Opus IV - Beta 1.0 for R4.x
                By Patrik Lantz - Microdata AB - Copyright 1997 to 1999

Thanks must go to:
Brian Tiez for ColumnListView (c) 1997/98/99 - Lasse Magnussen for lots of ideas from his Dirmaster
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Welcome to Opus IV.


What is Opus IV ?

Opus IV is the first real project in my life exept of all those Amiga demos and utilities I wrote in 68k assembler way back of 1988.

Also this is my first program in C/C++.

If we skip my life time story and talk about Opus IV.

Opus IV is an filemanager more or less like Norton Commander (Dos) or WinCommander (Windows) or better more like the original Directory Opus 4 (Amiga).

- I don't know what those other programs are!

Very simple, with my program you can easily arrange your files on your harddrive, like copy, move, rename, delete, makedir & other features.

In future there will be more fuctions listed below in my TODO list.

But for now you have only the most common functions.


Now you just have to start it and find out how it will change your life.



READ ME - READ ME - READ ME - READ ME - READ ME - READ ME - READ ME - READ ME

Opus IV is in a beta stage, and there are "Bugs" errors from my side that can make strange things with your files, so please be careful.

But so far none have reported any serious bug that destroyed data or made any damage.

I have tested Opus IV now for a long time and havn't found any serious bug holding me back for a release.

                                                     USE IT AT OWN RISK

READ ME - READ ME - READ ME - READ ME - READ ME - READ ME - READ ME - READ ME


TEAM OPUS ARE LOOKING FOR MORE DEVELOPERS

Are you a good programmer and Do have spare time and are interested in 
developing Opus IV to a real product ?

Contact me at: patrik.lantz@microdatahbg.se


TODO LIST:

FTP Support
Configurable Buttons
Preferences Menu
Zip, Lha etc functions
New Button layout
Keyboard navigation for all functions

Documentation & More Debuging

REVISION HISTORY:

v1.0beta 	25/8/98 - 26/03/99

	*	Node monitor functions work in New, Delete calls
	*	Got some more mail from users... yeah..
	*	Ported and Compiled under R4 / Intel
	*	Added Thread when updating Directory 
	*	Started on Nodemonitor function
	*	Multithread Copy and Delete functions
	*	Found another bug in filelisting at startup.
	*	Added Symbolic link feature in directory listing 
	*	New code for directory handling.
	*	Compiled for R4b1 - R4b4
	*	Started on Zip function for files and directories
	*	Took a little break in my coding.	
	*	Added scrollable volume buttons, it just adds 1 button for each volume.
	*	Found and killed naughty bug, showed up anytime.......


v0.9e 	17/8/98

	*	Optimizing buttonlayout code, and saved 13k of lame code....
	*	Made buttonconfiguring more easy (soon you can make your own config)
	*	Scan for mounted volumes and add them to the buttons on the left.


v0.9d	9/8/98

	*	Faster copy routine, now uses BeOS own cache of 64k.
	*	Statusbar when you copy files.
	*	Launch programs when double clicking on a file.
	*	More debuging.
	*	Select file with option key does now work.
	*	Commandline input for paths, also view actual directory.
	*	Add Lanch Function Button.
	*	Started on Preferences Window (Not Working)

v0.9	Beta	?/?/98
		First Release, Beta Status but I wanted show the world about my project, 
		there are proably lot of bugs left.
																																	
v0.9		?/?/98
		The first beta I released to my friend Sammy, and it Did crash !!!! Hahahaha

v0.5		?/?/97
		hmm, don't remember myself, but it was for sure a true beta..

Greetings, (No order)
Brian Tiez, Lasse Magnussen, BEMAME Team, MindWork, The guys at Be Europe, Be News Crew, The team at
BeatWare and GoBe, Magnus Persson, Samuel Andersson, Tony Magnusson, Claes Lovqvist,  all at IRC.

And ofcourse all those I forgot 	:-)
