Total Commander 7 progress...

[Lefteous]

2petergus

It sounds to me that tc7 has entered betatest stage.

Private beta test is identical to alpha test. It has been renamed to avoid confusions.

[Lefteous]

Rest assured that it WILL be released before Duke Nukem Forever comes out ...

That could become close

http://www.golem.de/0606/45835.html

Translated:
In a business report it's stated that Duke Nukem Forever could be released before the end of the year.

[petergus]

I new development record, 579 days and still counting I guess.
That's longer than WC 5.0, released 2002 after 570 days.

TC 7 must be something incredible...


// Peter

[Alextp]

No, you should count from 6.50. It's also major update, need I write why..

[petergus]

No, you should count from 6.50. It's also major update, need I write why..

I did. From TC 6.5 release to present date it's 579 days.

The last record holder was WC 5.0 with 570 days, that's between v4.5 and v5.0.

[Lefteous]

2petergus
Well there is one thing that has major influence and should be considered into your time span count: The number of minor bugfix versions released after 6.50 where TC 7 development has almost been stopped (beside the bugfixes which were also included into TC 7). This delay is even longer when these bugfix releases are developed while next version development has already started. This applies to 6.54 and 6.55.

Here is the list of new features (TC 5.0)

- Support for Windows XP themes on XP
- "Commands" menu split into "Commands" and "Net"
- FTP: support for more than 2 definition strings when defining a new server type
- FTP+HTTP: Auto-Resume download if download-connection lost
- FTP: SOCKS4+SOCKS5 Proxy support (active+passive mode!), SOCKS5 without encryption
- Multi-Rename-Tool: Placeholder [P] puts name of parent dir into file name
- Internal command cm_SyncChangeDir makes Commander change to the directory of the same name also in the other window
- Find files: Start search inside an archive
- FTP: Option to send keepalive messages (e.g. NOOP) to the server in user-defined intervals (for max. 1 hour of inactivity)
- Support for packing of TAR/GZ/TGZ archives. Make sure to choose the correct target OS (Linux or SunOS).
- Direct packing of TAR.Plugin archives, requires re-download of the plugin (e.g. BZIP2)
- Compare by contents: Search for text in both files simultaneously, found text will be underlined
- Compare by contents: Button to show the two windows above each other, e.g. for wide texts
- Right click menu in Lister: added "Copy all URLs" command in HTML-Viewer mode
- Pack: Option to create a separate archive for each selected file/dir. If no target dir is given, the packed file will be placed in the same dir as the original file.
- "Branch view" now added to "commands" menu
- Create CRC-Checksum files in SFV format
- FTP+HTTP in background: Set speed limit for up- and downloads
- Pause button for background operations: FTP, HTTP, copy, pack, unpack
- FTP download from list: detect if list file was modified, and add new items to current download
- Download list can now also copy+move files. Syntax: copy:sourcename -> targetname or move:sourcename -> targetname
- Background transfer manager can now also be started separately without a list file

Wow that's of course an incredibly list of new features. I'm not sure if there will be so many great improvements in TC 7 - wait and see.

[petermad]

I'm not sure if there will be so many great improvements in TC 7

IMHO there are more improvements in TC 7 than in TC 5. I think that there are already at least as many and as significant improvements in TC 7 as there was in TC 6.

[StickyNomad]

2petermad
I agree. I assume Lefteous must have missed somehow to add a little ironic " "-fella to his statement...

[iElectric]

I really miss a good burner for TC. TCburn is the best we got, 2 year old. If we could at least get source..

Maybe ghisler confirms it in 7?