Servant Salamander 1.5 Changelog

Release date: March 6, 1998

Changes

  • user menu for all selected files and directories
  • Network Neighborhood item in Change Drive dialog (Alt+F1/F2)
  • context menu (right mouse button or Shift+F10) in Change Drive dialog (Alt+F1/F2) (useful for basic floppy disk operations like format and disk copy)
  • you can use inverse filter in panels (show files which don't match any mask)
  • menu Commands/Go to Hot Path was added
  • Change Case command works also with subdirectories now
  • shared directories are marked by symbol of hand (like in WinFile and Explorer)
  • Salamander can estimate space needed to store selected files and directories on medium with chosen cluster size; you can use it to test size of your CDROM image
  • Alt+F1/F2 dialogs can be closed using mouse click outside the dialog
  • Salamander can be Always On Top now
  • function Calculate Occupied Space displays also cluster utilization now
  • Ctrl+F10 key for Compare Directories
  • changing between brief and detailed view preserves selection and focus
  • Skip All buttons
  • select/unselect all files and directories (Ctrl+A or Ctrl+Num*)
  • swap panels (Ctrl+U)
  • the space bar key works as the Insert key now
  • you can choose colors in internal viewer and filenames colors at cursor in panels
  • you can copy selection to file (or printer - "prn") in internal viewer
  • all file type associations works (some did not)
  • viewer window position can be set to saved position or to position of main window
  • change drive button in Directory line (choosable - see Configuration dialog)
  • Salamander's command-line parameters: path in left panel and path in right panel
  • Change Directory function (Shift+F7)
  • Alt+left button double click - file or directory properties
  • change drive hotkeys (Ctrl+letter) can be disabled - Ctrl+C,V,X,A,R,L,Q,F are available (Shift+Ctrl is used for "disabled" function - change drive in standard configuration)
  • Open Folder from menu Commands: choose if you want to Open or to Explore folder (see Configuration dialog/More Options...)
  • you can enter password when you restore network connection (if it's necessary)
  • Salamander can show files in lower case and directories in upper case (like VC)
  • right mouse button works in the same way as in Explorer
  • Ctrl+Alt+0,...,9 - change directory in second panel to hot-path number 0,...,9
  • better select in hex mode of internal viewer (selection in hex numbers part)
  • regular expressions matching in Find Files dialog and internal viewer (end of lines are defined in internal viewer - see its configuration)
  • calculate occupied space counts numbers of files and directories
  • information line contains also 8.3 DOS name (only if filename is long)
  • Salamander sets archive attribute to every copied file
  • copying of files opened for writing is possible
  • Shift+Ctrl+Enter inserts full path in actual panel to command line
  • better behavior of drag&drop - error is displayed if source=target etc.
  • copy and move warn if there isn't enough free space on target drive
  • Ctrl+F1 hotkey for Drive Information
  • Ctrl+F12 hotkey for actual panel Filter
  • Find Files dialog: you can search for files which don't match mask (see Advanced)
  • optimized file operations (mainly delete)
  • font in panels was changed to original after customizing colors
  • vertical scroll bar was missing in user menu
  • empty panel has proper background color (not always white)
  • you can disable fast directory move (not supported on Novell drives)
  • "send to recycle bin" message on non-fixed drives was corrected to "delete"
  • save configuration on exit works on system shutdown
  • crash after invoking Empty Recycle Bin command from context menu in Win95
  • crash when sending directories to Recycle Bin under Win95

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