Advanced Midnight Commander mc-4.1.x-MP       [by  Olegarch]
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ToDo:
    Possible-NEAR TODO:
	- DESIGN: Fix Chown, Achown, Chmod dialogs.
	- VFS: Check and fix FTP and RPM & [cpio|tar] VFS as soon as possible!
	- VFS: Check and "mkdir" errno: if user doesn't have rights to create 
	       dir (errno = 13), message about dir existence (errno = 17) :-E

	- DOCUMENTATION: all documents must be finished, reworked and updated

	- GLOBAL: Catch bugs!
	- GLOBAL: Realize "Processes list" dialog with possibility to send 
		  signals. Possible - with tree view, but not necessary.
	- GLOBAL: Realize "I.P.C. Control" dialog for Shared Memories, 
		  Semaphores and Message Queues
	
	- DESIGN questions:
	
	? We need second, alternative design for FTP connect dialog,-
	  need to separate laying of ftp "bucket" string
	  "ftp://username:password@server:port"
	  by fields: Username, Password, Server, Port + Mode, etc.

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We can use original idea of "FTP Link" dialog implementation variant 
by Thomas Kuiper <tkuiper@t-online.fr> 

[with design and behaviour suggestions by Olegarch]

Prework:

+ In "vfs settings", adds option "use extended ftp link dialog"
+ All FTP profiles stored in the config file, or separate cfgs
  in the user's home dir, and profiles could be listed in the panel, 
  and edited by F4 key (as text), or by Enter key (shows our new FTP 
  Link dialog in this case):

-------------------------------------------------
| ------------------ FTP Link ----------------- |
|    Profile Name:     ____________________[^]  |
|    Host:             ____________________     |
|    User Name:        ____________________     |
|    Password:         ____________________     |
|    Port:             22__________________     |
|    Init. Remote Dir: ____________________     |
|    Comment:          ____________________     |
|                                               |
|    [ ] Use proxy server                       |
|                                               |
|    [ ] Use passive transfer                   |
|    [x] Don't store password in profile        |
|-----------------------------------------------|
|     [< Connect >]  [ Store ]  [ Cancel ]      |
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Behaviour:

+ If no Username was specified, user "anonymous" is used with password
  configured under Options->"Virtual File System Settings".
+ Profile gets automatically saved when changed or name specified.
+ If the password isn't supposed to be stored in the profile its asked
  in a new dialog.
+ Returns to the dialog in case a connection failed or canceled.
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	? We need new redesign project for MountPoints dialog: we need to get 
	  most useful laying of elements: mountpoint name, free space, 
	  path and another items, if necessary. Suggestions?
	  
	? I think, that "#" in VFS must be reverted by ":". What you think?

	- VIEWER: Gray "+"/Gray "-" - viewer loads next/previous text file from 
	  current directory (for fidonet/@-news readers). Hatred's idea.

	- PORTS: Check and correct BeOS port (term, BackgroundTasks, Ix86/PPC):
          * Needs STRONG code revision of mountlist menu in BeOS
	  * Needs code revision of Background operations in BeOS
	  * Panels switch-off realisation in BeOS's beterm is necessary
	  * Unicode support for BeOS beterm
	
	- BeOS port questions:

	  ? Who knows, how we can determine BeOS PE5 & BeOS Dan0? How we can 
	    differentiate it one from another by #ifdef? These systems contain
	    same (BONE) headers in differetn places, and there is a problem.

	  ? Must we use only BONE, or "classical BeOS" realisation of network 
	    functions (adopt for NetServer) is necessary too ?

	  ? How about BeOS Zeta? Is mc-MP builds correctly? What improvements 
	    are required?
	    
	- SCRIPTS: Inspect and correct .po, .ext, menu and documentation files
	- SCRIPTS: "configure" script needs revision

    Possible-FAR TODO:
	- VFS: Samba, FISH and SFTP realisations as VFS or plugin modules
	- PORTS: Check and correct platform-oriented ports (WIN32, QNX, Solaris 
	  with native SUN compilers, etc)
	- VIEWER: realize separate stream/tail viewer for realtime viewing 
		  updatable log-files 
	- VIEWER: TCR/FB2/RB/PDB/RTF ebooks & texts formats support for viewer 
	  (trough filters?)
	- VFS: UUE/XXE/Base64 support as vfs
	- VFS: TCR/FB2/RB/PDB/PDC support as vfs
	- VFS: MAC archives (sit, bin, hqx, dmg, sea) support as vfs
	- VFS: PDA interfaces with vfs (Psion, Palm, Symbian, PocketPC, Linux)
	- VFS: Mobile Phone interfaces with vfs (Siemens, Nokia, Sony Ericsson)
	- VFS: All vfs scripts must be realized in sh+awk or in c/cc.
	       Perl, Python, Ruby, Lisp and Java must not be used!
	- SCRIPTS: Nedit -> mcedit syntax files converter (program|script)
	- GLOBAL: Unicode support [as later as possible!]