WCD (Wherever Change Directory)

File list README.txt : This file. INSTALL.txt : Installation documentation. ../src/man/man1/wcd.txt : Manual, text format. ../src/man/man1/wcd.htm : Manual, HTML format. whatsnew.txt : Change log. faq.txt : Frequently Asked Questions. copying.txt : distribution license. problems.txt : Known problems. todo.txt : Things to do. Table of Contents 1.0 History 2.0 Copyright 2.1 C3PO data structures 2.2 DOSDIR 2.3 Recmatch 2.4 Ninux Czo Directory 2.5 Miscellaneous bits and pieces 3.0 Acknowledgements 3.1 Translators 3.2 Works of others used in the program 4.0 Contact and Download information 1.0 History In 1995 I started working for Philips Research in Eindhoven. I had to do all my work on HP Unix (HP-UX). I was missing an application like Norton Change Directory (NCD). I didn't know of any other NCD like program so in 1996 I decided to make it myself. On the internet I found Jason Mathew's DOSDIR package in the Simtel archives. DOSDIR was my starting point. Because DOSDIR was portable I could make wcd at home with Borland-C 3.1 on my PC (intel 80486, 80 MHz) on DOS 6.2. I mailed the source code to work and there I build a version for HP-UX. I made wcd for myself, but was happy to share it with others. Some colleagues started using wcd. In 1997, I found the DJGPP compiler and used that as my main development environment. Now I was able to create a 32 bit DOS version, and it supported long directory names under Windows 95. In Dec 1997 I put wcd on the internet. I was amazed that already 7 people downloaded it in the first month. From then on development was driven a lot by feedback I got via the internet. In March 1998 the GNU distribution license was attached to version 2.0.0. Later I installed Linux (RedHat 5.0) on my PC at home and that became my main development platform. Because eventually most DOS users will migrate to Windows I ported wcd to Windows NT. I started with Borland C 4.0, but changed soon to the MinGW compiler. The first Win32 port was ready in November 1999. The DOS 32 bit version still stayed the most popular version for a long time. In 2003 the Windows NT port became most popular. In April 2000 (version 2.3.0) a curses based interface was added to have a consistent interface on all platforms. And a year later the 'graphical tree' curses interface was added (version 3.0.0). I used wcd mainly in an ASCII (C) environment. Only since version 3.2.0 in Dec 2005 eight bit characters sets were properly supported. After a development pause of two years, version 4.0.0 (Sep 2008) was the first which supported internationalization by message translations via gettext. Since version 5.0.0 (Mar 2009) wcd supports Unicode, to enable internationalization for all languages. In the beginning this development was done on Linux, and later on Cygwin which supports Unicode since version 1.7. In version 6.0.0 (Feb 2017) the DOSDIR directory interface layer was removed from Wcd. The amount of directories can be huge these days, so scanning a disk can take a long time. Removal of DOSDIR resulted in faster disk scanning on Windows and Unix. 2.0 Copyright Copyright (C) 1996-2023 Erwin Waterlander This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. Visit <https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html> 2.1 C3PO data structures Data structures with dynamic memory allocation were created with Ondrej Popp's C3PO ( Compiler Compiler Compiler Popp Ondrej ). https://sourceforge.net/projects/c3po/ email: <ondrejpopp@users.sourceforge.net> 2.2 DOSDIR Wcd used DOSDIR for scanning the disk until Wcd version 5.3.4. Only the parts of DOSDIR that are distributed under GNU General Public License were used in WCD. DOSDIR: A Portable DOS/UNIX/VMS Directory Interface DOSDIR minimizes the OS-specific directory access code for applications allowing programmers to concentrate on the application itself and not on the low-level directory and file structure. DOSDIR applications will run on their native operating systems with the appropriate file syntax and handling, which is expected for that platform. Copyright (C) 1994 Jason Mathews. Jason Mathews The MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730-1420 Email: mathews@mitre.org, mathews@computer.org DOSDIR can be download from my own homepage https://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/ 2.3 Recmatch I used the regular matching algorithm, recmatch(), of Info-Zip's unzip program. recmatch() was written by Mark Adler. Copyright (C) 1990-1992 Mark Adler, Richard B. Wales, Jean-loup Gailly, Kai Uwe Rommel and Igor Mandrichenko. Mark Adler (original Zip author; UnZip decompression; writer of recmatch() ) and Greg Roelofs (former UnZip maintainer/co-author) have given permission to me to distribute recmatch() (match.c,match.h) under the GNU General Public License conditions as long as there's some sort of comment included that indicates it came from Info-ZIP's UnZip/Zip and was written by Mark Adler. Info-ZIP's home WWW site is at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/infozip/ 2.4 Ninux Czo Directory Ideas and source code of NCD (Ninux Czo Directory) have been used in the WCD graphical interface. Ninux Change Directory Copyright (C) 1995 Borja Etxebarria <borja@bips.bi.ehu.es> or <jtbecgob@s835cc.bi.ehu.es> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/shell/ncd-0.9.8.tgz Additions on NCD were made by Olivier Sirol (Czo) Ninux Czo Directory Copyright (C) 1995 Borja Etxebarria Copyright (C) 1996 Olivier Sirol Olivier Sirol <sirol@ecoledoc.ibp.fr> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/ncd1_205.tgz 2.5 Miscellaneous bits and pieces wcd_fixpath() is a modified version of _fixpath() Copyright (C) 1995-1996 DJ Delorie, see COPYING.DJ for details _fixpath() is a library function of libc for DJGPP. See also https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ Source code to scan Windows LAN was originally written and placed in the Public Domain by Felix Kasza. Copied from Felix Kasza's Win32 Samples page at MVPS.ORG. https://www.mvps.org/ Source code for colours in curses interface was copied from the PDCurses demo program 'tui'. The 'tui' demo program was originally written by P.J. Kunst and placed in the Public Domain. Markus Kuhn's free wcwidth() and wcwidth_cjk() implementation is used. See also https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html Rugxulo is the original autor of query_con_codepage(), which is in the public domain. 3.0 Acknowledgements Thanks to the following people for giving ideas and/or reporting/solving bugs: Leo Sevat (First user) Paul Lippens (? I forgot. ew) Ondrej Popp (relative treefiles) Ad Vaassen (subdirectories) Michael Magan (interface) Christopher Drexler (bugfix on SGI IRIX64) Richard Tietjen (HOME on DOS/Windows) Howard Schwartz (interface: use letters, WCDHOME) Ajit J. Thakkar (zsh on windows) Christian Mondrup (man page) Gary R. Johnson (graphical tree mode) Peter Gutmann (just go mode) Etienne Joarlette (SunOS makefile) Edwin Rijpkema (zoom in graphical tree mode) Juhapekka Tolvanen (man page) Andre vd Avoird (Keep paths, -k) Kevin M. Rosenberg (patch for compile problems w.r.t. gcc and <stdbool.h>, man page) Zoltan Varady (fix compile problems on Mac OS X/Darwin) Eric Auer (default makefile for DOS 16 bit (compact memory model) works again) Val Vakar (WCDFILTER) Jari Aalto (man page improvements) Jari Aalto (option -l takes alias directly) Jari Aalto (in match list key z does page down.) Jari Aalto (Swap options -v and -V.) Jari Aalto (Unix: Replace volume manager path of HOME dir by "$HOME") Jari Aalto (Makefile improvements) Jari Aalto (Updated installation documentation) Jari Aalto (Code cleanup) Jari Aalto (Generate manual from Perl POD file) Jari Aalto (Reformat README file.) Jari Aalto (Fix compilation on Solaris) Jari Aalto (Version date in ISO 8601 format) Gabor Grothendieck (UNC paths support) Gabor Grothendieck (automatically set PDC_RESTORE_SCREEN) Gabor Grothendieck (original console colours on windows) Mark Hessling (original console colours on windows) Mark Hessling (fix: scroll away problem on Windows NT/2000/XP) Ken Zinnato (alternative tree navigation) Scott D Friedemann (fix: curses interface writes uninitialised data to screen) Richard Boss (dump matches to stdout) Richard Boss (8-bit characters) Richard Boss (print match list at bottom of console) Roland Messier Shell script to compile wcd for QNX 4.25 systems. Elbert Pol Port to OS/2 Warp Billy Chen Optional colours in graphical mode (option -K) Billy Chen Less screen movement when navigating in graphical mode. anonymous Alternate stack file support. Laurence Errington Simpler installation instructions for Windows Command Prompt anonymous Support user names with spaces on Windows. Justin Lecher Makefile improvements. Eli Zaretskii Don't follow symbolic links on Windows. Thomas Dickey Use of ncurses on Windows. Misty De Meo Fix: Compilation on OS X/FreeBSD. David Binderman Fixed a dangerous string usage. Benno Schulenberg Cleanup user interface messages. Andreas Schwab Fix: etc/profile.d/wcd.sh: wcd function was overwriting shell's $go variable. Erik Rijshouwer Idea for option -ls, list the aliases. Martin Report bug that wcd DRIVE:DIR was broken in 6.0.0. 3.1 Translators Thanks to the following translators: Since verion 5.2.5 wcd is part of the Translation Project (TP). All translations of the messages go via the Translation Project. see https://translationproject.org/domain/wcd.html Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Fontenelle Version 6.0.1 Chinese (simplified) Mingcong Bai (Jeff) and Version 5.3.1 Mingye Wang (Arthur) Danish Joe Hansen Version 6.0.0 Dutch Erwin Waterlander Version 4.0.0 - 5.2.4 Dutch Benno Schulenberg Version 5.2.5 - 5.3.3 Esperanto Benno Schulenberg Version 5.2.5 - 5.3.3 Esperanto Felipe Castro Version 6.0.4 Finnish Jari Aalto Version 5.1.0 - 5.2.4 Finnish Jorma Karvonen Version 5.2.5 - 5.3.3 French Grégoire Scano Version 6.0.3 - 6.0.4 Friulian Fabio Tomat Version 6.0.2 German Philipp Thomas Version 5.1.3 - 5.2.3, 5.3.3 - 5.3.4 German Lars Wendler Version 5.2.4 German Mario Blättermann Version 5.2.5 - 5.2.6 Romanian Remus-Gabriel Chelu Version 6.0.5 Serbian Мирослав Николић Version 5.3.4 Spanish Julio A. Freyre-Gonzalez Version 5.0.4 - 5.2.4 Spanish Francisco Javier Serrador Version 6.0.2 Swedish Josef Andersson Version 6.0.5 Ukrainian Yuri Chornoivan Version 5.2.5 - 6.0.0 Vietnamese Trần Ngọc Quân Version 5.2.5 - 6.0.0 Translations of the manual: See https://translationproject.org/domain/wcd-man.html Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Fontenelle Version 6.0.1 - 6.0.3 Dutch Erwin Waterlander Version 5.2.5 - 6.0.3 German Mario Blättermann Version 5.2.5 - 6.0.3 French Grégoire Scano Version 6.0.3 - 6.0.4 Romanian Remus-Gabriel Chelu Version 6.0.5 Serbian Мирослав Николић Version 6.0.4 Swedish Josef Andersson Version 6.0.5 Ukrainian Yuri Chornoivan Version 5.2.5 - 6.0.3 3.2 Works of others used in the program Thanks to the following people for using their Free software: Ondrej Popp, C3PO Jason Mathews, dosdir (until version 5.3.4) Mark Adler, recmatch() DJ Delorie _fixpath() Borja Etxebarria & Olivier Sirol Ninux Czo Directory Felix Kasza WIN32 API sample WNetOpenEnum()/WNetEnumResource() MVPS.ORG https://www.mvps.org/ Markus Kuhn wcwidth() and wcwidth_cjk() https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html Rugxulo query_con_codepage() https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/ 4.0 Contact and Download information I can be contacted via E-mail: waterlan@xs4all.nl -- Latest development source code is maintained in SourceForge Git repository: git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/wcd/wcd The latest WCD packages, executables and sources, can be downloaded from this internet-page: https://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/ -- SourceForge project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wcd/ -- For each release of wcd there are two source packages (the question marks indicate the version number): wcd-?.?.?.tar.gz : source package Source code in unix text. wcd???.zip : source package Source code in DOS text. -- Wcd is also distributed by: Debian Linux https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=wcd Ubuntu Linux https://packages.ubuntu.com/ Fedora Linux openSuse Linux Gentoo Linux Simtel.Net: Search: wcd SYSTEM UTILITIES > File management and conversion utils > wcd Ibiblio (was Metalab (was SunSite)): https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/shell/ -- Erwin Waterlander ------------------------------------------------------------ 6.0.5 2023-04-23 - New Romanian translation of the UI and the manual. Thanks to Remus-Gabriel Chelu. - New Swedish translation of the UI and the manual. Thanks to Josef Andersson. - Updated Friulian translation of the UI. Thanks to Fabio Tomat.