The Larsen Commander file manager for OS/2 Warp has reached its eight public release, which is version 0.98B (lcmd098.zip, 408Kb) . You can download it from Leif-Erik Larsen website clicking the URL below:

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

Special Report/Larsen Commander>@@@
(Since the first release - Illustrated)

Larsen Commander is a fine 32-Bit GUI File Manager for OS/2 Warp that has
a "look and feel" that is much like the famous Norton Commander. The most
notable difference is that Larsen Commander is pure GUI and still has a
built in command line and a scrollable console monitor.
Powerful, nice and snappy.

Changes since the previous public release
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Add: Command aliases.

Add: A new column in FULL-mode now shows the EA-size of each file item.

Add: Fancy menues with icons.

Add: Toggle buttons in the options dialog that makes it possible for the
     user to choose if he want the fancy menues or not.

Add: Size of current selected directory is now displayed in the panel info bar
     if CTRL-Q (Calculate Directory Size) has recently been performed on
     that directory.

Add: User customizable toolbar. The toolbar is now defined in the LCMDRC.RC
     Resource Script, of where it can be edited and customized by the user.

Add: User editable icons.
     All the internal icons are now implemented as icons in the LCMDRC.RC
     Resource Script file rather than native icon resources. This makes the
     EXE-file smaller and ensures some additional level of user customization
     support and platform independence.

Add: In the directory chooser dialog of the directory cache you can now
     double click on a directory to activate it.

Add: Non-console (TTY-) apps/commands can now be maintained in the options
     dialog.

Add: Show list of supported command line parameters if started
     with "-?" or "/?".

Add: Initial directories can now be given by command line
     parameters "-leftDir" and "-rightDir". For instance:
     "LCMD.EXE -leftDir c:\desktop -rightDir d:\".

Add: The startup directory can now be specified for each file panel
     in the options dialog. You can also specify that the startup directory
     should be the "current" directory. This is useful when starting the
     Larsen Commander from the command line, for instance.

Add: New option for the two File Panels: Show Columns Bar on/off.

Add: Environment variables and aliases can now be maintained in the
     options dialog box.

Add: Working directory can now be specified to the various programs in
     the "Programs" page in the options dialog.

Imp: Command line now translates the LEFT and RIGHT keyboard codes when the
     view mode of the current file panel is WIDE, or when the horizontal
     scrollbar range is zero.

Imp: Polished the default attributes (text color, font, size, etc.) of the
     folder object that is created by the installation script, LCMDINST.CMD.

Imp: Position of file items, such as location of the current selected item
     and the index of which is the first visible item/column/etc., was
     changed when toggling file panels on/off using ESC or CTRL+O.

Imp: Toggling the INFO panel with CTRL+L is now much more snappy. Espessially
     in case there are a lot of files in the directory represented by the
     INFO panel.

Imp: Repaint improvements in the INFO panel.

Imp: Various improvements regarding painting algorithms to prevent som
     unnecessary painting that used to cause som uggly flashing. Espessially
     in the console monitor when toggling the file panels on and off, and in
     the command line when pressing TAB to jump between the two panels.

Imp: Directory caches are now stored in separate external text files, rather
     than in the LCMD.INI file. This makes Larsen Commander load and exit
     remarkable faster, and the RAM usage is about 20-40% lower.

Imp: The command line parser has been improved by many means. Among others, it
     now understads the redirection characters in a better and safer way.

Chg: The keyboard codes next to menu items are now painted in a dark
     gray color. This makes it easier to distinct the keyboard codes from
     the menu text.

Chg: Don't dismiss the search dialog in case there are no matching text in
     console monitor during text search (SHIFT+F3).

Chg: The menu for the left and for the right file panel, and the options menu,
     are more clearly set up.

Chg: Changed the default colors of the headerbar of the inactive file panel.
     Now using white text on a dark gray background, to make it more visually
     to the user which is the active/inactive file panel.

Chg: The programs "OS2SCAN.EXE" and "WATCHCAT.EXE" was added to the default
     list of non-console programs.

Chg: The "Programs" parameter macros was changed: %d ==> !d, %p ==> !p,
     %1 ==> !l, %2 ==> !r and %h ==> !h.

Fix: Closing the "Stored Directories" by clicking on the window close button
     erronously activated directory #2.

Fix: Inserting filename with one or more space characters
     upon CTRL+TAB (cmdAutoFilenameForeward) caused some strange behaviour.

Fix: When a file has no EAs the "File Details" dialog always
     displayed "EA size: 2".

Fix: Command Line was not properly repainted when File Panels was toggled off
     and Command Line was invisible.

Fix: Selection moved down when pressing the WIN-key.

Fix: Main window size and position was not stored
     if "Save Main Window Position and Size" was off and "Save Everything"
     was on, in "Options", "Jump to...", "Various...", "Save on exit...".

Fix: Impossible to change the colors of the Command Line Prompt area using
     the OS/2 Color palette.

Fix: User customized colors of the Command Line was not correctly activated
     upon program startup.

Fix: Tagging a directory item that was recently calculated using
     CTRL-Q (Calculate Directory Size) caused in incorrect size to be
     reported.

Fix: Console monitor search (SHIFT+F3) did not always find all occurences
     at end of line.

Fix: Copy/move progress bar was not initially activated. This could cause some
     rather dangerous situations in case the user did anything on the keyboard
     before clicking on the progress bar window. This bug was also on a few
     other modal dialog windows.

Fix: Scrollbars was not always updated when activating INFO-mode using CTRL-L.

Fix: Mouse click on the info-bar of a file panel did not activate
     the corresponding file panel.

Fix: Focus was not correctly set if Larsen Commander was deactivated while
     the dynamic filename search window was visible.

Fix: GRAY+, GRAY- and GRAY* now works again. (Tag files, Untag files and
     Invert selectioon, respectively.)

Fix: Color of file panel header bar did not change when dropping a color from
     the OS/2 color palette.

Fix: Incorrect parsing of the items in the section "[NoneConsoleProgs]"
     of LCMD.INI.

Fix: Current selected item was not repainted until pressing the OK-button in
     the progress bar dialog of the "Calculate Directory" command.

Fix: Minor repaint bugs when toggling on/off the header bar of a file panel.

Fix: Previous selected filenames was initially selected even if
     "Don't save current selected filenames" was specified in the options
     dialog.

Fix: DETACH command did nothing, but "Cmd.exe /C Detach %p" worked correctly.
     The DETACH command is now transfered to the Command Processor - like
     "Start" and others.

CONTACT AUTHOR

Leif-Erik Larsen
leifel@online.no
http://home.sol.no/~leilarse/lcmd/index.html

@Macarlo, Inc.
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