Since I still had an archive of (very) old guestbook postings from 1997/98, I restored them as a "Guestbook-Archive" page.
Also made some clean-up of the "Directory_page".
So the XTree Fan Page is still alive since more than 20 years now!
XTree Fan Page - Links section:
Since many of the links are outdated meanwhile, I replaced all broken ones with links to the original page content fortunately preserved by >archive.org.
"Play" XTreeGold in your browser:
Archive.org not only saves the history of many many homepages once around, but also has an online software archive, for example, you can play old DOS games in your browser. One of the "games" you can "play" is:
>XTreeGold 3.01 - have fun!!
Not a real update, but removed the affiliate links to Google and Amazon. The latter has been here since December 1997, when Amazon was just 2 years old and new and really cool stuff. Meanwhile, the situation has changed somewhat. Also, unfortunately, had to remove the (broken) Guestbook section.
OK, it seems it caught me again these days, to my own surprise also now even more updates on this page...
Added: In the Versions section two new entries for the early XTree 1.06 version and for XTreeProGold 1.44, both along with screenshots! Added a screenshot to the XTreeEasy entry and some minor updates on version history.
Added: An entry for a remarkable GUI XTree clone for Linux: GTree and for a new XTree-alike MAC OS X filemanager with the, ahem, somewhat special name "QuollEyeTree", both in the Clones section.
Thanks to Ian Binnie, the author of both of these new projects!
Updated: Minor corrections and link updates in the Clones section
Updated: Some corrections and link updates in the Timeline section
Normally, as you may have noticed, I don't do any updates any more on the XTree Fan Page meanwhile, however, I will NOT close it down, but keep it as it is - as a kind of museum piece (as also the HTML of this page is hopelessly outdated - but as long as it still works....).
Well, but nevertheless, here IS a tiny update now; I finally could manage to get an old floppy of a German XTreeEasy Version, so here's the entry and a screenshot:
Added: In the Versions section an entry for the German XTreeEasy 1.00 version.
Fixed: Guestbook is now working again!
Added: In the Versions section an entry for the Dutch XTreeProGold 1.44 version - thanks to Gert-Jan!
Fixed: Font size in the guestbook is now readable again.
Added: Support of large file sizes (> 2GB)
Changed: Distribution now under BSD license
XTree Fan Page:
Updated: Entries of linuXtree at the Clones and Linux sections.
Includes many changes, fixes and >new features over the previous final release.
Includes many changes, fixes and >new features over the previous final release.
Includes many changes, fixes and >new features over the previous final release.
Added: Disk Statistics - Display directory attribute 'j' for junctions,
F9 - Display * next to ZAM filename to indicate unsaved changes,
F12 Mnemonic: QUOTE ("),
Print (FW) - ASA mainframe carriage control character support,
ZCOLORS.INI - DATTR-J coloring for junction/reparse points
Added: Alt-F10 - CO-2K - Treespec TAB navigates immediately,
Alt-F10 - CO-7C - Compare/Alt-Compare remembered settings,
Alt-F10 - CO-7G - Compare/Alt-Compare - Identical default,
Alt-F10 - CO-7H - Compare/Alt-Compare - Unique default,
Alt-F10 - CO-7I - Compare/Alt-Compare - Newer default,
Alt-F10 - CO-7J - Compare/Alt-Compare - Older default,
Alt-F10 - CO-7K - Compare/Alt-Compare - Binary default,
Alt-F10 - CO-7L - Compare/Alt-Compare - Case default,
Alt-F10 - CO-7Q - Swap Tab & Ctrl-Tab key assignments,
Alt-Sort - F12 Reset settings to defaults,
Alt-Tag/Untag - Extension - Tag/Untag all files matching the current file extension,
Alt-Tag/Untag - Name - Tag/Untag all files matching the current filename,
Alt-Tag/Untag - Filespec - Tag/Untag all files matching the entered filespec,
Compare/Alt-Compare - F12 Reset settings to defaults,
Copy/Extract/Move/Shortcut - Existing file - Rename Source or Target options,
Disk Statistics - Display current directory attributes,
F9 - Ctrl-PgUp/PgDn Navigation,
F9/Alt-Move/Esc - Restore original item location,
Logging - Display pathname of directory currently being logged,
Logging Esc option - Partial Logging - abort logging but retain partially logged information,
Mouse - Shift-Click to invert tags from current file to selected file,
Treespec - Ctrl-PgUp/PgDn Navigation
Added: #ZTDrive, #ZTHome - Environment variables set at startup,
Alt-F10 - CO-1G - Set #ZTTools environment variable,
Alt-F10 - CO-2F - Initial Statistics Panels in Split Screen (None/Current/Both),
Alt-F10 - CO-5R - History lists allow Ctrl-C/V/X bookmarking (default = no),
Alt-Sort - Up arrow (or ./>) for ascending, Down arrow (or ,/<) for descending sort order,
Alt-Z/Quit & Resume - Prompt to create new target directory,
Ctrl-Batch - Prompt to create new target directory,
F9 - F2 - Open specified .ZAM file,
F9 - Sets #ZTMenu environment variable to the current menu file,
F12/F4 Repeat - Repeat the macro the specified number of times,
F12 - @*.ZTM - Comment character ';' at position 1 causes line to be ignored,
F12 - Macro directive: WHILE_NOT_ERROR - Repeat rest of macro until any error condition is raised,
F12 - Macro directive: WHILE_NOT_END - Repeat rest of macro until the cursor is already at end,
F12 - Macro directive: WHILE_NOT_HOME - Repeat rest of macro until the cursor is already at home,
F12 - Macro directive: STOP_ON_ERROR - Abort macro when any error condition is raised,
F12 - Macro directive: STOP_ON_END - Abort macro if the current position is already at end,
F12 - Macro directive: STOP_ON_HOME - Abort macro if the current position is already at home,
F12 - Macro directive: STOP_IF_MATCH - Abort macro immediately if there are files in the FW,
F12 - Macro directive: STOP_IF_NOMATCH - Abort macro immediately if there no files in the FW,
F12 - Macro directive: STOP_IF_TAGS - Abort macro immediately if some files are tagged,
F12 - Macro directive: STOP_IF_NOTAGS - Abort macro immediately if no files are tagged,
F12 - Macro directive: STOP_IF_SPLIT - Abort macro immediately if ZTree is in Split mode,
F12 - Macro directive: STOP_IF_UNSPLIT - Abort macro immediately if ZTree is not in Split mode,
F12 - Macro directive: BEEP - Generate an audible beep,
F12 - Macro directive: PAUSE - Prompt to continue or abort the current macro,
F12 - Macro directive: SLEEP - Suspend the current macro for 1 second,
New Date/Ctrl-New Date - Allow blank date or time to retain current value,
Open *.ZAM - Open the selected *.ZAM file in F9 Menu,
Shift-F8 - Split Mode - Statistics None/Current/Both,
Treespec - Support for relative path syntax (eg. %#ZTHome%\..\..\Util),
Zlist - Support for relative path syntax,
ZTW.HST - Display warning at startup if unknown item read or toggles (zt=) not read
Added: /AC - Command line switch - Use defaults 'Unique (yes)' & 'Newer (yes)' for Compare Branch,
/SV - Command line switch - Sort by Value,
#ZTDesktop, #ZTFavorites, #ZTMyDocuments, #ZTStartMenu - Environment variables set at startup,
ALT-F5/Ctrl-Extract - F8 Partial Untag now untags successfully extracted files,
ALT-Info - Additional file/directory attributes now displayed,
CO-6T - Error Timeout - Auto timeout for tagged file errors,
CO-6U - Error Timeout - Default error dialog response,
CO-6V - Error Timeout - Ctrl-Search error dialog response,
Compare/Alt-Compare/Alt-F4 - Display data throughput rate for Binary file comparisons,
F9 - Ctrl-Up/Down - Scroll menu window,
Rename Directory - F5 Previous - Recall previous original directory name,
View - Charset = ANSI-UNI & OEM-UNI - UTF-16 & UTF-8 Unicode display modes,
View - Shift-F7 - Loop mode for auto-scrolling
Includes several changes and fixes over the previous beta versions and lots of new features over the prior final release.
Added: /ZN command line switch to prevent loading of ZNOLOG.INI,
Alt-Log - Unlogged branches only - ignores ZNOLOG.INI,
ZNOLOG.INI - Specify pathames to be excluded from branch and full disk logging
Added: Alt-Sort/Value - Sort by numeric value, ignoring all leading non-numeric characters,
Directory ordinal display now shows tagged file count (T N/M)
Changed: Allow viewing of empty databases
Added: Ctrl-Ins - (DW) - Base & Ext options,
F12 Mnemonic: ALT_BKSL (Alt-\),
Filespec - Support for 'TODAY-#' for a specified number of days prior to today,
Rename Directory - support for c,w,a timestamp prefixes in rename mask
Added: New entry for the arbolito XTree clone project, which, unfortunately, currently is nothing more but a non-functional pre-alpha source release for "POSIX-compliant OSes".
>ZTreeWin 1.50 final release by Zedtek Inc. (a.k.a. Kim Henkel)!
It includes several changes and fixes over the release candidates and tons of new and amazing features over the previous final release, like this one:
Alt-F6 - Cycle between normal, no ZCOLORS.INI settings, and monochrome,
Ctrl-F7 - FW - 'Megaview' - Toggle display of summary file contents,
Ctrl-Z - Batch logging, releasing, tagging & untagging based on ZLIST.ZLS,
Directory/File ordinal display in bottom-right corner of File & Directory windows,
Progress bar - Current data rate in KB/s or MB/s,
ZLOG Volumes - Save or load logged volume information,
and many more! For a complete list of innovations >see here.
The XTree Forum has been temporarely closed for new postings due to large amount of spam, which began to constantly flood the forum. So I had to delete a number of ugly spam posts every single day, and I admit, I became tired of that.
So until I find an alternative solution (like mandatory registration or forum spam filter software), there cannot be posted any new messages to the forum. All existing messages can, however, be viewed as before.
Several changes and fixes
Fixes crash when deleting last file in a directory
Several changes and fixes
Several fixes
Several fixes
Ooops, the author of the XTree Fan Page has either become impoverished or avaricious (delete as applicable), since Google's AdSense advertising program has been added throughout the site...
Well, after all, but at least the new Google powered search function should to be an improvement.
Several changes and fixes
Added: Alt-F5 - RAR - UNRAR.DLL interface for reading encrypted headers and extraction,
Make/Rename Directory - support for rename masks
"YATU" (Yet Another Timeline Update) ;-)
Added: A link to iRider, an innovative web browser from former XTree programmer Ken Broomfield.
The famous tree-like XTree user interface is now part of an exhibition named >"simply Complex" about "Picture-Trees and Tree Pictures in Science" in the >museum of design Zurich, Switzerland. The exhibtion is already running and includes a number of screenshots of various XTree versions and clones. It will be open until 4th of September this year. So if it happens you come near Zurich, don't miss it!
On 6th of July, 8 p.m., there will also be a panel discussion about "Interfaces - Wissen auf der Bildschirmoberfläche" (knowledge at the user interface), in which, among others, the author of the XTree Fan Page will participate. The discussion will be held in German language and more information (in German) is available on >this page.
Several changes and fixes
Added: Progress bar (/ZP option) - Current data rate in KiB/s or MiB/s,
Ctrl-Ins - Toggle between forward & backslash with '\' (or '/')
Added: Alt-Mirror - F4 Replace mode (Older)/(Prompt),
Alt-Prune - F6 Delete only empty directories,
CO-3A - Alpha - sort by alphabetic value, ignoring any leading numerics & punctuation,
Command line switch /SA (sort file by alphabetic value),
F12 Mnemonic: SH_DEL
Well, *no* april fool's joke today, it's real, 20 years ago, at the West Coast Computer Faire on April 1st 1985, XTree was introduced to the public. Congratulations! Although sales were ceased by its new owners some eight years ago, XTree still enjoys an enormous popularity - and many people still run this good ol' DOS warhorse on their stylish super multimedia GUI operating systems as well as on some valiant vintage DOS machines.
And thanks to some brave programmer heroes, the unsurpassed XTree concept and interface is available again for today's operating systems - especially with >ZTreeWin by Kim Henkel and >UnixTree by Rob Juergens, to name two of the most mature one's. And there are many more XTree-clones available for a lot of different systems. So everything which makes up the XTree idea is still happily alive. Happy birthday!
And what is such a birthday without a decent present? So here is one:
A new UnixTree version, after a long, long hiatus, introduced punctual to honor XTree's 20th birthday:
>UnixTree 3.0.2 released by Rob Juergens
New: Separate binaries for console- (xt) and X11-mode (xtx) operation
Changed: Substantial updates to the curses and XVT libraries
Fixed: Lots of bugs fixed...
Added: Alt-Sort - Alpha - sort by alphabetic value, ignoring any leading numerics & punctuation,
F12 Mnemonics: CTRL_SH_RIGHT & CTRL_SH_LEFT,
Shift-Home (DW) - Reset extension width to minimum
Enhanced UTF-8 support + Russian Man-Pages
Several fixes
Several fixes
Updated the search scripts, so that this function is now working properly again.
Updated: HOT menuing system entry
Finally, all entries have been updated and now include (currently) valid links and relevant license status.
Added: Keyboard input - Shift-(Ctrl)-Left/Right/Home/End - Mark current input string,
Keyboard input - Shift-Del/Ctrl-X to cut selected input line text to the Clipboard
There is now an improved email-protection from spambots throughout the entire page, including the XTree Forum, where the (optional) email-adresses of all posters are now beeing protected, too!
Just a little drawback: Since this method requires JavaScript, no more email addresses will be shown in case the browser has no JavaScript (enabled) :-(
Added: Ctrl-Ins - Filename Base & Ext options
Added: Hex editor
Updated: Entry for linuXtree for new version 1.2
Added: F9 Menu - Alt-X - Launch script in new session,
F9 script directive - "#ZTExit" - force exit from F9 menu after script execution,
F9 Script directive - "#ZTStart" - force async execution & pass parms to START commmand,
F9 script directive - "#ZTVersion" - replaced with current ZTree version,
F9 script directive - "#ZTView" - force script to be viewed and not executed,
DW - Shift-Left/Right - scroll extension width in small file window
Updated: Entry for Shel Prince
Changed: Use --prefix parameter for install directory,
"Don't install default config file
Added: ZCOLORS.INI - Support 'for '?' in file extension specification,
furthermore (a quote by the author):
"A lot of fixes in this build, so this one comes highly recommend ;-)"
After a long, long break, development will soon continue; meanwhile you can already >subscribe to the newly created UnixTree-users mailing list, and use the >bug tracking and >feature request tracking services of the likewise brand new >Sourceforge UnixTree project pages.
LINDON, Utah, Apr 1, 2004 -- The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX), the company which is known to have invented Linux, today announced to claim its ownership of XTree intellectual property, source code and copyrights.
The company's CEO, Darl McBride, said in a statement that "SCO owns much of the core XTree intellectual property and has full rights to license this technology and enforce the associated patents and copyrights."
SCO is ready to proceed with litigation against every single XTree user on this planet: "We are just protecting our rightfull intellectual property for the benefit of the free world and against the axis of evil", McBride said today.
He also threatens that SCO is identifying XTree users for possible litigation. He said SCO had for the last month gathered information on XTree users, and identified about 10% of the total people ever using XTree on their computer. McBride added that he expected that figure to rise to 40% over the coming weeks before SCO would take action.
Furthermore, SCO today announced the availability of the SCO Intellectual Property License for XTree. The run-time license permits the use of SCO's intellectual property, in binary form only, as contained in XTree programs. By purchasing a SCO Intellectual Property License, customers avoid infringement of SCO's intellectual property rights in any XTree version. The license will be available for a mere $2,850 per CPU and year of usage (also backdated) and there will be a special discount for systems with more than 16 CPUs running XTree. So a typical XTree user having installed XTree programs since version 1.0 from 1985 on a computer with a single CPU will have to pay no more than $54,150 for the past 19 years.
Added: External programs can be used to compose the list of tagged files
Added: CO-1J - Numeric seperator - ',
F2 Browse - Support for Ctrl-Tab navigation,
F9/Alt-Copy item - Duplicate current menu item including script,
F9/Alt-View - View the processed script without executing,
F9/F3 Save menu - Save entire menu to ZTW_MENU.DAT,
F9/Edit/Write - Save script to specified file or clipboard
Added: Alt-Release/All other drives - Release all but the current drive,
Alt-Release/This drive - Release the current drive,
Ctrl-Search/F5 Search ZIP TOC only - For Zip files, search only the central directory,
Rename File - F4 Previous - Recall previous original filename
Updated: Entry for Harold E. Cook (added a photo).
Updated: Entry for Harold E. Cook, moved him to the "programming and engineering" staff part and added some resume details.
Added: Entries for Shel Prince and Russ Barretand (admittedly scarce ones, for now).
(For all three thanks to the kind information from Harold E. Cook).
Added: New entry for the Norton NT Tools suite of 1996, which included the "Norton Navigator Filemanager" (which was the offical sucessor of the XTree Gold for Windows 4.0 version).
(thanks to a great hint from John Fletcher)
Added: /PMC command line switch - Set default path-mode for Alt-Copy/Move/Mirror to 'Current',
/PMF command line switch - Set default path-mode for Alt-Copy/Move/Mirror to 'Full',
/PMR command line switch - Set default path-mode for Alt-Copy/Move/Mirror to 'Relative',
CO-5X - Default path mode (full/current/relative),
CO-5Y - Alt-Copy Relative after Alt-Compare,
Ctrl-Batch - F4 OEM/ANSI character set translation,
Ctrl-Ins - UNC option to copy UNC format pathname to clipboard,
File ordinal display now shows tagged file count (T N/M),
Filespec (FW) - Tab - cycle current filename mask, size and timestamp,
Keyboard input - Ctrl-Home - Delete from start of field to cursor,
View - Alt-0-9 - Goto bookmark 0 - 9,
View - Ctrl-0-9 - Set bookmark 0 - 9
*F_i_n_a_l_l_y*, in the seventh year of its life, the XTree Fan Page now provides "Hotkey support" - *somewhat* similar to that of XTree itself (however, the latter has it since its birth...).
So, look at the Directory or File-"commands" at the |Bottom of each page: Hit the "Alt"-key plus the letter key printed in upper case, and thus it should work!!
Well, in fact, the "command" is just a link, and, while the trick is done by adding an accesskey="[letter]"-expression to the HTML link code, browser support is very varying...:
MS Internet Explorer 4.x : Direct access of the link target with ALT-[letter]
MS Internet Explorer 5.x/6.x : Focus is set on the link, to follow it, you have to hit "Enter"
Netscape 4.x : No support
Netscape 6.x/7.x : Direct access of the link target with ALT-[letter]
Mozilla/Firebird/>Firefox (rules!) : Direct access of the link target with ALT-[letter]
Opera (any version) : No support
Konqueror (any version) : No support
On a Mac, the MS Internet Explorer should also support it by using the Ctrl-[letter] combination.
Mac/Safari : I don't know (maybe someone could ] me ?)
For more information on accesskey support and some of its quirks, see >this excellent page
Last but not least I must admit that this technique unfortunately does hijack any possible previous bindings of the browser itself (like ALT-'F' to access the File menu). So, at least I hope this is not too confusing/annoying. Comments are welcomed to be posted to the XTree Forum.
"YATU" (Yet Another Timeline Update) ;-)
"YATU" (Yet Another Timeline Update) ;-)
Added: Alt-F6 - Cycle between normal, no ZCOLORS.INI settings, and monochrome,
Alt-Info (DW - NT/Win2K/XP - NTFS) - Display directory owner,
CO-1S - Option for Current or Branch directory refreshing,
CO-1T - Option for Current or Branch directory refreshing,
Ctrl-Z - Batch logging, releasing, tagging & untagging based on ZLIST.ZLS - see sample,
F2 Browse - F4 - navigate to current DW directory,
F5 (FW) - Archive current file,
F9 script directive - "#ZTDrive" - replaced with drive letter of currently running ZTW executable,
F12/Alt-F12 - Display flashing "P" in bottom-right during macro playback,
History window - Alt-Left/Right arrow - Cycle sort sequence of displayed history items,
History window - Normal, Alt & Ctrl menus,
Open *.ZLS file invokes Ctrl-Zlist command,
Rename masks - :a, :c, :w - use file's last-access, creation, last-write timestamp values (see F1 3.2.1.16),
Treespec - F5 Edit toggle - Shift-TAB to cycle backwards through matching paths at current depth,
Treespec - F5 Edit (No ) - TAB/Shift-TAB to cycle through matching paths at current depth