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The Doszip Commander version 2.44 available (Announce)

posted by nidud , Norway, 02.01.2013, 20:06

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

There has been a memory problem in the Editor for some time, but when testing the EMS thing I finally found the reason: A random memory location was cleared in the init code when a file was open.

The Expanded Memory Manager seems to work now. The problem in DN is fixable but only cosmetic, showing 0K Expanded memory in the System Information dialog.

I also added a clipboard interface to the dzemm.dll file for Doszip. This enables copy and past from the Windows clipboard. This works natively in older versions (WINOLDAP in Windows 3.x/95).

The size of the clipboard is currently limited, and the plan was to copy large chunks of text directly in the manager, but I haven?t have time to implement this yet.

It is however possible to copy a large selection in chunks. A warning is shown when a selection is to big, and the selection set will be reduced for each (Ctrl-Insert) block until all text is copied.

There is also a copy function (F5) in the text viewer. This will copy text to the clipboard or a binary selection (offset, size) to a file. Text could also be copied using the mouse by a right click on the text you want to copy. This will copy whatever is on the screen from the start point (x, y) to end of the line.

The maximum memory emulated for DOS applications are 256M, but Doszip is capable of allocate more if needed. The memory size of each file is set in the Editor options dialog box (Ctrl-F6). This enables Doszip to edit larger files. This will also work using (J)EMM386, but then limited to less memory.

The maximum number of open files is currently set to 100. The maximum number of lines in a file is 65535, and the maximum length of a line is 1024 byte. The length has to be 128, 256, 512, or 1024 byte.

Complete thread:

• The Doszip Commander version 2.44 available - nidud, 02.01.2013, 20:06 (Announce)
  • The Doszip Commander version 2.44 available - Rugxulo, 03.01.2013, 10:46
    • The Doszip Commander version 2.44 available - nidud, 03.01.2013, 13:25
  • The Doszip Commander version 2.47 available - nidud, 20.03.2013, 17:03
    • The Doszip Commander version 2.47 available - Rugxulo, 21.03.2013, 18:22