WHAT'S NEW

twander 3.x:

- Fixed a problem which caused User-Defined Commands to be processed
  with the CMDSHELL option when such commands were re-invoked via the
  Command History.  The program now properly applies CMDSHELL
  processing (if enabled) *only* to manually entered commands.

- Previous version allowed FONTDECR to set font sizes to 0 or even
  negative values.  Feature is now checked to make sure a font size is
  never decremented below 1.

- It is now possible to select items using a user-specified wildcard
  with the SELWILD feature. (default: Control-\) This feature makes
  the full power of Python regular expressions available for selecting
  the items desired.

- The "escape" character to defeat CMDSHELL processing has been
  changed from '\' to '#'.  This was done for two reasons.  First, the
  backslash character may occasionally be necessary to escape the
  first letter of a command string.  More importantly, the '#' is used
  to escape SELWILD processing.  CMDSHELL was thus changed so both
  features which permit "escapes" would use the same character for
  consistency.

- The Right-Hand Side (RHS) of a String Option can now be blank.  A
  blank RHS has the effect of "undefining" any change and the option
  in question just reverts to its default value.  This makes String
  Option syntax consistent with other features such as Directory
  Shortcuts which use a blank RHS to "undefine" the entry.

- Because the RHS of a String Option can now be blank, the ""
  construct is no longer necessary to disable CMDSHELL.  An entry in
  the form 'CMDSHELL = ' will do.  VERY IMPORTANT: if for some reason
  you have a line like 'CMDSHELL = ""' in your Configuration File,
  remove it!  Otherwise a pair of double-quotes will be prepended to
  every RUNCMD you issue - almost certainly not what you want.

- Removed the Numeric Options: MAXDIR, MAXDIRBUF, MAXHIST, and
  MAXHISTBUF.  Replaced with a set of parameters common to all
  dynamic menus: MAXMENU and MAXMENUBUF.


twander 3.0:

- The licensing terms have been clarified.  Non-Commercial use of the
   program is free with a $20 US per user donation recommended.
   This fee is mandatory for commercial users.

- A Quick Start introduction to 'twander' is now included in the
  distribution.  See 'READ-1ST.txt'.

- *MANY* bug fixes and code cleanup including a nasty one with
   RH linux that prevented 'twander' from opening the user's
   home directory.

- Most program features and options are now settable in the
  configuration file AND you can set your default twander command line
  arguments in an environment variable called TWANDER.

  The priority of options processing, from lowest to highest is:

             1) Defaults coded into program
             2) Options set in configuration file
             3) Options set in environment variable
             4) Options set on command line.

- The -b, -f, -n, -w, -s, -x, -y command line options have
  been removed because these options are not settable as
  options in the configuration file.

- Width/Height now default to 800 and 600 pixels respectively.
  Previous versions did not really count pixels correctly.
  You can also specify the starting position on screen in pixels.

- You can now include references to any of the variable types
  in a manually entered command line.  Syntax is the same as for
  command definitions in the configuration file.

- Various help menus have been added. 

- Command History has been implemented and is available via a new
  menu.

- There are now accelerator key and mouse shortcuts for each of the
  menus.

- A new "Directory Shortcuts" feature has been added. You can
  specify up to 12 directories which will be preloaded into
  the Directory Menu (as if you'd already visited them) AND
  you can move to each of them via one of the Function keys.

- twander debug facilities have been vastly improved. The -d
  command line argument now takes a mandatory "debug level"
  as an argument.  This is a bitfield (which can be expressed
  in either decimal or hex) in which each bit indicates a
  kind of degbug output you'd like.

- There is a new Built-In variable called [YESNO:some text].  It
  allows you to put a Yes/No popup during command execution.
  If the user presses "No", the command is aborted.

- Since Win32 file/directory names are case-insensitive,
  twander now sorts them as such.  Previously, 'ZEBRA' would
  appear before 'echo' in a twander display.

- Most previous error conditions have been changed to warnings so
  that the program is more forgiving and will keep running after
  such a condition.

- The various interactive popup dialogs allow intra-line editing
  with both the local conventions as well as emacs-style key
  editing.  This was true previously, but was not documented.

- If you are running on Win32 and have Mark Hammond's 'win32all'
  extensions installed, a number of Win32-specific features are
  enabled:

     a) You can now navigate ".." from root or use the Ctrl-k key to
        get a Drive List View of all available Win32 drives.

     b) The file/directory mode will be displayed showing Win32
        attributes.

     c) The Win32 user/group names will appear for each displayed
        item, instead of "win32user" and "win32group".

- You can now resize fonts while running 'twander' without having to
  change the respective configuration file parameters.  Two new key
  assignments have been defined to increment or decrement font size.

- You can use the CMDSHELL option to define a string that will be
  prepended to each manually entered command.  The feature is off
  by default.  If enabled, it can be suppressed by entering "\"
  as the first character in the manually entered command.  This makes
  it easy to create a default visual/GUI context for each command you
  enter manually.

- A new "Program Memory" feature is implemented which allows 'twander'
  to maintain up to 12 separate, simultaneous clipboard- like
  memories.  These memories are used to compile names of files and
  directories which you would like to subsequently processs.  There
  are 12 new corresponding Built-In Variables ([MEM1]-[MEM12]) which
  allow command definitions to access the contents of the memories

- TundraWare Inc. is now running  a 'twander-users' mailing list.

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twander 2.34:

Initial public release of program