File Manager/2

Version:

3.25

Release date:

Tuesday, 1 September, 1998

Home:

http://trac.netlabs.org/fm2

Categories:

Utilities: file management

License:

GPL

Interface:

PMShell
Workplace Shell

Italiano

Authors/Port authors:

Barebones Software, Mark Kimes, Steven Levine, Gregg Young

FM2 is an excellent file manager for eComStation and OS/2 WorkPlaceShell, with a lot of functions!

This software is distributed as compressed package. You have to download and manually install it; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too.

Manual installation

Available both as ZIP and WarpIN package:

download the ZIP package to temporary directory and unpack it to destination folder;
the WarpIN package is self-installing.

See below for download link(s).

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

File Manager/2 v. 3.25 (3/6/2024)	Readme/What's new	New stuff at the top. This list is not necessarily complete. 3.25 o Adjust layouts of dialogs to support larger font sizes (Gregg) o Move the Help button to the lower left corner on most dialogs (Gregg) o Fix spurious ea, date and time on nonexistent files in the compare dialog Ticket #575 (Gregg) o Fix occasional corruption in tree container on startup and rescan Ticket #583 (Gregg) o Fix spurious "no drop" on first subdirectories in the tree container Ticket #584 (Gregg) o Fix a trap caused by using a keyboard search in the tree container (Gregg) o Fix a rare trap on tree container scan or rescan (Gregg) o Fix some font and layout issues in View and Newview (Gregg) o Rework RemoveCnrItems and RemoveArcItems to prevent traps (Steven) o Rework FreeCnrItems to assure that all CNRITEMs are deleted (Steven) o Use WinSendMsg CMA_NEXT instead of preccNextRecord so linkage is maintained following inserts and deletions. (Steven) o Some packaging updates including Ticket #574 (John)
www.hobbesarchive.com/Hobbes/pub/os2/util/browser/fm2-3-25-0.zip
File Manager/2 v. 3.24 (Self-installer WarpIN package, 12/10/2015)	Readme/What's new	New stuff at the top. This list is not necessarily complete. 3.24 o Rework Flesh/Stubby logic to avoid doing work on thread 1 (Steven) o Add generic linked list support routines (Steven) o Get tree switch code to work with new Flesh/Stubby code (Steven, Gregg) o Move tree expand code off thread 1 (Gregg) o Get ExpandAll to work with new Flesh/Stubby code (Gregg) o Fix failure of CD/DVD icon and display name to revert on disk eject (Gregg) o Stop Stubby from adding a null string file name eliminating some random traps and occasional blank lines in the tree (Gregg) o Get notify on hard drive without subdirectories code working (Gregg) o Add missing MAKETOP code in directory containers works in tree view (Gregg) o Removed recurse drive scan code -- obsolete with Flesh/Stubby changes (Gregg) o Fixed occasional spurious A:\ drive not ready error on startup (Gregg) o Improved consistency of MAKETOP in tree container (Gregg) o Release tool improvements (John) o Created high-mem safe wrappers for all API functions that fail when loaded high (John) o Fixed trap in Stubby on startup (Gregg) o Fixed failure of rename dialog to update the tree container (Gregg) o Fixed trap on close while direct editing a file name (Gregg) o Fixed heap corruption trap on rescan while a scan was still running (Gregg) o Prevent a file name from being left blank during direct editing (Gregg) o Fixed direct edit code prevents double free attempts and misc traps (Gregg) o Made searchapath thread safe prevents potential traps (John) o Corrected failure to show error message on attempted delete of locked nonexecutable files (Gregg) o Fix directory container compare selection code (Gregg) o Fix real object creation when generating multiple objects (Gregg)
ecsoft2.org/system/files/repository/fm2-3-24-0.wpi	local copy
File Manager/2 v. 3.24 (Zip package, 12/10/2015)	Readme/What's new	New stuff at the top. This list is not necessarily complete. 3.24 o Rework Flesh/Stubby logic to avoid doing work on thread 1 (Steven) o Add generic linked list support routines (Steven) o Get tree switch code to work with new Flesh/Stubby code (Steven, Gregg) o Move tree expand code off thread 1 (Gregg) o Get ExpandAll to work with new Flesh/Stubby code (Gregg) o Fix failure of CD/DVD icon and display name to revert on disk eject (Gregg) o Stop Stubby from adding a null string file name eliminating some random traps and occasional blank lines in the tree (Gregg) o Get notify on hard drive without subdirectories code working (Gregg) o Add missing MAKETOP code in directory containers works in tree view (Gregg) o Removed recurse drive scan code -- obsolete with Flesh/Stubby changes (Gregg) o Fixed occasional spurious A:\ drive not ready error on startup (Gregg) o Improved consistency of MAKETOP in tree container (Gregg) o Release tool improvements (John) o Created high-mem safe wrappers for all API functions that fail when loaded high (John) o Fixed trap in Stubby on startup (Gregg) o Fixed failure of rename dialog to update the tree container (Gregg) o Fixed trap on close while direct editing a file name (Gregg) o Fixed heap corruption trap on rescan while a scan was still running (Gregg) o Prevent a file name from being left blank during direct editing (Gregg) o Fixed direct edit code prevents double free attempts and misc traps (Gregg) o Made searchapath thread safe prevents potential traps (John) o Corrected failure to show error message on attempted delete of locked nonexecutable files (Gregg) o Fix directory container compare selection code (Gregg) o Fix real object creation when generating multiple objects (Gregg)
ecsoft2.org/system/files/repository/fm2-3-24-0.zip	local copy