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- RAR - What's new in the latest version
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- Version 2.60 beta 8
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- 1. Switch -- (stop switches scanning) did not work in
- the previous beta.
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- Version 2.60 beta 7
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- 1. Commands "vt" and "lt" are updated to display information
- about BeOS host OS and BeOS extended attributes.
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- Note that RAR/BeOS version now is available for download
- on www.rarsoft.com
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- Version 2.60 beta 6
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- 1. Compression speed is significantly increased, by 30 - 40%
- and sometimes even more depending on data types. Memory
- requirements also are increased a little and now are about
- 7.5 MB, when using 1024KB dictionary.
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- Version 2.60 beta 5
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- 1. Increased compression of files contained regular data structures
- like executables and databases. My thanks to Alexander Khoroshev
- for help in achieving it.
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- 2. Bugs fixed:
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- - RAR does not write more "All OK" after extraction,
- if broken file headers are found;
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- - switches -cl and -cu did not work when creating an archive.
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- Version 2.60 beta 3
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- 1. Switch -ag now can have an optional parameter - format string.
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- Version 2.60 beta 2
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- 1. RAR beta 1 was not able to handle "switches=" command in .rarrc
- and rar environment variable. Fixed in beta 2.
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- 2. For better compatibility with different Linux versions RAR now
- is linked using static libraries.
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- Version 2.60
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- 1. Information for registered users:
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- WinRAR and Rar for Linux versions 2.60 and above are registered
- with a new, very secure, AV registration seal. The main advantage
- of this new authenticity verification code is a significant
- increase in the strength of the registration code and thus it's
- use as a means of identification of the origin of a sealed archive.
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- Unfortunately this also means that the old registration keyfiles
- will not operate with the latest versions of Rar-Linux and WinRAR
- and thus all keyfiles must be changed. This is a cost-free process
- to the registered user.
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- Please read rereg.txt file for detailed instructions on updating
- your keys.
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- 2. Packing speed in the "Best compression" mode has been improved.
- My thanks to Bulat Ziganshin for the hint which allowed me to
- achieve this.
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- 3. Increased speed of scanning for large numbers of files before
- archiving operations. Memory management also is optimized,
- so now it is possible to handle hundreds of thousands,
- or even millions of files.
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- 4. RAR shows the total percentage of processed data when archiving
- instead of the current file percentage as before.
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- 5. New switch -df - "Delete files after archiving". Command
- "rar a -df" is equal to "rar m".
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- 6. New switch -ag - "Generate archive name using the current date".
- Appends string "DDMMYYHHMMSS" to an archive name when creating an
- archive. Useful for daily backups.
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- 7. New switch -as - "Synchronize archive contents". If this switch
- is used when archiving, those archived files which are not
- present in the list of the currently added files, will be deleted
- from the archive. It is convenient to use this switch in
- combination with -u (update) to synchronize the contents of an
- archive and an archiving directory. For example, after the
- command:
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- rar a -u -as backup sources\*.cpp
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- the archive 'backup' will contain only *.cpp files from sources
- folder. It looks similar to creating a new archive, but with the
- one important exception - if no files are modified since a last
- backup, this operation is performed much faster than creation of
- new archive.
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- 8. Unrar sources are removed from the distributive. You can download
- them separately from www.rarsoft.com. This is to reduce size of
- the RAR package.
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- 9. Command "S" now can be applied to an existing SFX archives
- to replace one SFX module with another.
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- Version 2.50
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- 1. Now RAR/Linux accepts same registration codes as RAR/DOS
- and WinRAR, so a single registration is enough for the all
- three platforms. Already registered RAR/Linux users should
- write to ron@knowledgebase.fi to obtain new keys for free.
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- 2. Both packing speed and compression ratio have been improved.
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- 3. CRC of packed data is now stored for file parts split between
- volumes. It allows localization of a damaged volume, if volumes
- set contains one large compressed file.
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- 4. New command line switches:
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- a) -sv - create independent solid volumes. This switch has
- the same meaning as the option "Independent solid volumes"
- described above;
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- b) -ap<path> - set path inside archive. It allows to add files
- to a specified archive folder when archiving or to remove
- the specified part of path from file names when extracting;
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- c) -- switch stops further switches scanning. It can be useful,
- if you need to use in the command line a file or archive name
- beginning with '-' character.
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- 5. RAR home page is moved to www.rarsoft.com
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