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+Version 4.6.2-pre1.
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+
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+- Editor.
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+ - Prompt the user whether to detach a hardlinked file
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+ in "Quick save" mode.
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+ - Fix a bug which prevented the editor from creating a
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+ lock file in certain scenarios (bug #13673).
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+ - New shortcut - Ctrl+S. Allows the user to toggle
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+ syntax highlighting.
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+ - Allow the user to override the automatic syntax
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+ highlighting.
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+ - Duplicate hotkey fixes.
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+
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+- VFS.
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+ - extfs: Do not hang waiting for user input on password
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+ protected .rar archives.
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+ - extfs: Do not leave stale temporary files.
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+ - extfs: Add support for ALZip archives.
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+ - extfs: Properly retrieve the filesize of very large
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+ files stored inside a .zip archive.
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+ - extfs: Various quoting fixes.
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+ - extfs: Various improvements in deb, iso9660, mailfs, rpm, trpm.
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+
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+ - fish: Fix uploading of files with backtick characters in
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+ their names.
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+ - fish: Improve upload speed.
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+ - fish: Allow for retrieving files larger than 2 GB.
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+ - fish: Enable reget functionality.
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+ - fish: Use numerical uid/gid when retrieving the directory
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+ listing.
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+
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+ - ftpfs: Allow for entering non-readable directories.
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+ - ftpfs: Allow the user to interrupt the connection establishment.
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+ - ftpfs: Enable reget functionality.
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+ - ftpfs: `first_cd_then_ls' is the default mode for retrieving
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+ directory contents now.
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+
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+ - tarfs: Add support for long filenames as stored in
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+ ustar format archives.
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+ - tarfs: Allow for working with archives conforming to
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+ POSIX.1-2001 standard
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+
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+
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+Version 4.6.1.
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+
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+- Core functionality.
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+ - Bash < 2.05b no longer supported. For usage with bash < 2.05b fix
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+ subshell_name_quote() to use 3-digit octals.
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+
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+Version 4.6.1.
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+
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+- Core functionality.
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+ - Device numbers are displayed correctly.
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+ - Improved message formatting for i18n.
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+ - Recursive option added for internal grep.
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+
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+- Viewer.
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+ - Almost completely rewritten internal viewer.
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+ - mmap(2) support removed from internal viewer.
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+
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+- VFS.
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+ - Fixed device number handling.
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+ - zipfs can handle zip files that contain pathnames starting
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+ with "./".
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+ - Passive FTP over proxies is possible.
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+
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+- Miscellaneous.
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+ - Code cleanup in various places
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+
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+
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+Version 4.6.1-pre5.
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+
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+- Core functionality.
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+ - Fix double free in mc_maybe_editor_or_viewer().
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+ - Do not blindly cleanup in exit_subshell().
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+ - Fix blocking of panel cd-ing with white space command.
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+ - Fix mini status after first Ctrl-O.
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+ - Fix dynamic loading of Photon library for shift keys.
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+
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+- Security.
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+ - See also VFS.
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+
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+- Portability.
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+ - Added configuration files for Sun Solaris pkgmk(1).
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+
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+- Editor.
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+ - Fix position save bug.
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+ - Improve c.syntax.
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+ - Improve makefile.syntax.
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+ - Improve python.syntax.
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+ - Improve eiffel.syntax.
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+ - Improve syntax.syntax.
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+
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+- Viewer.
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+ - Add .7z archives extensions to mc.ext.in.
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+ - Add OpenOffice.org 2 extensions to mc.ext.in.
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+ - Recognize both .udeb and .deb as Debian packages.
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+
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+- Screen libraries.
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+ - Backport S-Lang fixes from HEAD.
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+
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+- VFS.
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+ - Extensive samba cleanup.
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+ - Fix possible crash on broken cpio archives.
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+ - Quote fixes in urar.in.
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+
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+- Translations.
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+ - Updated translations: German.
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+ - Updated translations: Italian.
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+
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+
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+Version 4.6.1-pre4.
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+
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+- Core functionality.
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+ - Fix X11 connection handling.
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+
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+- Editor.
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+ - Add syntax file for the x86 assembler.
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+ - Add syntax file for the Vision(tm) Ray Tracer.
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+ - Add syntax file for the CORBA IDL.
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+ - Add syntax file for the LUA programming language.
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+
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+
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+Version 4.6.1-pre3.
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+
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+- Core functionality.
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+ - Improve support for tcsh.
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+
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+- Translations.
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+ - Updated translations: Spain.
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+
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+
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+Version 4.6.1-pre2.
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+
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+Release candidate for 4.6.1.
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+
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+- Security.
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+ - Fixed CAN-2004-0226 (buffer overflows).
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+ - Fixed CAN-2004-0231 (unsafe temporary file and directory creation).
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+ - Fixed CAN-2004-0232 (format string vulnerablities).
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+ - cons.saver does not need to be setuid-root on Linux.
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+ - Hiding of FTP passwords.
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+
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+- Portability.
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+ - PC port has been removed.
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+ - Support for SCO UNIX has been removed.
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+ - Improve support for QNX Neutrino.
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+
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+- Core functionality.
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+ - Use 8bit input as default.
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+ - Better support for '@' in FTP usernames.
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+ - Better large file support (int -> off_t)
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+ - Add gnome, rxvt and xterm-new terminals (keyword copy for mc.lib).
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+ - Make the find dialog more responsive while scanning through large files.
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+ - Add implementation to cons.handler for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x.
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+ - Screen saving is now supported on FreeBSD console.
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+ - Hide temporary commands from history.
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+ - Add --with-glib12 option to configure to force using glib 1.2.x.
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+ - Add --disable-background option to disable background support.
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+ - Background support now uses pipes instead of UNIX sockets.
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+ - libX11 is loaded dynamically using gmodule if possible.
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+ - User is warned if one mc is run from another.
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+
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+- Screen libraries.
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+ - Add many boundary check into internal slang library.
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+ - Internal slang upgrade to 1.4.9.
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+ - Increased maximum screen size to 512 x 512.
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+ - Add support for qansi-m terminals.
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+
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+- Editor.
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+ - Fix bugs for mcedit compiled with ncurses.
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+ - New status string format in mcedit.
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+ - Support for large syntax files.
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+ - Temporarily disable safe save and backups on remote VFS
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+ because it doesn't work.
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+ - Enable user menu in mcedit.
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+ - Add syntax file for the ASP.NET technology.
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+ - Add syntax file for the Eiffel programming language.
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+ - Add syntax file for the Ruby programming language.
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+ - Add syntax file for the C# programming language.
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+ - Upgrade php.syntax file.
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+ - Improve sql.syntax file.
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+ - Improve perl.syntax.
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+ - Improve diff.syntax.
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+ - Improve makefile.syntax.
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+ - Add "define" keyword for syntax files.
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+
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+- VFS.
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+ - Full audit of quoting of parameters in vfs scripts (CAN-2004-0494).
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+ - Fixed CAN-2003-1023 (stack overflow in vfs_s_resolve_symlink).
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+ - Various fixes in tar.c.
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+ - VFS supports iso9660 images.
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+
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+- Translations.
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+ - New translations: Mongolian, Serbian and Lithuanian.
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+ - Updated translations: Ukrainian, Italian, Hungarian.
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+
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+
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+Version 4.6.0.
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+
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+- Core functionality.
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+ - Fixed infinite loop under xterm if xterm is forcedly closed.
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+
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+- Portability.
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+ - ncurses can be found even if it's renamed to curses (OpenBSD).
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+ - Warning fixes for 64-bit systems.
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+
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+
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+Version 4.6.0-pre3.
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+
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+Another release candidate for 4.6.0.
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+
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+- Core functionality.
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+ - ".." is no longer shown in the root directory.
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+ - Fixed segmentation fault when processing truncated
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+ section header in the corrupted initialization file.
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+
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+- Screen libraries.
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+ - Fixed incorrect processing of AltGr on Linux console
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+ introduced in -pre2.
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+
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+- Documentation.
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+ - Fixed a bug in man2hlp that could randomly prevent correct
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+ generation of the help files.
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+ - Added manual page for mcview.
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+
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+
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+Version 4.6.0-pre2.
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+
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+Release candidate for 4.6.0.
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+
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+- Security.
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+ - mc now creates its own temporary directory /tmp/mc-$USER.
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+ If it fails or permissions are wrong, the user is warned.
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+
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+- Portability.
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+ - mc now complies with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard and
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+ uses @prefix@/share/mc for the data files.
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+ - Support for glib 2.0.x has been added.
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+ - glib 1.2 is now properly detected on FreeBSD.
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+
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+- Core functionality.
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+ - Fixed segmentation fault when displaying messages from
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+ background operations.
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+ - When using support for setting the last working directory of
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+ mc in the parent shell, "mc" is now an alias in all shells,
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+ not a function. The "-P" option needs an argument now.
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+ - Alt-O sets the same directory on the other panel.
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+ - Current directory is shown in the xterm window title.
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+
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+- Screen libraries.
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+ - Screen library is now selected by the option --with-screen.
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+ - X11 support is enabled by default, use --without-x to disable.
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+ - The keycode now contains information about all screen
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+ modifiers. This allows to implement more shortcuts, but this
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+ work has just begun.
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+ - Included S-Lang library has been updated to version 1.4.5.
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+ - Mouse wheel is supported in the internal editor and viewer in
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+ xterm compatible terminals that implement wheel events.
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+
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+- Editor.
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+ - Internal editor now saves the cursor position in the file.
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+ - New syntax rules - RPM specfile, m4.
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+ - Editor shows control characters in the caret notation.
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+
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+- VFS.
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+ - Most extfs scripts have been reviewed and improved.
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+ - Fixed viewing and editing files on mcfs.
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+ - Support for termnet and HSC firewall has been removed.
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+
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+- Documentation.
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+ - Polish manual has been added.
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+
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+Version 4.6.0-pre1.
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+
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+- Security release. Massive code cleanup. Most improvements didn't
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+ need any significant amount of the new code.
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+
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+- Security.
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+ - Fixes for remotely exploitable buffer overflows in VFS.
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+
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+- Ports and editions.
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+ - GNOME edition has been removed.
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+ - OS/2 port has been removed.
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+ - MAD (Memory Allocation Debugger) has been removed.
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+
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+- Core functionality.
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+ - Large file support enabled by default.
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+ - Shift-F5 and Shift-F6 copy and rename like F5 and F6, but
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+ suggest the selected filename as the destination.
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+ - File search with contents doesn't use external egrep.
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+ - Directories with many files are now reloaded much faster.
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+ - Subshell works under Cygwin.
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+
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+- Screen libraries.
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+ - Improved support for ncurses.
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+ - Dropped support for the old Curses library.
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+ - Colors are enabled on all capable terminals when using S-Lang.
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+ - Syntax highlighting now works with ncurses.
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+
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+- Editor.
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+ - Editor files are now stored in ~/.mc/cedit instead of ~/.cedit
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+ to avoid collision with Cooledit.
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+ - New syntax rules - PHP, Tcl, SQL, DOS batch file.
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+ - Editor supports word completion.
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+
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+- VFS.
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+ - Local temporary file is used for uploading via ftpfs/fish only
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+ if file is uploaded to the same ftp/fish server.
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+ - mcfs support is disabled by default.
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+ - Samba configuration and codepage files locations can be
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+ configured.
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+ - .netrc support in ftpfs is enabled by default.
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+ - Viewing zip files could corrupt them.
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+
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+- Documentation.
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+ - Added manuals in Spanish, Italian and Russian.
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+ - Help files are not distributed, but generated during the
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+ build from the manual pages.
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+
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+- Translations.
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+ - Belarussian translation has been added.
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+
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+
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+Version 4.5.55
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+
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+- Mostly bugfixes and portability fixes. Making things work as they
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+ were meant to work.
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+
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+- Text edition improvements.
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+ - Ctrl-O supported in the viewer and editor.
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+ - Better terminal support. Should not need "Learn Keys" on rxvt
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+ and xterm in most cases.
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+
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+- GNOME edition improvements.
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+ - Find dialog rewritten.
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+ - Editor and viewer ask whether to save modified file when
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+ closed from window manager.
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+
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+- Editor.
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+ - New syntax rules - S-Lang, PO files, Octave.
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+ - Alt-B goes to matching bracket.
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+
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+- Portability improvements.
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+ - Should compile out-of-box on Cygwin and QNX Neutrino.
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+ - Can be compiled by BSD make.
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+ - Subshell and VFS code are safer and more portable.
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+
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+- Experimental features (disabled by default).
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+ - Charset conversion support.
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+ - Large (64-bit) file support on 32-bit systems.
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+
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+
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+Version 4.5
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+
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+- Too many new features to list.
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+
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+- This is the last version to be actively maintained. The GNOME
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+ edition is in stabilization and maintenance phase only. A new file
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+ manager is being written for the GNOME project.
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+
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+
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+Version 3.5
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+
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+- New hotlist code.
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+ - The bookmark code has been completely revamped and now it supports
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+ folders. New format for the hot list file.
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+ - It is possible to copy a selected path name into the input line
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+ (C-Enter).
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+
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+- Tk enhancements.
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+ - New built in GUI designer to help developers modify the look
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+ of the program at run time (no penalty for users).
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+ - Many dialog boxes now work.
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+ - Right button now pops up a context sensitive action menu.
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+ - Added many visual enhancements.
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+ - The Tk edition is not yet finished though.
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+
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+- File management.
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+ - Now we do background copy and move operations.
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+ (you can ftp your files in the background now, for example).
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+
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+- Built in text editor
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+ - This is an easy to use text editor with pull-down menus.
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+ The features it presently supports are: Block copy, move,
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+ delete, cut, paste; key for key undo; file insertion; macro
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+ definition; regular expression search and replace (and our
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+ own scanf-printf search and replace); shift-arrow MSW-MAC
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+ text highlighting (for the Linux console only);
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+ insert-overwrite toggle; and an option to pipe text blocks
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+ through shell commands like indent.
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+
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+ Comes with Emacs keybindings as well.
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+
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+ mcedit is a link to mc which bring it up in editor mode.
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+
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+- FTP File system
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+ - Many fixes and enhancements, better support for proxy
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+ machines.
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+ - Now we support both active and passive opens.
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+ - Estimated time of arrival for ftp transfers.
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+ - stalled detection.
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+ - Much better support for proxies.
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+ - ftp URLs now allow a password to be provided.
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+
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+- ext2fs Undelete File system
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+ - Minor enhancements.
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+
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+- TAR File system
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+ - Now we flush the tarfs if the tar file has been modified
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+
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+- External File systems:
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+ - Speeded up RPM file system.
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+ - New LHA file system.
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+ - New ARC file system.
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+ - New DEB file system (for those users of Debian).
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+ - New RAR file system.
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+ - Fixed problems with different zipfs.
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+
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+- MC file system:
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+ - We get can use a mc file system by using either mc: or mc:// prefixes.
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+
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+- Viewer changes:
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+ - Now we include a program that preprocesses mail if you view it
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+ so, you get colored mails in the viewer.
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+ - A simple ruler has been implemented (press Alt-r to enable it).
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+
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+- New hex editor
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+ - Now you can do hex editions in your files with a single keystroke.
|
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|
+ (invoke it by using the hex-viewer and then clicking on edit).
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+
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+- Find file command:
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|
|
+ - Now we can search inside files using a piped grep (particularly
|
|
|
+ interesting to search inside virtual file system: tar files,
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|
|
+ tar files on remote ftp sites, or searching information on an
|
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|
+ ftp site)
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+
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+- Widgets:
|
|
|
+ - Input lines now support control-left, control-right movement on the
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|
+ Linux console.
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+
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+- Extension file:
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|
+ - We now support extra entries in a given rule with the Include=
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|
+ tag.
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+
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+- Ports:
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+ - Windows NT, Windows 95 by Juan Grigera
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+ - OS/2 by Alexander Dong.
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+
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+
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+- Many many many bug fixes and memory leaks have been fixed.
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+
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+
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+Version 3.2
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+
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+- External File system:
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+ - Mtools file system works.
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+ - New Cpio file system.
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+ - New RPM file system.
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+
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+- FTP file system:
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|
+ - support for HSC firewall
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+
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+- Lots of subshell fixes
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+
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+- Regexp-extension:
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+ - Editing of non-local files works now.
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+
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+- Bunch of bug fixes.
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+
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+- Panelize now works properly.
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+
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+- Can work on Nextstep now.
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+
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+- Windows NT port by Juan Grigera.
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+
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+- Midnight Commander file system server:
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|
+ - Fixed errno handling in the server.
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|
+ - Fixed time handling in the server.
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+ - Better caching.
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+ - Works with PAM if supported on the system.
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+
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+Version 3.1
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+
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+This has been finished:
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+
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+- Enhanced ftpfs:
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+ - Displays progress bars.
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+ - Supports Netware and Windows NT servers
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+ - Better support for symlinked files.
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+ - Handles those warez sites file names.
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+ - Increase the directory cache timeout.
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+ - Cache flushing (C-r)
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|
|
+ - If you append a /~ to the directory, you will log into your home
|
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|
+ directory (this is done by default if you use the menus to connect).
|
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+ - More robust.
|
|
|
+- Subshell fixes (it should not hang any longer).
|
|
|
+ - Fixes prompt handling for zsh and tcsh users.
|
|
|
+ - Fixes variable expansion for tcsh (now you may edit files).
|
|
|
+ - Rewrote the sync code between the parent and child, should not hang
|
|
|
+ any longer.
|
|
|
+- Better command completion.
|
|
|
+- Keypad handling enhanced:
|
|
|
+ - Special key treatment for +, -, \ and now may be configure to
|
|
|
+ only take place if you do not have a command typed in.
|
|
|
+ - Now the + and \ bindings when ran on the Linux console work
|
|
|
+ may use the keypad and M-+ and M-\ and leave the + and \ keys
|
|
|
+ free.
|
|
|
+- Better handling of the line drawing chars on OSF/1 and AIX.
|
|
|
+- Enhanced tar/compressed tar file systems.
|
|
|
+- Global kill ring.
|
|
|
+- Added undelete feature for Linux systems: now you may recover deleted files
|
|
|
+ on ext2 file systems with the Undelete file system.
|
|
|
+- Symlink commands (for symlink lovers).
|
|
|
+ see the docs on C-x C-r, C-x C-l, C-x C-s keystrokes.
|
|
|
+- New macros:
|
|
|
+ %b and %B return the basename of the selected filename
|
|
|
+ %var{ENV-VAR} expands to the contents of ENV-VAR variable.
|
|
|
+- MC may be invoked as a viewer (mc -f flag).
|
|
|
+- Added Unicode support on the Linux console (run with mc -N)
|
|
|
+- Tons of bug fixes, the code is cleaner and hopefully
|
|
|
+- Allow a vfs pathname to be passed as a startup directory.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+This is a list of people that put their effort into making the 3.1
|
|
|
+release:
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+Adam Tla/lka, Antonio Palama, Carl Thompson, Ching Hui, Dugan Porter, Gerd
|
|
|
+Knorr, Ilya Rybkin, Jakub Jelinek, Janne Kukonlehto, Juan Grigera, Juan Jose
|
|
|
+Ciarlante, John Davis, Marcelo Fabian Roccasalva, Perry Francis Nguyen,
|
|
|
+Sergey Ya Korshunoff Steven Hirsch, Thanh Ma and Torben Fjerdingstad.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+Version 3.0
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+This has been finished:
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Virtual File System: You now can browse tar, compressed tar and
|
|
|
+ file systems over the network as if they were local subdirectories;
|
|
|
+- Slang support, you don't need ncurses anymore (but you can still compile
|
|
|
+ with ncurses, if you want).
|
|
|
+- New mc.ext format, for details see the sample mc.ext file provided.
|
|
|
+- Append option if you try to copy/move a file onto already existing one.
|
|
|
+- Internal cd command uses CDPATH variable if set (like in BASH).
|
|
|
+- Find file command is much faster.
|
|
|
+- External panelize command - finding files using unlimited number of
|
|
|
+ criteria - actually spawns an external command and it can be find, awk,
|
|
|
+ grep -l or anything else.
|
|
|
+- Learn keys makes setting up of mc on terminals with broken
|
|
|
+ terminfo/termcap databases easier. It just asks you to press keys which
|
|
|
+ are not working.
|
|
|
+- Advanced chown command.
|
|
|
+- C-PgUp and C-PgDn takes you to the previous and currently selected
|
|
|
+ directory respectively on the Linux console.
|
|
|
+- You can choose between 7 data bits, iso-latin-1 (0-127+160-255) or
|
|
|
+ other (0-255).
|
|
|
+- Confirmation for overwriting, deleting and exiting added.
|
|
|
+- Viewer has growing buffers.
|
|
|
+- Filename, username, hostname and variable completion (M-Tab) on all
|
|
|
+ input lines plus command completion on appropriate places of command
|
|
|
+ line.
|
|
|
+- Following of symlinks at changing directory.
|
|
|
+- Viewer now supports bold faces and underlines, and it fits the
|
|
|
+ information on the screen better. Now you can also specify the starting
|
|
|
+ mode for the viewer depending on the contents of the viewed file.
|
|
|
+- Mask rename and copy.
|
|
|
+- Colors now let you specify the intensity of the colors you want.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+This is being worked on:
|
|
|
+- Virtual File System: FTP file system.
|
|
|
+- Tcl/Tk and XView versions of the program (preliminary versions are
|
|
|
+ up and running).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+Version 2.0
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+Now users are able to define their own display
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- User defined display formats.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ Now you can configure the file display to suit your needs.
|
|
|
+ For example, you can say which information you want to see displayed
|
|
|
+ instead of our defaults.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- User definable program layout.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ Panels could be shown vertically or horizontally;
|
|
|
+ panels could be different sizes, you can hide or show most
|
|
|
+ program windows (command line, keybar or menubar).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Output window.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ Now, it's possible to see part of the last program output on the Linux
|
|
|
+ console without having to switch screens via an option in the layout
|
|
|
+ menu.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- New View modes:
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ Quick view: as you browse your files, each one is displayed on
|
|
|
+ the other panel on the idle time.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ Tree view: let's you browse your directories by traveling a tree.
|
|
|
+ We have two traveling modes available. And the tree does
|
|
|
+ not take your precious time: it's build on the fly, as you
|
|
|
+ browse your disk (you can always loose your time if you
|
|
|
+ want to :-).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ Info view: Gives you information on the currently select file and
|
|
|
+ the current file system as you move.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ User view: Let's you define a directory listing and the format you
|
|
|
+ want to use.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- New subshell support (concurrent shell execution)
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ The Midnight Commander will now spawn one copy of the shell, so you
|
|
|
+ get better performance and you can use shell functions, define variables
|
|
|
+ and execute complete shell commands. Supported shells: bash, zsh and
|
|
|
+ tcsh. If your shell is not supported, then the old mode is still
|
|
|
+ available.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Dialog box manager
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ Almost all the new configuration options are configured with this
|
|
|
+ new dialog manager, easy to use if you are familiar with dialog boxes
|
|
|
+ in DOS and Windows.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ Available widgets: check buttons, buttons, radio buttons,
|
|
|
+ input lines and list boxes (So you can take our code and use it on
|
|
|
+ your applications).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- New option configuration.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ Now the program options are configured with a dialog box.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Chmod and Chown commands:
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ For changing permissions as well as ownership of files and
|
|
|
+ directories, uses our new dialog manager.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Color customization support
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ Now you can change the default color of the program with any of
|
|
|
+ these:
|
|
|
+ environment variable, Colors section in the init file (colors per
|
|
|
+ terminal type) and command line.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- User menu and extension enhancements:
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ Execution understand the %t macro (tagged files).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ User menu also has a new macro to let the user specify options.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ You can hide and show entries in the user menus by using conditions.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ Auto detect best match depending on a regexp.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Viewer:
|
|
|
+ Goto line command,
|
|
|
+ horizontal scrolling,
|
|
|
+ on the fly decompression (and we don't eat unneeded cycles of CPU),
|
|
|
+ allow non gunzip operation.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Internal move command:
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ Now, we don't rely anymore on system commands in /bin, so the
|
|
|
+ program is more robust and is much faster. Bunches of code come
|
|
|
+ from the GNU fileutils.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- The Tree view and normal views allows wrapped incremental searches of
|
|
|
+ file names.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Mask rename:
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ Now it's possible to do things like rename *.pas in *.bak
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Compare directories command
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Allow panels to be in Long mode without forcing the user to a single panel.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ (You can even have two long panels).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- F10, C-g cancels as well as ESC ESC.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Improved help system.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ We updated and spelled the help system and added a lots of links.
|
|
|
+ The Web page is constructed with the same tools.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Allows tagging of directories:
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ Now you can copy, rename, move and delete complete directories. You
|
|
|
+ are not limited anymore to files.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- View output (screen save/restore) on Linux console.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ On old Linux systems, only b&w is supported, on newer Linux systems
|
|
|
+ (1.1.67 and newer), we also support color screen save/restore and
|
|
|
+ cursor positions.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- 8 bit clean support.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Visual feedback while i-searching files.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Much more intuitive, you have to use it.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- It's better than aspirin.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- New memory allocation debugger.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ During testing time, we used a powerful memory allocation debugger,
|
|
|
+ so the program will not eat all your memory, and will make a good use of
|
|
|
+ your memory.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Now it also runs on hppa-hp-hpux9, hppa-hp-hpux7, m68k-apple-aux and
|
|
|
+ sparc-sun-netbsd1.0. The best platform to run it is Linux, of course,
|
|
|
+ since that's where most of us develop it.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Inode sort option.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Nice progress status indicator.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+ We have two of them: a moving dash indicator and a progress bar
|
|
|
+ indicator for file operations.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+Version 0.15
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Uses GNU autoconf.
|
|
|
+ Currently, it has been ported to this configurations:
|
|
|
+ i386-*-linux1.0
|
|
|
+ i386-*-linux1.1
|
|
|
+ mips-sgi-irix5.2
|
|
|
+ mips-dec-ultrix4.3
|
|
|
+ rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5
|
|
|
+ sparc-sun-sunos4.1
|
|
|
+ sparc-sun-solaris2.3
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Improvements to the internal file viewer:
|
|
|
+ Wrap/Unwrap mode.
|
|
|
+ Hex mode.
|
|
|
+ Hex searches.
|
|
|
+ Now you can view compressed files (gzip, compress, zip, pack and lzh).
|
|
|
+ Performance enhancements, now it's much faster.
|
|
|
+ Works on systems without mmap.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Mouse Support now also works on xterms.
|
|
|
+ If you run in the Linux console, you will still need the gpm mouse server
|
|
|
+ to use the mouse support, but if you use xterms, then you're lucky
|
|
|
+ and can use the mouse support when using xterms.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Help system and man page.
|
|
|
+ Both were updated and has many more hypertext links inside, the
|
|
|
+ help system can also be used with a mouse.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- If running on xterms, now you can see the output of the last program
|
|
|
+ you ran by using the C-o key combination.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Switch panels command (C-u)
|
|
|
+- With filter command per panel.
|
|
|
+- With auto mounting/umounting on chdir feature.
|
|
|
+- cd now expands tildes (~, ~user).
|
|
|
+- Much more portable.
|
|
|
+- Many bugs were fixed.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+Version 0.14
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Now can handle directories with an unlimited number of files.
|
|
|
+- New link and symlink commands (C-x l, C-x s).
|
|
|
+- New insert tagged files or selection command (C-x t).
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+Version 0.13
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Behave more like the Norton Commander.
|
|
|
+- Added menu file edit.
|
|
|
+- If there is no permission to load a directory, now it loads a dummy
|
|
|
+ directory.
|
|
|
+- When a panel is re-sorted, keep the selected file selected.
|
|
|
+- forward_word and backward_word command on the input line now skip
|
|
|
+ over letters and numbers.
|
|
|
+- Fixed backward scrolling in the internal viewer.
|
|
|
+- The internal viewer now computes the percentage in a more natural
|
|
|
+ way.
|
|
|
+- Added handling of the Home and End keys to the internal viewer
|
|
|
+- Bug fixes.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+Version 0.12
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Preliminary support for System V compilation.
|
|
|
+- Bug fix: didn't call closedir in all cases.
|
|
|
+- bug fixes.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+Version 0.11
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Support cd -.
|
|
|
+- Corrected Makefile.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+Version 0.10
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Added new Alt-G, Alt-H, Alt-J to select the top file, middle file
|
|
|
+ and bottom file in the current panel.
|
|
|
+- Now it's allowed to select option in query boxes by the first initial
|
|
|
+- Fixed mouse repeat rate.
|
|
|
+- Fixed a bug that prevent copying individual files to another file.
|
|
|
+- Some minor bug fixes.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+Version 0.9
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Mouse Support.
|
|
|
+- Internal Copy command (it no longer uses cp).
|
|
|
+- Verbose Copying of files.
|
|
|
+- Confirmation on Overwrite and on Delete.
|
|
|
+- Support reverse sorting.
|
|
|
+- Many visual enhancements.
|
|
|
+- Per panel options are saved and restored.
|
|
|
+- New truncation of names in the panels.
|
|
|
+- History in Input Lines (M-p and M-n).
|
|
|
+- Input line enhancements.
|
|
|
+- Dialog boxes are nicer than before.
|
|
|
+- Cache in gid and uid translators.
|
|
|
+- More keybindings for the Input lines.
|
|
|
+- Better kill management in Input Lines.
|
|
|
+- Bug fixes.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+Version 0.8
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- The online help now comes with the complete man page.
|
|
|
+- Input lines now support M-b and M-f for movement by word.
|
|
|
+- Unlimited input lines (command line).
|
|
|
+- Filename searches now must be started with C-s or M-s.
|
|
|
+- Many bug fixes.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+Version 0.7
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- The stat() reloading optimization is now a configuration option.
|
|
|
+- Many bug fixes went to the find file command.
|
|
|
+- New history in the hypertext viewer.
|
|
|
+- ESC-Tab will copy the name of the other-panel selected file to the
|
|
|
+ input line.
|
|
|
+- Now it's possible to display files and directories mixed together or
|
|
|
+ separated (like the Norton Commander).
|
|
|
+- Many bug fixes, see the ChangeLog for details.
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+Version 0.6
|
|
|
+
|
|
|
+- Extension dependent execution implemented (now you can execute
|
|
|
+ things like tar tzvf over compressed tar files, just a tap in the
|
|
|
+ Enter key).
|
|
|
+- Added simple expansion of useful variables in the user menu.
|
|
|
+- Avoid unnecessary reloading of subdirectories using stat (suggested
|
|
|
+ by Torben Fjerdingstad <tfj@olivia.ping.dk>).
|
|
|
+- Added options to disable colors and display version number.
|
|
|
+- Allow start up directory specification (ex: mc /usr/local/bin /tmp).
|
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+- Fixed bug that operated on the selection instead of the tagged file
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+(when only one file was tagged).
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+- Some cosmetic changes.
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+- Bug fixes.
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+Version 0.5
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+- Fixed bug in the help browser that crashed the program.
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+- New internal viewer.
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+- New long directory listing format.
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+- some bug fixes.
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+
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+Version 0.4
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+
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+- User Menus (F2 key).
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+- Quick search of files in a panel (Alt-filename takes you to that file).
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+- Char quoting (C-q).
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+- exec() enhancements.
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+- now you can suspend the program (C-z).
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+- The find file command now seems to be very stable.
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+- misc bug fixes.
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+Version 0.3
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+
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+- Setup loading/saving.
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+- Support for any size screen.
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+- Many, many bug fixes.
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Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service