By the way: Some (most) don't want to pay $25 for this shareware. Did you know, that you can get rid of the FF2 V7.3 UNLIZENSED!!!! copy message by: - copy FF2.EXE to FF2sav.EXE - start FF2.EXE search FF2sav.EXE - replace UNLIZENSED copy! through something nicer, but it must have the SAME length, this means, add some blanks to match UNLIZENSED copy! - Start FF2sav.EXE whit the new message in the window header Since even a patch works (yeah, binary search/replace) tool, you probably stick to the other way to get rid of that message, e. g. by getting the registrationkey from me. My compuserve id is still 100550,1100. FF2 V7.3 release liner notes ============================ Context lines ------------- This release brings you a new feature. In the working options dialog you can specify an amount of context lines, which you want to have displayed before and after the found text string. The context lines appear in cyan, and the found line in dark pink. This helps you to identify the found test whithin its context. If you are replacing text, the replaced line appears in green below the found line. This gives you a real good overview of what's been change. If a line containing the found string is too long to be displayed in the listbox it will be truncated in a way to show the string. These lines are marked. New selected line in output listbox ----------------------------------- The current line has now a black background, making it more visible. Removed bugs ------------ When you press the cancel push button, the path entryfield is no more disabled. FF2 V72.c release liner notes ============================= New features: Some users didn't like the verbose search results report. Now you define in the working options dialog whether you want a long or short search results listing. Default is short. In the attribute, file patterns and text string dialog the "accept" field is red if the settings aren't applied to a search and green if the are used. Directory selection dialog doesn't requiere you to select a file in order to select a path. This has been possible thanks to support from IBM. Bug fixes: Finally... The zero length FF2.INI file problem is solved. At least on my machine... If you start an editor in an OS/2 window, the window closes now after you quit the editor. And some minor bugs removed. FF2 V7.2b release liner notes ============================= Request from Matthias Goebel The built in formatted printing tool allows now a left margin, which can be entered in "sizes of blanks" in the requested font. If you don't like the FF2 V7.2 default document title, you can change this too. Bugs: "Numeric" (#) instead of "start of line" (^) has been shown in the special chars (grep) definition dialog. This is fixed now. Several minor bugs have been fixed with this release too. FF2 V7.2a release liner notes ============================= Bug reported from Mike Coane Editor that isn't in the path (set PATH= ) can't be used. This was a bug. Thanks for reporting it. Should be fixed now. Enhancement request from Marcus Sommer While generating batch commands, the file names should be surrounded by " (e.g. "c:\config.sys HPFS" to allow HPFS file names with blanks etc. This has been implemented. Reset checks "all" and "hex" checkboxes This bug has been fixed. FF2 V7.2 release liner notes ============================ What's been fixed since Version V7.1? Hex search ---------- When the hex checkbox was on, FF2 still uppercased the text to be searched. Because of that, searches didn't show the expected results unless the case sensitive check box was switched on. Now FF2 doesn't uppercase the searched text in hex searches. Printer names ------------- In the prining/printer setup dialog's printer listbox appear now the printer names given to the printer's icon, not the physical name. Several bugs regarding printig fixed. Text search ----------- In rare circumstances the search for text stopped to early. Fixed. What's new in Version V7.2? Going more and more GREP! ------------------------- When you activate the special characters, you can choose in the special characters dialog two characters meaning "start of line" and "end of line". By default, '^' means start of line and "$" means end of line. Look at these interistings things: - match whole line is ^*$ - match empty line is ^$ - match lines containing ^hel*rld$ (got it: hello world, help me, world and so on). - match lines starting with int is ^int By the way, look at FF2's rich set of special characters, which YOU can define, e.g. matching everything is by default an asterisk, '*', but you can define a '+' for this if you please. Printing of search results now threaded --------------------------------------- Printing of the search results happens now in a thread, (like the printing of files) . Thus, no more mouse pointers. When you print a very long listbox, you can't close FF2 until the print thread is done. This is because FF2 allocates a linked list of memory, which you surely like to be freed before FF2 exits. Normally you won't recognize this, since medium size printings (2000 entries) happen very quick. REXX style generation of batch commands --------------------------------------- Now you can choose which command processor will be invoked, the normal interpreter or REXX. ... Don't forget .... your payment makes sure that this product gets new features ...