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+
+Version 3.5
+
+- New hotlist code.
+ - The bookmark code has been completely revamped and now it supports
+ folders. New format for the hot list file.
+ - It is possible to copy a selected path name into the input line
+ (C-Enter).
+
+- Tk enhancements.
+ - New built in GUI designer to help developers modify the look
+ of the program at run time (no penaly for users).
+ - Many dialog boxes now work.
+ - Right button now pops up a context sensitive action menu.
+ - Added many visual enhancements.
+ - The Tk edition is not yet finished though.
+
+- File management.
+ - Now we do background copy and move operations.
+ (you can ftp your files in the background now, for example).
+
+- Built in text editor
+ - This is an easy to use text editor with pull-down menus.
+ The features it presently supports are: Block copy, move,
+ delete, cut, paste; key for key undo; file insertion; macro
+ definition; regular expression search and replace (and our
+ own scanf-printf search and replace); shift-arrow MSW-MAC
+ text highlighting (for the linux console only);
+ insert-overwrite toggle; and an option to pipe text blocks
+ through shell commands like indent.
+
+ Comes with Emacs keybindings as well.
+
+ mcedit is a link to mc which bring it up in editor mode.
+
+- FTP File system
+ - Many fixes and enhacements, better support for proxy
+ machines.
+ - Now we support both active and passive opens.
+ - Estimated time of arrival for ftp transfers.
+ - stalled detection.
+ - Much better support for proxies.
+ - ftp URL's now allow a password to be provided.
+
+- ext2fs Undelete File system
+ - Minor enhancements.
+
+- TAR File system
+ - Now we flush the tarfs if the tar file has been modified
+
+- External File systems:
+ - Speeded up RPM file system.
+ - New LHA file system.
+ - New ARC file system.
+ - New DEB file system (for those users of Debian).
+ - New RAR file system.
+ - Fixed problems with different zipfs.
+
+- MC file system:
+ - We get can use a mc file system by using either mc: or mc:// prefixes.
+
+- Viewer changes:
+ - Now we include a program that preprocesses mail if you view it
+ so, you get colored mails in the viewer.
+ - A simple ruler has been implemented (press Alt-r to enable it).
+
+- New hex editor
+ - Now you can do hex editions in your files with a single keystroke.
+ (invoke it by using the hex-viewer and then clicking on edit).
+
+- Find file command:
+ - Now we can search inside files using a piped grep (particularly
+ interesting to search inside virtual file system: tar files,
+ tar files on remote ftp sites, or searching information on an
+ ftp site)
+
+- Widgets:
+ - Input lines now support control-left, control-right movement on the
+ Linux console.
+
+- Extension file:
+ - We now support extra entries in a given rule with the Include=
+ tag.
+
+- Ports:
+ - Windows NT, Windows 95 by Juan Grigera
+ - OS/2 by Alexander Dong.
+
+
+- Many many many bug fixes and memory leaks have been fixed.
+
+
+Version 3.2
+
+- External File system:
+ - Mtools file system works.
+ - New Cpio file system.
+ - New RPM file system.
+
+- FTP file system:
+ - support for HSC firewall
+
+- Lots of subshell fixes
+
+- Regexp-extension:
+ - Editing of non-local files works now.
+
+- Bunch of bug fixes.
+
+- Panelize now works properly.
+
+- Can work on Nextstep now.
+
+- Windows NT port by Juan Grigera.
+
+- Midnight Commander file system server:
+ - Fixed errno handling in the server.
+ - Fixed time handling in the server.
+ - Better caching.
+ - Works with PAM if supported on the system.
+
+Version 3.1
+
+This has been finished:
+
+- Enhanced ftpfs:
+ - Displays progress bars.
+ - Supports netware and windows nt servers
+ - Better support for symlinked files.
+ - Handles those warez sites file names.
+ - Increase the directory cache timeout.
+ - Cache flushing (C-r)
+ - If you append a /~ to the directory, you will log into your home
+ directory (this is done by default if you use the menus to connect).
+ - More robust.
+- Subshell fixes (it should not hang any longer).
+ - Fixes prompt handling for zsh and tcsh users.
+ - Fixes variable expansion for tcsh (now you may edit files).
+ - Rewrote the sync code between the parend and child, should not hang
+ any longer.
+- Better command completion.
+- Keypad handling enhanced:
+ - Special key treatment for +, -, \ and now may be configure to
+ only take place if you do not have a command typed in.
+ - Now the + and \ bindings when ran on the Linux console work
+ may use the keypad and M-+ and M-\ and leave the + and \ keys
+ free.
+- Better handling of the line drawing chars on OSF/1 and AIX.
+- Enhanced tar/compressed tar file systems.
+- Global kill ring.
+- Added undelete feature for Linux systems: now you may recover deleted files
+ on ext2 file systems with the Undelete file system.
+- Symlink commands (for symlink lovers).
+ see the docs on C-x C-r, C-x C-l, C-x C-s keystrokes.
+- New macros:
+ %b and %B return the basename of the selected filename
+ %var{ENV-VAR} expands to the contents of ENV-VAR variable.
+- MC may be invoked as a viewer (mc -f flag).
+- Added Unicode support on the Linux console (run with mc -N)
+- Tons of bug fixes, the code is cleaner and hopefully
+- Allow a vfs pathname to be passed as a startup directory.
+
+This is a list of people that put their effort into making the 3.1
+release:
+
+Adam Tla/lka, Antonio Palama, Carl Thompson, Ching Hui, Dugan Porter, Gerd
+Knorr, Ilya Rybkin, Jakub Jelinek, Janne Kikonlehto, Juan Grigera, Juan Jose
+Ciarlante, John Davis, Marcelo Fabian Roccasalva, Perry Francis Nguyen,
+Sergey Ya Korshunoff Steven Hirsch, Thanh Ma and Torben Fjerdingstad.
+
+Version 3.0
+
+This has been finished:
+
+- Virtual File System: You now can browse tar, compressed tar and
+ file systems over the network as if they were local subdirectories;
+- Slang support, you don't need ncurses anymore (but you can still compile
+ with ncurses, if you want).
+- New mc.ext format, for details see the sample mc.ext file provided.
+- Append option if you try to copy/move a file onto already existing one.
+- Internal cd command uses CDPATH variable if set (like in BASH).
+- Find file command is much faster.
+- External panelize command - finding files using unlimited number of
+ criteria - actually spawns an external command and it can be find, awk,
+ grep -l or anything else.
+- Learn keys makes setting up of mc on terminals with broken
+ terminfo/termcap databases easier. It just asks you to press keys which
+ are not working.
+- Advanced chown command.
+- C-PgUp and C-PgDn takes you to the previous and currently selected
+ directory respectively on the Linux console.
+- You can choose between 7 data bits, iso-latin-1 (0-127+160-255) or
+ other (0-255).
+- Confirmation for overwriting, deleting and exiting added.
+- Viewer has growing buffers.
+- Filename, username, hostname and variable completion (M-Tab) on all
+ input lines plus command completion on appropriate places of command
+ line.
+- Following of symlinks at changing directory.
+- Viewer now supports bold faces and underlines, and it fits the
+ information on the screen better. Now you can also specify the starting
+ mode for the viewer depending on the contents of the viewed file.
+- Mask rename and copy.
+- Colors now let you specify the intensity of the colors you want.
+
+This is being worked on:
+- Virtual File System: FTP file system.
+- Tcl/Tk and XView versions of the program (preliminary versions are
+ up and running).
+
+
+Version 2.0
+
+Now users are able to define their own display
+
+- User defined display formats.
+
+ Now you can configure the file display to suit your needs.
+ For example, you can say which information you want to see displayed
+ instead of our defaults.
+
+- User definable program layout.
+
+ Panels could be shown vertically or horizontally;
+ panels could be different sizes, you can hide or show most
+ program windows (command line, keybar or menubar).
+
+- Output window.
+
+ Now, it's possible to see part of the last program output on the Linux
+ console without having to switch screens via an option in the layout
+ menu.
+
+- New View modes:
+
+ Quick view: as you browse your files, each one is displayed on
+ the other panel on the idle time.
+
+ Tree view: let's you browse your directories by traveling a tree.
+ We have two traveling modes available. And the tree does
+ not take your precious time: it's build on the fly, as you
+ browse your disk (you can always loose your time if you
+ want to :-).
+
+ Info view: Gives you information on the currently select file and
+ the current file system as you move.
+
+ User view: Let's you define a directory listing and the format you
+ want to use.
+
+- New subshell support (concurrent shell execution)
+
+ The Midnight Commander will now spawn one copy of the shell, so you
+ get better performance and you can use shell functions, define variables
+ and execute complete shell commands. Supported shells: bash, zsh and
+ tcsh. If your shell is not supported, then the old mode is still
+ available.
+
+- Dialog box manager
+
+ Almost all the new configuration options are configured with this
+ new dialog manager, easy to use if you are familiar with dialog boxes
+ in DOS and Windows.
+
+ Available widgets: check buttons, buttons, radio buttons,
+ input lines and list boxes (So you can take our code and use it on
+ your applications).
+
+- New option configuration.
+
+ Now the program options are configured with a dialog box.
+
+- Chmod and Chown commands:
+
+ For changing permissions as well as ownership of files and
+ directories, uses our new dialog manager.
+
+- Color customization support
+
+ Now you can change the default color of the program with any of
+ these:
+ environment variable, Colors section in the init file (colors per
+ terminal type) and command line.
+
+- User menu and extension enhancements:
+
+ Execution understand the %t macro (tagged files).
+
+ User menu also has a new macro to let the user specify options.
+
+ You can hide and show entries in the user menus by using conditions.
+
+ Auto detect best match depending on a regexp.
+
+- Viewer:
+ Goto line command,
+ horizontal scrolling,
+ on the fly uncompression (and we don't eat unneeded cycles of CPU),
+ allow non gunzip operation.
+
+- Internal move command:
+
+ Now, we don't rely anymore on system commands in /bin, so the
+ program is more robust and is much faster. Bunchs of code come
+ from the GNU fileutils.
+
+- The Tree view and normal views allows wrapped incremental searchs of
+ file names.
+
+- Mask rename:
+
+ Now it's possible to do things like rename *.pas in *.bak
+
+- Compare directories command
+
+- Allow panels to be in Long mode without forcing the user to a single panel.
+
+ (You can even have two long panels).
+
+- F10, C-g cancels as well as ESC ESC.
+
+- Improved help system.
+
+ We updated and spelled the help system and added a lots of links.
+ The Web page is constructed with the same tools.
+
+- Allows tagging of directories:
+
+ Now you can copy, rename, move and delete complete directories. You
+ are not limited anymore to files.
+
+- View output (screen save/restore) on Linux console.
+
+ On old Linux systems, only b&w is supported, on newer Linux systems
+ (1.1.67 and newer), we also support color screen save/restore and
+ cursos positions.
+
+- 8 bit clean support.
+
+- Visual feedback while i-searching files.
+
+- Much more intuitive, you have to use it.
+
+- It's better than aspirin.
+
+- New memory allocation debugger.
+
+ During testing time, we used a powerfull memory allocation debugger,
+ so the program will not eat all your memory, and will make a good use of
+ your memory.
+
+- Now it also runs on hppa-hp-hpux9, hppa-hp-hpux7, m68k-apple-aux and
+ sparc-sun-netbsd1.0. The best platform to run it is Linux, of course,
+ since that's where most of us develop it.
+
+- Inode sort option.
+
+- Nice progress status indicator.
+
+ We have two of them: a moving dash indicator and a progress bar
+ indicator for file operations.
+
+Version 0.15
+
+- Uses GNU autoconf.
+ Currently, it has been ported to this configurations:
+ i386-*-linux1.0
+ i386-*-linux1.1
+ mips-sgi-irix5.2
+ mips-dec-ultrix4.3
+ rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5
+ sparc-sun-sunos4.1
+ sparc-sun-solaris2.3
+
+- Improvements to the internal file viewer:
+ Wrap/Unwrap mode.
+ Hex mode.
+ Hex searches.
+ Now you can view compressed files (gzip, compress, zip, pack and lzh).
+ Performance enhancements, now it's much faster.
+ Works on systems without mmap.
+
+- Mouse Support now also works on xterms.
+ If you run in the Linux console, you will still need the gpm mouse server
+ to use the mouse support, but if you use xterms, then you're lucky
+ and can use the mouse support when using xterms.
+
+- Help system and man page.
+ Both were updated and has many more hypertext links inside, the
+ help system can also be used with a mouse.
+
+- If running on xterms, now you can see the output of the last program
+ you ran by using the C-o key combination.
+
+- Switch panels command (C-u)
+- With filter command per panel.
+- With auto mounting/umounting on chdir feature.
+- cd now expands tildes (~, ~user).
+- Much more portable.
+- Many bugs were fixed.
+
+Version 0.14
+
+- Now can handle directories with an unlimited number of files.
+- New link and symlink commands (C-x l, C-x s).
+- New insert tagged files or selection command (C-x t).
+
+Version 0.13
+
+- Behave more like the Norton Commander.
+- Added menu file edit.
+- If there is no permission to load a directory, now it loads a dummy
+ directory.
+- When a panel is re-sorted, keep the selected file selected.
+- forward_word and backward_word command on the input line now skip
+ over letters and numbers.
+- Fixed backward scrolling in the internal viewer.
+- The internal viewer now computes the percentage in a more natural
+ way.
+- Added handling of the Home and End keys to the internal viewer
+- Bug fixes.
+
+Version 0.12
+
+- Preliminary support for System V compilation.
+- Bug fix: didn't call closedir in all cases.
+- bug fixes.
+
+Version 0.11
+
+- Support cd -.
+- Corrected Makefile.
+
+Version 0.10
+
+- Added new Alt-G, Alt-H, Alt-J to select the top file, middle file
+ and bottom file in the current panel.
+- Now it's allowed to select option in query boxes by the first initial
+- Fixed mouse repeat rate.
+- Fixed a bug that prevent copying individual files to another file.
+- Some minor bug fixes.
+
+Version 0.9
+
+- Mouse Support.
+- Internal Copy command (it no longer uses cp).
+- Verbose Copying of files.
+- Confirmation on Overwrite and on Delete.
+- Support reverse sorting.
+- Many visual enhancements.
+- Per panel options are saved and restored.
+- New truncation of names in the panels.
+- History in Input Lines (M-p and M-n).
+- Input line enhancements.
+- Dialog boxes are nicer than before.
+- Cache in gid and uid translators.
+- More keybindings for the Input lines.
+- Better kill management in Input Lines.
+- Bug fixes.
+
+Version 0.8
+
+- The online help now comes with the complete man page.
+- Input lines now support M-b and M-f for movement by word.
+- Unlimited input lines (command line).
+- Filename searches now must be started with C-s or M-s.
+- Many bug fixes.
+
+Version 0.7
+
+- The stat() reloading optimization is now a configuration option.
+- Many bug fixes went to the find file command.
+- New history in the hypertext viewer.
+- ESC-Tab will copy the name of the other-panel selected file to the
+ input line.
+- Now it's possible to display files and directories mixed together or
+ separated (like the Norton Commander).
+- Many bug fixes, see the ChangeLog for details.
+
+Version 0.6
+
+- Extension dependent execution implemented (now you can execute
+ things like tar tzvf over compressed tar files, just a tap in the
+ Enter key).
+- Added simple expansion of useful variables in the user menu.
+- Avoid unnecessary reloading of subdirectories using stat (suggested
+ by Torben Fjerdingstad <tfj@olivia.ping.dk>).
+- Added options to disable colors and display version number.
+- Allow start up directory specification (ex: mc /usr/local/bin /tmp).
+- Fixed bug that operated on the selection instead of the tagged file
+(when only one file was tagged).
+- Some cosmetic changes.
+- Bug fixes.
+
+Version 0.5
+
+- Fixed bug in the help browser that crashed the program.
+- New internal viewer.
+- New long directory listing format.
+- some bug fixes.
+
+Version 0.4
+
+- User Menus (F2 key).
+- Quick search of files in a panel (Alt-filename takes you to that file).
+- Char quoting (C-q).
+- exec() enhancements.
+- now you can suspend the program (C-z).
+- The find file command now seems to be very stable.
+- misc bug fixes.
+
+Version 0.3
+
+- Setup loading/saving.
+- Support for any size screen.
+- Many, many bug fixes.
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