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- WHATSNEW.DOC November 1990
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- This documents the user visible changes to ARJ from previous versions.
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- ARJ 0.15
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- ***IMPORTANT CHANGES***************************************************
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- A bug in the -g option with certain stored files requires the ARJ
- 0.15 -jg option to extract.
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- Method 4 compression has been improved, but it is NOT compatible
- with earlier versions of method 4. However, ARJ 0.15 will still
- test and extract old method 4 files correctly, but future versions
- of ARJ may not have that capability. ARJ never by default chooses
- method 4 to compress.
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- ***KNOWN ISSUES********************************************************
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- When updating an existing archive, ARJ does not eliminate the
- archive from wildcard inclusion. For example, ARJ u archive *.*
- will add archive.arj to itself if archive.arj already exists.
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- Changed extended position switch from -x to -jx.
- Changed -h option to -ja.
- Removed expiration date function.
- Improved the information displayed during compression.
- Added switch option of "--" to indicate no more switches to process.
- Fixed -g option with very small files. Added -jg option to recover
- certain stored garbled files.
- Added more features to "-v" switch like auto-space-detect.
- Added Move command.
- Added Remove paths command.
- Archive extraction is faster.
- ARJ -m1 compresses slightly better than ARJ 0.14 -m1.
- Added self-extraction feature to ARJ.EXE with -x switch.
- Added capability to process and update self-extracting archives.
- Added generic path processing to facilitate cross-platform archive
- processing.
- Fixed ..\path processing.
- ARJ will NOT abort on an add failure but will report an error count.
- Added -j to select alternate switch characters.
- Added -js option to store archive files instead of compressing them.
- Fixed comment option to allow display of IBM block graphics.
- Added -ob (before date) to go along with -o.
- Improved -m4 compression in size reduction.
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- ARJ 0.14
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- Added multiple volume archive capability.
- Added dumping of list of filenames to be processed to a list file.
- Added multiple string searching through archives.
- Added extra flags to list command output regarding paths, garbled files,
- and split files.
- Increased file processing capacity to 16000 from 1024.
- Increased *.ARJ capacity to 8000 from 1024.
- Added multiple line comments with option comment input from a file.
- Modified comment display to not display escape characters by default.
- Added switch to allow display of ANSI comments.
- Added pause to help screen.
- Added option to "-b" switch to allow the choice of resetting archive
- bits.
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- ARJ 0.13a
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- Fixed matching of filenames without an embedded period.
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- ARJ 0.13
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- First public release.
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