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   2 Version 3.5
   3
   4 - New hotlist code.
   5         - The bookmark code has been completely revamped and now it supports
   6           folders.  New format for the hot list file.
   7         - It is possible to copy a selected path name into the input line
   8           (C-Enter).
   9
  10 - Tk enhancements.
  11         - New built in GUI designer to help developers modify the look
  12           of the program at run time (no penaly for users).
  13         - Many dialog boxes now work.
  14         - Right button now pops up a context sensitive action menu.
  15         - Added many visual enhancements.
  16         - The Tk edition is not yet finished though.
  17
  18 - File management.
  19         - Now we do background copy and move operations.
  20           (you can ftp your files in the background now, for example).
  21
  22 - Built in text editor
  23         - This is an easy to use text editor with pull-down menus.
  24           The features it presently supports are: Block copy, move,
  25           delete, cut, paste; key for key undo; file insertion; macro
  26           definition; regular expression search and replace (and our
  27           own scanf-printf search and replace); shift-arrow MSW-MAC
  28           text highlighting (for the linux console only);
  29           insert-overwrite toggle; and an option to pipe text blocks
  30           through shell commands like indent.
  31
  32           Comes with Emacs keybindings as well.
  33
  34           mcedit is a link to mc which bring it up in editor mode.
  35
  36 - FTP File system
  37         - Many fixes and enhacements, better support for proxy
  38           machines.
  39         - Now we support both active and passive opens.
  40         - Estimated time of arrival for ftp transfers.
  41         - stalled detection.
  42         - Much better support for proxies.
  43         - ftp URL's now allow a password to be provided.
  44
  45 - ext2fs Undelete File system
  46         - Minor enhancements.
  47
  48 - TAR File system
  49         - Now we flush the tarfs if the tar file has been modified
  50
  51 - External File systems:
  52         - Speeded up RPM file system.
  53         - New LHA file system.
  54         - New ARC file system.
  55         - New DEB file system (for those users of Debian).
  56         - New RAR file system.
  57         - Fixed problems with different zipfs.
  58
  59 - MC file system:
  60         - We get can use a mc file system by using either mc: or mc:// prefixes.
  61
  62 - Viewer changes:
  63         - Now we include a program that preprocesses mail if you view it
  64           so, you get colored mails in the viewer.
  65         - A simple ruler has been implemented (press Alt-r to enable it).
  66
  67 - New hex editor
  68         - Now you can do hex editions in your files with a single keystroke.
  69           (invoke it by using the hex-viewer and then clicking on edit).
  70
  71 - Find file command:
  72         - Now we can search inside files using a piped grep (particularly
  73           interesting to search inside virtual file system: tar files,
  74           tar files on remote ftp sites, or searching information on an
  75           ftp site)
  76
  77 - Widgets:
  78         - Input lines now support control-left, control-right movement on the
  79           Linux console.
  80
  81 - Extension file:
  82         - We now support extra entries in a given rule with the Include=
  83           tag.
  84
  85 - Ports:
  86         - Windows NT, Windows 95 by Juan Grigera
  87         - OS/2 by Alexander Dong.
  88
  89
  90 - Many many many bug fixes and memory leaks have been fixed.
  91
  92
  93 Version 3.2
  94
  95 - External File system:
  96         - Mtools file system works.
  97         - New Cpio file system.
  98         - New RPM file system.
  99
 100 - FTP file system:
 101         - support for HSC firewall
 102
 103 - Lots of subshell fixes
 104
 105 - Regexp-extension:
 106         - Editing of non-local files works now.
 107
 108 - Bunch of bug fixes.
 109
 110 - Panelize now works properly.
 111
 112 - Can work on Nextstep now.
 113
 114 - Windows NT port by Juan Grigera.
 115
 116 - Midnight Commander file system server:
 117         - Fixed errno handling in the server.
 118         - Fixed time handling in the server.
 119         - Better caching.
 120         - Works with PAM if supported on the system.
 121
 122 Version 3.1
 123
 124 This has been finished:
 125
 126 - Enhanced ftpfs:
 127   - Displays progress bars.
 128   - Supports netware and windows nt servers
 129   - Better support for symlinked files.
 130   - Handles those warez sites file names.
 131   - Increase the directory cache timeout.
 132   - Cache flushing (C-r)
 133   - If you append a /~ to the directory, you will log into your home
 134     directory (this is done by default if you use the menus to connect).
 135   - More robust.
 136 - Subshell fixes (it should not hang any longer).
 137   - Fixes prompt handling for zsh and tcsh users.
 138   - Fixes variable expansion for tcsh (now you may edit files).
 139   - Rewrote the sync code between the parend and child, should not hang
 140     any longer.
 141 - Better command completion.
 142 - Keypad handling enhanced:
 143   - Special key treatment for +, -, \ and now may be configure to
 144     only take place if you do not have a command typed in.
 145   - Now the + and \ bindings when ran on the Linux console work
 146     may use the keypad and M-+ and M-\ and leave the + and \ keys
 147     free.
 148 - Better handling of the line drawing chars on OSF/1 and AIX.
 149 - Enhanced tar/compressed tar file systems.
 150 - Global kill ring.
 151 - Added undelete feature for Linux systems: now you may recover deleted files
 152   on ext2 file systems with the Undelete file system.
 153 - Symlink commands (for symlink lovers).
 154   see the docs on C-x C-r,  C-x C-l, C-x C-s keystrokes.
 155 - New macros:
 156   %b and %B return the basename of the selected filename
 157   %var{ENV-VAR} expands to the contents of ENV-VAR variable.
 158 - MC may be invoked as a viewer (mc -f flag).
 159 - Added Unicode support on the Linux console (run with mc -N)
 160 - Tons of bug fixes, the code is cleaner and hopefully
 161 - Allow a vfs pathname to be passed as a startup directory.
 162
 163 This is a list of people that put their effort into making the 3.1
 164 release:
 165
 166 Adam Tla/lka, Antonio Palama, Carl Thompson, Ching Hui, Dugan Porter, Gerd
 167 Knorr, Ilya Rybkin, Jakub Jelinek, Janne Kikonlehto, Juan Grigera, Juan Jose
 168 Ciarlante, John Davis, Marcelo Fabian Roccasalva, Perry Francis Nguyen,
 169 Sergey Ya Korshunoff Steven Hirsch, Thanh Ma and Torben Fjerdingstad.
 170
 171 Version 3.0
 172
 173 This has been finished:
 174
 175 - Virtual File System: You now can browse tar, compressed tar and
 176   file systems over the network as if they were local subdirectories;
 177 - Slang support, you don't need ncurses anymore (but you can still compile
 178   with ncurses, if you want).
 179 - New mc.ext format, for details see the sample mc.ext file provided.
 180 - Append option if you try to copy/move a file onto already existing one.
 181 - Internal cd command uses CDPATH variable if set (like in BASH).
 182 - Find file command is much faster.
 183 - External panelize command - finding files using unlimited number of
 184   criteria - actually spawns an external command and it can be find, awk,
 185   grep -l or anything else.
 186 - Learn keys makes setting up of mc on terminals with broken
 187   terminfo/termcap databases easier. It just asks you to press keys which
 188   are not working.
 189 - Advanced chown command.
 190 - C-PgUp and C-PgDn takes you to the previous and currently selected
 191   directory respectively on the Linux console.
 192 - You can choose between 7 data bits, iso-latin-1 (0-127+160-255) or
 193   other (0-255).
 194 - Confirmation for overwriting, deleting and exiting added.
 195 - Viewer has growing buffers.
 196 - Filename, username, hostname and variable completion (M-Tab) on all
 197   input lines plus command completion on appropriate places of command
 198   line.
 199 - Following of symlinks at changing directory.
 200 - Viewer now supports bold faces and underlines, and it fits the
 201   information on the screen better.  Now you can also specify the starting
 202   mode for the viewer depending on the contents of the viewed file.
 203 - Mask rename and copy.
 204 - Colors now let you specify the intensity of the colors you want.
 205
 206 This is being worked on:
 207 - Virtual File System: FTP file system.
 208 - Tcl/Tk and XView versions of the program (preliminary versions are
 209   up and running).
 210
 211
 212 Version 2.0
 213
 214 Now users are able to define their own display
 215
 216 - User defined display formats.
 217
 218   Now you can configure the file display to suit your needs.
 219   For example, you can say which information you want to see displayed
 220   instead of our defaults.
 221
 222 - User definable program layout.
 223
 224   Panels could be shown vertically or horizontally;
 225   panels could be different sizes, you can hide or show most
 226   program windows (command line, keybar or menubar).
 227
 228 - Output window.
 229
 230   Now, it's possible to see part of the last program output on the Linux
 231   console without having to switch screens via an option in the layout
 232   menu.
 233
 234 - New View modes:
 235
 236      Quick view: as you browse your files, each one is displayed on
 237                  the other panel on the idle time.
 238
 239      Tree view:  let's you browse your directories by traveling a tree.
 240                  We have two traveling modes available.  And the tree does
 241                  not take your precious time: it's build on the fly, as you
 242                  browse your disk (you can always loose your time if you
 243                  want to :-).
 244
 245      Info view:  Gives you information on the currently select file and
 246                  the current file system as you move.
 247
 248      User view:  Let's you define a directory listing and the format you
 249                  want to use.
 250
 251 - New subshell support (concurrent shell execution)
 252
 253   The Midnight Commander will now spawn one copy of the shell, so you
 254   get better performance and you can use shell functions, define variables
 255   and execute complete shell commands.  Supported shells: bash, zsh and
 256   tcsh.  If your shell is not supported, then the old mode is still
 257   available.
 258
 259 - Dialog box manager
 260
 261   Almost all the new configuration options are configured with this
 262   new dialog manager, easy to use if you are familiar with dialog boxes
 263   in DOS and Windows.
 264
 265   Available widgets: check buttons, buttons, radio buttons,
 266   input lines and list boxes (So you can take our code and use it on
 267   your applications).
 268
 269 - New option configuration.
 270
 271   Now the program options are configured with a dialog box.
 272
 273 - Chmod and Chown commands:
 274
 275   For changing permissions as well as ownership of files and
 276   directories, uses our new dialog manager.
 277
 278 - Color customization support
 279
 280   Now you can change the default color of the program with any of
 281   these:
 282   environment variable, Colors section in the init file (colors per
 283   terminal type) and command line.
 284
 285 - User menu and extension enhancements:
 286
 287   Execution understand the %t macro (tagged files).
 288
 289   User menu also has a new macro to let the user specify options.
 290
 291   You can hide and show entries in the user menus by using conditions.
 292
 293   Auto detect best match depending on a regexp.
 294
 295 - Viewer:
 296      Goto line command,
 297      horizontal scrolling,
 298      on the fly uncompression (and we don't eat unneeded cycles of CPU),
 299      allow non gunzip operation.
 300
 301 - Internal move command:
 302
 303   Now, we don't rely anymore on system commands in /bin, so the
 304   program is more robust and is much faster.  Bunchs of code come
 305   from the GNU fileutils.
 306
 307 - The Tree view and normal views allows wrapped incremental searchs of
 308   file names.
 309
 310 - Mask rename:
 311
 312   Now it's possible to do things like rename *.pas in *.bak
 313
 314 - Compare directories command
 315
 316 - Allow panels to be in Long mode without forcing the user to a single panel.
 317
 318   (You can even have two long panels).
 319
 320 - F10, C-g cancels as well as ESC ESC.
 321
 322 - Improved help system.
 323
 324   We updated and spelled the help system and added a lots of links.
 325   The Web page is constructed with the same tools.
 326
 327 - Allows tagging of directories:
 328
 329   Now you can copy, rename, move and delete complete directories.  You
 330   are not limited anymore to files.
 331
 332 - View output (screen save/restore) on Linux console.
 333
 334   On old Linux systems, only b&w is supported, on newer Linux systems
 335   (1.1.67 and newer), we also support color screen save/restore and
 336   cursos positions.
 337
 338 - 8 bit clean support.
 339
 340 - Visual feedback while i-searching files.
 341
 342 - Much more intuitive, you have to use it.
 343
 344 - It's better than aspirin.
 345
 346 - New memory allocation debugger.
 347
 348   During testing time, we used a powerfull memory allocation debugger,
 349   so the program will not eat all your memory, and will make a good use of
 350   your memory.
 351
 352 - Now it also runs on hppa-hp-hpux9, hppa-hp-hpux7, m68k-apple-aux and
 353   sparc-sun-netbsd1.0.  The best platform to run it is Linux, of course,
 354   since that's where most of us develop it.
 355
 356 - Inode sort option.
 357
 358 - Nice progress status indicator.
 359
 360   We have two of them: a moving dash indicator and a progress bar
 361   indicator for file operations.
 362
 363 Version 0.15
 364
 365 - Uses GNU autoconf.
 366    Currently, it has been ported to this configurations:
 367    i386-*-linux1.0
 368    i386-*-linux1.1
 369    mips-sgi-irix5.2
 370    mips-dec-ultrix4.3
 371    rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5
 372    sparc-sun-sunos4.1
 373    sparc-sun-solaris2.3
 374
 375 - Improvements to the internal file viewer:
 376    Wrap/Unwrap mode.
 377    Hex mode.
 378    Hex searches.
 379    Now you can view compressed files (gzip, compress, zip, pack and lzh).
 380    Performance enhancements, now it's much faster.
 381    Works on systems without mmap.
 382
 383 - Mouse Support now also works on xterms.
 384    If you run in the Linux console, you will still need the gpm mouse server
 385    to use the mouse support, but if you use xterms, then you're lucky
 386    and can use the mouse support when using xterms.
 387
 388 - Help system and man page.
 389    Both were updated and has many more hypertext links inside, the
 390    help system can also be used with a mouse.
 391
 392 - If running on xterms, now you can see the output of the last program
 393   you ran by using the C-o key combination.
 394
 395 - Switch panels command (C-u)
 396 - With filter command per panel.
 397 - With auto mounting/umounting on chdir feature.
 398 - cd now expands tildes (~, ~user).
 399 - Much more portable.
 400 - Many bugs were fixed.
 401
 402 Version 0.14
 403
 404 - Now can handle directories with an unlimited number of files.
 405 - New link and symlink commands (C-x l, C-x s).
 406 - New insert tagged files or selection command (C-x t).
 407
 408 Version 0.13
 409
 410 - Behave more like the Norton Commander.
 411 - Added menu file edit.
 412 - If there is no permission to load a directory, now it loads a dummy
 413   directory.
 414 - When a panel is re-sorted, keep the selected file selected.
 415 - forward_word and backward_word command on the input line now skip
 416   over letters and numbers.
 417 - Fixed backward scrolling in the internal viewer.
 418 - The internal viewer now computes the percentage in a more natural
 419   way.
 420 - Added handling of the Home and End keys to the internal viewer
 421 - Bug fixes.
 422
 423 Version 0.12
 424
 425 - Preliminary support for System V compilation.
 426 - Bug fix: didn't call closedir in all cases.
 427 - bug fixes.
 428
 429 Version 0.11
 430
 431 - Support cd -.
 432 - Corrected Makefile.
 433
 434 Version 0.10
 435
 436 - Added new Alt-G, Alt-H, Alt-J to select the top file, middle file
 437   and bottom file in the current panel.
 438 - Now it's allowed to select option in query boxes by the first initial
 439 - Fixed mouse repeat rate.
 440 - Fixed a bug that prevent copying individual files to another file.
 441 - Some minor bug fixes.
 442
 443 Version 0.9
 444
 445 - Mouse Support.
 446 - Internal Copy command (it no longer uses cp).
 447 - Verbose Copying of files.
 448 - Confirmation on Overwrite and on Delete.
 449 - Support reverse sorting.
 450 - Many visual enhancements.
 451 - Per panel options are saved and restored.
 452 - New truncation of names in the panels.
 453 - History in Input Lines (M-p and M-n).
 454 - Input line enhancements.
 455 - Dialog boxes are nicer than before.
 456 - Cache in gid and uid translators.
 457 - More keybindings for the Input lines.
 458 - Better kill management in Input Lines.
 459 - Bug fixes.
 460
 461 Version 0.8
 462
 463 - The online help now comes with the complete man page.
 464 - Input lines now support M-b and M-f for movement by word.
 465 - Unlimited input lines (command line).
 466 - Filename searches now must be started with C-s or M-s.
 467 - Many bug fixes.
 468
 469 Version 0.7
 470
 471 - The stat() reloading optimization is now a configuration option.
 472 - Many bug fixes went to the find file command.
 473 - New history in the hypertext viewer.
 474 - ESC-Tab will copy the name of the other-panel selected file to the
 475   input line.
 476 - Now it's possible to display files and directories mixed together or
 477   separated (like the Norton Commander).
 478 - Many bug fixes, see the ChangeLog for details.
 479
 480 Version 0.6
 481
 482 - Extension dependent execution implemented (now you can execute
 483   things like tar tzvf over compressed tar files, just a tap in the
 484   Enter key).
 485 - Added simple expansion of useful variables in the user menu.
 486 - Avoid unnecessary reloading of subdirectories using stat (suggested
 487   by Torben Fjerdingstad <tfj@olivia.ping.dk>).
 488 - Added options to disable colors and display version number.
 489 - Allow start up directory specification (ex: mc /usr/local/bin /tmp).
 490 - Fixed bug that operated on the selection instead of the tagged file
 491 (when only one file was tagged).
 492 - Some cosmetic changes.
 493 - Bug fixes.
 494
 495 Version 0.5
 496
 497 - Fixed bug in the help browser that crashed the program.
 498 - New internal viewer.
 499 - New long directory listing format.
 500 - some bug fixes.
 501
 502 Version 0.4
 503
 504 - User Menus (F2 key).
 505 - Quick search of files in a panel (Alt-filename takes you to that file).
 506 - Char quoting (C-q).
 507 - exec() enhancements.
 508 - now you can suspend the program (C-z).
 509 - The find file command now seems to be very stable.
 510 - misc bug fixes.
 511
 512 Version 0.3
 513
 514 - Setup loading/saving.
 515 - Support for any size screen.
 516 - Many, many bug fixes.