Hi Andy

Replying to a message of Andy Roberts to paul marwick:

 pm>> FC/2 - text mode, NC clone, _very_ few bugs,

 AR> What bugs in particular?

:-) I've not found anything other than a couple of cosmetic problems - mainly
in the Windows version (which I end up using, given the amount of time I have
to spend working on Windows boxes..). Officially, the following have been
fixed for the next release:

Archive reading would crash on archives with more than 32768 entries.
Found files list box wasn't being updated properly after deleting files from
it with F8

 pm>> There is also an active mailing list (well, reasonably active...).

 AR> Humm.. I should look into the Mailing List.

Its pretty  quiet at present (also haven't heard back from Brian after sending 
hi e-mail regarding my paying an extra fee to have a couple of extra features
added..). Still, a potentially valuable resource.

 AR> Anyway I'm glad to see my old favorite moving up to the top of the
 AR> charts.

Well, I looked at a lot of file managers. I still like many of the things that 
InspectA does, but I can't stand the bugs any more.. Of all the alternates I
looked at, FC/2 had the best mix of features and quality.

 AR> -!- Excerpt FC.INI ---
 AR> [Associations]
 AR> *.inf: view
 AR> *.hlp: view
 AR> *.htm: netscape /!
 AR> *.wav: wepm
 AR> *.gif: f:\pmview\pmview.exe
 AR> *.jpg: f:\pmview\pmview.exe
 AR> *.bmp: f:\pmview\pmview.exe
 AR> *.pdf: g:\acrobat3\reados2\acroread.exe
 AR> *.mid: D:\mmos2\play.cmd !

 AR> If anyone has more associations or other neat tricks for FC/2, please
 AR> post them.

*.{doc,txt,log,bbs,diz}: fc.exe /v !

Which is Brian's suggestiion to mimic something found in OS/2 Commander - the
ability to define an association for the internal viewer. Not quite as
flexible, but does the job...

I use quite a lot of log files and prefer that the viewer does not start with
word wrap on. I didn't find any way of changing the default in the setup, but
I did find the following in FC/2's .INI file:

ViewerWrap=off

Once saved, this allows the internal viewer to start with word wrap off.

regards, paul

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