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+Midnight Commander for Windows NT and Windows '95
+-------------------------------------------------
+
+0. Hello
+1. Compiling
+2. Changes made
+
+0. Hello
+--------
+Hello, this is the Midnight Commander port to Win32. It has many bugs, but is
+quite stable now. Maybe you can help as an beta tester or as a programmer. In
+either case you would like subscribe to mc-devel list
+(see readme files in main doc on how to do this) and contact us.
+
+1. Compiling
+------------
+
+1.1. Compiler
+----------------
+Microsoft Visual C++ for Windows NT (all versions, including 4.x) are supported.
+In nt/makefile you can find an external makefile, and in nt/makefile.vc1.nt, vc4.nt
+projects for the visual IDE. Two makefiles are add since the version 3.5.39. They
+are produced from MS VC 4.x and are named as ntaxp.mak (for Windows NT AXP)
+and ntint.mak (for Windows NT Intel). If you want to use them, you will have to
+change the path coded in these two files.
+
+Other compilers such as Watcom, or Borland tools should be quite
+straightforward, but has not been tested.
+
+Under Cygnus tools, apparently everything works just fine.
+
+1.2. General issues
+--------------------
+Preprocessor
+ Define:
+ LIBDIR
+ _OS_NT - OS flag
+ OS2_NT - Flag for OS/2 and NT
+ HAVE_CONFIG_H - config.h flag
+
+ Includes:
+ So as to avoid chaos in include files, I decided to create some
+ fake includes for UNIX counterparts. The empty files you need to create are:
+ pwd.h grp.h
+ sys/param.h sys/time.h
+
+1.3 Windowing Library
+--------------------------------
+Currently only support for S-lang windowing library is given. I know no curses
+public library ported to Win32 consoles, and I think it is useless to port
+it now. You may want to download the complete distribution it from
+ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis.
+
+
+2. Changes made
+---------------
+
+2.1. Changes to main code
+-------------------------
+They are enclosed in #ifdef _OS_NT or OS2_NT blocks.
+
+Wrote something similar to statfs in UTIL.C
+Wrote truncate.
+Changed (almost) all references to "/" path slash with PATH_CHAR and strPATH_CHAR.
+Changed name of CONTROL_FILE.
+Changed name of shell and call to shell.
+
+In some cases we supressed code. This is temporal (so that mc can compile). In
+the future we will provide fake or true interfaces for these features.
+ - Links: creation and information on links are not supported in NT. We
+ should provide a fake interface for the local filesystem and
+ a true one for networked.
+ - GID/UID queries (get_user, owner, preserve UID/GID on copy, ...).
+ - TERMinals: all the code directly done with terminals must be supressed.
+ - Signals: deleted. Should support the native ones.
+ - pipes: had some trouble in ext.c and with error_pipes but soon will be fixed.
+ - Chown command: Not supported yet.
+
+2.2. Files rewritten
+--------------------
+There are 3 files with so many changes that they have been moved to independent
+archives (or OS dependent).
+ - Chmod.nt.c: this command will query and change attributes (hidden, system,
+ archive,...). Maybe we should write a real chmod (and also a
+ chown). It is not finished, but works almost fine. Look that
+ the stat st_mode member is filled with attributes, not modes.
+ - Cons.handler.nt.c: Supports same API as linux cons.handler.c. It allocates
+ a new console buffer and switches between the two when doing a
+ shell. The new allocated one is the used by Midnight commander.
+ (look that to make this we should also redirect standard handles)
+ - Key.nt.c: a static table maps Virtual Key codes to Curses-like Key codes.
+ Also mouse events are supported.
+ still preliminar.
+ - utilnt.c: Contains utilunix.c functions, with Win32 implementation
+
+2.3. New files
+--------------
+ - drive.nt.c: A Change Drive command has been implemented. Two lines
+ in main.c were included (in the left/right panel menus).
+ The funcs drive_cmd_a/b are implemented in this new file.
+ It will build a dialog with available drives as buttons.
+ bug: too many drives are not supported (think just 7). have
+ to rewrite to support more than one line.
+
+ - util.debug.c: developers-only utilities to trace Win32 API call error codes
+ - util.WinNT.c: Windows NT specific functions:
+ getuid(): Will check your priviledges and return 0 (root)
+ if you have Administrator priviledges.
+ - util.Win32.c: Windows NT & 95 utilities: (specific to Win32, no UNIX counterpart)
+ getEXEtype(): check if executable is CUI or GUI.
+
+2.4. Changes made from me (Alexander Dong, ado@software-ag.de)
+--------------------
+
+I have hacked some codes for Windows NT AXP and NT Intel.
+Drive.nt.c was rewritten for a beautiful Drive_Change dialog window.
+
+All main source changed from me are marked with the comment /* .ado */.
+
+I have also included two own Makefiles:
+ ntaxp.mak (for Windows NT Alpha) and
+ ntint.mak (for Windows 95/NT Intel).
+You will have to change the path in these files before use them. They
+are both for Microsoft Visual C++ 4.x.
+
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