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The Doszip Commander version 2.37 available (Announce)

posted by nidud , Norway, 23.10.2012, 13:46

Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/doszip/files/

Changes in 2.36 - 22 Oct 2012
- added Window List to Edit (Alt-0)
- added direct access to menus using mouse
- fixed memory leak in editor
- fixed bug in file-IO using short file names
- fixed bug in file-IO using long file names

Changes in 2.37 - 23 Oct 2012
- fixed bug in Setup

The memory leak appears to be bug (or limitation) in NTVDM. Calling a 32-bit program from a 16-bit program directly generate problems. This was allowed in the editor (still is), and in some cases made DZ freeze. The correct way of making this call is to spawn 32-bits program using command.com. This will eat some memory, and will fail on using cmd.exe as COMSPEC. I made a small hack (v2.20++) to prevent this from happening, but it seems this have some side effects.

All these calls are now spawn using command.com.

The new updates debated below also have some side effects using LFN files, which have special security flags, now generate error on reading. This will happen even if you uninstall the KB2724197 update. I noticed that files in a Visual Studio project suddenly disappeared from the panel. They reappear on using short filenames in the panels. This infects copy, delete, search, and all other functions normally used in a file manager, like NC version 5.5 with LFN support.

I provided a fix for this in the latest version, but there are still some files missing, so for now: use a 32-bit file manager in Windows XP.

Complete thread:

• The Doszip Commander version 2.37 available - nidud, 23.10.2012, 13:46 (Announce)
  • The Doszip Commander version 2.37 available - Rugxulo, 24.10.2012, 21:57
    • The Doszip Commander version 2.37 available - nidud, 24.10.2012, 23:43