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2.6 (2005-12-11) 103072 Bytes

This is the most complete update ever, there were changes in all
modules since 2.5.32, some more prominent than others.
So please read the release-notes carefully, although this is only
a shortened list to inform you what changed for you.

- Renamed Startup.DM to DiskMaster2.prefs

Nothing else yet, just a little step for standardisation.
Just rename your Startup.DM and you are home again.

- Renamed DM2.catalog to DiskMaster2.catalog

As above, just rename your .catalog file or copy over
the one from the archive.

- The requesters use Reaction now

The 68K version of DiskMaster2 requires at least the V41 classes which is
what you find on Aminet in the ClassAct2Demo.lha archive.
The minimum *supported* version of Reaction is V45 however which
is what was distributed with OS3.9.
This should allow to still use the 68K version of
DiskMaster2 on MOS.
And yes, this makes it more difficult to boot DiskMaster2 from
a floppy-disk but then there are still older versions to do just this.

- All new preferences-requester: "AddCmd DMPrefs, 30,03, DMPrefs"

And before the discussion begins, no, this is not what made
DiskMaster2 23K bigger, it's impact is way less than that.
And no, this can not be added as external program, it has to access
data that is not available otherwise and creating an interface to
allow just this won't make the binary significantly smaller.


- Bugfix: A direct 'Delete' as in "Delete ram:xx" caused an Enforcer-Hit
- Bugfix: A 'Find' without arguments caused an Enforcer-Hit.
- Bugfix: 'Rename' may have caused an Enforcer-Hit.
- Bugfix: A check for a dir-window path caused an Enforcer-Hit
          when there were no dir-windows.
- Bugifx: 'Check' caused an Enforcer-Hit when being called without
          arguments and no dir-windows - somewhat esoteric...
- Bugfix: removed a potential buffer-overflow from 'SaveConfig' which
          could occur in case ASL.library was not available.
- Bugfix: 'Read' did not display directly given files in case
          the DEV/VOL/ASN list was displayed for the active window.
          Thanks for reporting to Lorence Lombardo!
- Bugfix: the FORCE-flag was not reset so after deleting with
          this option subsequent moves deleted protected files.
- Bugfix: volumes with InfoData.id_NumBlocks=0 caused a division-by-zero error.
          Found with a "toasted" DVD-RW...
- Bugifx: Using empty lines for 'AddCmd' opens a requester again.
- Bugfix: sorting by extension could be trapped in an endless loop
          for empty directories.
- Bugfix: When starting from the internal startup the default-name
          for the startup was wiped out.
- Bugfix: Saved font names are now enclosed in quotes for 'NewScreen' and 'Font'.
          Thanks for reporting to Javier de las Rivas <javierdlr@jazzfree.com>!
- Bugfix: 'SetList' was badly broken for OS4 since 2.5.31
- Bugfix: using 'Sort' with no window opened issued an enforcer-hit since 2.5b7.
          Thanks for reporting to Javier de las Rivas!
- Bugfix: Due to a typo the OS4 version displayed negative values
          in the window-title for dirs with 2gig+ of files.
          Thanks for reporting to Javier de las Rivas!
- Bugfix: When opening a new command-window without actually adding a command to
          it, it was converted to a dir-window - remained undetected since 2.1c at least...
          Thanks for reporting to Javier de las Rivas!
- Bugfix: Arranging the windows' positions went unnoticed unless the window in question
          also had been resized -> the wrong position was saved in this case.
- Bugfix: Jumping from one screen to annother is now possible.
- Bugfix: Screen-promotion does not mess-up window-scaling anymore.
- Bugfix: The "COMMENT" option for 'Select', introduced with 2.5b13,
          fed MatchPatternNoCase() with NULL-strings for empty comments.
- Bugfix: Parser - "\" (escape char) handling was broken.

- Changed the format of the $VER string to fully comply with
  the specifications for AmigaOS.
- Broken soft-links are now displayed as files with a size of zero
  and a comment that this is a broken link.
- Rewrote 'Archive' to generate longer argument strings.
  In addition using "#" for the name argument suppresses the target-requester thus
  making 'Archive' better suitable for generic multi-select actions.
- Most requesters feature a context-help now accessible thru a button
  or by just pressing the HELP key which opens DiskMaster2.guide from
  progdir or what is configured thru 'SetX' "Guide".
  Note that some commands do not feature a dedicated requester and use
  'Confirm' or 'ReqPattern' instead.
- "ASNYC" option for 'View' and 'Info'.
- 'SetX' - new "LongCmd", "WheelMult", "DragDelay", "ReqHideHelp" and "Guide" options.
- Rewrote 'Delete' to let it handle links better and to speed it up somewhat.
- Implemented a new sortmode: sort by name-length -> L/L-
- The minimum window width and height are now calculated based on the sizes of the borders
  and the sizes of the gadgets. The defaults for the commands have been raised to 100.
- 'FileStat' - Returns file time (<stem>.TIME = "HH:MM:SS").
- 'Dirlist' - TIME option (<stem>.TIME.<idx> = "HH:MM:SS").
- 'Color' can use 24 bit values now and has a new "Offset" option.
- Added "CmdReq" command.  Opens a req, and executes the input as a DM command.
- Added support for OS4 mouse-wheel events - with configurable multiplier of 1 to 5.
- Added SHIFT-qualifier to mouse-wheel scrolling on OS4 to allow
  scrolling sideways with a standard 1-wheel mouse.
- Added sort-by-length and 'DMPrefs' entries to the internal startup.
- Changed the internal startup to use "#" chars as indicator for empty
  command-lines.
- Replaced hardcoded "G" and "T" with msgUnitGigB and msgUnitTerB.
- Improved the up/down/left(right scrolling delay by actually reading the
  system-prefs and using KeyRptSpeed and KeyRptDelay.
- Replaced a WaitTOF() call in drag-selection with a conditional delay configurable
  thru 'Setx' to 3...9 milli-seconds.
  So if drag-selecting the next entry takes less than e.g. 5 milli-seconds
  the further execution is delayed by the difference.
  Helps with fast machines, should not affect slow machines too much.
- In preparation for the support of proportional fonts in the directory
  listviews a large portion of the display code has been rewritten.
  The code already is more complicated but should not work significantly
  slower than before - but the final step to prop-fonts will make
  things a little slower.
- 'Read' - new "TabSize" option.
- Removed ReqTools code. 'Color', without any args, opens the "Colors"
  page of 'DMPrefs'.
- DM flag %R always returns not quoted text as suggested
  by Javier de las Rivas.


Have fun - Rudolph

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[generic]                 1757    2044  86.0% -lh5- efe9 Nov 27 23:07 DiskMaster2.info
[generic]                 4840   18505  26.2% -lh5- 98e9 Mar 29  2004 DiskMaster2/Bonus/DiskMaster2.prefs
[generic]                 9285    9285 100.0% -lh0- a7c9 Nov 27 21:05 DiskMaster2/Bonus/Pegasos-config.lha
[generic]                  383     877  43.7% -lh5- 44c1 Nov  3 21:43 DiskMaster2/Catalogs/Catalog names in OS4.txt
[generic]                 2517    7424  33.9% -lh5- 580d Nov 26 16:30 DiskMaster2/Catalogs/DiskMaster2.cd
[generic]                 1432    3303  43.4% -lh5- 6ff1 Jan 31  2003 DiskMaster2/Catalogs/DiskMaster2_dutch.ct
[generic]                 2530    7336  34.5% -lh5- a926 Nov 26 16:31 DiskMaster2/Catalogs/DiskMaster2_empty.ct
[generic]                 2840    8138  34.9% -lh5- 5c85 Jan 31  2003 DiskMaster2/Catalogs/DiskMaster2_french.ct
[generic]                 3254    8970  36.3% -lh5- e4d2 Nov 26 16:31 DiskMaster2/Catalogs/DiskMaster2_german.ct
[generic]                 2464    6152  40.1% -lh5- 7236 Jan 31  2003 DiskMaster2/Catalogs/DiskMaster2_greek.ct
[generic]                 2684    7604  35.3% -lh5- 6d52 Jan 31  2003 DiskMaster2/Catalogs/DiskMaster2_italian.ct
[generic]                 2843    8018  35.5% -lh5- 2001 Jan 31  2003 DiskMaster2/Catalogs/DiskMaster2_norwegian.ct
[generic]                 3045    8158  37.3% -lh5- 951c Jan 31  2003 DiskMaster2/Catalogs/DiskMaster2_polish.ct
[generic]                 2779    7884  35.2% -lh5- f488 Jan 31  2003 DiskMaster2/Catalogs/DiskMaster2_portuguese.ct
[generic]                 2989    8378  35.7% -lh5- 88a7 Nov 27  1980 DiskMaster2/Catalogs/DiskMaster2_spanish.ct
[generic]                 2317    6366  36.4% -lh5- 4142 Jan 31  2003 DiskMaster2/Catalogs/DiskMaster2_swedish.ct
[generic]                 1111    2338  47.5% -lh5- a7ed Jan 31  2003 DiskMaster2/Catalogs/dutch/DiskMaster2.catalog
[generic]                 1238    2798  44.2% -lh5- b2e5 Jan 31  2003 DiskMaster2/Catalogs/french/DiskMaster2.catalog
[generic]                 1211    2456  49.3% -lh5- 55e1 Nov 26 16:36 DiskMaster2/Catalogs/german/DiskMaster2.catalog
[generic]                 1206    2184  55.2% -lh5- ac84 Nov 26 17:46 DiskMaster2/Catalogs/greek/DiskMaster2.catalog
[generic]                 1161    2366  49.1% -lh5- 4116 Jan 31  2003 DiskMaster2/Catalogs/italian/DiskMaster2.catalog
[generic]                 1040    2122  49.0% -lh5- b604 Jan 31  2003 DiskMaster2/Catalogs/norwegian/DiskMaster2.catalog
[generic]                 1195    2352  50.8% -lh5- b1a5 Jan 31  2003 DiskMaster2/Catalogs/polish/DiskMaster2.catalog
[generic]                 1192    2550  46.7% -lh5- d0d7 Jan 31  2003 DiskMaster2/Catalogs/portuguese/DiskMaster2.catalog
[generic]                 1345    2826  47.6% -lh5- 3aa6 Nov 27  1980 DiskMaster2/Catalogs/spanish/DiskMaster2.catalog
[generic]                 1092    2124  51.4% -lh5- 7338 Jan 31  2003 DiskMaster2/Catalogs/swedish/DiskMaster2.catalog
[generic]                60885  103072  59.1% -lh5- 1987 Dec 11 16:05 DiskMaster2/DiskMaster2
[generic]                68493  216254  31.7% -lh5- 164d Dec 11 15:36 DiskMaster2/DiskMaster2.guide
[generic]                 2592    3211  80.7% -lh5- a9bf Nov 27 21:23 DiskMaster2/DiskMaster2.guide.info
[generic]                 1330    1709  77.8% -lh5- ec97 Nov 27 21:23 DiskMaster2/DiskMaster2.info
[generic]               130046  295488  44.0% -lh5- 9d6d Dec 11 16:10 DiskMaster2/DiskMaster2.OS4
[generic]                 1330    1709  77.8% -lh5- 8a7b Nov 27 21:23 DiskMaster2/DiskMaster2.OS4.info
[generic]                25183   63383  39.7% -lh5- c5b6 Nov 27 11:24 DiskMaster2/history.old
[generic]                 1309    1655  79.1% -lh5- 6f58 Nov 27 23:07 DiskMaster2/Icons.info
[generic]                 3230    6345  50.9% -lh5- 5c82 Nov 27 21:24 DiskMaster2/Icons/DM2_Alan_Bailey.info
[generic]                  567    1567  36.2% -lh5- bf7b Nov 27 21:24 DiskMaster2/Icons/DM2_Eddie_Ivanov.info
[generic]                 1512    2310  65.5% -lh5- 33bd Nov 27 21:24 DiskMaster2/Icons/DM2_Fabrizio_Bartoloni.info
[generic]                  817    1344  60.8% -lh5- 0fbb Nov 27 21:24 DiskMaster2/Icons/DM2_Glenn_Edward.info
[generic]                 1290    1519  84.9% -lh5- 884c Nov 27 21:24 DiskMaster2/Icons/DM2_Nils_Goers.info
[generic]                  529    1586  33.4% -lh5- 542c Nov 27 21:24 DiskMaster2/Icons/DM2_Original.info
[generic]                  364     565  64.4% -lh5- 3365 Nov 27 21:24 DiskMaster2/Icons/DM2_PatGiver_EdVishoot.info
[generic]                 3397   10830  31.4% -lh5- e900 Nov 27 23:08 DiskMaster2/MyDiskMaster2.prefs
[generic]                 1806    2167  83.3% -lh5- cd11 Nov 27 21:23 DiskMaster2/MyDiskMaster2.prefs.info
[generic]                 1211    3146  38.5% -lh5- 84d4 Mar 22  1998 DiskMaster2/Rexx/ArcMast.rexx
[generic]                 1164    2861  40.7% -lh5- 4aeb Dec 17  1997 DiskMaster2/Rexx/ArcTrans.rexx
[generic]                  904    1723  52.5% -lh5- 4e21 Jan  8  1997 DiskMaster2/Rexx/AssignList.rexx
[generic]                  321     533  60.2% -lh5- 11e8 Nov 18  1998 DiskMaster2/Rexx/Decrunch.rexx
[generic]                 1119    2765  40.5% -lh5- 3132 Aug 13  1996 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM-Vir.DM
[generic]                  562    1008  55.8% -lh5- 7b07 Jul  9  2004 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_CmtAll.rexx
[generic]                 1042    2386  43.7% -lh5- c117 Feb 24  2003 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_CopyChkVer.rexx
[generic]                  406     701  57.9% -lh5- 63bf Feb 20  2003 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_CopyCmt.rexx
[generic]                  581    1298  44.8% -lh5- 00b4 Jul 17  2003 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_Dest2Source.rexx
[generic]                  376     597  63.0% -lh5- d621 Feb 24  2003 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_Dir2Key.rexx
[generic]                  320     480  66.7% -lh5- 068f Jun 25  1992 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_Dir2Menu.rexx
[generic]                  819    1734  47.2% -lh5- 6dce Jul 17  2003 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_DirLevel.rexx
[generic]                  903    2045  44.2% -lh5- af53 Jul 17  2003 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_ExecOnMany.rexx
[generic]                  884    1723  51.3% -lh5- 2849 Feb 24  2003 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_Filter.rexx
[generic]                  242     413  58.6% -lh5- 77a9 Jul 17  2003 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_FontsToo.rexx
[generic]                  229     294  77.9% -lh5- 0b0f Jun 22  1992 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_GotoDelDir.rexx
[generic]                  536     981  54.6% -lh5- cb01 Mar  1  1999 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_IBrowse2CmtURL.rexx
[generic]                  280     437  64.1% -lh5- 14f5 Dec 31  1998 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_IBrowseShowFile.rexx
[generic]                  207     304  68.1% -lh5- 02a0 Jul 17  2003 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_IconsToo.rexx
[generic]                  945    2016  46.9% -lh5- 5a36 Jul  4  2004 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_IdxRename.rexx
[generic]                  617    1099  56.1% -lh5- eb61 Jul 17  2003 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_MultiExec.rexx
[generic]                 1441    3427  42.0% -lh5- e1fb Jul  4  2004 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_MultiRename.rexx
[generic]                  623    1040  59.9% -lh5- a4b0 Feb 20  2003 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_PathHist.rexx
[generic]                 1054    2229  47.3% -lh5- a56c Feb 20  2003 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_PathHistAll.rexx
[generic]                 1782    5702  31.3% -lh5- a271 Jul  9  2004 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_PatternRename.rexx
[generic]                  323     951  34.0% -lh5- c2ed Feb 24  2003 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_QuickDirList
[generic]                  306     524  58.4% -lh5- 113a Jul 17  2003 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_Rename2Cmt.rexx
[generic]                  647    1218  53.1% -lh5- 620b Jul 17  2003 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_RootRAM.rexx
[generic]                  483     758  63.7% -lh5- 58fb Jul 17  2003 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_SelectByDate.rexx
[generic]                  271     452  60.0% -lh5- e80d Jul 17  2003 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_SelectBySize.rexx
[generic]                  829    1655  50.1% -lh5- ea5c Oct 15  1998 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_TTMLoadIcon.rexx
[generic]                  369     599  61.6% -lh5- 3905 Feb 24  2003 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DM_VirusCheck.rexx
[generic]                 1601    3285  48.7% -lh5- 888b Nov 30  1980 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DMArcList2Win2.rexx
[generic]                  861    1603  53.7% -lh5- f9aa Dec  5  1980 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DMArcSelExt2.rexx
[generic]                  388    1162  33.4% -lh5- ff8b Mar 11  1997 DiskMaster2/Rexx/DMSpopper.rexx
[generic]                  125     135  92.6% -lh5- 746d Mar 22  1993 DiskMaster2/Rexx/Duplicate.rexx
[generic]                  363     680  53.4% -lh5- 2a13 Sep 30  1998 DiskMaster2/Rexx/FastDMView.rexx
[generic]                 2288    9000  25.4% -lh5- 37ed Aug 25  1996 DiskMaster2/Rexx/FileShow.rexx
[generic]                 1052    2150  48.9% -lh5- d9d5 Feb  1  1998 DiskMaster2/Rexx/Parents.dmrx
[generic]                 1064    3344  31.8% -lh5- e3a1 Jan  7  1997 DiskMaster2/Rexx/Sub_FileRecog.REXX
[generic]                  634    1118  56.7% -lh5- 97cd Feb  1  1998 DiskMaster2/Rexx/VisageDMSlide.dmrx
[generic]                  186     246  75.6% -lh5- 351b Apr 19  1997 DiskMaster2/Rexx/WindowTest.rexx
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