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- Release notes for LhA V1.50
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- Copyright (c) 1991,92 By Stefan Boberg
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- Released 29-Oct-92
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- Beginning with V1.50r there is a special 68030-optimized version of
- LhA available. It's named `LhA_030' and can be found in the same directory
- as the standard LhA executable. Only the -lh5- decompression is optimized
- in this version, but later on (in V2.0) the compression and decompression
- routines will be entirely optimized for 68030, and a special 68040 version
- will also be available.
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- Originally I did not intend to release any version of LhA publically
- until V2.00, but since there were a few bugs in V1.32e I decided to
- release this cleaned-up and hopefully bug-free version. It's based on
- the old (pre-V2.xx) source code and no major features have been added
- since V1.35 - the only changes are bugfixes.
-
- All changes are described in `update.txt'. The most important are:
-
- - Illegal command line handling in registered version fixed. Would
- loop ad infinitum earlier :-(
-
- - Handling of multivolume archives improved significantly (although
- not as good as in V2.00 :-)
-
- - Updated/added multivolume section in the manual. Sorry if it's a
- bit sparse, but I wrote it in half an hour.
-
- - Handling of `~', `[' and `]' wildcards now work in non-international
- character translation mode.
-
- - Security measures to prevent `s:startup-sequence'-type hacks
- implemented.
-
- - Bug fixed in handling of multivolume archives in evaluation version.
-
- - The suppressed-system-requester bug has been fixed.
-
- - Now respects -x option setting at all times.
-
- - The `-s' option now works as advertised. Somehow this never got
- implemented (actually I thought I had done it but since I don't use
- it myself I never noticed until a bug report arrived).
-
- - Added `y', `h' and `c' commands. See manual for details.
-
- - Quick-add mode
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- - LhA now enables `*' wildcard for OS2.x - no need for WildStar type
- programs anymore.
-
- That's about it. All the fancy new stuff is in V2.xx and as the program
- has been almost entirely rewritten none of it is present in this interim
- release. This is mainly a bugfix release. Boring - but that's life.
-
- Enjoy,
- Stefan
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