release notice (PNFile_v2021.12)
The version v2021.12 of VeriForma's PNFile platform was released on January 26, 2022. This release includes multiple new features, great performance improvement, and bug fixes. The following products are included.
- PNFile Platform: VeriForma’s one-stop graphical platform with various powerful text file tools integrated. It is used to perform various operations on directories and any plain text files efficiently. The supported operations include navigating, previewing, advanced editing, diff comparing, etc.
- PNTree Tool: the directory tree navigation tool. Rich file information is displayed, and various operations are supported in the PNTree, such as Copy To, Move To, Delete, New, Rename, Compress, Search & Replace, Split/Join, Encrypt/Decrypt, Directory Print, sending files to the bonded PNEdit windows, launching PNDiff, etc.
- PNEdit Tool: the advanced text edit tool. It is an important, efficient, and powerful component of PNFile platform. It supports various efficient text editing operations, such as cutting/copying/pasting chars/words/lines, advanced searching and replacing, syntax detecting and highlighting, undoing/redoing, etc. There are three working modes, input mode, replace mode, and command modes, in PNEdit, and rich commands/hotkeys are supported in both working modes. Besides, it supports to select text for operating in both line and column modes.
- PNDiff Tool: the tool in PNFile platform to compare two or multiple text files and show the differences. By comparing the plain text files and highlighting the differences in split windows, PNDiff helps locate and navigate the different parts rapidly.
- PNFind Tool: a practical tool to find file and search (and replace) the content. Multiple searching modes and filtering configs make the tool flexible and powerful. It supports both normal plain text and regex text expression searching. It manages to control the searching depth and filter files by multiple criteria like name, owner, access, time, and size. What’s more, reviewing and locating any of the searching results is quite easy in the PNFinder results window.
- PNComp Tool: an efficient file & directory comparing tool that aims to compare two directories and/or files inside. It supports to compare by multiple criteria, such as owner, access, time, size, and content. It also supports comparing depth control and multiple comparing modes like File-Folder, File-Only, and Folder-Only. After comparing, it supports to review the results and resolve the differences easily.
