
                       The history of The Star Commander

  Here is the list of the phases the development of  the  Commander  has  gone
through. The fact that the public releases of the Commander were beta versions
and their version number is still below 1.0 does not mean that they  are  full
of bugs or the functions in it do not  work  properly.  I  just  hate  version
numbers like 12.3 or 1.2.34 and until the Commander does all you and I want it
to, the version numbering will remain the same - only the full, final  release
is going to be called Version 1.0. Don't hesitate to send your reports  to  me
as soon as possible so that Version 1.0 can really be the final release.

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  The Star Commander, Beta Version (sc_beta.zip, Summer 1994):


  The first public release, only supported disk  and  tape  images,  the  left
panel was always a CBM panel, the right one always remained in  DOS  mode  and
there was no online help at all. I started coding it in  Turbo Pascal 7.0  and
Turbo Vision 2.0 because I saw how buggy, slow and hard-to-use X1541, DISK64E,
C642C64S and the other copy and converter programs were and that there was  no
program that would have the copy  and  conversion  functions  all  in  one.  I
uploaded it only to ftp.funet.fi and even I don't have it  anymore  because  I
deleted it for some stupid reason when the next release came out.

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  The Star Commander, Beta Version #2 (sc_beta2.zip, 1994-08-24):


  In this release I created the online help by  manually  copying  the  online
help of The Volkov Commander sentence by sentence into a formatted  text  file
which was then compiled into the  help  file.  The  functions  to  access  the
external Commodore 1541 drive were already there, only they didn't  work  yet.
There was no history in the documentation  and  I  don't  remember  any  other
changes.

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  The Star Commander, Beta Version #3 (sc_beta3.zip, 1994-10-16):


  Changes since Beta Version #2:

  - fixed the 'multi file copy to image  file'  bug  when  the  directory  was
    messed up sometimes

  - the redundant configuration option  "Real 1541 drive connected"  has  been
    discarded

  - a new configuration option named "BAM disk copy" appeared

  - the image file name of the last session is not saved in the setup  so  the
    "<image file> not found" won't drive you crazy

  - the online help window does not flicker when changing topic

  - the PC-1541 connection is now more or less complete and turbo mode is also
    implemented - that's what you've been waiting for for a long time!!!

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  The Star Commander Calibrator (sc_calib.zip, 1994-10-20):


  Since Beta Version #3 was still not  capable  of  calibrating  the  transfer
routines, I released an external calibrator some days after the release of the
Commander. You had to feed the integer number displayed by the  calibrator  to
the Commander as a command line parameter.

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  The Star Commander, Beta Version #4 (sc_beta4.zip, 1994-12-18):


  Changes since Beta Version #3:

  - the CBM and PC fix mode panels transformed into  multi-mode  panels  which
    means that you can copy now directly from any format to another

  - the reselection of selected files when  rereading  the  directory  is  now
    fixed

  - changing the labels of image files didn't work - now it does

  - two new configuration options and some other changes for comfort

  - no need to connect the 2-15 pins of the parallel port and  you  won't  see
    the "Interface not found" error anymore

  - no need to press Enter when changing drive

  - all DOS names are turned to uppercase while you are typing them

  - a new external calibrator routine  inside  the  release  package  (run  it
    before the Commander!)

  - the LED on the connected 1541 blinks at every transferred block

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  The Star Commander, Beta Version #5 (sc_beta5.zip, 1995-02-12):


  Bugs fixed since Beta Version #4:

  - when checking the date  input  of  the  "Set attributes"  dialog  box  the
    Commander exchanged the day and the month

  - the Commander placed the backup of the image file in the current directory
    and not into its original path

  - when copying from a DOS mode panel to a CBM  mode  panel  the  file  names
    could be converted incorrectly sometimes

  - the Commander couldn't copy a file longer than 256 blocks to  a  connected
    1541 drive

  - the Commander didn't check if a file  already  existed  on  a  disk  in  a
    connected 1541 drive when tried to copy another one  with  the  same  name
    (nice noises!)

  - the file type of all the files copied to a disk in a connected 1541  drive
    was changed to program file

  - the "Copy" and "Copy disk" progress indicator  that  displayed  the  block
    number or the track and sector being copied was flickering

  - the "Copy disk" worked only in turbo mode - in normal speed it froze

  - pressing ESC while reading/writing in turbo mode from/to a connected  1541
    drive froze the Commander most of the time - it SEEMS to be fixed


  Other changes since Beta Version #4:

  - the extended and fast 1541 routines are now inside the executable file and
    not as an external data file

  - the Commander uses the load path passed by DOS to locate its files instead
    of searching for the file SC.EXE

  - manual calibration is moved to the "Configurations..." menu and it is  not
    to be entered as a command line parameter

  - the new calibrator routine displays a delay value VERY NEAR the  best.  It
    seems that it cannot be modified in such a way that it displays  the  best
    delay value an all kinds of PC's

  - you can select the address of the LPT port to be used

  - you can optionally save the paths of both panels in the setup file

  - you can select the sort order for files in DOS mode panels (do  you  think
    it should be enabled in CBM mode panels, too?)

  - when entering DOS file names letters are automatically turned to uppercase

  - all files with unknown extensions (not .SEQ, .USR, .REL, .D64 or .T64) are
    assumed to be program files

  - the Commander makes backup only once when copying or deleting  a  sequence
    of files to/from an image file

  - the Commander reports back if a file on a connected 1541 drive was deleted
    successfully or not

  - a new button named "All" appeared in the confirmation boxes with which you
    can confirm the operation for all the selected files

  - selecting/unselecting all the files in a panel is  moved  from  the  "All"
    button in the dialog box to Shift + Gray+/Gray-

  - the function key bar has been rewritten so that the  items  are  separated
    with only one space instead of two and so the original function names  are
    used

  - you can move around the items in dialog boxes using  the  cursor  keys  as
    well

  - the point marking the selected item doesn't follow the  highlight  bar  in
    the radio button items of dialog boxes

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  The Star Commander, Beta Version #5A (sc_bet5a.zip, 1995-02-28):


  Bugs fixed since Beta Version #5:

  - the Commander didn't display the help for "Save setup" correctly

  - the Commander couldn't copy a non-program file from a disk in a  connected
    1541 drive (the main reason why this intermediate version was released)


  Other changes since Beta Version #5:

  - the help dialog doesn't flicker anymore - the display  changes  only  when
    the next help item is successfully read

  - the external calibration routine not only tests your machine in a loop (if
    you use the /L option) but also can use the connected 1541 drive  to  fine
    tune the calibration (if you use the /Fxy option where x is the number  of
    the LPT port and y the device number - warning: this handles no errors, it
    might lock up your system if false values are entered)

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  The Star Commander, Version 0.60 beta (not released):


  This version was never released officially, a tester put  it  onto  his  FTP
site by mistake.

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  The Star Commander, Version 0.61 beta (sc061.zip, 1995-05-22):


  Bugs fixed since Beta Version #5:

  - the Commander didn't display the help for "Save setup" correctly (fixed in
    Beta Version #5A)

  - the Commander locked up if you changed the screen mode in DOS shell

  - the Commander couldn't copy a non-program file from a disk in a  connected
    1541 drive (fixed in Beta Version #5A)

  - you couldn't extract the last file from a full tape image

  - the file sizes in tape images weren't  displayed  correctly  if  over  256
    blocks

  - the ".." DOS link in image files was selected by '*' and similar wildcards
    if it wasn't on the screen at the time of the selection

  - the Commander didn't display the ".." up-directory when viewing  a  remote
    drive in a Novell network (now it displays a dummy ".." up-directory)

  - the bugs that arise with the use of a write protected PC  disk  have  been
    mostly eliminated

  - the  mouse  cursor  didn't  reappear  when  asking  for  a  file  name  or
    confirmation during a multi-file copy or delete from  or  to  a  connected
    1541 drive

  - the Commander locked up if you tried to delete a  splat  file  or  if  you
    tried to validate a disk image that contained a splat file

  - the side sectors of relative files in a  disk  image  were  not  allocated
    during validate or freed during delete


  Other changes since Beta Version #5:

  - the version number and the file  name  of  the  distribution  package  has
    changed: the version number is now x.yz (where x is the major  and  yz  is
    the minor version number); similarly the file name is now SCxyz.ZIP

  - warp transfer mode (about 5-6 times faster) introduced  for  copying  disk
    from or to a connected 1541 drive

  - no /F option in the  external  calibrator  routine  (the  delay  value  it
    displayed was absolutely wrong)

  - the help dialog doesn't flicker anymore - the display  changes  only  when
    the next help item is successfully read (changed in Beta Version #5A)

  - the Commander can be also run on monochrome VGA, CGA and Hercules monitors

  - the Commander displays the letters of valid PC drives when changing drives

  - the Commander can optionally display file sizes and capacities in DOS mode
    panels in bytes instead of in blocks

  - the Commander can optionally display all files with invalid file  type  as
    programs in tape images

  - the Commander can optionally append the extension of the PC  file  to  the
    converted C64 file name if not  .PRG  or  .SEQ  or  .USR  and  append  the
    DOS-style "extension" of C64 files (e.g. "diskcopy.lnx") to the  converted
    PC file name

  - many things were changed to match the standards  of  The Norton Commander:
    most of the colors and dialog boxes; the outlook and behaviour of buttons;
    the upper line of panels; you can hide the menu bar and win an extra  line
    for panels

  - each panel can hold a maximum of 1024 entries instead of 512

  - the sort mode of panels can be set from the menu bar instead of  a  dialog
    box

  - the scrolling of panels and the online help with mouse is  slowed  down  -
    they scroll only a single line and not a whole page

  - frozen files in tape images are displayed and can be extracted

  - you can stop the file copy between panels of  any  mode  at  any  time  by
    pressing Escape

  - when copying files a progress indicator will show you the  amount  of  the
    copy already done - when you copy files from or to a connected 1541  drive
    the number of copied blocks is displayed

  - you can copy a disk image to a disk in a connected  1541  drive  not  only
    from the DOS directory but also when viewing the disk image itself

  - you can enter a new name for files copied between panels of any mode

  - you can enter wildcards when copying a DOS file into a DOS mode  panel  or
    when renaming a DOS file

  - you can't use the Tab and Shift-Tab keys to move around dialog boxes;  use
    the cursor keys instead

  - you can also use Cursor Left and Cursor Right to jump to the  top  or  the
    bottom of the panels

  - you can also use Space to select or unselect files

  - you can't use Alt+key combinations to jump to the menu

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  The Star Commander, Version 0.70 beta (sc070.zip, 1995-10-29):


  Bugs fixed since Version 0.61 beta:

  - the Commander didn't separate double clicks

  - I've mixed up the Hidden and System attributes in the "Attributes"  dialog
    box


  Other changes since Version 0.61 beta:

  - the calibrator is now inside the Commander and is semi-automatic - it will
    activate if there is no setup file or it is corrupted; you can re-run  the
    calibration by selecting "Recalibrate" in the "Advanced options..." menu

  - the file copy, rename and deletion system has been rewritten from scratch;
    you can specify the source files and the destination path or  image  file,
    now you are not limited to copying files from  the  active  panel  to  the
    inactive one but are able to copy or move practically anything anywhere

  - the enhanced "Rename" command, "Rename or move" allows you to  delete  the
    source files at the instant they were successfully copied

  - introducing the command line with history capable of storing a maximum  of
    19 recent commands

  - introducing warp transfer for file copy (only the CBM -> PC  direction  is
    implemented with no error handling yet)

  - introducing disk editor for disk images and disks in a connected CBM drive
    also in turbo mode

  - introducing a new smart shelling system that allocates less than 25 KBytes
    for the Commander while executing DOS commands (that is if you  start  the
    Commander through the loader SC.EXE)

  - introducing the Brief mode which displays twice or three times more  files
    in the panel than the Full mode

  - the Commander can optionally run with  the  C64  character  set  (only  on
    EGA/VGA video cards) - you can change it in the "Advanced options..." menu
    and by pressing Shift+Control and Shift+Alt when no dialog box is  on  the
    screen

  - the "Configurations..." menu is split into two parts  because  there  were
    too many options to stuff into it;  there  is  a  "Configuration..."  menu
    (mostly PC related options;  assigned  to  Control+F9)  and  an  "Advanced
    options..." menu (rather C64 and CBM drive related  options;  assigned  to
    Control+F10)

  - an external ZipCoder is inside the Commander distribution package

  - with the "Filter" menu you can disable the display of  Hidden  and  System
    files and you can also make the Commander  show  you  only  executable  or
    image files

  - you can create your own user menus for DOS panels

  - you can view and edit DOS files with external viewers and editors - you'll
    have to create extension files first (read the online help on  how  to  do
    that)

  - you can associate  commands  with  file  extensions  (e.g.  start  a  word
    processor if you press Enter or double click on a file with the  extension
    .DOC)

  - the Commander can now handle tape images  with  more  (or  less)  than  30
    entries

  - the Commander now has a screen saver with adjustable screen blank delay

  - you can start typing a file name to make the cursor bar jump to a matching
    file in the panel (you have to press the Alt key with the first letter)

  - the scroller bars of the panels and the online help  are  removed  -  they
    were the ugly remnants of the  original  Turbo  Vision  routines  and  had
    nothing to do with the environment of the other Commanders

  - you can retry or skip reading or writing bad sectors during disk copy

  - the disk copy CBM -> PC direction has been sped up by 10 seconds

  - you can stop the reading of the  directory  and  the  validation  of  disk
    images by pressing Esc (it can help if there's a loop in the sector  chain
    although you should fix that as soon as possible)

  - all the four possible device numbers of connected CBM drives are displayed
    in the "Change drive" dialog box; if you have a  single  floppy  drive  in
    your PC, it will not be displayed as a phantom second drive

  - you can change the soft sector interleave for disk images and disks  in  a
    connected CBM drive

  - the "Volume label" command is moved from Alt+F4 to Control+F4 - Alt+F4  is
    now reserved for the internal editor (in one of the next releases)

  - the Insert key now repeats just like any other key

  - you can press Control+Alt+Insert to reset all  connected  CBM  drives  and
    Control+Alt+Delete to exit the Commander immediately (emergency exit - use
    it only as a last resort)

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  The Star Commander, Version 0.71 beta (sc071.zip, 1996-03-04):


  Bugs fixed since Version 0.70 beta:

  - when copying a file or disk from a connected Commodore drive to the PC  in
    normal transfer mode the last byte in some of the sectors or the last byte
    of the file could sometimes get lost

  - you couldn't copy sequential and user files  from  a  connected  Commodore
    drive

  - if you started SCMAIN.EXE and launched a standard viewer or  editor  while
    the C64 character set was enabled then garbage would be displayed  at  the
    original DOS output screen after returning from the external program

  - if you started the Commander through SC.EXE and  executed  a  DOS  command
    when one of the panels was an external panel then a strange path would  be
    offered when you tried to copy a file to the external drive and the manual
    file name conversion box would give you a blank file name

  - when both panels were off and you tried to re-read a panel with  Control-R
    then nothing happened but the clock disappeared

  - user menu entries without any commands and  commands  prepended  with  '@'
    were handled incorrectly

  - if you typed anything on the command line after returing from an  external
    viewer or editor then previous contents of the command line disappeared


  Other changes since Version 0.70 beta:

  - introducing a new synchronization that uses the hardware system timers and
    therefore is not machine dependent

  - the infamous problem that made the Commander unable to work in turbo modes
    on certain PC's has at last been eliminated

  - introducing an external setup program that  allows  you  to  set  all  the
    settings of the Commander - only the important  settings  can  be  changed
    inside the Commander and so the configuration menus are not as stuffed  as
    before

  - from now on the external setup program and the Commander  itself  will  be
    able to read the setup file created by the previous version - no  need  to
    set the options that were unchanged in the new version

  - introducing an external Lynx/unLynx program that can build archives out of
    multiple DOS files or the contents of disk  images  and  extract  archives
    into DOS files or disk images

  - introducing an external program that collects multiple file images  (files
    with the extension '.P00'/'.S00'/'.U00' created by PC64) into tape images

  - from now on I will maintain a mailing list for those who would like to get
    the future releases of the Commander as soon as possible (you just send me
    an E-Mail and you'll get a uuencoded package on the release day)

  - a World Wide Web homepage of the Commander is being under  construction  -
    you will be able to download the latest release and read about changes  in
    the upcoming version

  - the type of column mode (brief or full) and  the  mini  status  box  (off,
    brief or full) can be set separately for the  left  and  right  panel  and
    separately for DOS and CBM panel  mode -  however,  the  original  options
    'Brief' and 'Full' in the 'Left' and 'Right' menus  and  'Mini status'  in
    the 'Options' menu were kept for comfort and compatibility

  - critical errors are reported in a nice dialog box instead of that ugly red
    message overlaying the last line of the screen

  - standard viewers and editors are informed about the screen mode (black and
    white, color or laptop) and the mouse mode (present or not, right or  left
    handed) the Commander is using and they work  with  these  parameters  (if
    they support the way of passing parameters of The Norton Commander)

  - Star Zip asks you for  overwrite  confirmation  if  the  destination  file
    already exists

  - you can overwrite an already existing disk image when copying a disk  from
    an external drive to a disk image

  - if the inactive panel  is  off  then  the  command  "Rename or Move"  will
    default to renaming the file under the cursor bar

  - emergency exit is assigned to Ctrl-Alt-Ins and external  Commodore  drives
    can be reset with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (no dangerous Ctrl-Alt-Del anymore)

  - only 16 commands are stored in the history since a history of 19  commands
    could not be displayed aesthetically on a 25 line  screen  anyway  -  this
    lowers the amount of memory used by the loader program, too

  - the menu of available commands in the disk editor pops up when  you  press
    F2 instead of 'M'

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  The Star Commander, Version 0.72 beta (sc072.zip, 1996-05-20):


  Bugs fixed since Version 0.71 beta:

  - you were not prompted for overwrite confirmation when copying  an  already
    existing file from the PC to the connected Commodore drive

  - empty files are now copied properly between panels of any mode

  - saving the settings in the external setup while the Commander is  resident
    in the memory does not create a corrupt setup file

  - some mouse handling problems before and after executing DOS  commands  and
    calling standard viewers and editors have been fixed

  - invalid track and sector numbers are not allowed in the disk editor

  - if the functions ^[ and ^]  would  cause  the  command  line  to  overflow
    (locking up the computer), you will not be allowed to use them


  Other changes since Version 0.71 beta:

  - introducing an internal viewer for DOS and Commodore files with  wrap  and
    unwrap, text/hex display, adjustable end-of-line  mark,  text/hex  search,
    ASCII/PETSCII/screen code display and C64 character  set  -  this  program
    is physically external (SCVIEW.EXE) so that the  memory  required  by  the
    Commander does not increase

  - all the interactive external programs (currently the  external  setup  and
    the viewer) can be also shut down by pressing  Control+Alt+Insert  at  any
    time in case they lock up for some reason

  - introducing a full color setup for  all  palettes  (black & white,  color,
    laptop and monochrome) in the external setup - there  are  sample  palette
    files included, too

  - introducing a FAQ - frequently asked questions about the Commander and  my
    answers

  - the Commander and all related programs abort with an error message if  run
    on an XT

  - on any error during finding a viewer or editor for the file to  be  viewed
    or edited (extension file does not exist, there is no appropriate entry in
    the extension file or the standard viewer or editor in that entry does not
    exist) the Commander will try to load the standard  viewer  SCVIEW.EXE  or
    the standard  editor  SCEDIT.EXE  -  until  the  internal  editor  of  the
    Commander is done, you can rename your favorite editor to SCEDIT.EXE

  - you can recursively delete non-empty directories

  - the symbols '!', '!.!', '!:', '!\' and '!@' used  in  menu  and  extension
    files for the active panel have the equivalents of '%', '%.%', '%:',  '%\'
    and '%@' for the inactive panel

  - a new C64 character set was designed for and only  for  the  80x25  screen
    mode

  - the Commander doesn't display "Invalid disk image" for  disk  images  with
    error info at their end, it just ignores the error info instead

  - if a disk error occurs  during  warp  file  copy  CBM->PC  direction  then
    instead of aborting the copy the Commander will allow you to retry the bad
    block

  - there is a new option called 'Copy full track 18' that allows you  to  BAM
    copy disks that have unallocated but useful sectors in the directory -  in
    this case track #18 will be fully copied no matter what the BAM contains

  - if you try to BAM copy a disk with an invalid BAM you  are  asked  if  you
    want to copy the full disk

  - the disk copy dialog box also contains the 'BAM disk copy'and  'Copy  full
    track 18' options which default to the value in the  'Advanced options...'
    menu but you can override them temporarily for  that  particular  disk  or
    disk image

  - if a disk error is encountered during disk copy in  either  direction  you
    can skip the whole track, as well

  - when finishing copying a disk from a connected Commodore drive to  the  PC
    or you abort the process, the Commander will only re-read the DOS panel

  - pressing Escape will no more stops reading the  directory  in  disk  image
    panels, only in external panels

  - pressing F6 while the inactive panel is off or pressing Control+F6 pops up
    the 'Rename or Move' dialog box in rename mode offering you  the  original
    file name instead of a destination path

  - you can assign commands to F1 and  F10  in  the  user  menu  -  this  will
    override 'Help' and 'Quit' on the function key bar

  - there is a clipboard in the disk editor  that  allows  you  to  copy  data
    chunks between sectors

  - if you run the Commander through SC.EXE then you can enter a  DOS  command
    as a parameter to be executed before the Commander starts

  - you are not allowed to copy, rename or move deleted files (files with  the
    file type 'DEL') - you can only delete them

  - the 'Mini status' option in the 'Options' menu changes the mini status for
    both panels

  - the 'Clean' function deletes the garbage in the last block  of  files,  as
    well

  - the color attribute of characters in the shadow has been changed from dark
    gray on black to light gray on black

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  The Star Commander, Version 0.73 (sc073.zip, 1996-09-30):


  Bugs fixed since Version 0.72 beta:

  - if you select 'Executable files' or 'Image files' in the Filter dialog box
    of a panel, directories will still be displayed

  - if you press 'B' in the menu of the disk editor then the BAM  editor  will
    come up and not the sector editor

  - when you pop up the online help above the user menu, the cursor keys  will
    be handled by the online help and not the user menu below it

  - if you press cursor left or right in a Brief panel, the  cursor  will  not
    jump to the first or last entry

  - if you press Alt+A to select 'All' in the manual file name conversion box,
    the Commander will not lock up after copying the file

  - the automatic file name conversion now  works  correctly  for  non-program
    files having dots in their names

  - if you enter an empty search string, the viewer will not lock up

  - the Commander now finds standard viewers/editors in its home directory  if
    no path was specified in the extension file


  Other changes since Version 0.72 beta:

  - the Commander is not called "beta" anymore - it is just a matter of naming
    to please worrying people because the public  beta  releases  have  always
    been just as complete and bugfree as any other non-beta program

  - from this release on the Commander is giftware: it can be freely used  but
    registering it is encouraged - please, read REGISTER.TXT for more details

  - the delay values are now multiplied by 4, the default is 48 -  this  makes
    the delay value scale finer, helping you with setting the correct value

  - only the executable files of the external utilities  are  in  the  archive
    SC_ARC.ZIP in the Commander package, full packages of  the  Star Utilities
    are in a separately distributed archive named SUxyy.ZIP (where x.yy is the
    version number)

  - the maximum number of files displayed in the panels  is  reduced  to  512,
    this way the Commander  needs  50  KBytes  less  memory  for  execution  -
    similarly, the maximum number of entries in the 'Make tape image' function
    is reduced to 99, the value in C64S, since you can't see 1499 entries in a
    panel anyway

  - introducing full read and write support for the file  images  (files  with
    the  extension  '.P00'/'.S00'/'.U00')  of  Personal C64;  press  Enter  or
    double-click on a file image to view its contents  and  check  the  option
    'Into file images' in the 'Copy'  and  'Rename or move'  dialog  boxes  to
    copy/move the source files into file images

  - introducing support for 40 track disks and disk images -  you  can  format
    such disks and create such disk images, copy them between the  PC  and  an
    external Commodore drive and copy files into or out of them

  - introducing support for the error info attached to disk images -  although
    most parts of the Commander ignore it, you are given  the  opportunity  to
    collect read errors during disk copy in any mode into an error info  block
    and you can edit the error info of disk images in the disk editor

  - introducing the capability of the viewer to display files  inside  images,
    there is even a file selector for you to view other files in the image

  - introducing Star LHA, an external archiver than can create  Commodore  LHA
    archives out of disk images, list their contents  and  extract  them  into
    disk images (it uses LHA for DOS  for  compression  and  decompression  so
    remember to put it into your path) - it can even  display archive comments
    (only the PETSCII control codes $0D, $0E and $8E are supported)

  - introducing Star Arkive, an  external  archiver  than  can  create  Arkive
    archives out of disk images, list their contents  and  extract  them  into
    disk images

  - introducing a new panel mode: Info panels show the total and  free  memory
    and some info about the other panel like total and free  capacity,  volume
    label, number of files in the current directory and the capacity they use

  - introducing a history file containing all the changes made since the first
    release of the Commander

  - introducing a command line for external drives in the User Menu - if  your
    Commodore drive has special commands over the normal  1541  commands,  you
    can type them there

  - lots of more C64 graphical characters are displayed in  PC  character  set
    mode so that the directories of demo disks look a bit better

  - the configuration menus of the main program and the  external  setup  were
    again rearranged

  - the sample menu and extension files have been expanded to handle Commodore
    archives using the external archivers

  - if you copy or move multiple files into a disk  or  tape  image  with  the
    option 'Backup image files' checked and an error  occurs  then  the  image
    file is not overwritten with the backup so that the previously  copied  or
    moved files won't disappear

  - if you press Escape or F10 during disk or file copy while  data  is  being
    transferred from or to an external Commodore  drive,  you  are  optionally
    asked for confirmation before the copy is cancelled

  - there is an option to display start info in  the  panels  (the  track  and
    sector number of the files  in  disk  images  and  the  start  address  of
    programs in tape and file images)

  - you can set the number of automatic retries on  disk  errors  during  data
    transfer between the PC and the external Commodore drive

  - you are warned if you copy a too big file onto a disk or into a disk image

  - the Commander now warns you if the destination PC disk  gets  full  during
    file copy - it allows you to continue with the next selected file  but  it
    always deletes the partially copied file

  - you can save the BAM in the BAM editor with F2 instead of 'W'

  - when the Commander is running idle, it executes  INT 28h  -  for  example,
    disk caches can write data back faster in the background

  - if the environment variable TEMP is defined,  the  panel  list  files  are
    created in the directory it points to

  - the viewer opens a warning window to inform you when there is  not  enough
    memory to view the file

  - the "NULL" line feed of the viewer has been changed into "User LF"  -  you
    can define any one byte code for a line feed mark

  - all the external utilities recognize 40 track disk images and disk  images
    with error info

  - Star Zip can create and extract "filepacked" ZipCode archives (files  with
    the name pattern A!*.*, B!*.*, ... plus a "directory" file X!*.*)

  - Star Zip can create diskpacked ZipCode  archives  out  of  40  track  disk
    images, in which case a fifth archive is created; similarly, if this fifth
    archive is found while unzipping diskpacked ZipCode archives, a  40  track
    disk image is created - note that the fifth ZipCode archive  will  not  be
    recognized by ZipCoder programs running on a Commodore machine

  - Star Lynx now creates archives out of disk images by default and  extracts
    archives into disk images; to lynx and unlynx multiple DOS files you  must
    put the option 'D' right after the command

  - Star Zip and Star Lynx will allow you  to  extract,  skip  or  rename  the
    current file if  a  file  with  the  same  name  was  encountered  in  the
    destination image

  - you can add and extract phantom files (they start at the sector  18;0  and
    usually have the length of zero blocks) into and out of Lynx archives

  - you may prepend a dash to the commands of the external utilities,  if  you
    want

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  The Star Commander, Version 0.80 (sc080.zip, 1997-05-26):


  Bugs fixed since Version 0.73:

  - now the Commander does run with  only  500  KBytes  of  free  conventional
    memory just as the documentation states (I forgot to change the check  for
    free memory at startup)

  - the Commander can create backup files under Windows 95, too

  - the Format menu item in the user menu for tape images now works OK

  - the automatic file name conversion works correctly  if  you  use  wildcard
    characters or change the file extension in the  Copy,  Rename or move  and
    Delete file name input dialog boxes

  - the device number of both panels is remembered correctly in the setup

  - the keys PgDn, PgUp, Home and End don't change the active  button  in  the
    online help index of the viewer and the external setup

  - the "Next" and "Previous" items in the online help don't skip the  section
    "Memory allocation"

  - the 'Write block' item at the bottom of the disk editor menu is not hidden

  - when 'Full screen' is off, the speed search dialog box still sticks to the
    bottom of the panel

  - if you save the setup when one of the panels  is  an  external  panel  and
    restart the Commander then the "Change drive" dialog box will show you the
    correct default drive number for that panel

  - the 'Color' palette color of the numbers in the function key  bar  at  the
    bottom is light grey on black instead of cyan on black

  - the sample Commander screens in the palette setup of  the  external  setup
    have been changed according to the new features (I should have  done  that
    in Version 0.73)

  - when viewing or editing files inside images, always the internal viewer or
    editor is called

  - the viewer scrolls upwards in  a  smarter  way  in  files  containing  Tab
    characters

  - the  viewer  displays  Commodore  file  names  with  graphical  characters
    correctly in the upper status line

  - the viewer works properly if you specify the name of the file to be viewed
    and the active panel is an image panel

  - Star LHA now omits the path stored in  LHA  archives  and  only  uses  the
    file name itself when displaying or extracting the contents

  - Star Lynx doesn't create corrupt archives out of more than some 130 files

  - Star LHA now doesn't display the option 'V' for the  command  'L'  in  its
    usage info because such an option doesn't exist at all


  Other changes since Version 0.73:

  - introducing a file editor for DOS files and Commodore files inside images:
    handles files up to amount of free conventional memory, ability  to  mark,
    copy, move and delete text and hexadecimal blocks, adjustable  line  feed,
    optional PETSCII and screen code display, built-in C64 character set

  - introducing built-in support for Lynx, filepacked ZipCode, LHA, Arkive and
    TAR archives - you can enter them, copy files into and out of them, rename
    and delete files inside them, even File Info and the Info panel works with
    them (note that the Commander needs LHA 2.14 or newer in order to be  able
    to extract files properly)

  - introducing the XP1541 parallel cable that  speeds  up  transferring  data
    between the PC and the external Commodore drive even more

  - introducing the warp file copy PC->CBM direction

  - introducing Star Library, yet another external utility to  handle  Library
    archives

  - the Commander, the external setup, the viewer and the editor all check the
    version number of the resident Commander/loader

  - the description of the X1541 interfaces has been moved to  the  docs  from
    the online help

  - you are warned if you try to access an external Commodore  drive  under  a
    multi-tasking system via the X1541 cable, you try to use the  X1541  cable
    on an EPP or ECP parallel port or try to use the XP1541 parallel cable  on
    an SPP parallel port

  - the delay value defaults to 80 on Pentiums and to 48 on earlier CPU's

  - you can sort files in CBM panels, too

  - you can press the right mouse button on the key bar at the bottom  of  the
    screen to access the Alt functions

  - the maximum number of entries in tape images has been raised  to  500,  it
    was unnecessary to decrease it to as low as 99

  - the Commander and all the external programs give up their time slice under
    DESQview and in the DOS shells of OS/2, Linux and any Windows when waiting
    for input

  - the Commander takes  the  "COUNTRY="  settings  in  your  CONFIG.SYS  into
    account, it displays numbers and  displays  and  inputs  dates  and  times
    accordingly; you can view these settings in the menu  item  "Country info"
    of the external setup

  - by checking a new option,  'Verify write',  the  Commander  verifies  data
    written onto disks in the external Commodore drive during warp disk copy

  - the process of copying files from an external panel in warp mode has  been
    sped up a bit by reading 256 blocks of data in one go instead of track  by
     track

  - "22,READ ERROR" and "23,READ ERROR" errors are also retried as many  times
    as the option "Number of retries" specifies during warp disk and file copy

  - you can format the destination disks during disk copy

  - when you press Enter or double-click on a DOS file,  the  Commander  first
    reads through the extension file to find  a  command  specified  for  that
    extension - this way you can override the normal action of entering  image
    and archive files

  - it is now possible to specify file name patterns besides extensions in the
    extension files

  - you can specify the same commands for a sequence of name patterns  in  the
    extension files  by  listing  the  patterns  in  subsequent  lines  or  by
    separating the patterns with semicolons

  - now you can use the "<imagetype>:<path>\<imagename>\<filename>" file  name
    format (used in the Copy dialog box) in the View and Edit dialog boxes  to
    view or edit files inside images

  - the PETSCII to DOS file name conversion now includes stripping off leading
    and trailing underscores of the file name and the extension

  - it is now possible to change the  file  type  of  files  being  copied  by
    appending ",<file-type>" to the file name pattern

  - now you can set the Filter to display only archive files

  - the Commander doesn't read the error channel  of  the  external  drive  if
    there were no errors while reading the  directory,  which  speeds  up  the
    process

  - if you delete the image file displayed in one  of  the  panels  then  that
    panel turns back to DOS mode and no error  message  is  written  onto  the
    screen

  - the disk image cleaner is much faster than before

  - the confirmation option 'Write block'  has  transformed  into  the  option
    'Disk editor' and now it controls all confirmations in the disk editor

  - a  new  confirmation  option,  "Abort data transfer",  tells  whether  the
    Commander should ask for confirmation when aborting data transfer  between
    the PC and the external Commodore drive or not

  - with two other new confirmation options you can control the warnings about
    possible transfer and file size problems

  - another new option, "Auto unselect files", allows you to  control  whether
    processed files are automatically unselected or not

  - the option 'Wipe scratched files' allows you to clean up  the  sectors  of
    files being scratched in disk images

  - another new option, 'Orig format pattern', controls whether empty  sectors
    are filled up with zeros or the original 1541 format pattern

  - you can copy frozen files from tape images as programs and File Attributes
    can turn files in tape images into frozen files

  - there is no label displayed in file images

  - if you allocate or free a whole track in the BAM editor, the  cursor  will
    jump a column to the right, helping you with  allocating  or  freeing  the
    whole disk

  - now you can also use the clipboard of the disk editor to copy data between
    different disks and disk images

  - if the screen height allows, the lower part  of  the  disk  editor  screen
    shows the current contents of the clipboard

  - pressing Escape doesn't stop reading the directory in any panel mode

  - if you press Space on the selected item of a radio button group  then  the
    selection and the cursor will jump onto the next item

  - the Commander informs you if an invalid sector link is found in the source
    disk image during file copy

  - you can select multiple disk images and copy them one by one onto disks in
    an external drive

  - the "Configuration..." menu of the external setup shows  you  the  current
    mode of the LPT ports

  - the viewer and the editor are now able  to  read  and  write  uncompressed
    (Lynx, Arkive) archives

  - since you can use the viewer and the editor with other programs, as  well,
    neither of them display registration info in the online help

  - when in text mode, the Goto function in the viewer and the editor ask  for
    the number of the line you want to  jump  to,  jumping  to  an  offset  is
    available only in hexadecimal mode

  - a new line feed mode in the viewer and the editor  allow  you  to  have  a
    fixed line length

  - an empty line within the selected block is marked with a phantom space  by
    both the viewer and the editor so that you see the block has not ended yet

  - the viewer now scrolls much faster when you press PgDn or PgUp

  - the viewer is a bit more tolerant, it won't lock  up  when  viewing  files
    inside damaged disk images

  - the viewer and the editor  write  no  messages  onto  the  DOS  screen  if
    everything is OK - this way you can use them under other programs  without
    that annoying screen jump

  - the viewer and the editor now scan the first 4 kilobytes of the input file
    to autodetect the line feed and whether to switch Tab  translation  on  or
    off

  - you can switch the display of special characters (Space, Tab and line feed
    marks) both in the viewer and the editor

  - the viewer and the editor put a "$" sign  before  the  hexadecimal  number
    input line of the Goto and User Line Feed dialog boxes

  - Star Arkive, Star LHA, Star Library, Star Lynx and  Star Zip  display  the
    names of files being skipped during extraction

  - when renaming a file during extraction, Star Arkive, Star LHA,  Star Lynx,
    Star Library and Star Zip offer you the original file name and you can use
    the cursor keys, Home and End to move around the file name, Backspace  and
    Delete to delete characters and Control+Backspace to delete  the  complete
    file name

  - Star LHA lets you extract files even if another one  with  the  same  name
    already exists in the destination disk image

  - Star LHA recognizes file names longer than 16 characters in LHA archives

  - with a new command of Star LHA you  can  prepend  the  SFX  header  to  an
    already existing LHA archive or strip it off of an SFX archive

  - Star List is now capable of listing file images, Lynx, filepacked ZipCode,
    LHA, LHA SFX, Arkive and TAR archives

  - Star List now displays the total number and size of files at  the  end  of
    the file list of the current image or archive file

  - some of the archive checks were changed in Star Lynx to make it  recognize
    more Lynx archives

  - Star Tape can handle  list  files  created  by  the  '!@'  option  of  the
    Commander

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  The Star Commander, Version 0.81 (sc081.zip, 1997-11-30):


  Bugs fixed since Version 0.80:

  - the pin assignment of the VIA#1 chip was incorrect in the documentation

  - verify is working in warp BAM disk copy PC->1541 direction

  - you can again copy files in turbo mode onto a Commodore disk

  - turbo and warp mode is again working on 1571 drives

  - the parallel turbo file copy to the PC lost the last bytes of many of  the
    sectors

  - the parallel warp file copy from the PC often damaged the last byte of the
    BAM sector and the directory sector holding the file entry

  - if a new directory sector was opened for the entry of the  file  currently
    being copied in warp mode, PC->1541 direction then it was left unallocated

  - you can again skip the whole track during warp disk copy 1541->PC

  - the turbo disk copy continues properly if  you  press  'Retry'  on  a  bad
    sector

  - there are no strange problems anymore when you try to  delete  files  from
    write-protected PC floppy disks

  - the X1541 and the XP1541 cables can be connected to the same port, if it's
    in PS/2 mode

  - only parallel ports between the addresses $0200-$0400 are accepted by  the
    Commander and the external setup

  - when copying a disk into a disk image in normal  mode,  you  won't  get  a
    false alarm about errors during the disk copy

  - when copying a disk into a disk image with BAM disk copy, the BAM is  read
    from the disk prior to the actual disk copy

  - the fast transfer routines have been modified to be able to seek  back  to
    the extra tracks after a head rattle

  - you are warned if there are more entries in the current directory than the
    Commander can handle

  - very long directories are sorted correctly

  - files are created on Novell network drives properly

  - when deleting phantom files, the directory blocks remain allocated

  - when deleting the first file in an LHA or TAR archive, the archive  itself
    won't be deleted

  - there are a lot less error messages when you want to process  files  on  a
    floppy disk but the drive is empty

  - the Commander won't lock up  when  trying  to  read  the  directory  of  a
    disconnected network drive, it will change to the  path  of  the  opposite
    panel instead

  - when a directory sector is damaged on the disk or becomes  damaged  during
    warp directory read, you are warned with a read error

  - the Commander finishes reading the directory in turbo and warp mode if  it
    encounters an invalid sector link

  - the floppy drive is accessed properly for both  letters  on  single  drive
    systems

  - the Commander returns to 80 column text mode  from  any  graphical  screen
    mode upon startup and when finishing DOS shell

  - there is really no snowing on CGA video cards if you  switch  'Snow check'
    on

  - the annoying screen flickers upon entering and exiting DOS shell are gone

  - 'Make disk' and 'Make tape' gives you an error  if  there' s  no  room  to
    create the image

  - when copying a file into a disk image is aborted, no splat  file  remains;
    leaving splat files in disk images and copying other files over them later
    can cause crosslinks to appear

  - the file copy will not lock up when copying a file from an external  drive
    into a disk image with an invalid BAM

  - the  file  copy  is  aborted  automatically  when  the  directory  of  the
    destination disk image is full and the last entry is not corrupted either

  - files with the names "." and  ".."  are  properly  handled  in  image  and
    archive files but, in change, you have to specify ".\" and  "..\"  if  you
    want to extract files, as DOS  files,  into  the  current  or  the  parent
    directory

  - when deleting a subdirectory of the current directory,  the  cursor  won't
    jump to the top of the panel

  - the keyboard buffer is not flushed during the copy, rename, move or delete
    process

  - Alt-Shift toggles the lowercase/uppercase and uppercase/graphics character
    set on all video cards

  - if you click on a disabled menu item, the menu will cancel itself

  - when in the menu, only those commands displayed in the  current  pull-down
    menu will work

  - Control+letter codes are working with national keyboard drivers

  - pressing Control+Backspace or Control+W at the beginning of an input  line
    won't press the first button in the file name input box

  - the panels don't flicker when copying files into LHA archives

  - the sample Commander screens in the external setup have again been updated
    to show the same display as in the Commander

  - the viewer doesn't display a length of -1 and the editor doesn't  lock  up
    with files whose first block is completely empty

  - the viewer and the editor displayed incorrect load addresses in image  and
    archive directories

  - the editor doesn't scroll the screen  far  to  the  right  sometimes  when
    copying text blocks

  - the text cursor of the editor follows the mouse cursor correctly

  - binary replace in the editor  works  in  PETSCII  and  screen  code  modes
    correctly

  - the item "--- Next ---" is not displayed in the "Convert"  dialog  box  of
    the editor

  - the LHA conversion routines in the Commander and Star LHA are now  working
    under Novell DOS and Norton DOS and they still suppress messages from  LHA
    under Windows 95

  - Star Tape is working again

  - the Star Utilities recognize bad track or sector links while reading input
    files inside disk images

  - Star LHA converts ASCII underscores to PETSCII spaces  instead  of  Shift-
    spaces

  - renaming a file inside a Lynx archive to a name longer than 16  characters
    will not cause archive corruption

  - the option P in Star List is working properly again

  - Star List couldn't  list  Lynx  and  Library  archives  and  it  displayed
    incorrect file sizes in tape images


  Other changes since Version 0.80:

  - the documentation, being a plain text and no formatted document, has  been
    renamed back to SC.TXT, as it had been in Version 0.71 and before

  - the file README.1ST had been deleted

  - all text files in  the  Commander  package  have  been  changed  to  a  78
    character per line format

  - there is a lot more information about different cables and  parallel  port
    modes in the documentation, helping you with selecting cables easily

  - the transfer routines have been restructured, all delay  values  below  80
    are automatically raised by 8

  - introducing support for  Windows 95-style  long  file  names:  the  panels
    display long file names and paths under Windows 95/98 and, when processing
    files and directories, long file names are used

  - introducing a new panel mode besides Brief and Full to  show  as  much  of
    long file names as possible

  - you can select, copy and move DOS directories

  - introducing the XH1541 hybrid cable that gives the best performance on SPP
    parallel ports

  - introducing the XE1541 extended cable that substitutes the X1541 interface
    on all kinds of parallel ports

  - introducing an auxiliary utility that extracts the online help into a file
    or prints it out

  - added detection for PS/2 (bidirectional) parallel ports

  - you can launch programs in emulators right from the Commander by  pressing
    Enter on a file inside an image and selecting the emulator from a menu

  - introducing full support for directories in LHA and TAR archives

  - introducing full GEOS support for disk images:  disks  are  validated  and
    files  are  scratched  properly  and  files  are  converted  to  and  from
    sequential files using the Convert file format - however, you can' t  view
    or edit VLIR files

  - introducing Star ARC, another external utility  that  lists  and  extracts
    Commodore ARC archives and Self-Dissolving (SDA) archives

  - there is a new panel mode similar to 'Quick view' in The Norton Commander,
    assigned to Control-Q: the contents of the image or archive file under the
    cursor are displayed in the opposite panel

  - the Commander now always deletes the file under the cursor  in  image  and
    archive files rather than the first file with the same name

  - the menu 'Advanced options' has been renamed to 'Drive options'

  - 'Wipe scratched files' has been renamed to 'Wipe deleted files'

  - the configuration items  'Alternative charset'  and  'All PRG's in a tape'
    have been deleted, both defaulting to checked

  - you can switch GEOS support off with  the  option  'GEOS file support'  so
    that GEOS file types are not displayed in the panels and Convert files are
    not created or processed during file copy

  - 'Win'95 long names' allows you to switch support for Windows 95-style file
    names off so that you can work the same way as under plain DOS

  - in connection with the Windows 95-support, there are new symbols to insert
    the long form of file names into the command line and into list files

  - you can associate several DOS command sequences  to  the  same  file  name
    pattern

  - you can insert the path of both panels and the current file  name  of  the
    active panel into file name input lines, too

  - the destination file is only opened after having read the first  block  of
    data from the source file during file copy

  - you can copy several phantom files of the  same  name  into  disk  images,
    Lynx, filepacked ZipCode and Arkive archives

  - you cannot specify the file type while copying or moving files into  image
    or archive files but, in change, you can copy files  whose  names  contain
    commas

  - you can now append the source files to existing DOS files during file copy

  - empty files copied into disk images become phantom files

  - when copying files from a CD-ROM,  the  read-only  flag  is  stripped  off
    automatically

  - the Commander will recognize when a file is being copied or moved  from  a
    SUBST'ed drive to its real location and will abort the file copy

  - when copying  or  moving  files  into  image  files  or  native  Commodore
    archives, the manual file name conversion box  limits  your  input  to  16
    characters

  - DOS file  names  are  turned  into  lowercase  while  being  converted  to
    Commodore format; you can switch this off with 'Keep uppercase chars'

  - you can make the Commander extract files inside PC64  file  images  during
    file copy by checking 'Extract PC64 file images'

  - the PC->1541 direction part of the warp disk and file copy  routines  have
    been modified to run near full speed on 286 and 386 machines

  - you can copy multiple disks into  disk  images  with  an  automatic  index
    generation in the destination file names

  - the fast transfer routines now support the disabling of the retry  on  the
    adjacent halftracks and the head bumping

  - by pressing Control+Enter in the History you can copy the current  command
    into the command line without executing it

  - when in images and archives, Control-Enter pressed in the file name  input
    line inserts the name of the image or archive

  - because of the new functions using Control+Shift+key combos, Control+Shift
    alone doesn't toggle  the  C64  character  set  anymore,  use  Control+Tab
    instead

  - Shift+Gray plus/minus (un)select files and  directories  and  Control+Gray
    plus/minus are the ones to (un)select all the  files  in  a  panel;  also,
    Shift+Gray star inverts all the files and directories in a panel

  - you can enter multiple  file  name  patterns,  delimited  with  commas  or
    semicolons, into the 'Select' and 'Unselect' dialog boxes

  - the asterisk wildcard now works a Unix-like way under Windows 95, e.g. you
    can select all files containing the letter 'a' with "*a*"

  - external and disk image panels are not sorted anymore

  - the panel display can be sorted in reverse order

  - the panel contents are not reread when you change the sort order

  - if you eject the media from a removable drive and then  reread  the  panel
    then you'll get an error message

  - you get an error message if there was not enough memory to execute  a  DOS
    command

  - you can swap the clipboard with the block in the disk editor, too

  - the 'Format disk' dialog has an option  'Extended disk'  to  override  the
    original setting

  - the 'Make disk' and 'Make tape' functions don't offer you a  default  file
    name

  - system and/or hidden files are not displayed with a capital first letter

  - load address is displayed for all file types, not only programs

  - you can no longer even select files with invalid file types in  image  and
    archive files

  - if you change the directory in the DOS shell with the active  panel  being
    an image or archive panel then it will change to a DOS panel  showing  the
    directory you changed to

  - switching 'Detect extra tracks' on makes the Commander detect the presence
    of extra tracks on disks

  - a new option, 'Head movement speed' allows you to change the speed of  the
    stepper motor in the external Commodore drive

  - you can pop up the menu bar by tapping Alt; you can switch this off in the
    setup

  - there is an option to control the 'Escape toggles panels' feature

  - the option of 'Number of retries' behaves a bit differently, now  you  can
    switch retry on the adjacent halftracks and the head bumping on and off

  - if you press Ctrl-BackSlash in an Info panel, it will be redirected to the
    opposite panel

  - when run under the  Commander,  the  external  setup  only  changes  those
    settings in the setup file that can be set in the external setup, settings
    that can only be set inside the Commander are left alone

  - the Commander remembers all options of the viewer and the editor, that are
    not set automatically, throughout sessions

  - the viewer and the editor don't even display an error message when loading
    an empty image or archive directory

  - if the viewer or the  editor  cannot  open  the  file  selected  from  the
    directory list of an image or archive file then they return  to  the  file
    selector

  - when symbols are on, the viewer and the editor mark the end of  the  file,
    too

  - all non-alphanumerical characters in the lower half of the ASCII character
    set are considered as word separators in the editor

  - when finding a string or byte sequence in the editor, the cursor jumps  to
    its beginning

  - you can press F3 twice in the editor to select the whole line  the  cursor
    is standing in

  - the editor allows you to enter wildcards in the 'Save as...' box

  - when replacing byte sequences in  the  editor,  the  length  of  the  file
    doesn't change

  - a new option in the Star Utilities makes them assume 'Yes' to all queries,
    good for running them from batch files

  - by specifying another option you  can  have  the  Star Utilities  ask  for
    confirmation about extracting each file

  - similarly to the Commander, the Star Utilities also allow you  to  add  or
    extract files whose names contain commas

  - Star Arkive, Star LHA and Star Library now accept archives with extensions
    other than the default, too

  - Star List can list directory structures recursively

  - Star List can list Commodore ARC and SDA archives, too

  - the DOS file handling routines have been deleted from Star Lynx

  - Star Zip ran endlessly when extracting filepacked ZipCode archives and  it
    created DEL files

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  The Star Commander, Version 0.82 (sc082.zip, 2002-03-31):


  Bugs fixed since Version 0.81:

  - a pointer went astray when switching to the C64 character  set,  it  might
    have caused rare lockups

  - the EOI detection problem, that caused the loss of the last byte  of  some
    sectors during disk copy and the loss of the last directory sector  during
    reading the directory in normal transfer mode, has been finally fixed

  - when the header of sectors are not found during warp disk copy, you get an
    error message instead of the transfer stopping, with the disk spinning but
    apparently no data being read

  - false timeout errors were reported at the end of file copies in normal and
    turbo mode

  - no files could be processed in directories inside archive files

  - the Commander, the viewer and the editor don't lock up under the long file
    name support program of Caldera OpenDOS anymore

  - the Commander doesn't lock up when reading a looping directory

  - if you were using the hybrid or parallel cable on an ECP parallel port and
    saved the setup with one of the panels being an external  panel  then  the
    Commander didn't recognize external drives upon startups anymore

  - you get a warning when you leave the 'Transfer options' menu if one of the
    LPT ports is set to a non-existant port

  - if there was an error while preformatting the destination disk,  the  disk
    copy was aborted

  - the warp disk copy locked up  when  it  tried  to  verify  certain  sector
    contents

  - wiping phantom files does not erase the directory anymore

  - the Commander and Star Ark computed the start offset of the data  area  of
    Arkive archives incorrectly so they sometimes extracted corrupted files

  - deleting files from filepacked ZipCode archives went  crazy  most  of  the
    time

  - no dialog box remains on the screen when a directory structure is copied

  - if you switched back to normal mode from either fast mode, only the  first
    block of the directory was read from the Commodore drive

  - the GEOS file converter routines chopped off the last byte of VLIR records

  - GEOS files are now saved exactly the same way into disk  images  as  under
    GEOS itself

  - when copying files out of file images automatically,  using  the  'Extract
    PC64 file images' option, the original Commodore name of the file is  also
    extracted

  - when, during a file copy, the name of  the  destination  PC64  file  image
    resembles a device, an underscore is appended to the  name;  this  follows
    PC64's original behavior

  - Commodore file names, that  contain  too  many  decimal  digits,  are  now
    correctly converted into a PC64 file image name

  - LHA archives with entries of invalid Commodore file types or with trailing
    garbage are now considered to be valid

  - when extracting files from LHA archives,  you  are  not  asked  twice  for
    manual file name conversion anymore

  - turbo delete and validate work correctly on extended disks, too

  - if 'Keep non-standard ext' is switched off, when copying DOS files into  a
    CBM panel, characters including and after the rightmost dot  are  cut  off
    rather than the leftmost dot and everything after it

  - when copying DOS files or files in LHA or TAR archives from or  into  GEOS
    disk images, no ASCII-PETSCII file name conversion takes place

  - if a CD-ROM drive has no disk in it and you want to change to this  drive,
    you will get the same error message as when  changing  to  a  floppy  disk
    drive with no disk in it

  - under PTS-DOS, the 'Change drive' dialog box  displays  only  those  drive
    letters that are really available; also, there are no more  problems  when
    changing to a floppy disk drive

  - the handling of the phantom B: drive on single-floppy  PC's  is  now  more
    compatible with DOS clones

  - the critical error boxes display device errors correctly

  - the bug that makes C64S refuse paths given on  the  command  line  with  a
    trailing backslash has been circumvented in the emulator launch file

  - if you entered an invalid image or archive then, after the error  message,
    you got an empty DOS panel

  - if you pressed Enter on 'Cancel' buttons then  the  current  function  was
    continued as if you had pressed the 'OK' button

  - Control-PgDn enters directories, image and archive files  only  and  never
    launches DOS files

  - the undocumented hotkeys Control-PgDn and Control-PgUp are  now  mentioned
    in the online help

  - the Commander locked up if you pressed Control+Backslash  in  an  external
    panel

  - when sorting DOS directories by date, directories whose name starts with a
    dot won't be sorted before '..' anymore

  - when renaming files with long file names, asterisk wildcards  are  handled
    in a Unix-like way, e.g. 'a*' changes the first character of the file name
    to 'a' but keeps all other characters unchanged, including the extension

  - very long paths are truncated in the command line

  - long file names containing the characters ",", ";", "=" or  "+"  are  also
    enclosed into quotes when inserted into the command line

  - file time stamps are displayed with the correct country-specific separator
    in the 'File attributes' dialog box

  - the bottom frame of Wide DOS panels with no  mini  status  now  joins  the
    vertical separator line correctly

  - when copying multiple disks, destination disk  images  don't  inherit  the
    error info block of the previous one

  - in the disk copier, automatically skipped bad sectors  don't  inherit  the
    error code of that sector where 'Skip auto' was selected

  - if an error occurs during copying a disk to a disk image, the first one or
    two sectors of the current track are not overwritten with the code of  the
    turbo loader

  - when changing one of the panels to an external  panel,  the  command  line
    path automatically changes to the path of the opposite panel

  - GEOS disks in external Commodore drives are also displayed with  the  GEOS
    character set

  - you couldn't move files between images or archives with the same file name

  - there are no more lockups if files of empty names  are  copied  into  PC64
    file images

  - when copying files inside PC64 file images into PC64 file images, the file
    type of the source file is preserved

  - when copying into PC64 file images, the progress indicator filled up  with
    half speed and only reached the middle of the bar

  - if you copied files from Commodore drives with typing a file name  pattern
    then the Commander tried to copy files in the second, third etc. directory
    sector again and again and the attribute of the destination files was also
    changed to DEL

  - by pressing 'Cancel' in the file name conversion confirmation dialog  box,
    now you can abort the file copy process immediately

  - when you renamed or deleted files by  entering  a  wildcard  pattern,  the
    cursor was placed onto an inappropriate file afterwards

  - directories containing files with dot as  the  first  character  of  their
    file name couldn't be deleted

  - you are not allowed to copy multiple files with the same name into LHA and
    TAR archives anymore

  - there were several problems if  you  tried  to  compress  files  into  LHA
    archives from disk images containing phantom files

  - you couldn't extract files from LHA archives with a long file name

  - when copying, moving or renaming files, file names  are  truncated  to  16
    characters, except for DOS, TAR and LHA panels

  - in Brief mode, file names in LHA and TAR directories are  truncated  to  16
    characters

  - sometimes false errors were reported about trying  to  copy  a  file  onto
    itself

  - you're not allowed to select relative files with Grey * anymore

  - you can select DOS directories with the right mouse button

  - frozen files copied into tape images were given invalid attributes so  the
    emulator wouldn't load them

  - when saving files, the GEOS soft interleave is used if the source file  is
    a GEOS file, not if the destination disk is a GEOS disk

  - while copying files into disk images, Convert archives are  not  converted
    into GEOS files if GEOS support is disabled

  - if you moved files and appended them to an already existing file then only
    every second source file was processed

  - you couldn't delete files in image and archive files with  typing  a  file
    name pattern

  - if the destination file already existed, you were asked  for  confirmation
    about overwriting it, even if you pressed Escape while reading  the  first
    chunk of data from the source file

  - the Commander didn't recognize the standard Commodore file  types  in  DOS
    file extensions

  - if you delete a file image which is opened in the inactive panel then  the
    panel will fall back to DOS mode

  - if you enter a year less than 80 in the 'Attributes' dialog  box  then  it
    will be assumed to be a date after 2000

  - even when 'Auto unselect files' is unchecked, 'File attributes'  unselects
    processed files

  - File info didn't recognize frozen files

  - files extracted from images or archives did not keep  the  date  stamp  if
    'Keep file date stamps' is unchecked

  - the attributes of multiple files couldn't be changed in image and archives
    file, only one by one

  - no volume label was displayed for CD-ROM drives and a false  volume  label
    was reported for Windows 95 partitions where there was a  long  file  name
    entry before the entry of the real label

  - there are no more lockups if you forget  the  colon  at  the  end  of  the
    file name pattern in extension files

  - the 'Owner' function does not lockup anymore for crosslinked  and  looping
    files

  - inserting data in the text half of the sector editor works now

  - several problems related to Quick view panels have been fixed

  - the sample Commander screens in the external setup have been updated

  - keeping the left mouse button pressed will scroll the panel display up  or
    down, even if you move off the panel rectangle

  - the viewer and editor now also display the symbols for control  characters
    in screen code view mode

  - when creating a new file in the editor, several active  functions  in  the
    key bar, at the bottom of the screen, weren't displayed

  - search strings were truncated at 21 characters both in the viewer and  the
    editor

  - the editor couldn't backup files in shared environments

  - the editor didn't recognize when a file inside an image  or  archive  file
    was too big and, while trying to load it fully into memory, locked up

  - in the ASCII half of the hexa mode of  the  editor,  Alt-key  combinations
    won't write a zero byte into a file anymore

  - the 'Save as' function of the editor now reads in  the  attribute  of  the
    file specified and warns you about it being  a  read-only,  hidden  and/or
    system file correctly

  - the Star Utilities had several problems with phantom files

  - Star ARC didn't stop displaying some  archive  titles  because  it  didn't
    recognize their end

  - in Star LHA, you can use a dash before the command 'S'

  - Star List does not fall into an endless loop when listing messed  up  disk
    images and stops execution if you press Escape

  - Star List didn't display graphical characters correctly  in  LHA  and  TAR
    archives

  - Star List doesn't recurse into subdirectories unless you  explicitly  tell
    it to

  - Star Zip warns you if the destination disk is full


  Other changes since Version 0.81:

  - the Commander  main  executable  has  been  restructured  to  an  overlaid
    program, now it needs about 100 KBytes less conventional memory

  - the executable files and  the  online  help  are  neither  compressed  nor
    encrypted anymore because their source is published anyway; feel  free  to
    compress the executable files yourself, if you need to  fit  them  onto  a
    floppy disk

  - the personal keyfile is now called 'sc.key' so that its extension  doesn't
    conflict with that of Windows registry files; rename your keyfile to  make
    it work again

  - introducing the command  line  option  '/novesa',  to  disable  VESA  BIOS
    support upon startup

  - introducing the  command  line  option  '/nolpt',  to  completely  disable
    parallel port access

  - the documentation contains some technical background information about  PC
    parallel ports

  - raised the proposed registration fee to 10 EUR and  1000 HUF;  the  10 USD
    remained unchanged; also, removed the possibility to pay by check

  - the extension of the documentation files of the Star Utilities was changed
    to '.txt' because they are plain DOS text files

  - introducing support  for  1571  and  1581  disk  images  and  Prologic DOS
    extended disk images

  - introducing support for Commodore 1570 and 1571 drives

  - introducing support for the XM1541 multitask and the XA1541 active cables

  - introducing support for the XH1571 hybrid and XP1571 parallel  cables  for
    Commodore 1570 and 1571 drives

  - introducing a new option called 'Force async mode' that, at the cost of  a
    slightly lower transfer speed, allows you to access Commodore drives under
    a multi-tasking system, as well

  - introducing support for the "giveio" and "userport"  drivers  that  enable
    access of Commodore drives under Windows NT, Windows 2000 and  Windows XP;
    you must use the tweak package to make this possible

  - the complete external setup has been integrated  into  the  main  program,
    Control-F9 now opens the menu of configuration screens

  - introducing a new menu for maintaing local settings for all the  Commodore
    drives you have, with Control-F10 assigned to it

  - now you can change the address of the parallel ports to  any  value  using
    the two custom port address slots

  - introducing support for relative files

  - the Commander, the viewer and the editor can now  process  multiple  files
    with the same name independently

  - the warp disk copier now recognizes 27 and 29 READ ERROR's

  - introducing support for VESA text screen modes up to 132x60, to be changed
    with Alt-F10

  - introducing support for GEOS disk images in Star List

  - introducing a "printf"-style way to format the output of Star List

  - just like in  the  other  Commanders,  Shift+F10  positions  to  the  item
    previously executed in the menu tree

  - introducing the warp delete and validate routines that  read  through  the
    disk only once instead of tracking through the files on it one by one

  - the configuration  menus  have  been  rearranged;  you  can  jump  between
    submenus with the 'Next' and 'Previous' buttons

  - the online help pages now list all configuration options related  to  that
    particular function rather than only the important ones

  - introducing a smart drive presence detection routine

  - you should now be able to  use  your  Commodore  drive  from  a  Commodore
    machine and a PC simultaneously, as the Commander decouples  the  PC  from
    the common serial bus one second after having completed a disk operation

  - pressing Escape or F10, while messages or code fragments  are  transferred
    between the PC and the external drive, aborts the operation with a timeout
    error; with 'Manual timeouts', you can control whether  you  can  generate
    timeouts manually or not

  - introducing clipboard support, buffering data on disk or, when  available,
    in the common Windows clipboard

  - the mode of parallel ports is not checked upon returning from  DOS  shells
    anymore

  - now you can access tracks 36-40 on 1541 disks on any 1541 drive

  - you can again use Control+Shift to toggle the C64 character set

  - 'Quality C64 charset' lets you switch between the two VGA  modes  used  to
    display the C64 character set on the screen

  - 'Prefer long names' lets you use long file names more comfortably

  - you can also select files by holding Shift when moving the cursor

  - you can use Control-N to toggle long file names

  - Control+Tab now completes DOS commands and file names on the command  line
    and in file name input lines

  - pattern matching for Commodore file names is now case-sensitive,  like  on
    real Commodore drives, but the  "*"  wildcard  is  handled  the  Unix  way
    (rather than the DOS way), unlike real Commodore drives

  - with a new option 'Alternative hotkeys', a few hotkeys, mainly  ones  that
    are hard to use on a laptop, can  be  replaced  with  other  keys  or  key
    combinations on the alphanumerical keyboard

  - with a new option  'Cursor follows filename',  you  can  set  whether  the
    cursor should jump onto  the  new  position  of  a  file  after  a  rename
    operation and jump onto the new file or directory after having created one

  - 'Convert chars' makes the Commander convert those  PETSCII  characters  to
    hexadecimal codes, that have no ASCII equivalent, and converts these codes
    back to PETSCII characters during file copies and any other  inputs  where
    Commodore strings are used

  - new possible values for the 'Into PC64 file images' and 'Extract PC64 file
    images' options allow you to copy into PC64 file images only if the source
    is a Commodore file and extract the contents of PC64 file images  only  if
    the destination is a Commodore panel;  in  parallel,  the  local  override
    settings for these two options have been removed from  the  'Copy'  dialog
    box

  - now you can rename and delete files inside PC64 file images

  - you can use Alt-Up and Alt-Down to change the height of the panels row  by
    row

  - you can change the width of the panels with Alt-Left and Alt-Right

  - you can change the width  of  the  Name  column  with  Alt-Shift-Left  and
    Alt-Shift-Right

  - you can change the  height  of  the  mini  status  with  Alt-Shift-Up  and
    Alt-Shift-Down

  - the cursor moves in a smarter way between items in dialog boxes

  - when Tab or Shift-Tab is pressed in a group of radio buttons,  the  cursor
    jumps to the next or previous group of items

  - introducing the Wide panel mode for CBM panels

  - Wide DOS panels are  now  very  similar  to  Full  DOS  panels,  the  only
    difference is that, in Wide panels, file names are not split into the name
    and extension parts

  - instead of radio buttons, the panel filters are now check  boxes  so  that
    you can make the panels show files that belong  to  any  of  the  selected
    groups rather than only one selected group; also, there  is  a  new  panel
    filter for PC archives

  - introducing the 'Restore selection' feature

  - you can sort the display of disk images, as well

  - there is a new configuration menu for soft and hard interleaves

  - to save memory, the disk editor discards the contents of temporary buffers
    upon exit

  - now you can also enter Commodore drive device numbers in the error  dialog
    box that comes up if there's no disk in the PC drive you tried to change a
    panel to

  - DOS files are first opened in sharing mode and, if unsuccessful,  then  in
    compatibility mode

  - the visible length of the 'Program extension' input line has  been  raised
    to 8 characters

  - the checkbox 'Fast command exec' has been changed  to  a  group  of  radio
    buttons called 'Command execution' with the possible values  of  'Normal',
    'Turbo' and 'Warp'

  - you are warned if the  destination  tape  image  grows  above  64  entries
    because C64S can only handle the first 64 of them

  - instead of an error message that you have to confirm, you only hear a beep
    if there's not enough memory to read in the directory

  - if there are no more entries in destination tape image  during  file  copy
    then you're asked about expanding it

  - under 4DOS and NDOS, files with the extension '.btm' are  also  recognized
    as executable files

  - you can now set the  real  number  of  retries,  the  search  on  adjacent
    halftracks and the head bump on retry separately

  - the default number of retries of disk errors on Commodore disks  has  been
    raised from 1 to 5

  - the progress indicator boxes don't flicker anymore

  - when a disk error occurs while copying a file from  a  Commodore  disk  in
    warp transfer mode, it is possible to skip the current  file  only  rather
    than cancelling the complete file copy

  - you can make the Commander save files  into  the  unused  sectors  of  the
    directory track, if there's no more space in the destination  disk  image,
    by checking 'Copy onto dir track'

  - when saving files onto disks or into disk images, the fill pattern for the
    unused part of their last block is determined by the 'Orig format pattern'
    option

  - when the destination file already exists, during a file copy, you can also
    choose 'Rename' to have the source file saved with another name

  - you can force the deletion  of  all  read-only  or  write-protected  files
    without further confirmation for each

  - in delete and overwrite confirmation boxes, you can  choose  to  skip  all
    files without further confirmation for each

  - the deletion of cross-linked files ends when arriving at the  BAM  or  the
    first directory sector

  - 'Make directory' now creates a directory structure of any depth in one go

  - by checking the new item 'Keep lowercase chars', under Windows 95, you can
    create directories with lowercase file names

  - now there are separate soft interleave configurations for external  drives
    and all types of disk images

  - the maximum value of interleaves has been raised to 21

  - the hotkey Control-F7 is now assigned to 'File attributes'

  - you can change the attributes of a whole directory structure of DOS files

  - you can disable the head bump before disk format

  - both parallel ports assigned to the Commander  are  initialized  to  input
    mode and ECP ports are set to byte mode, upon  startup  and  before  every
    access of the Commodore drive

  - a lot more ASCII characters are converted to PETSCII in file names  during
    file copy from a DOS panel to a CBM panel

  - now all PETSCII characters are converted to some similar  ASCII  character
    when displaying file names or copying files from CBM to DOS panels

  - the user menu displays the first 16 items only

  - the user menu item 'Minimize' deletes unused entries from tape images

  - if the first line of a menu or extension file is a comment  starting  with
    the word "title" then the rest of the line is taken as the  title  of  the
    menu to be displayed on the screen

  - the user menu for external drives is expanded with an item  which  changes
    the head used by the 1571 drive in 1541 mode

  - you can protect and unprotect 1541 disk images from the user menu

  - with a new item in the user menu for disk images,  you  can  select  files
    that contain at least one bad sector

  - now the 'Clean' and 'Safe clean' functions don't touch at all sectors that
    are used but don't belong to a file

  - when cleaning disk images, the BAM, the first  directory  sector  and  the
    GEOS border sector are cleaned with their default contents rather than the
    current format pattern, if they're marked free

  - if no setup file is present, the parallel port assignments default to LPT1
    both

  - critical error dialog boxes contain an additional  'Ignore'  button,  when
    allowed

  - with the 'Skip all' button in read error message boxes, you can  have  all
    subsequent read errors skipped for  the  current  file  being  copied  and
    during a disk editor session

  - you can enter wildcards into the speed-search dialog box

  - the speed search dialog box scrolls the panel in a smarter way so  that  a
    few entries around the target entry are also visible

  - in sort modes other than 'Unsorted', directories are sorted before  normal
    files in LHA and TAR archives, too

  - the 'File sizes' warning now takes the actual amount of  free  space  into
    account and works with DOS drives, as well

  - some steps were taken to better  display  file  and  disk  sizes  above  2
    Gigabytes

  - when a bad sector is read from a disk image that has an error  info  block
    attached then an error message is displayed and the error code is  cleared
    if a sector is overwritten; you can disable this  by  unchecking  the  new
    option 'Show read errors'

  - the menu of available commands in the disk editor has  been  moved  to  F9
    because now several other commands are assigned to the other function keys

  - the disk editor asks for confirmation every time you read in a new  sector
    and the current one had been modified

  - the confirmations in the disk editor now have three choices that allow you
    to save and proceed, discard and proceed or cancel

  - with several hotkeys  in  the  disk  editor  you  can  jump  to  different
    important sectors of the disk or disk image

  - Shift-Home in the sector editor takes 'Orig format pattern' into account

  - in the BAM editor, free sectors are marked with a dot and used  ones  with
    an asterisk

  - you can jump to any sector directly from the BAM and error info editor

  - Ctrl-Gray Plus/Minus/Star select/unselect/invert the complete BAM  in  the
    BAM editor

  - using Shift-F1 to Shift-F8 and Alt-F1 to Alt-F8, you can jump to the first
    block and the info block of files directly from directory sectors

  - a new function in the disk editor lets you see the owner  of  the  current
    block and you can move around the blocks that belong to the same file

  - the disk editor now shows the linear offset of the current sector  in  the
    disk image

  - with a new feature, you can  make  the  disk  editor  display  the  sector
    contents in ASCII, as well

  - you can use Enter to enter and exit the sector editor

  - the sector editor remembers the last position of the cursor when you exit

  - you can pick up two bytes under the cursor in the sector editor  and  jump
    to the block at that track and sector

  - the disk copier has been extended with the ability to duplicate and  merge
    disk images

  - it is now possible to manually select the sectors to be copied by the disk
    copier

  - if you leave the file name part of  the  destination  blank  in  the  disk
    copier then the source file name will be  duplicated  there;  except  when
    copying a Commodore disk into a disk image, in which case  the  file  name
    'disk0001' is added and indexing is switched on automatically

  - when copying multiple disks into disk  images  and  the  destination  file
    already exists, the index is increased until a non-existant file is found

  - 'Fetch format label from source' has been  removed  from  the  'Copy disk'
    dialog box, destination disks are always formatted with the label  of  the
    source disk image

  - upon input of disk labels, trailing spaces are not cut off from  the  disk
    name or ID code

  - you can make the disk copier check the BAM ID against the sector header ID
    and correct the BAM ID, if needed

  - with a new option in the  disk  copier,  you  can  have  the  source  disk
    directory displayed in the active panel before you'd actually copy it

  - to speed up the disk copy of multiple disk images, you're  not  asked  for
    confirmation when preformatting the destination disks

  - the disk copier can also generate indices containing  disk  side  letters,
    when copying multiple disks from a Commodore drive

  - the disk copy now always ends with seeking the head back to the  directory
    track

  - you can switch disk copy modes in the  'Copy disk'  dialog  box  with  the
    function keys, too

  - if you're copying an extended 1541 disk or disk image and, for any reason,
    no data was copied from the extra tracks then you're asked about  removing
    them completely from the resulting disk image

  - by checking a new option, 'Detect disk changes', you  can  make  the  disk
    copier continue copying the next disk or disk image as soon as you  change
    the disk in the external Commodore drive

  - if you check a new option, 'Endless retry',  the  disk  copier  will  keep
    reading bad sectors until it succeeds or you exit  the  loop  by  pressing
    Escape or F10

  - if you choose to create an error info block at the end of a disk copy, the
    errors will be displayed in the error info editor

  - when specifying source files for copy, move, rename or deletion,  you  can
    enter a list of file name patterns, delimited with commas or semicolons

  - during a file copy from or to a Commodore 1541 drive, the extra tracks are
    detected only before copying the first file but not for subsequent files

  - you get an error message when you're trying to copy a  GEOS  file  from  a
    Commodore disk and a warning  message  when  copying  a  GEOS  file  to  a
    Commodore disk

  - there's an error message when you try to delete a GEOS file on a Commodore
    disk or try to validate a GEOS disk

  - the file copy is a  bit  faster  when  you  copy  selected  files  from  a
    Commodore drive

  - in GEOS disk images, non-GEOS files are also saved the same  way  as  GEOS
    files

  - you can format multiple disks in one session by checking  'Format multiple
    disks' in the 'Format' dialog box

  - when formatting Commodore disks, the  characters  '*',  '='  and  '?'  are
    replaced with spaces so that the drive doesn't reply with an error message

  - files with the extension '.sfx' are now handled as LHA archives

  - files starting on the dirst directory sector or on any BAM sector are also
    considered to be phantom files

  - sizes in Info panels are now displayed in a single form, depending on  the
    current status of 'DOS sizes in blocks'

  - Quick view panels  now  display  file  count  and  file  size  totals  for
    directories in the opposite panel

  - the 'File info' dialog box shows the description of GEOS files

  - for BASIC programs, 'File info' now also displays the  computer  the  file
    was, most probably, created on

  - when changing the attributes of a single Commodore file, the  new  default
    for the file type is 'Do not change'

  - the disk image maker is back to its original speed

  - the speed-search dialog boxes are now wider, allowing you to type more  of
    long file names

  - when long file names are available, file name input lines allow data to be
    entered up to 255 characters

  - if a command being executed already exists in the history then it is moved
    to the end of the list instead of being duplicated

  - command lines containing spaces only are discarded

  - in input lines, Control-Del has the same function as Control-T

  - when inputting file names, Alt-24 and Alt-27 are converted to the  up  and
    left arrows of the PETSCII character set

  - good sectors are marked with a dash instead of a number '1' in  the  error
    info editor

  - the function that strips the error info block off the disk  image  is  now
    assigned to F8 in the error info editor

  - with the symbol '!/' in user menu and extension files, you can insert  the
    current path inside the current image file into the  command  line;  also,
    the symbol '!#' inserts the zero-based index of the  current  file  inside
    the current image file

  - standard viewers and editors are searched for in the PATH,  not  only  the
    Commander home directory

  - the description of supported Commodore drives has been moved to a separate
    page in the online help

  - the maximum length of a line remaining unwrapped in  the  viewer  and  the
    editor has been raised to 2048 characters

  - the maximum length of search strings has been raised from  64  to  255  in
    both the viewer and the editor

  - the viewer and editor now accept file names  containing  spaces,  even  if
    they're not enclosed into quotation marks on the command line

  - when the load address is displayed in the viewer  or  editor,  the  'Goto'
    function inputs and goes to a memory address rather than a file offset

  - in the viewer and editor, you can also use the mouse to select the file to
    view or edit in an image or archive file

  - the viewer and the editor now also display  special  symbols  and  do  Tab
    translation in PETSCII mode

  - the viewer can also display file offsets based on the load address

  - the viewer now displays a warning about the current file  being  corrupted
    only once

  - if a long file name is specified in the command line and the file does not
    exist then the viewer truncates the file name to short  form  and  retries
    opening the file

  - in the editor, there are separate Insert/Overwrite modes, indicated  by  the
    cursor shape and a marker in the title bar, for the  text  and  hexa  modes;
    when Insert is active in hexa mode, you can insert  and  delete  bytes  just
    like in text mode

  - in the editor, Ctrl-Del  deletes  the  selected  block,  if  there  is  one;
    otherwise, deletes the word to the right of the cursor, as before

  - the Replace function of the editor can now, in  both  text  and  hexa  mode,
    either delete the old string and insert the new one in its  place  or  patch
    the old string with the new

  - if you answer 'All' to the confirmation  of  the  Replace  function  of  the
    editor then the screen won't follow instances being replaced which speeds up
    the process to several times the original speed

  - you can select blocks with Shift-arrow keys, as well, in the editor

  - you can use wildcards in the 'Insert file' box of the editor

  - the Star Utilities can now handle long file names

  - the Star Utilities now have two more options that tell whether to  display
    Commodore file names with the  lowercase/uppercase  or  uppercase/graphics
    character set

  - a new option in the Star Utilities lets you delete successfully  processed
    source files

  - the Star Utilities can now extract data into 1571 and  1581  disk  images,
    too

  - the format descriptions in the Star Utilities now mention relative files

  - Star ARC now displays archive comments upon extraction

  - Star Zip, by default, stores the cosmetical ID in the BAM  of  the  source
    disk image as the sector header ID stored into diskpacked ZipCode archives

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