Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 13:27:18 -0500 From: Subject: [VOICENWS] SW: DFSee MAJOR version 14.0 released! ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice dot org ++ From: jvwDESPAM at DESPAMdfsee dot com DFSee version 14.0 has been released, with new functionality and several fixes. It is a MAJOR release, and the first to offer a filemanager-like BROWSE dialog giving very easy to use access to file viewing, editing and copying/recovery. The BROWSE functionailty is implemented for FAT, ExFAT, NTFS, JFS, HPFS and EXT3/4 Also for the first time there is DIRECT access to DFSee compressed images (.IMZ) including BROWSING the filesystems in that image, this is a user-friendly way to restore individual file(s) out of such an aimage, making them more suitable to use as a partition backup method. Then it lets you mount VirtualBox .VDI disk images as a disk inside DFSee, so you can use partitioning functions or access the partitions and filesystems in them without the need to start a virtual machine. Of course, as usual, there are also many smaller improvements and bug fixes. DFSee is a very powerful disk-utility with disk partitioning, filesystem and disk analysis, file recovery/UNDELETE and smart imaging or cloning of partitions or complete disks. This being a major release, it will require an upgrade if you currently have a registration for an older version: http://ww.dfsee dot com/dfsee/buynow.php Note: Keys sold from October 7th, 2016 onwards, are valid with version 14.x! More details at: http://www.dfsee dot com/dfsee/ Direct download links from the DFSee website: http://www.dfsee dot com/dfsee/dfsee140.zip http://www.dfsee dot com/dfsee/dfsee140.msi http://www.dfsee dot com/dfsee/dfsee140_warpin.exe http://www.dfsee dot com/dfsee/dfsee140_dsk.zip http://www.dfsee dot com/dfsee/dfsee14x_linux.tgz http://www.dfsee dot com/dfsee/dfsee14x_iso.zip http://www.dfsee dot com/dfsee/dfsee14x_stick_iso.zip Or from the HOBBES website: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee140.zip or (after processing): http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=dfsee&pushbutton=Search Functional changes since 13.4 - ACCEL: Changed accelerator keys: F6=Open partition; F9=Browse - AL: Low-level display/set individual FS allocation bits (bitmap) - Added compacter RLE-2 and Smart-2 compression types for IMZ images - BROWSE (Mode=FDISK): Support optional start PATH for selected PID - BROWSE-Copy: Warning-popup if file allocation is not 100% reliable - BROWSE-Copy: Warning popup on DIR copy, incl. 'do not ask again' - BROWSE-Dialog: pops up an Actions menu, with edit, copy etc - BROWSE-Dialog: Copy/Recover works on multiple (marked) files - BROWSE-Dialog: Ctrl-BACKSLASH changes current list Dir to 'ROOT' - BROWSE-Dialog: Ctrl-F/Alt-[ marks all Files, Ctrl-G/Alt-] all Dirs - BROWSE-Dialog: Support (same-length) file-rename for JFS and HPFS - BROWSE-Dialog: filter-popup, HEX-edit on file-contents or I/Fnode - BROWSE-Dialog: multi marking with / + show #marked - BROWSE-Dialog: selected file Copy/Recover from list with - BROWSE-Dialog: selected file/dir available after exit (Enter key) - BROWSE/HEXEDIT: New generic FS-function writing resident/meta data - BROWSE/HEXEDIT: Support edit/view of resident data (like NTFS MFT) - BROWSE/LIST -f: Fix alloc-OK percentage for files over 10Gb size - BROWSE: 'View OS/2 EA or Xattr on a File/Dir' in context menu - BROWSE: 40% faster startup on JFS (Build name/parent cache only) - BROWSE: Add FsMakeBrowseList for: EXTn, JFS, FAT, EXFAT, HPFS, NTFS - BROWSE: Add item-type B/F/D to list/recover/browse select strings - BROWSE: Added description for initial browse-contents, BROWSE xxx - BROWSE: Added help-screens for the dialog, and the help-menu - BROWSE: Automatic add 'dotdot' directory to MakeBrowsList on EXFAT - BROWSE: Base implementation of the BROWSE dialog works, no actions - BROWSE: Defined generic directory BROWSE command, accelerator - BROWSE: Descr delfind/filefind on HPFS, NTFS, JFS, FAT, EXFAT, EXT - BROWSE: File-Contents support in: JFS, NTFS, EXT, FAT, EXFAT, HPFS - BROWSE: Filesize (dotted - 999Tb): JFS, EXT, HPFS, NTFS, FAT, EXFAT - BROWSE: Filter shortname (8.3) names from NTFS, reverse with -8.3 - BROWSE: HAS_PARENT sninfo flag on HPFS, NTFS, JFS, FAT, EXFAT, EXT - BROWSE: Modify-time in stringinfo: JFS, EXTx, HPFS, EXFAT, FAT, NTFS - BROWSE: Support in FileInfo() to return two file information strings - CLONE-dialog: changed default modus to 'smart' cloning, faster - CLONE/IMAGE: Much better ETA estimation when using SMART logic - CLONE: Improved throughput with SMART (smaller buffer, more ZERO) - CMDS: Expression brackets now must be double {{expr}}, not single - CR:/BMGR install: Popup message for missing bmgr-IMG or MBR code - CR: Honor '-align-' switch to force PRIMARY start within 1st track - DARWIN: Added 42 Alt+ sequences to MAC OSX keyboard handler - DISK: Changed '-i' option to '-std' for industry-std driveletters - EDIT: -v:view 0=HEX, 1=DISASM, 2=ASCII, 9=AUTO (9 is default now) - EDIT: Default to HEX mode when current sector is an MBR or EBR - EDIT: File CONTENTS: support write-back with rsn->lsn translation - EDIT: Restrict min/max sector when editing file CONTENTS (browse) - EXFAT: Create Directory-Parent cache on Init (Open) for BROWSE .. - EXTn: Support recovery of directories and files with inlined data - FINDPATH: Add display of filesize from DIR-entry, when available - FsFileInfo filter on item-type on HPFS, NTFS, JFS, FAT, EXFAT, EXT - HELP: Better help-on-help selection in entry-field and menu-bar - HELP: Better help-on-help selection in entry-field and menu-bar - HEXEDIT/Ascii: = Toggle display of offsets on start of line - HEXEDIT/Ascii: = Style: Rough/Clean and optional split lines - HEXEDIT/Ascii: = Minimum length of 'strings' in ascii filter - HEXEDIT/Ascii: Add filesize and name to title, when available - HEXEDIT/Ascii: Clear excess area in last file sector(s) to zeroes - HEXEDIT/Ascii: Preserve empty lines in pure ASCII files better - HEXEDIT: = alternate-view: Disassemply, Ascii; auto select - HEXEDIT: Support 'sparse' file extents (NTFS, JFS) on file editing - IMAGE-dialog: changed default image type to 'smart-compressed' - IMAGE: -x option and Dialog checkbox to generate XMZ INDEX too - IMAGE: New '-8' option to create DFSee V13.x compatible IMZ images - IMZ: Automatic generation of .XMZ indexfile for faster browsing - IMZ: Fixed passing of correct accessInfo pointer (broken by VDI) - IMZ: new command to BROWSE an partition/disk IMZ compressed image - JFS: Show Total- versus Volume-Blocks as seperate values on open - L-Geo: From MBR table: Linear-Offset more important than CHS-end - LIST -S: Show sectorlist (files) as info-strings needed for BROWSE - LIST -r: Show sectorlist in cluster range format (for bad sectors) - LISTSET: Set (range of) sectornumbers in sectorlist, optional clear - Low-level handling for IMZ compressed images as IM or DISK object - MENU: Add BROWSE to Action menu, and to FS-specific recovery menus - MENU: Only enable direct directory-browsing when supported by FS - MENU: 'Browse/Recover Deleted Files' for HPFS, NTFS and JFS (Expert) - MENU: 'Open (partition) imagefile' to basic menu, for image browse - MENU: Added 'Browse IMZ compressed image' to open+browse an image - MENU: Added two more 'Edit Sector' variants: HEX and Text/Strings - MENU: Help -> Keyboard usage overviewt; DFSee/TxWindows modules - MENU: File->Mount/Unmount/Display disks->VirtualBox disk image - MENU: File->Open a VDI (VBox) diskimage; Open Base/Snapshot VDI - MENU: FORMAT: No errors/warnings on part-select before the format - MENU: Moved 8 DFSee operational settings into an Edit submenu - MENU: 'Image' menu with operations on IMAGES (from File/Actions) - Mode=FDISK made startup default; Support BROWSE (partitions) cmd - NOBADS: Renamed to BSCLEAR; FIXBS to BSIMPORT, GETBS to BSEXPORT - NTFS: Implemented WriteMetaSpace for resident data (small files) - OpenFile dialog + options added to 'im' (open-imagefile) command - PART: -P option to select partition from popup menu, add help/sort - PART: Major WARNINGs in yellow, ERRORs in red, make them stand out - RECOVER: Cleanup of interfaces, return full recovery-path to caller - RECOVER: Discard-path, Force-8.3, Unique-name options in dialogs - RECOVER: Reduce file 'SaveAs' output to a single line, from BROWSE - RESTORE/IMZ-index: Better ETA estimation based on fileposition - SAVEAS: FAT file recovery: Include saving OS/2 EAs (OS/2 version) - SAVEAS: JFS file recovery: Include saving OS/2 EAs (OS/2 version) - SAVEAS: Statusline progress reporting on COPY of files over 1Mb - SAVEAS: Support 'sparse' file extents (NTFS, JFS) on file copying - SLT: Fixed formatting issue with JFS/NTFS single line display - STARTUP: Reorder commands to show errors/major warnings at the end - Switch: -floppy includes diskettes in volumelists (slower startup) - TXLIB: Changed expression brackets from single {expr} to double {{expr}} - TXLIB: FILEDLG: Revert to 'last-known-good' DIR on inaccessible directory - TXLIB: FILEDLG: Show file-window too in 'directory select' dialog as well - TXLIB: FileOpenForWrite for generic open write/append, incl. large files - TXLIB: INSERT key specific to class (toggle in Entry, mark in List) - TXLIB: Introduced 3 alternative text-colors for selection-lists (BROWSE) - TXLIB: List Mark, */=/Ctrl-A = ALL, Ctrl-Z = NONE, -/Ctrl-I = INVERT - TXLIB: MsgBox: enlarged default size for message box popups to 52/78 - TXLIB: SELIST: Add 'marked' to list, and 'multiQuickPos' to items - TXLIB: SELIST: Add marked count to top-right of title, when non-ZERO - TXLIB: SELIST: Preserve multiple-select flags on reverse sorting - UNDELETE: New generic command to find, then BROWSE deleted files - VDI: Extra confirmation when loading a snapshot without a BASE - VDI: Support VirtualBox static/dynamic and snapshot disk images - VDI: implemented read/write support, updating last VDI in chain - VDI: implemented read/write support, updating last VDI in chain - VDI: new command opens Base VDI as disk, or adds snapshot to it Regards, JvW ========================================================================= DFSee Home: http://www.dfsee dot com; 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