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- I've done major changes to the source code of ZZAP starting with version
- 5.9a. Most of these changes you should not notice. The changes were
- mainly breaking the program up into more logical modules (units) and
- cleaning up some sloppy code. However, with major changes to source code
- often there are undesirable and unforseen side-effects (I won't say the
- "B" word). I would appreciate hearing from anyone who experiences a
- problem, a postcard describing the problem would be welcome. Describing
- how to reproduce the problem would would most helpful.
-
- Features added to version 6.1A:
-
- - ZZAP will now allow subdirecty information to be included in
- archives with the /B command line switch. The ARC= and
- UNARC= configuration file commands must, however, be
- properly configured to allow subdirecties.
- - Temporary files are handled differently to make it possible
- for ZZAP to work with multi-line BBS's without problems.
- Previously, a conflict could have arisen if ZZAP was
- creating the new archive and someone tried to access it
- (e.g. view or download) it at the same time. The BBS must,
- however, lock an archive to allow reading only while a
- download is in program to avoid any possibility of a
- conflict.
-
- Features added to version 6.0A:
-
- - Test-Only mode added so that a virus scan can be run as well as
- a test of the archive integrity without the overhead of rebuilding
- the archive.
- - Three programs can be declared that will be executed just before
- an archive is extracted, after the file have been extracted, and
- after the new archive is created.
- - The %COMSPEC% variable can be used when declaring programs to be
- executed so that DOS (usually COMMAND.COM) can be executed to
- run a batch file (or do whatever you desire).
- - External programs can be defined to be executed just before and
- just after an archive has been processed.
- - More extensive control of time/date stamping of files has been
- added. You can now set a file to today's date, keep the original
- date, or set the date to that of the newest file contained in
- the archive.
- - Processing can optionally be skipped on files that are more than
- a specified number of days old.
- - Redirection of input is now supported so that you can automatically
- add comments to some types of archives.
- - You can now repack an archive to the same type, e.g. ZIP to ZIP,
- to take advantage of improved compression techniques as well as
- to test archive integrity and run a virus scan.
- - Default command line options can be specified in the configuration
- file.
- - The target archive extension can be specified on the command line.
-
- CAUTION! The action of some of the command line switches have been
- changed as well as their default settings.