Thumbs Support
First please please please check the online help inside
Thumbs and the FAQ before writing for support.
Also check out the Thumbs Forums.
If you did not find an answer and your question is something that might be
helpful to others the best place to ask is in the forums.
Changes:
5.50
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Fixes for popup blocker issues |
5.41
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Changed background color for GIF thumbnails to light gray |
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Added $imagesize and $originalimagesize variables |
5.40
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| Added
support for GIF files through Quicktime |
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Added support for Grayscale JPEG files |
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| Fixed
fnot() |
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| Changed fif() so it doesn't expand unused argument |
5.32
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| Added
variables EXIF_ExifVersion, EXIF_JPEGComment, EXIF_TiffComment,
EXIF_UserComment, EXIF_TIFFTitle, EXIF_TIFFCaption |
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| Fixed
bug with JPEG Comment |
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| Fixed
bug with midsize non-JPEG images not appearing correctly in slideshow |
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| Fixed
bug with moving files that are usually in the Thumbs application folder to
template folders |
5.31
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| Added
more log entries for better support information |
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| Fixed
bug with Index.txt |
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| Fixed
bug where pressing cancel when asked about a thumbnail already existing
did not stop processing the rest of the thumbnails. |
5.30
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| Made
Thumbs skip bad image files |
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| Added
support for fullsize JPEG images for non browser supported image formats. |
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| Fixed
bug with version number so 5.02 read 5.20. Number this one 5.30 so
there is no confusion. |
5.02
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| Fixed
bug where Quicktime cannot handle files that are not a multiple of 4 pixels
in width. This bug made images look skewed |
5.01
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| Fixed
bug, Quicktime cannot handle filenames with more than 63 characters so in
that case I copy the file to a temp file and have Quicktime work on the
temp file. |
5.00
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| Added
support for png, (targa) tga, (photoshop) psd, tif, bmp |
4.72
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| Fixed
bug with CD autorun file copying |
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| Fixed
bug with frandom function |
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| Fixed
bug with Thumbs trying to read JPEG comments from none JPEG files. |
4.70
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| Added
CD autorun file copying |
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| Added
Log file |
4.63
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| Fixed
bug with half-implemented cd autorun file copying |
4.62
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| Fixed
bug where sometimes Thumbs could not find the templates. |
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| Added
option to not link to original images if using midsize images. |
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| Added
fsearch(), fint() and fformat() |
4.54
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| Fixed
bug with various JPG comments, IPTC comments etc. |
4.53
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| Added
support for WMV and ASF files. |
4.52
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| fixed
bug with EXIF data reading |
4.51
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| Added
(*nn) and (/nn) to allow math similar to (+nn) and (-nn). That way
you can make templates that do stuff like $thumbwidth[/2] |
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| Put
the version # on the main display
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| Added
a bunch of functions to the template system. There is no debugging
so if you make a typo you are out of luck for now. See making-templates |
4.50
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| Added
support for AVI files since some cameras now export AVI files. |
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| Merged
midpage_mov.html and midpage_mpg.html since they were only different by
one line and since I was adding avi's which would have required
midpage_avi.html or just another one line change. Now they all exist
as midpage_movie.html with the different lines specified at the bottom as
separate sections.
Note: because of this, if you have custom
templates they may break. You should copy the midpage_movie.html
that is closest to matching your custom template to the folder of your
template.
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| Added
several templates I had been too lazy to add in the past. Hopefully
some users will get some ideas and start making their own and them upload
them |
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| Made
it so clicking the mouse button during the slideshow brings up a control
panel. Hopefully this will solve the problem that many beginning users don't know to
press ESC or Q to exit the slideshow. As there is no close button
they end up just shutting off their machine. Hopefully, this way
they will at least try clicking the mouse.
This also has the advantage that on some systems, the slideshow control
window appeared in front of the slideshow instead of behind like it should
have. Now that this new control panel is the slideshow control
window it doesn't really matter which order the windows appear.
Note: because of this, all templates were
modified to open that window at a nice size when the slideshow link is
clicked. If you have any custom templates you will probably want to
fix them so they do the same thing, otherwise that control panel window
will appear fairly large. Copy the "template_slideshowthml"
section from a matching file in a thumbs supplied template to your custom
template. For example copy the "template_slideshowthml"
section from
c:\program files\thumbs\templates\shadow\index.html
to the index.html in your custom template. The same for
thumbs_page.html, midpage_jpg.html and midpage_movie.html
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| Fixed
a few bugs in .mov and .mpg file support. |
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| Made
spinners turn in correct direction again |
4.31
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| Added
"ignoreunderscore" option to options.txt for a template.
Setting this to true tells Thumbs to ignore all images that start with an
underscore "_". One user built a template that puts a
manually created representative picture for each folder on the index
page. If those representative pictures start with underscore and
this option is set in the template then those pictures will not appear in
the thumbnails. |
4.30
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| Added
$thumbpagefolder variable |
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| Fixed
more HTML problems for Mac IE |
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| Added
support for IPTC data in JPEG files |
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| Made
spinners turn in correct direction |
4.21
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| Added
$totalfiles, $numfilesonpage and $currentfileindex variables |
4.20
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| Fixed
so resizing works in Netscape 6.2+, I was not yet able to figure out how
to get Opera to resize images. It appears it is not able to do this
yet but it is on their list |
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Made commandline version work with relative paths because of bug in
Quicktime
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Made commandline version print more errors
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Fixed various minor issues in the templates related to Opera and Netscape
6.2+
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4.18
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| Made
Mac IE open a near full screen window for the slideshow |
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Fixed Bug where when Sort Folder Names was not checked no links to the
folders appeared on the main page
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4.17
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| Removed
"plain" template which was accidentally put in 4.16 |
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| Fixed
problems with Netscape 6.X and the slideshow.
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| Switched
slideshow timing from seconds after the page loads to seconds from after
the page is requested.
This has the problem that if you are using Thumbs for a webpage and you
have large pictures and your users are on a slow connection, it's possible
the image will not have downloaded when Thumbs decides it's time to switch
to the next image.
The problem is, the old way, where Thumbs waited until the image had
downloaded until starting the timer didn't work. 1 out of 20 or 30
times the signal that the image had finished downloading never arrived and
so the slideshow would just stop.
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4.16
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| Added
more status messages so Thumbs doesn't appear to freeze on folders with
thousands of files |
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| Optimized
various parts
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| Fixed
bug reading some kinds of JPEG files
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4.15
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| Fixed
bug where files were not sorted if a row limit was set on a folder |
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| Made
it sort based on displayed name
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4.14
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| Fixed
bug where first line on folder list in index.html was often garbage |
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| Vertically
centered table and thumbsnails in their respective pages.
Note:I'm a little mixed on this issue. Originally, when I first
wrote Thumbs, the reason I didn't center stuff was because I wanted at
least one set of [prev], [next] buttons to remain in a the exact same spot
so that the user could go through all the pages without having to chase
those buttons around the screen with the mouse.
But, since then I had added the templates and for many of the
templates, with the contents not centered, they didn't look so great so I
decided to change them to be centered. The default and EXIFInfo templates
are still the original way.
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| Added
message for case when there are no images or movies in the specified
folder. |
4.12
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| Fixed
bug first line on folder list in index.html was often garbage |
4.11
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| Fixed
bug where folder tree option didn't work |
4.10
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| Added
folder tree option for main page (index.html) |
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| Added
folder comments / captions and alternate names |
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| Made
Browse button start at the currently specified folder. |
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| Added
support for JPEG comments (comments in JPEG files, not EXIF) |
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| Added
option to use EXIF "digitized" date for date list in explorer
view |
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| Added
more EXIF variables for templates and EXIFInfo template as example. |
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| Added
index page comments and support for folder captions |
4.01
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| Fixed bug that didn't mark *copied* files as used |
4.00
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| Added "delete unused" |
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| Added "Create Midsize Images" |
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| Added support for Canon EXIF comments |
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| Added USE JPEGs on Movie midsize pages |
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| Fixed bug while typing in folder name that made it hard to
type the name. |
3.41
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| Added title field to explorer filenames so tool tip style
filenames appear as the user hovers the mouse over the
links. This helps if you use long filenames |
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| Added feature so Thumbs skips folders named "_vti_cnf"
which Microsoft Frontpage uses to track your web changes.
This allows you to run Thumbs directly in a Microsoft Frontpage
Web Folder. |
3.40
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| Added date list to explorer view. |
3.32
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| Added Gold-Frame Template |
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| Added Help for EXIF Comment feature |
3.31
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| Fixed so after thumbnails are first built the "View
Thumbs" button appears |
3.30
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| Added support for EXIF comments |
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| Added "View Thumbs" button |
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| Added saving settings with each *project* |
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| Added folder history |
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| Fixed a few problems in templates with Mac IE5.0 |
3.22
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| Fixed bug if you have a trailing \ at the end of the base
folder name |
3.21
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| Added $filenamenohtml variable so if you used html in your
name section of your comments file the html would not show up in
the title of your page |
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| fixed bug with empty sections in comment files |
3.20
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| Added support for Quicktime VR panoramas. Quicktime
VR spinners are not supported |
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| Added support for comments and alternate names |
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| Added option to convert underscore to space in names |
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| Added option to remove file extension (.jpg, .mpg, etc..)
from names |
3.13
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| Fixed Quicktime support broken in 3.10 |
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| Fixed empty folder bug in explorer view. |
3.12
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| Fixed Blue-Glass and Purple-Frame templates |
3.11
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| Fixed "Make Lowercase" option |
3.10
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| Fixed bug that made paths in Thumbs really long.
"c:\my\stuff\dec\images\flowers"
instead of just "flowers" |
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| Fixed slideshow bug where all templates except the default
template didn't start the slideshow on the correct image. |
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| Added number of rows limit function. |
3.02
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| Fixed embarrassing crash bug. |
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| Fixed bug with color options not being read correctly
preventing the user from setting colors |
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| Added command line interface (thumbscmd.exe). |
3.01
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| Fixed checksum bug that occasionally claimed a file had
been modified when it actually had not. |
3.00
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| Added Template support |
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| Removed dependency on MSCOMCTL.OCX |
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| Added support for using movie viewer for movie files |
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| Added Quicktime file support. |
2.14
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| Fixed Netscape support bugs. |
2.12
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| Fixed skewing bug again (oops) |
2.11
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| Fixed skewing bug for odd sized image thumbnails |
2.10
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| Changed to use Echidna
/ Biggrub scaling routines instead of Intel's as the Intel
routines were way to big and the cause of most problems users
reported. |
2.01
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| Updated installation program to work a little better in
strange situations. |
2.00
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| Added Explorer view. |
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| Added checksums to index.html, thumbnail pages (thumbs_p.html)
and mid-size image pages (md__????.html) so now Thumbs can know
whether or not it needs to ask the user for permission to
overwrite an HTML file. |
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| Fixed broken links in Help file |
1.02:
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| Better support for browsers other than IE(1) |
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| Fix so CDs made using Thumbs work on the Mac (2) |
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| Check for overwritting index.html incase you already have one(3) |
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| Fixed help so it doesn't need Japanese Language Pack. |
Notes:
- It turns out that Netscape can't resize images (or if it
can I can't figure out how). So, for now, if somebody is using
Netscape, when they click on a thumbnail they will get an image
that fits the size of the window specified in Thumbs Options. I
have some ideas for a future version that may have a solution
for this.
- The mac only allows 31 character names so if you have any
directory names or file names longer than about 21 characters
then your CD won't work on a Mac if that's important for you.
The problem I fixed is that the mac only shows 1 dot (.) even if
there are two dots in the name so for example Thumbs used to
make files that looked like this
"md__dsc012345.jpg.html" but on the mac because of a
bug in the mac OS those files show up there as
"md__dsc012345jpg.html" The first dot is missing. That
means that links to those pages stopped working. That's now
fixed. Thumbs will name that file like this
"md__dsc012345_jpg.html".
The reason it says about that the mac supports 31 characters
but your names need to be 21 or less is that thumbs makes files
that add "md__" to the front and ".html" to
the back of the name. That's 9 characters so 21 + 9 = 30. That
leaves 1 for good measure 
- Thumbs writes several files without checking if they
already exist. The point of this was so that you could run
Thumbs over and over (like if you are editing the colors for
example) and not have to answer any questions, it just works.
But, one user already had an "index.html" file and he
was upset that Thumbs overwrote it without asking. So, now it
asks but only for that file. The next version will fix this
better. One, all files except index.html will be put in a
thumbs_d folder. Two, I'm going to put a signature in each .html
file. Thumbs will then check if a file exists, if the signature
is valid, then it's free to overwrite the file. If the signature
is not valid or missing then it will know that either it didn't
make the file or that somebody edited the file and should
therefore ask for permission to overwrite. That's the next
version though. For now, the latest version just asks for the
user if index.html already exists for permission to overwrite
it.
1.1
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| Installation bug. MSCOMCTL.OCX needed to be
registered but wasn't. |
1.0
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| first version |
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