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October 12, 1994
What's new?
Version 0.42
* Re-architected the relationship between the thread that
manages the interface and the thread that handles the
remote connection. Much cleaner relationship now.
* Added directory contents caching. Through use of a Notebook
settings page, user can control whether to use caching,
how many directories to cache (up to 15), and how long
to age them (up to an hour). This feature substantially
increases performance, especially over SLIP and PPP
connections.
* User can view the directories in the cache using a non-modal
dialog box. From there, the user can select a directory in
order to change directly to it.
* Fixed (I hope) the problem where user cannot kill program
when the connection hangs or dies. User should use the
system menu's "Close" menu choice.
* Re-worked menus to solve a VX-REXX problem where using
popup-menu ruins the pull-down menus' behaviour.
* Speeded up screen re-draws when user resizes.
* Program now remembers last position and size. Program
will start up at the same size and position.
* Added the ability to turn off Hints!
* Added file transfer type text over the Get/Put buttons.
Version 0.41a
* Fixed a bug related to displaying files from VMS systems.
* Added suppport for detecting file sizes and dates on certain
VMS systems.
* Added the ability to tell VxFTP what OS the remote host is
running in case automatic detection doesn't work. You can
even change it on the fly, after you've logged in. The login
dialog box includes a field to specify the OS at login time.
* Added the ability to save login information from the login
dialog box to the Alias list, rather than requiring the user
to go to the Settings Notebook.
* Added "Copy" to the Local files pop-up menu.
* Added the ability to unzip a ZIP archive into a new sub-
directory. The new subdirectory name can be either extracted
from the ZIP archive name or the user will be prompted for
a directory name.
* Allow interaction with local files while downloading or
uploading. For instance, while you're downloading, you can
now unzip the file you just downloaded, view its read.me,
and execute it.
* Support for both InfoZIP's unzip and PKUnzip.
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June 6, 1994
First off, VxFTP is a little more stable and coherent.
Added since version 0.39:
* Displays file and directory listings for:
- Macintoshes
- DEC's VAX-VMS
- IBM VM
- as well as PCs running OS/2 FTPD, and UNIX hosts
* For platforms that VxFTP can't interpret directory listings,
a menu item (Long Dir Listing) allows you to see what
data came back from the host.
* Support for saving Font settings on the local and remote
file lists. Sorry, VX-REXX is having problems with giving
me font info on the directory lists.
* Notebook setting to allow using the 'E' system editor
as the default viewer.
* Default directory setting in the Notebook.
* Fixed problem with the objects redrawing themselves at
launch-time and after restoring from a minimized state.