with syntax dir1 dir2 dir3 or c:\dir1 c:\dir2 c:\dir3 or a mix of both 06.07.04 Added: Pressing F6 (or Shift+F6) in the inplace rename field will sel ect just the name/the name+ext 06.07.04 Added: When dropping data from Outlook Express (or other OLE2 sources ), allow to rename if the name already exists (not only overwrite+skip) 30.06.04 Added: New lister plugin function ListGetPreviewBitmap() which is use d by thumbnail view 30.06.04 Added: SortUpper=3 uses StrCmpLogicalW on Windows XP, works like Sort Upper=2 on other operating systems 30.06.04 Added: Multi-rename tool: Search+Replace now has a history list store d in wincmd.ini sections RenameSearchFind and RenameSearchReplace 30.06.04 Added: Multi-rename tool: Resize Search+Replace box to use all availa ble space 30.06.04 Added: Multi-rename tool: Button to reload rename results for next re name step. Hotkey: F5 30.06.04 Added: Multi-rename tool: Multiple search+replace (not with regex). E xample: Remove all German umlauts. Search for: Replace with: ae oe ue ss 30.06.04 Added: New internal commands cm_srcactivatetab1..10 activates tab 1-1 0 in source panel, similar for target. Not in totalcmd.inc: 5201-5299 left tabs, 5301-5399 right tabs 30.06.04 Added: Some more shortcuts to synchronize dirs, see right click menu. Shortcuts not listed there: Ctrl+A select all, Ctrl+F seelct all in current dir 30.06.04 Added: File lists: show <LNK> instead of <DIR> for junctions (dir lin ks) 29.06.04 Added: Two new switches: /T opens passed dirs in new tabs, /S interpr

ets the passed dirs as source/target instead of left/right (for usage with the / O switch) 29.06.04 Added: New type of locked tab: still allows to change dirs, but rever ts to tab-root when clicking "\" or switching to other tab and back 24.06.04 Fixed: Tree view: don't jump x dirs up when creating new dir 24.06.04 Fixed: Lister crashed when using 2 monitors with secondary larger tha n primary, and lister maximized on secondary 22.06.04 Fixed: Synchronize dirs speed display faulty 19.06.04 Added: Thumbnail viewer 19.06.04 Added: Moved icon overlay extraction to background 18.06.04 Fixed: cm_LoadSelectionFromClip not restoring names with spaces 15.06.04 Added: Support for MODE Z also for FxP, except if source+target are t he same server (then MODE Z would be slower) 15.06.04 Added: Support for MODE Z compressed uploading/downloading (using zli b compression 'on the fly') 14.06.04 Fixed: No progress bar when downloading files >4GB via HTTP (Ctrl+N) 14.06.04 Added: Clear timer after pause of copying 06.06.04 Added: Show current speed also when copying in synchronize dirs funct ion 06.06.04 Fixed: Radio buttons problem with tabs 06.06.04 Added: treefilelocation__server_share= sets location of treeinfo file only for drive \\server\share 06.06.04 Added: treefilelocationE= sets location of treeinfo file only for dri ve E (note: only works if treefilelocation= is set too) 06.06.04 Added: treefilelocation= supports variables %D% =current drive, %R%= root path, %L% =volume label <- must be uppercase, otherwise TC will look for en vironment variables with this name! 06.06.04 Added: Define different location of files treeinfo.wc via wincmd.ini, treefilelocation=c:\somedir\treeinfo%D%.wc 06.06.04 Added: NTFS-packed files are shown with a 'p' in the attributes colum n, NTFS-encrypted files with a 'c'. 06.06.04 Added: Search for encrypted files added (finds both NTFS-encrypted fi les and encrypted files inside of archives), can also be used for coloring 06.06.04 Added: Automatic installation of languages when archive contains file pluginst.inf (same method as for plugins) 04.06.04 Added: Don't check for sharing flags if icon overlays enabled (they w ill handle that) 01.06.04 Added: Support for icon overlays, can be turned off in wincmd.ini und er [Configuration] iconoverlays=0 01.06.04 Added: Shift+button click in search on 'go to file' or 'feed to listb ox' opens dir in new tab 01.06.04 Added: Alt+Shift+F3 loads lister without any multimedia additions (im ages, plugins etc), e.g. to view a picture as binary 01.06.04 Added: Automatic installation of plugins when archive contains file p luginst.inf (see bz2 plugin for sample inf) 31.05.04 Added: Reset speed measurement timers to 0 when pausing 31.05.04 Fixed: The current speed wasn't always shown when copying 31.05.04 Fixed: Shift+Click selected wrong files in dir with more than 65535 f iles (problem of lb_selitemrange) 05.05.04 Fixed: Internal Unzip CRC-check (Alt+Shift+F9) reported error when a ZIP contained dirs stored with compression method 8 (deflated) instead of 0 (sto red) 16.04.04 14.04.04 03.03.04 03.12.03 Release Release Release Release Total Total Total Total Commander Commander Commander Commander 6.03a Final 6.03 Final 6.02 Final 6.01 Final

New in Total Commander 6.0 final (17.11.03): [Tabs]

- File panel Tab support - Drop dirs/archives on empty space in tab header adds new tabs with them - Drop dirs/files on tab header copies files to the directory represented by thi s tab - Tab right click menu added - Ctrl+Click on tab closes this tab - Internal command cm_visDirTabs to turn folder tabs on and off - Remember the Desktop, Network Neighborhood and other virtual folders when clos ing, both the current dir and other tabs! - Drop tab on target path adds this tab in the target window even if no tab head er is shown yet - cm_ToggleLockCurrentTab: Turn on/off tab locking (e.g. for button bar, hotkey) - Ctrl+Cursor up opens dir under cursor in new tab - Ctrl+Shift+Cursor up opens dir under cursor in new tab in OTHER window - Ctrl+Shift+T opens new tab without activating it - Ctrl+Shift+W closes all open tabs - Ctrl+T opens new tab, Ctrl+M starts multi-rename tool, Ctrl+Shift+M changes FT P transfer mode - cm_OpenDirInNewTab internal message to open dir under cursor in new tab - Shift+Enter or Ctrl+Enter in History opens this dir in a new tab - Ctrl+Shift+U Swaps not only the active panels, but all tabs - appendtabs tabfile.tab in button bar appends tabs from tabfile.tab to current tabs - opentabs tabfile.tab in button bar replaces current tabs with tabs from tabfi le.tab [FTP] - FTP resume all for uploads and downloads - When an FTP server or file system plugin reports illegal chars in a name, TC c onverts them to underscores on download - Synchronize dirs now uses inofficial MDTM command to set remote file date. Thi s command isn't supported by all servers. - FTP: Parameter %p in Buttonbar now pastes full FTP URL uncluding user name. %P still pastes just the path on the server without the server name - Ctrl+D menu now supports changing paths on ftp servers: the path must contain a forward slash as a distinction. Only in source dir possible. - Punycode accented domain encoding for http and ftp - FTP client: skip known troyan ports in ftp client to avoid problems with firew alls [Regular expressions] - Regular expression searches in lister, search function (Alt+F7), file contents (match one line at a time only, max 4k/line) - Support for regular expressions in select/unselect files: string must be prece ded by a '<', e.g. <^[A-Za-z \.]* - Regular expressions support in multi-rename tool, using RegExpr.pas, Copyright (c) 1999-00 by Andrey V. Sorokin <anso@mail.ru> - http://anso.da.ru - Support for regular expressions and stored searches in copy and move operation s [Plugins] - Changed the way how multimedia plugins are handling (or Irfanview), it's now sufficient in the detect string - Alt+Enter on file system plugins now opens gin supports it) - Lister plugin interface version 1.3: Allow ers [Unicode] detected: To override the internal that MULTIMEDIA appears as ANY node the plugin's properties (if the plu to replace internal Multimedia view

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Show Unicode file names in file lists Copying and moving of files with Unicode names on Windows NT/2000/XP, also wit subdirs! Rename Unicode file names in place Show tip windows with Unicode names Show warning message the first time the user enters a dir with file names from a different codepage (can be disabled) - If the user hasn't chosen a default font, use "Microsoft Sans Serif" instead o f "MS Sans Serif" on Win2k/XP, because it supports Unicode - Support for Unicode UTF16 in "Compare by contents". If Unicode marker present, this also supports big endian format [Synchronize dirs] - Show file sizes >4GB in synchronize dirs (correct sizes were used for calculat ion, but not displayed) - Also show compare by contents progress within a file (e.g. when comparing few very big files) - Synchronize dirs, asymmetric mode: Option to delete all empty dirs in right wi ndow (not available in zip or ftp) - Sync now also works with archives other than ZIP! Everything except for compar e by contents is supported - Compare by content now also works with two ZIP files - Dialog can now be closed with ESCAPE as long as the user doesn't change the co py direction of any files! [Multi-rename tool] - When clicking on [N#-#], user can select letters interactively in currently se lected file name - [G] placeholder inserts grandparent directory name [New ini options] - wincmd.ini, [Configuration] ShowInstanceNr=0 turns off numbered commander titl e bar - Search in archives recognized by content: Needs to set SearchInFiles= in Wincm d.ini to extensions of this packer - wincmd.ini, [Configuration] SortUpper=2 uses mixed lexical and numerical sor ting, e.g. file10.txt comes AFTER file1.txt - wincmd.ini, [Configuration] CompareIgnoreRepSpace=0 turns off ignoring of repe ated spaces in compare tool [Packers] - It's now possible to add files to a subdir of a RAR archive - Option to pack with ACE now also works with WinACE packer - Unpacking of files >4GB from ZIP archives up to 4GB in size using the pkware 6 4bit extra field - Unpacking of ZIP files created with the Deflate64(TM) method (Deflate64 is a t rademark of Pkware Inc.) - Preserve ZIP archive main comment when adding or removing files - Wait for external packers in the background (no wait window will be shown) [User interface] - Buttons for directory hotlist and directory history - Show parent dir also in root of drive - Show free and total disk space in "My Computer" for fixed disks (may not work on all operating systems) - Shift+Mouse wheel activates history (go back/forward) - New internal command cm_ShowQuickSearch shows window for searching a file name in the current dir - Changed page selection in configuration dialog from tabbed notebook to fixed t ree+notebook (Mozilla style)

- cm_ShowHint shows tooltip for current file in active file list (and places mou se cursor on it) - CMF_EXTENDEDVERBS added to context menu call when shift is pressed -> adds "op en with" menu item! - Possibility to change drive icons - Button bar: Support for 48x48 and 64x64 icons for very high resolution display s, better scaling of sizes between 16 and 32 - Show in title when there is more than one instance of TC, e.g. [2] Total Comma nder - Configure colors of compare by contents and lister via the main config dialog - Show NTFS junctions with a link icon - Option "Show old 8.3 names lowercase" no longer the default on NT/2000/XP syst ems - Lister: Show %done when searching [File operations] - Speed limit when copying files (only in background transfer manager) - F2 Background button in F5 Copy dialog, will add the selected files to the las t opened background transfer manager - In F5 copy dialog, "Options" button: New option to rename copied file or targe t file when target exists. Names are filename(2).ext, filename(3).ext etc. - 3 new internal commands: cm_copySamepanel, cm_copyOtherpanel, cm_createShortcu ts: Same as cm_copy, but not reacting to Shift and Alt keys! - More detailed statistics in SFV/MD5 check function - Drop files on F8-Delete button while right mouse button pressed has same effec t as Shift+Drop (bypass recycle bin if it is activated) [Other additions] - TC 6.0 now also accepts tcmdkey.zip containing wincmd.key instead of wincmd.ke y. The key must be stored (no compression) in the file. - cm_SaveSelection saves current selection internally (automatically done before each file operation) - Internal command cm_LoadSelectionFromClip to load selection from clipboard (co unterpart to cm_CopyNamesToClip) - Internal commands cm_SaveSelectionToFile, cm_LoadSelectionFromFile to save/loa d current selection (names of all selected files) - In Right click menu - new document, look in CSIDL_COMMON_TEMPLATES folder if n ot found in CSIDL_TEMPLATES folder - Set environment variable COMMANDER_PATH to location of Total Commander's EXE f ile (e.g. for loading plugins) New in Total Commander 5.51 Final (18.02.03): - FS-Plugins: Copy/Move files between 2 plugins - FS-Plugins: Support for Multi-Rename tool - FS-Plugins: Synchronize dirs supported - FS-Plugins: Search files added - FS-Plugins: Wildcards support (*.txt) for displaying files - Lister-Plugin interface officially documented - Show the first files being deleted in the delete confirmation dialog - cm_usermenu1..cm_usermenu10 to invoke the first 10 commands in the starter men u (e.g. for hotkeys). - cm_xxx commands now also work in directory hotlist (Ctrl+D) - New search option to include/exclude specific dirs, e.g. _vti*\ excludes all dirs starting with "_vti" (search, sync, branch view) - cm_CopyNetNamesToClip copies file names with UNC path to clipboard - Single click on active file window title allows to change / copy /paste the cu rrent dir - wincmd.ini [Configuration] copystreams=0 turns off copying of NTFS streams 04.11.02 Release Total Commander 5.50 Silent update (a)

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 - 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 (32bit version only): \SOFTWARE\Ghisler\Windows Commander, new text values IniFileName and FtpIniName. This key may be created under HKEY_CURRENT_USER or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE The command line parameters /i= and /f= still take precedence over the registry values. - Special larger block sizes when copying very large files can increase the copy ing speed of these large files quite a bit. This function is only meant for advanced users, and needs to be enabled through 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