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## CONNECT/2 history

The IBM HandShaker (c) 1991-2000 by KHEMZ, Inc The IBM HandShaker for OS/2 (c) 2000 by Alexander Trunov 7.6 beta 1
07/17/00
INFO | began working on CONNECT porting. this is the date when CN/2 born.
7.6 beta 4
08/09/00
INFO | wildcard matching algorithm has been changed. it is no more DOS- oriented and can match 1.htm, 1.shtml, 1.html, etc by mask *.*htm*
NEW | turned off OS/2 error-dialog popups if there are no diskette in floppy drive
NEW | lha archiver has been added
08/10/00
INFO | CN/2 now compiled by VP/2 2.1b2. thanks to Max A. Alekseyev, [relf@os2.ru].
BUG | context help now show true topics. you should replace connect.cfg to file from original distributive.
BUG | UpperCase/LowerCase in all places of CN/2 now works correctly. the conversion tables are taken directly from syste, therefore in your system must be correct language settings.
NEW | correct displaying of files without names (starting with point: .plan, .wgetrc, etc). correct renaming, copying. correct behaviour of file dialog when creating files without name (Shift+F4).
NEW | possibility to change the case of files via Rename/Move dialog (F6/Ctrl+F6).
NEW | if CN/2 falls with run-time error, it should display a filename and line number, where the error occured.
08/11/00
INFO | history file (it's what you read now) changed format and it's automatically converted into html.
BUG | sometimes cursor was broken after running programs.
INFO | corrected help in some places.
NEW | settings in "Use OS country-specific information" checkboxes of "Country settings dialog" are taken from Presentation Manager settings, if PM exists on your machine.
NEW | changed the dialog of archiver's settings. "Enable Win95 LFN" and "Swap main body checkboxes" are gone, and the format of archivers file slightly changed. you should replace connect.asp to the file from original distributive (it has pre-defined ZIP, RAR, ARJ and LHA settings).
NEW | ZIP, RAR, ARJ for Windows archivers are gone. As noted before, you should replace connect.asp file.
INFO | connect.asu should be also replaced to the file from original distributive (it has pre-defined settings for *.tdr files filter).
BUG | time-slices are now released in User screen mode (Alt+F5).
08/12/00
BUG | if in the Help window cursor was beyond of the last link and the user pressed Tab, CN/2 falled with run-time error (RTE).
INFO | in the original distributive of CN/2 is now English version of history, named english.his. feel free to correct my English (send corrections to jnc@os2.ru)
NEW | group highlighting algorithm has been changed to handle long masks. delete connect.grp file!
NEW | disk scanning process in Drive Panel has been sped up
NEW | changed the Find file dialog (removed Full name field).
BUG | corrected displaying of files without name in some cases.
BUG | correct displaying long file names in the status line of file panel. now we displaying them in short form.
NEW | the original built-in DBF editor has been turned on. however, the search does not work.
08/14/00
BUG | fixed a couple of bugs with .* filenames handling
BUG | memory leak when editing .LONGNAME extended attribute
NEW | all work with Extended Attributes now is done by EALib (sources included - all DLLs that will use CONNECT/2 will be included in sources).
08/16/00
BUG | fall with RTE when user pressed Ctrl+F1
08/17/00
NEW | EA Browser - Extended Attributes browser. called by pressing F12. if possible, it displays EA as the string, otherwise the hex-dump of few first bytes will be displayed.
NEW | main menu cleanup
BUG | fixed fall with RTE at the CONNECT/2 shutdown after using internal clipboard. also corrected displaying of clipboard (Alt+Ins).
BUG | if with file currently being edited was associated a macro file (Options|Editor|Groups|Files|Macro File), Ctrl+Ins in editor wasn't work.
08/18/00
BUG | there was no correct hint for EA Browser and .LONGNAME Editor dialogs.
7.6.5 dedicated to perished "Kursk" crew
08/19/00
INFO | ealib.zip now contains eatest.pas, not eatest,pas :)
08/22/00
NEW | plugins API for editor. this API is a subset of FAR Filemanager plugins API. FAR Filemanager (c) by Eugene Roshal [roshal@rarsoft.com]
08/23/00
NEW | Colorer plugin. original Colorer library (c) Cail Lomecb (Igor Ruskih) [ruiv@uic.nnov.ru]. Colorer plugin is distributed in separate archive.
BUG | fixed bug in copying function.
7.6.6
08/24/00
BUG | problems with files with two dots (like colorlib.cpp.html)
BUG | exit with RTE when trying to open clipboard window (Alt+Ins)
NEW | correct folder size counting, if it has size greater than 2 Gb. however, we store in treeinfo.cn incorrect results with sizes > 2 Gb: if the size > 2 Gb, size is assuming being 2 Gb (curved English, isn't it? :)
08/26/00
BUG | if CN/2 was shutted down with opened editor(s) window(s), during next startup it falled with RTE.
08/31/00
INFO | small fixes in Colorer plugin.
INFO | changed pParam value in ProcessEditorEvent function (applicable if iEvent == EE_CLOSE). now it is a pointer to int/Integer.
09/16/00
BUG | the mask with a dot at the end now means extensionless filename (forex: "*.", "dd??d*." -- "dd11dzz")
BUG | date has been affected if the file with EAs is copying/moving/etc
BUG | corrected dialog Copy/move to archive (Shift+F1)
BUG | corrected behaviour of mentioned dialog when archiving several files (in the commandline passed to archiver was a garbage)
NEW | new file in distribution (connect.grp) that contains coloring information for file manager (converted from original CONNECT/DOS).
NEW | new util grpconv.exe (in the new directory conv that will contain CN/DOS -> CN/OS2 converters) that converts connect.grp from your CN/DOS.
NEW | added HA archiver description. you have to replace connect.asp.
09/17/00
NEW | (01:07am) implemented word hyphenation (for Russian and English languages) [wrap.dll, $CN/src/wrap.zip]
NEW | user archiver "IBM DSK Image" (see also $CN\util\dsk.cmd) from Dmitry A. Kuminov [dmik@sch79.alien.ru]; you have to replace connect.asu
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