New functions and fixes in Total Commander 6.0:

- Supports Unicode file names when Copying/Moving/Renaming files
- Comparison of Unicode-Text files in "Compare by Content"
- Folder Tabs for quickly switching between folders
- Ctrl+T now used for the new Tabs, Ctrl+M for the Multi-Rename Tool
- Regular Expressions for Searching, Multi-Rename Tool, Copying etc.
- Separate buttons for Directory Hotlist and History

- Speed display when copying
- Copy function configurable via Settings dialog.
- F2 in the copy dialog adds the files to the background transfer manager
- Options button in the copy dialog allows to rename copied or target files automatically on identical name
- Speed limit in the background transfer manager now also works when copying
- Synchronize dirs now tries to set the date/time of FTP files via MDTM command (not working with all servers)
- Synchronize dirs: Now also with archives other than ZIP

- Support for accents in domains for FTP and HTTP
- Multiple new internal commands, like cm_copySamepanel, cm_copyOtherpanel, cm_createShortcuts, cm_SaveSelection, cm_ShowHint
- Show sequence number in the program title if multiple Total Commander open
- Drive button icons can be replaced via external DLL
- Configuration dialog uses a list instead of tab headers
- FTP: Resume all
- Wait in the background for external packers
- Double click on [..] in the root leads to "My Computer" (configurable)

- Environment variable COMMANDER_PATH now points to the Total Commander directory

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 5.51:

- A click on the currently active path allows to edit or copy/paste it
- Include/exclude certain directories in search function
- Search and synchronize dirs now also work with file system plugins
- Support for Lister plugins
- Support for custom icons in file system plugins
- Deleting of non-empty directories on SAMBA drives sometimes failed
- Moved OLE comment retrieval to a separate thread (background), because it can be slow for some file types

- Couldn't view RTF file currently open in Word (sharing problem)
- Support for internal commands in Ctrl+D menu (directory hotlist), e.g. cm_OpenDesktop
- Limited Unicode support in file names: Delete, Rename, View, Edit and Show properties
- See history.txt for a complete list of corrections.

New functions in Total Commander 5.50:

- 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 all" 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 instead 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 RunAs
- Synchronize dirs, asymmetric mode: Option to delete all empty dirs in right window (not available in zip or ftp)
- The HTML viewer in Lister supports some more tags
- Many small corrections and additions, see history.txt for details.

New functions in Windows Commander 5.10:

- 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, see history.txt for details.

New functions in Windows Commander 5.00:

- 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 type
- FTP+HTTP: Auto-Resume download if download-connection lost
- FTP: SOCKS4+SOCKS5 Proxy support (active+passive mode!), SOCKS5 without encryption
- Multi-Rename-Tool: Placeholder [P] puts name of parent dir into file name
- Internal command cm_SyncChangeDir makes Wincmd change to the directory of the 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-defined intervals (for max. 1 hour of inactivity)
- Support for packing of TAR/GZ/TGZ archives. Make sure to choose the correct target 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 target dir is given, the packed file will be placed in the same dir as the original 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 -> targetname or move:sourcename -> targetname
- Background transfer manager can now also be started separately without a list file
- Many small corrections and additions, see history.txt for details.

New functions in Windows Commander 4.54:

- Compare by content: Switch between binary and text mode.
- Lister: Support word wrap in UTF8 mode
- Many small corrections and additions, see history.txt for details.


New functions in Windows Commander 4.53:

- 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 restricted rights)
- FTP: Resume upload (binary files only). WARNING: With some versions of the server 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 (32-bit version only):\SOFTWARE\Ghisler\Windows Commander, new text values IniFileName and FtpIniName.This key may be created under HKEY_CURRENT_USER or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINEThe 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 copying 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).
- Many small corrections and additions, see history.txt for details.


New functions in Windows Commander 4.52:

- 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 'Synchronize 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) files


Version 4.51 is a bugfix version of 4.50.

See history.txt for a list of corrections.

New functions in Windows Commander 4.50:


- 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 one
- 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 run an installer from inside an archive
- Define custom colors for different file types, e.g. all directories, all zip files 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 lister.

- cm_ShowFileUser: Show which remote user has opened a local file (through a shared directory)
- cm_EditPersmissionInfo: Show permissions dialog on Windows NT (NTFS file system)
- 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 function 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.


Version 4.03 is a bugfix version of 4.02.

New functions in Windows Commander 4.02:


- Unzip, delete and HTTP downloads (Ctrl+N) in background.
- Synchronize dirs now also supports directory from/to ftp synchronization! Concerning the date/time synchronizing problems with ftp, please read the section important 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 and 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
- many small additions and bugfixes (see history.txt)


Here is a list of the most important additions in Windows Commander 4.0:


- Compare files by content
- Automatically adjust column width of name column when resizing Windows Commander
- Copy: rename file if target exists
- Copy and zip in background (separate thread)
- Synchronize directories with subdirs
- Bitmap viewer in Lister, additional formats through Irfanview
- Copy files directly from one archive to another
- Restore selection as it was before the last file operation (NUM /)
- Extend right click menu (in association dialog)
- Add FTP files to list (through the context menu), download later
- Save configuration through menu command
- Search for duplicate files
- FTP: retry to connect if connection fails
- Skip files when copying and file doesn't fit on target disk

- Support WWW proxy for FTP
- More detailed file display, e.g. only list/select files with certain dates and sizes
- Select files which do not match certain wildcards, e.g. all files except for programs
- More virtual folders, like the desktop, my computer etc. - open through button bar
- Wrap text at word boundaries in lister
- Search for files which do NOT contain a given text
- Drive buttons separately per window
- Support for more FTP servers
- FTP: send specific commands directly after connecting
- FTP: Warn if binary file is transferred in text mode
- Icons for PIF files, virtual folders (directories having the system attribute set)
- Search for hexadecimal in lister
- Quick search: letters only but with quick search dialog
- Select FTP transfer mode with keyboard (CTRL+M)

- Copy to NUL, PRN, LPTx, COMx
- CTRL+N or URL Button now allow to download files from WEB servers too
- Define your own hints for drive names
- Use an external icon library (ICL) to replace the default icons in the file lists. See www.ghisler.com for a sample ICL.
- Additional packers+unpackers can be added as extension DLLs (see www.ghisler.com)
- Of course many small corrections and additions

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