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Source: Leif-Erik Larsen (leifel@online.no)
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The Larsen Commander program has reached its fourth public release, 
which is version 0.94. Point your browser to

   http://home.sol.no/~leilarse/lcmd/index.html

if you are interested in taking a look or download it.


Some facts about Larsen Commander
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Larsen Commander is a 32-Bit OS/2 Presentation Manager based File 
Manager with built in command line and scrollable console monitor. 
It has a default look and feel that is designed with inspiration 
from the grand old Norton Commander for DOS and the great File Commander 
for OS/2.

 *   Nice, attractive and highly customizable look and feel.
 *   The program actually works very well, and it is quick too.
 *   Powerful and user friendly at the same time.
 *   Built in GUI Console and Command Line Prompt with History.
 *   All standard file management commands; copy, move, delete, etc.
 *   You can SET environment variables directly in the shell.
 *   Preserves the Command and Directory History between sessions.
 *   File Columns are no wider than the widest item of the respective 
     Column.
 *   Platform independent human editable INI-file.
 *   Easy creation of Program and Shadow Objects on Desktop.
 *   Built in command line commands: PUSHD, POPD, R, SET, TAG, WHICH, +++
 *   All built in commands can be disabled on a per-command basis.
 *   Almost all commands are accessable by keyboard shortcuts.
 *   Directory Cache with smart CD command.
 *   Built in Extended Attribute Viewer.
 *   Smart Program Launching.
 *   Toolbar bubble help.


Changes since the previous public release
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Add: New section "[NoneConsoleProgs]" in LCMD.INI contains a list which
     programs should always be launched in a new session. See LCMD.TXT
     for more info.

Add: Use SHIFT+F7 to goto the previous directory of the current file panel.
     This feature makes it very snappy to jump between two "working"
     directories.

Imp: The standard message box of LCMD now shows the message text in a
     multiline text entry field with a vertical scroll bar so that all the
     text can be seen (by scrolling it) in case it is too long.

Imp: Rewrote some parts of the program launcher code. Larsen Commander is
     now, at least in theory, ready to support launching and management of
     more than one child process at once. I will, however, limit the number
     of active children to only one until further notice. This is mostly due
     to the extra risks for serious unknown bugs as a consequence of the
     relative complex code.

Imp: System command interpreter no longer assumed to be CMD.EXE. Is now
     fetched from the COMSPEC environment variable as it should.

Imp: The "Choose Drive" dialog is now much more snappy to pop up after
     the first time it has been used.

Chg: Now compiled for the 80386 processor rather than for 80486. This has no
     practical effects to the speed of Larsen Commander at all, but it caused
     the size of the EXE-file to be reduced by about 10 KBytes before 
     compression.

Chg: The ALT key must now be released before 250ms after it was pressed to
     get the menu bar activated by keyboard. This used to be 500ms until now.

Chg: Some cosmetic changes on the size of the three dialogs: Command History,
     Directory History and Directory Cache.

Chg: Changed the icon on the MOVE button of the toolbar. I think this new one
     is a bit more intuitive. The old one looked like an icon for creating a
     shaddow object.

Fix: Enlarged the stack of the filename reader thread of the file panels to
     prevent a "stack overflow" that sometimes did occur upon startup on some
     systems.

Fix: In some very rare situations the toolbar buttons did execute their
     respective command when mouse button was released even if the button
     was initially pressed on some other window than the Larsen Commander
     window.

Fix: The "Free Drive Space" item in the INFO panel was almost never updated
     within a Larsen Commander session. Now updates upon every directory
     reread.

Fix: Did not react when user tried to adjust the height of the file panels
     by dragging the bottom frame of the panels in full "screen" mode.

Fix: Sometimes crashed due to insufficient stack space when showing an
     error message during a copy or move progress.

Fix: When move or copy only the current selected file or directory then the
     selection annoyingly changed to the file just obove the originally
     selected.

Fix: Finally fixed the serious bug that Larsen Commander did not
     prevent the user from trying to copy or move a parent directory into
     it self or any of its descendant subdirectories.

Fix: Some of the columns in the FULL mode sometimes was calculated to be
     to narrow.

Fix: Some PM programs was unable to start from the command line, including
     the Larsen Commander executable it self.

Fix: Could not view (F3) or edit (F4) a file while a child program was being
     run from the command line, until the child program terminated.

Fix: If a program was launched by pressing enter on a program file object in
     a file panel when a child program was still executing in the command
     line, then the command line did not restore back to its normal color
     when the child program finished.

Fix: Tab characters was not expanded in the console monitor.

Fix: Text "Flat Toolbar Buttons" in options dialog View->Style was cut on
     some screens.

Fix: If the console minitor contained any selected text then the selection
     was annoyingly extended whenever any new text was appended to it.

Fix: Only the first mouse click was handled by the toolbar buttons if mouse
     was not moved between two or more clicks.

Fix: Removed som painting bugs from the toolbar window.

Fix: Failed to edit (F4) or view (F3) files that was contained in a directory
     which name contained one or more spaces.

Fix: "Calculate Dir Size" sometimes did never say "Finished!" if multiple
     file and directories was tagged.

Fix: The exception dump in the console munitor that alwas occured the first
     time an external program was run from the command line, is now removed.

Fix: Sometimes crashed when selecting "Previous Command" from popup menu
     of command line.
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