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# PCOpus Changes

- Changes from Version 1.31c
- Changes from Version 1.31e
- Changes from Version 1.31f
- Changes from Version 1.50b
- Changes from Version 1.50c
- Changes from Version 1.50d
- Changes from Version 1.51a
- Changes from Version 1.60c
- Changes from Version 1.60d
- Changes from Version 1.70a
- Changes from Version 1.70b
- Changes from Version 1.70c
- Changes from Version 1.80a
- Changes from Version 1.80c
- Changes from Version 1.81a
- Changes from Version 1.81b
- Changes from Version 1.81c
- Changes from Version 1.81d

## Changes from 1.31c

- Minimal Bugfix: Number of copied files is correctly displayed now
- New: PCOpus can now convert FCD V1.0 CD Images to ISO Images and vice versa
- New: Added Keypr. (Keypress) option to Archive Requester (Access)
- Improvement/Bugfix: Recognition of Amiga LHA files has been improved, file comments are ignored now, slashes are handled correctly now
- Bugfix: PCOpus recognizes if a sourcefile does not exist and reports it to the user. Until now PCOpus ignored missing sourcefiles. Nobody noticed this !!
- New: It is now possible to change the width of the filenames in the display windows
- Minimal Bugfix: The Textfields of the active/inactive window gadgets in the configuration window are write-protected now
- Minimal Bugfix: 'ESC' exits the Menu-Window now
- Improvement/Bugfix: If the PCOpus window was very small there could have been problems with wordwraps. This has been removed.
- Improvement/Bugfix: Changed the handling of defective/non existent configfiles. Hopefully this removes some problems on startup
- Improvement: The 'flashing' of the PCOpus window on startup has been removed. PCOpus needs a little more time to show its window the first time, but the overall time to come ready has significantly decreased !
- Bugfix: The Copy-Side routine had a little problem. Sometimes the cursor in the window copied to was at the wrong position. This has been fixed.
- Minimal Bugfix: When adding or extracting from archives via PCOpus Archive-handling the directory has been re-read using the DOS 8+3 Names. This has been changed.
- Improvement: Direct-archive displays the progress made
- Improvement: If a file exists during the copy-process the user will be asked if the file shall be replaced or not. PCOpus now displays the size of the two files and the last write date and time.

## Changes from 1.31e

- Bugfix: corrected the problem of displaying empty directories if an archive was not correctly recognized
- Improvement: 'Use Windows Standard' on double-click implemented (Mjoelnir)
- Bugfix: The Language-selection list was not write-protected. It is now.
- Improvement: Added Parent only in Archives (Mjoelnir)
- Bugfix: If no file was selected, Split produced an error. Works now. (Smurf)
- Improvement: Replace/Extract Bytes added.
- Improvement: ReRead if same implemented.
- Bugfix: I forgot to set the RGB sliders in the standard adjustments if the user double-clicked on the window itself to get the background color.

## Changes from 1.31f

CONFIGURATIONFILES ARE NOT COMPATIBLE BEYOND 1.31f !!

- Bugfix: The 'R'eread button did not check if both directories displayed were the same.
- Bugfix: Userdefined paths were not overwritten when a new configuration was loaded. (Hander)
- Change: Invisible Window is deactivated if the command is called from inside an archive.
- Change: PCOpus internally uses the short DOS names for the names of the archives that the user enters. This should eliminate some problems with long filenames.
- Bugfix: Removed a BIG bug that caused the running batchfiles to get deleted by PCOpus itself while running. This could have had unpredictable results. Since I changed some internal things, please report it immediately if you experience problems with batchfiles or commands called.
- Improvement: Keep defective files added
- Bugfix: There existed some BIG bugs that caused PCOpus to do undefined things if you canceled some commands ('Compare', FCD2ISO, ISO2FCD, etc.) when really large files were processed. Hopefully this is removed now. Well, this bug was never reported, so I think nobody had problems with it.
- Change: Removed the 8 char limit for archivenames in archive/add. Take care for yourself !
- Bugfix: The check for shortcuts does no longer end after checking the first 100 commands.
- Improvement: Added Goto Directory (Tarkus)
- Change: Change the appearance of PCOpus: Command buttons are positive now, Fontsize changed to 10 pixels. Resizing got a bit slower due to more internal calculations.
- Bugfix: Fixed another problem with small screens. PCOpus should now start correctly in any size on any screen.
- Improvement: Replace in Button-configuration added
- Improvement: Support for right mousebutton in commandbuttons
- Improvement: Preferred directories may get names assigned to (N.P.)
- Improvement: Drivenames are shown with the driveletters in the drive-requester
- Improvement: Parent from Root shows drives implemented (Mike)
- Change: Pressing the right mousebutton in a directory window does not select an entry but activates the side the mousepointer is over.
- Change: Right-double-clicking opens the drive-requester
- Change: In Configure Buttons the edited button is no longer updated on exit. Please choose 'Udpate' yourself before exiting
- Improvement: It is now possible to select from 5 predefined colorschemes in Standard adjustments. They are mainly really bad, I am open for suggestions.
- Improvement: The drivelist will now fit as good on the screen as possible. On small screens it was possible that the lower part of the drivelist was cut off and therefore some drives were not accessible. This can happen still, but is very unlikely now, at least if you are not TRYING to make the list partially hidden :-)
- Improvement: Filetypes can be used inside archives. The 'internal' filetypes, such as <Archive> or <Direct Archive> are disabled though. Sorry, no recursive archive-entering. Please note: Windows standard calls are not supported from inside archives ! This is due to a completely different way to call them.
- Change: If View .DIZ is selected, your editor will not come up if a file 'file_id.diz' could not be extracted (Hander)
- Improvement: Stay in Archive Requester added
- Change: (archive requester) 'View .DIZ', 'View' and 'Test' do not exit the requester if Stay in archive requester is on.
  'View .Diz': ARJ and LHA can view DIZes that are not in the root of the archive now.
- Improvement: The buttonbank is variable now, you can have 1-20 buttons horizontal and 1-10 buttons vertical. The distance between the buttons and the general fontsize can be adjusted. Therefore your Configurationfiles are no longer compatible, sorry !
- Improvement: Save Windowposition added (Access)
- Bugfix: Several small Bugs that crept in with the new functions were removed
- Improvement: {ne} Option added (Configure Buttons, External Command) (Hander)
- Change: The DriveList and DirList box have been removed (Hander, Access)
- Bugfix: PCOpus was not removed from the Tasklist if it was closed in another way than clicking 'Quit'. This is fixed now (Hander, Access)
- Improvement: If an error is encountered during copying and Keep defective files is activated, PCOpus tries to copy as much as possible, Byte by Byte. This results in a slightly longer time to copy and two messages that an error has occured, but you will have as much copied as possible.
- Improvement: ASCII Sort implemented
- Improvement: Save List Output now asks if an existing file shall be replaced.
- Improvement: Show Buffers implemented (Hander, Access)
- Improvement: Max.Dist. added to Search Requester
- Improvement: Quick View and <Quick View> implemented
- Change: Internal handling of internal Filetypes has changed, some of them can be used inside archives now, too.
- Change: If Reread if same is activated, the inactive window is only reread if it is the same directory and NO entry is selected !
- Change/Bugfix/Improvement: (:-)) some calls of external program were changed, most problems with pathnames containing spaces should be eliminated now. Most calls to external programs are only made using short DOS 8+3 Names.
- Change: Existing .PIF files for PCOxxxxx.bat files are removed now when removing the .bat file itself.

## Changes from 1.50b

- PCOpus is now a Visual Basic 5.0 program, therefore it is much bigger and a little bit faster. Some little things have been changed to be compatible to the new functions. Some speed improvements have also been done. Some more translations to german have been made.
- Improvement: PCOpus now supports drag and drop. You can drop a file to read the directory the file is in to the window the file has been dropped over. Directories can be dropped, too. But in this case the directory itself is read.
- Change: Fontsize for Buttons is no longer a global adjustment but can/must be defined for each Button separately.
- Improvement: 'Fake Short Names in Archives' added. Now many problems with long filenames inside archives should be eliminated. See description for 'Fake Short Names in Archives' for more details, this one can be dangerous.
- Change/Bugfix: The special attribute problem when using LHA with <Direct Archive> has been removed.
- Bugfix: The annoying double-line problem of Quick View has been removed.
- Change: PCOpus will ask if the configuration shall be saved on exit (Tarkus)
- Improvement: Quick Dez/Hex Conversion added
- Improvement: User may define a specific temporary directory for storing temporary files
- Improvement: English ToolTip texts added for most gadgets and buttons (Tarkus)
- Improvement: German ToolTip texts added. English and German ToolTips can not be toggled If german is selected, english is only available when PCOpus is started again. Hope this is not a problem. Why should one switch languages three times a day ? (Tarkus)
- Bugfix: MakeDir was a bit buggy when you tried to create a directory when no disc or CD was in drive. Fixed.

## Changes from 1.50c

- Change: Few previously overlooked translations
- Improvement: <Available Buffers> has been added to the list of drives for quick and convenient access
- Change: If no file is selected, Windows Standard Call opens the active directory itself on the desktop
- Change: Additional Options from Archive Requester are saved now with the configuration
- Bugfix: Quick View now is satisfied with $0a only to begin a new line
- Improvement: 'Fixed Requester Buttons' added.
- Improvement: A new requester was added for (Rename to) Move, Rename, FCD2ISO, ISO2FCD This requester is invoked if a file given by the user already exists. You may enter a new name in this requester if a file or directory already exists.
- Improvement: In Select/Select you may enter more than one pattern now. It is now possible to select all LHA and all RAR files for example by entering '*.lha *.rar'.
- Change: Move As now only renames the files, exactly like Move if Rename to Move is activated (Access)
- Bugfix: 'Drag to move' did not fit on the button in Configure Buttons in english version (Access)
- Improvement: Exit at once added (Access)
- Improvement: Delete non empty directories added.
- Improvement: The Always on Top checkbutton added. Thanks to Christopher Tan, Singapore, chris@stcs.com.sg, for the code.
- Improvement: Left slider added (Hander)
- Improvement/Bugfix: Again some Long/Shortname converting has been changed. Slowly but surely we are getting to it ...

## Changes from 1.50d

- Change: Quick Dez/Hex Conversion runs now without blocking PCOpus.
- Bugfix: A little bug was removed that caused PCOpus to exit if a file was accessed on a drive that did not exist anymore (i.e. CD was removed etc.)
- Bugfix: Another little bug sometimes prevented the last selected file beeing added to an archive.
- Change: Immense change to Filetype-handling, see there for details, <Windows Standard> removed, <Quick View> removed. These can be used still of course, but must be called in another way: for <Quick View> define *!QuickView now. This may be a little work to change, but PCOpus is much more flexible now and even some now unnecessary code was removed.
- Improvement: *!f (all files) and *!d (all dirs) have been implemented as special filetypes
- Change: In Configuration 'Use Windows Standard' was removed. The Windows standard call may be used by defining the *!f filetype with *!WinStandard in the L L field.
- Change: In Configure Buttons (External Commands) the brackets are now inserted at the current cursorposition (Hander)
- Improvement: Display Dir in other Window implemented
- Change: Some code-cleanup. Only a bit. Too lazy.
- Improvement: When files are selected using the mouse and holding the left button down you do no longer have to move your mouse continuously to select files. PCOpus emulates a little mousemove. This can be recognized by a little twiggling of the mousepointer. This was the one thing I did not like and had to cope with since the Pre-Gamma Version 0.01 of PCOpus :-). Finally !
- Improvement: The scrolling of the windows when selecting files is a LITTLE bit faster now. Alas, I must have been blind. Now this is speed ! The scrollspeed is even variable now, depending on the distance to the window. The slight possibility of some missed files is removed, too.
- Improvement: '*!*NoCommand' added to internal filetype commands
- Improvement: 'Sort-Limit' added
- Bugfix: The ButtonBank was not correctly updated after a new configuration was loaded (Hander)

## Changes from 1.51a

- Several little bugfixes and changes, excessive code-cleanup
- Opus now supports external languagefiles (.OLF), you may even define them as filetype and load them by double-clicking.
- 'Fixed Requester Buttons' removed. The Multi-purpose-requester-buttons are always centered now. Looks much nicer, anyway.
- 'Read-Only' files are no longer ignored. This has just been added to keep you all happy. I prefer switching on the new option 'Ignore 'Read-Only'-flags'.
- Archive - Extract /- Add/- View/- Test/- View .Diz added
- 'Batchdelete' added (Hander)
- Added a 'retry' option when a file is in use (Delete, Copy, ...)
- Added Stick at position on Reread option (Tarkus)
- Select - All / - None / - Toggle / - Select / - Missing added
- Colorscheme changed. This results in slightly wrong colors. Change and save.

## Changes from 1.60c

- Improved the handling of ZIP and RAR files. Some ZIP-files contain incorrect values for length for some files, they are handled correctly now. Handling of RAR files with authenticity-code changed.
- Sped up RAR, ZIP, ARJ and LHA archive entering. Hope to get the C-DLL soon, anyway, we have a speed improvement between 20% and 35% now, depending on the filestructure
- When trying to delete files that are not present you will get the correct message "Source file not found" instead of "skipped" (Sito)
- Removed a little bug in File Info. It could crash completely if no file or dir was selected. And a nasty crash this could have been ...
- Changed the background color of the startup window to white (Sito)
- Added Always in back checkbutton. Sorry for the short flicker. Awfully good idea, this one ! Perfect to keep PCOpus as desktop- background :-). Well, leave it off if you don't like it.
- Added 'Skip file' in Copy-requester
- Added Enter Commandline
- Added the F-Key support for the standard-requester, use (Shift)-F1/F2 to get the filenames directly into the text gadget
- Added Bytes occupied on drive
- Added Tree
- Added variable fonts for buttons
- Fixed the problem with ARJ that ignored subdirs in direct archive handling (just overlooked the '-p1' switch :-8)
- Added variable window separator. Sorry for the inconveniences ! I found no better way of handling this. Hope it helps, anyway.

## Changes from 1.60d

- Single right-clicking on the Always in back gadget puts PCOpus to back for one time. Quite convenient thing this is !
- It was possible to enter a ':' as first character of a filetype. This may have led to some problems (RobertK)
- Deletion and updating of filetypes has been sped up significantly, therefore the drop down list containing all used commands is only updated when a new configuration has been loaded. This is the better way, I think.
- If a directory you are trying to create already exists, you are told so (Tarkus)
- Search: Files which did not contain the code searched for are deselected now
- Added Add Path to Drivelist (Hander)
- Entering a ZIP archive has been sped up massively due to DLL calls. This DLL has been programmed by Hander. Hopefully the DLL will be extended to support ARJ, RAR, LHA and CAB files soon.
- Fixed another problem when copying files that are not existing, files got simply ignored. Now you get an error message. Problem did not occur in subdirs, though.
- Added Replace all files on copy (Hander)
- The annoying delay after exiting 'Path to standard programs' has been removed.
- Added 'V' button to review the list in a more convenient way.
- Most time consuming commands can be canceled now by pressing 'Shift-ESC'. Since PCOpus has quite many functions, it is possible that I overlooked some. Please report it immediately if you experience problems when cancelling commands.
- Filter now accepts predefined masks that can be entered behind the name of the button in Configure Buttons. May be helpful.
- Display got a bit sped up. This may result in incorrect updating of the statusbar on top. I think all problems are eliminated. If I am wrong, please report it immediately. Thank you.
- The handling of window separation is much better now, no more ugly sliders or things like that, just the standard separator you are used to. Thanks to Hander.
- The drop-down-gadget in Configure Buttons that contains all available commands is *finally* sorted. It was quite a piece of work due to a couple of reasons, but now you are able to find the commands without being the programmer of PCOpus :-) (Well, the commands were sorted by implementation)
- Another speed increase when entering ZIP files
- Knowledge of ZIP (and an extended DLL by Hander) was used to optimize and speed up ARJ entering
- RAR and LHA files sped up, too, now. Hope all those impatient users (like me) are satisfied now :-)
- The DLLs were put together into one
- A little bug was removed that showed the wrong path for a file on error 75 when deleting files. Nothing serious.
- Automatic Archive checking implemented. See command Invoke Archive requester for details.
- You can now enter all files of an ARJ or RAR multiple volume set, not only the first one.
- If an archive is entered, the archivetype is now displayed in the statusbar

## Changes from 1.70a

- In Configure Buttons the font selected is now displayed in its final form for your convenience
- Compare now deselects successfully compared files
- Hopefully the last problem with >2Gig Partitions has been fixed (Access)
- 'Presort Archives' added, please see there for details
- Directory-sorting by names has been sped up around 40%

## Changes from 1.70b

- When really many files were selected in a directory (more than around 1000) deleting, copying, etc., was a bit *-) slow. It is fast now. :-)
- Mousepointer changes to wait-state when reading dirs now.
- Hopefully fixed the last problem with word-wraps in the directory windows
- 'Presort Archives' has been sped up immensly (I knew I overlooked something ...). If the archive is present on disk VERY unsorted, it may take a time, though. Remember that you can press 'Shift-ESC' any time to abort.
- Treemode was not sorting the directories correctly. This was introduced in 1.70b
- Treemode displays the size of directories on the far right of the window or at the position where the bytes are displayed normally, depending on the larger value. So you don't have to scroll the displayed part of the window to see the sizes in most cases (Access)
- 'Batchdelete' has been changed to Batchselect. You should be able to press the delete button yourself ! If you have problems with this change, please mail me, I can, of course, implement 'Batch delete' again, if needed.
- Again saved some k's by putting some things together :-)
- The font example gadget in Configure Buttons now has the original colors and (if possible) the original size of the button
- Internal commands may be used now in the external command definition in Configure Buttons, therefore it is possible to simulate the removed 'Batchdelete' command, or perhaps a batch copy or batch move, or anything.
- Batchselect (Batchdelete) somehow ignored the first directory entry when selecting. Fixed.
- *!Select-xxx has been redefined to *!!Select-xxx and *!Archive-xxx to *!!Archive-xxx for flexibility reasons. Sorry.
- Message implemented to provide an easy way to stop batch processing using internal commands

## Changes from 1.70c

- Removed a bug that prevented the deletion of the selected files in an archive if extracted to view etc.
- Changed *!CopyAs, *!MoveAs, *!CopySide to *!!CopyAs, *!!MoveAs and *!!CopySide to prevent collissions with *!Copy and *!Move
- Some commands were not useable in Batch commands, they got simply ignored. Should work now.
- Changed size of copy-requester, it is a little smaller now. Looks better.
- Added all *!... commands to the docfile to provide better oversight.
- Some Tab-Stops were corrected (I ALWAYS forget about them ...)
- It is now possible to freely combine internal and external commands in button configuration ! Please see there for details.
- Added 'Insert' in Configure Buttons
- Batchselect now accepts files in any dir if pathname is given completely
- You may enter now the name you assigned to a directory in the path gadget, for example, if you have assigned temp to your temp directory (c:\windows\temp>Temp in Paths to standard programs), you can enter just 'temp' to go directly to your temp directory. *!GotoDir may also be used this way. You can, of course, use the drive name to access a drive, with our without '[' and ']'.
- Chunksize of bytes copied is now variable
- Bugfix: it was possible that entering archives led to a hard crash with 'Presort Archives' activated
- DLL: LHA did not support archives without pathnames, at least with archives from other systems than DOS
- DLL: Filecomments in Amiga-LHA files are handled correctly now
- Added support for user-defined requesters. Great new thing, this is ! Please see there for details.
- Some more small changes to the doc file, commands are sorted by name now
- Added De-Encode-Copy and password
- Added Handle dropped files directly option
- You can copy files into an archive now. All settings from the archive-requester are used. No add to subdirs, though. You may have some problems when copying files from archive to archive when the archives contain long names !
- Doc-file is available in german now.
- Windows Standard call accepts a name directly now (like GotoDir etc.) for compatibility reasons under WinNT
- The quite annoying lock on a drive when it once has been read is removed finally (try to format a disk when its contents has been displayed in earlier versions of PCOpus). Wherefore do I buy books when I have to scan the API anyway ??
- Hopefully removed any problems when executing files. The default directory is set to the current dir now. This should do the trick. (API calls instead of VB commands !!)
- Auto Notification implemented. This option is in EARLY Beta-state. If you experience problems, switch it off ! (Well, you won't damage anything.)
- Handle dropped files directly can be temporarily deactivated when 'Shift' is held down during dropping.
- Size of devices >4Gig was not displayed correctly
- Internal Buffers now show if a displayed dir is in tree mode
- Changed size of buttons in drivelist to provide readability with long names, also optimized positioning.
- All drivenames (except A: and B:) are correctly recognized now. A: and B: are not checked, due to noise when no disc is in drive
- Maximum number of entries of the internal drive and directory list has been changed from 30 to 90, if you need it
- Reread drivenames added

## Changes from 1.80a

- Removed some problems with long pathnames (again) (or still ?), as a disadvantage, you mostly get short pathnames with external calls
- Due to some internal changes, Stick at position on reread was out of order.
- CAB files were not correctly recognized with automatic archive checking
- Changed commandline options of internal calls to ARJ. Attributes are ignored and empty directories are archived now (-a1), so the archive should contain the complete dir structure now, even hidden files and empty directories
- Due to some internal changes it was not possible to call commands in filetypedefinition with options, a checkbutton has been implemented, please see Filetypes for details
- Compare now displays the address of the first mismatching byte and the name of the last file with different contents in the title
- The drivename-conversion (with GotoDir or in the Path-textgadget) now supports complete pathnames, you may enter now things like 'Work:\foobar\test' and will be put to d:\foobar\work. Only if the name of your D drive is 'Work', of course.
- PCOpus now shows the amount of memory available in its title.
- All settings except Buttons and filetypes have been put into a neat looking tab. Doc-File will be updated as soon as possible. VB says that a file called CCTLDE32.DLL is needed. This file was nowhere to be found. If you experience problems, please EMail at once !!
- The Quick Dez-Hex conversion window will be switched off now when the menu is activated. This prevents a slight possibility of a hang.
- Due to internal changes, 'Exact resize' was removed, it is completely obsolete now. Height of the buttons may vary a little now (around 2 pixels) when the size of the window changes.
- Changed layout of the lower part of PCOpus. A Menu-line was added to hold the buttons that were on the right formerly
- Added a Drag-button (how is this kind of thing called, anyway ?) to allow changing of the height of the buttons without having to change the windowsize or the number of buttons. You may now use one line of buttons and the buttons can be small ! (Simulating WinCommander interface :-))
- Finally it is possible to use 0 or similar small values in the button-gap settings without any annoying flicker
- There was a slight possibility that the sliders for the button bank did not react correctly when dragging. This has been corrected.
- Those handmade arrows when dragging the window separator where replaced by the system arrows. Just overlooked this possibility :-)
- Doc file updated to fit the new order in configuration
- Batchselect now also supports assigned names
- DLL: Encountered another type of LHA archive (an old one ?) that did not work with PCOpus. I think it is time to get the LHA description from somewhere now !
- It is no longer possible to assign the same name to more than one directory. This was necessary to prevent confusion.
- Nearly any *INTERNAL* command that has anything to do with paths or filenames *should* accept assigned names
- Foreground color of the statusbar can be changed now, you may now use a completely black window background without problems
- Scrolling the button bank with the sliders has been sped up a little
- Buttons in Buttonbar and in Configure Buttons are dynamically loaded now, no unnecessary loss of resources !
- VB Calls added to button configuration. Please see there if you had problems starting programs that have special chars (ö,ü,ä,ß ...) in their paths (Tarkus)
- Split does no longer create 0 byte files if (original mod chunk)=0
- DLL-Version check implemented
- Sort by extension added. Well, it is not the fastest routine ... :-( (Sito) (not recommended is sorting a directory that contains *many* (around 500) files with the *same extension*. May take quite a *LONG* time !! Always set your 'sort-limit' right !)
- Textgadgets in userdefined requesters support double-click to open the filerequester now
- 'Presort Archives' was obsolete and has been removed
- Navigating inside archives has been sped up *immensely*, dupe names are removed, too (former problem with RAR archives).
- Directories inside archives had a size, the size of the first file inside this directory. This has been corrected. Dirs are 0 bytes now.

## Changes from 1.80c

- DLL: ARJ archives that were archived with -a1 contain directorynames that were not filtered out. They are now.
- Find Long Names added
- The size of the lines in the directory window and the font and size in the directory window can be changed now. I am not perfectly happy with it, though. Hope you share my opinion: better than nothing...
- A tooltip is now displayed for each line in the directory windows. This may help if some extremely long filenames exist or the display is on the far right and the name of the entry is invisible
- Since it is now possible to have very short fonts and therefor short distances between the lines in the filewindows, the cursor now stays invisible until it itself is moved, at least if Cursor follows click is off. This way you can keep your display readable !
- The Always in back and Always on Top require only a single click to toggle from one to another now. Well, you wanted it ! (Hander)
- If multiple configs should have been saved during only one activation of the menu and you selected 'All' when replacing an existing file, all other files that existed where replaced at once from then on (Hander)
- When the output list is visible, all command buttons are deactivated. Please close the list to continue working now. (Hander)
- Entering the Button-Configuration with around 600 Buttons led to an overflow. Fixed.
- The check for free space did not display the right amount of bytes if 'Display in Kilo-Bytes' or 'Display in Mega-Bytes' was activated
- Delete secure and Delete secure fast added (Dagobert Duck)
- Keypress moves directorydisplay now supports entering whole names, please see there for details (Speedcommander)
- PCOpus now supports ISO9660 Mode 1 imagefiles. No Mode 2 (XA) until now. FCD (Fast CD Personal Edition V1.0) Images are supported, too No compressed FCD images, though. Please see there for details !
- Added Mode 2 (XA) support for ISO images
- 900k .EXE limit surpassed :-)
- A bad bug has been removed that caused the files to get deleted that were selected in the active directory window if an archive was entered and this archive had files with the same name in the root directory. Sorry. Well, was never reported. A very seldom case anyway.
- PCOpus has been adjusted to run on screens with large fonts (Windows setting) correctly now. You may experience a slightly longer time to come ready, the window is resized to fit the new adjustments one time more if large fonts are activated (Janke)
- Menu has been made leaner
- The Evaluation version does no longer have those nasty light grey commandbackgrounds. Further *ALL* commands PCOpus supports are available at startup to prevent reviews like the one in PC-Welt 8/97 where the reviewers clearly did NOT understand the way PCOpus works. Well, thanks anyway, the responses where overwhelming (positively). Any publicity is good publicity ! Thanks to all people who dared to call and ask for the correct HTTP address !
- Selecting a buffer from inside an archive is possible now
- ASCII File Filter added
- Enter Commandline now supports short filenames for DOS commands, use '!' before name to get the short name.
- CloseList added
- Copy to ISO added. You may copy *INTO* ISO images now. Some restrictions, though. Please see there for details.
- Disable Timer added
- Copy to ISO supports Mode 2 (XA) ISO images now.
- Compare supports direct comparison out of ISO images now. PCOpus will not extract the files before comparing anymore, both Mode 1 and Mode 2 (XA) are supported. ISO support is complete now, if you want more things added, please mail.
- EMail address temporarily changed to MSIEGRIS@STUDENT.UNI-KL.DE due to some EMail problems. Sorry for any inconveniece ! Any user who EMailed to the previous address and got no answer, PLEASE re-mail !
- As you might know: there are different programs to burn CDs. And each one seems to have its own way of creating ISO9660 STANDARD Images. PCOpus is now compatible to EasyCD and Gear as far as we know. If you experience problems with certain CDs, please EMail.
- The User-Defined-Requesters now support multiple lines per command button, please see 'Example.req' for details.
- Requester: All command-buttons support pictures now. You may put any picture in the background of a button. See 'Example.req' for details.
- Some small (visual) problems removed from user-definded-requesters. No more problems with controls being visible that are not defined in the actual requester
- Requester now supports the usual ':' (like GotoDir) to state a filename directly
- Slowly I am beginning to understand those ISO images... All possible image-types *should* be covered now. Mode 1 Dir-Endings water-proof now :-)
- ISO-Image directory reading sped up
- Small bug removed. Files on not existing drives were reported as existing.

## Changes from 1.81a

- Timer is deactivated when files are copied/moved etc.
- FileInfo shows the actual filesize now, not the size the file had when the directory was read
- 'Swapspace' in title has been changed to 'Swapfile' and additionally shows the size of the actual swapfile now
- Virus Scan now gets the short name of the directory instead of the long name, making it compatible to 'old' DOS scan programs.
- Select - Select files now support '<' and '>' to select files larger or smaller than the given value
- <ISO9660 Image> and <FCD1.0 Image> are not supported inside of archives. You are told so now, the file will not be extracted when double-clicked.
- Autosense Filename length added (unknown)
- The windowtitle now shows the drive/path of the pagefile (swapfile), too. Directories other that the Windows directory are correctly recognized now.
- Find Long Names did not stop when 'Shift-ESC' was pressed.
- 'ISOCompare' tried to delete the files from the temporary directory it just compared. Overlooked this. Fiexd. Was not a problem anyway.
- Autosense Filename length works with archives now, too.
- Pressing and holding the right mousebutton in a directory window and moving the mouse scrolls the display now. Nice idea, quite convenient. (Mercy)
- Multi-Copy did not display 'Kilo-' or 'Mega-' before 'Bytes'
- Multi-Copy did not display the correct buffer after operation or cancel
- The possibility of a dead-lock seem to have been removed.
- 'Copy' extracts files directly added
- File Info now shows the program that is assigned under Win95 to this specific filetype

## Changes from 1.81b

- Bytecount is supported inside ISO Images now - it may take some time, though ...
- Hopefully the 'Midnight-Problem' (0:00:00) is fixed now.
- Strange problem removed that caused the current path to vanish when Bytecount inside ISO images was called...

## Changes from 1.81c

- DLL: it was possible in ARJ archives that an empty directory would not appear in the file/dir list
- Sort by Extension has been sped up immensely. Hope to have it in C soon, though.
- Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Extreme BUG prevented starting of PCOpus if the ButtonBank had more than 30 Buttons on startup. Should have tested this ! Really ! Sorry again ! (Rake)
- (Internal: Network compatibility has been revised to MK III, copy and delete should work on NT networks now, please check (Access))
- Clear 'Hidden' at once added
- There seems to be a bug or problem in RAR that causes RAR to search something if an archive is tested with a '-r' and inside the archive is a directory which is present in the same directory of the drive, too. Strange thing, I know. This is only a problem if the archive contains MANY files. Well, Recursive Directories is disabled for RAR files when testing archives now. Should be no problem, if it is, please mail !
- The user-defined requesters did not work if no picture was declared in the definition of the first button. Big bad bug !
- To be on the safe side, the maximum number of files in a D64-image has been reduced to 200. Maximum for a C64 floppydisk was 144 entries, so 200 should be enough. Some defective disks caused PCOpus to recurse endlessly. No more !
- The lower bar in the copy requester is updated during the copy process now.
- Updating of the lower bar in the copy requester has been changed: update only after every chunk of 2.000.000 Bytes, this should be enough and is faster, I think.
- Sort by Extension finally works in C, but was found slower than the optimized VB routine and has therefore been removed:-). But I hope to have the Quicksort in C soon, because of the experiences made with the 'Sort by Extension'.
- Documentation is now available in HTML format (as you may have seen already :-))
- (Networktestmode removed)
- PCOpus should now work on NT-Networks without some annoying messages you could have gotten before. The problems depended, as I found out, on the inability of NT to set the attributes of file to 0, which means: no attributes set. When deleting files, 'A'rchived is set now, when copying files, '0' is not set, this should work. (Access)
- 'Testmode' now works stable enough to mention it. If 'Testmode' is activated in Standard adjustments/Misc 2, PCOpus uses the DLL to sort directories by name and by size. We had some problems before, as it seems there was memory freed twice, which leads to oblivion, of course ! Any problem *should* be eliminated now. Hope so ! When I am sure, 'Testmode' will be removed and PCOpus will only use the DLL to sort the directory entries.
- After several days of intensive testing no problem was found using the DLL to sort directory entries. All sorting is done exclusively by the DLL now, 'Sort Limit' has been rendered nearly useless and will probably be removed in near future. Sorting is faaast now ! 'Testmode' stays in for future use, but has no function at the moment.
- {aXXX} accepts default entries now: {aXXX*!YYY}
- Copy Side works now when destination is a directory inside an archive, I overlooked this.
- Since RAR gets more common, also for long filenames, a new workaround was needed for a specific problem: WinRAR detaches itself from the calling process (i.e. PCOpus), and therefore the batchfile PCOpus created is finished. Now PCOpus thinks that the file it is looking for has been extracted. But WinRAR is still running. PCOpus can not access the files it needs and they are not displayed AND not deleted. This workaround forces PCOpus to wait until all files are extracted from a RAR archive and continues afterwards. If you decide to cancel WinRAR, PCOpus will have to be reactivated by force, click on 'Reactivate PCOpus'. This should not be necessary very often if you do not interact in any way. We still hope to have those extraction routines in the DLL sometime in the near future. Until then, please accept this workaround. Info: If you are extracting files with 0 Bytes (quite senseless, anyway), you will have to force reactivation !
- The Archive Requester now has additional options for every archiver-type , these settings are saved in the config-file. Now individual settings are possible.

## Changes from 1.81d

- Number of lines per external command changed from 11 to 51. Configuration files are no longer backwards compatible
- New command Set Option implemented (Hander)
- The Keypress option stops after each call of an archiver now when testing or viewing files. (Hander)
- Empty directories in Delete uses the Standard REquester now and has got a new button: 'All'. This one only takes effect when 'Delete' is called from inside an external command. If 'All' is chosen now, all further 'Delete' commands will delete the selected files without further request. Very useful for external commands.
- The main window has got a new checkbutton below the 'V' button. If this checkbutton is activated, the copy-requester will be launched in multitasking. This option is in early beta-state !. You can continue viewing pictures or readmes, but you can not launch a second copy-process. Some of the benefits, like selected error-files, the exact list of errors, the directory re-read, etc., will not work with this option on. Leave it off if you do not like it ! (Melkor)
- 'Fake Short Names in Archiv' has been removed. It did not work perfectly anyway. The support for the DLLs renders it useless.
- Support for the new archiver JAR added.
- Support for unzip32.dll and unrar.dll added. This makes extraction of RAR and ZIP archives really fast.
- Several small changes and bugfixes. Nothing spectacular.
- 'Sort-Limit' has been removed

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