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- RAR - What's new in the latest version
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- Version 2.80 beta 1
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- 1. Command 's-' allows to remove SFX module from SFX archive.
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- 2. Switch '-ag' supports two new format parameters:
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- a) 'W' - a number of the current week in a year;
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- b) 'A' - a number of the current day in a week.
- Weeks start with Sunday.
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- 3. New switch '-k' - lock archive.
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- 4. New switch '-vp' - pause after each volume.
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- 5. You may specify the recovery record size as a percentage of
- the total archive size in 'rr' command and '-rr' switch.
- For example, -rr3%
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- 6. New -ep2 switch - store full file paths when archiving.
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- 7. Switch -sv is removed, now RAR by default creates independent
- volumes. You may override it using the new -sd switch, but note
- that it reduces your chances to restore a part of data in case
- of archive damage.
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- Version 2.71
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- 1. When using -as switch the previous version sometimes displayed
- a wrong file name in the "Deleting <filename>" message.
- Corrected now.
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- Version 2.70
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- 1. Both compression and speed have been improved.
- My thanks to Alexander Khoroshev, who, once again, provided
- invaluabel assistance to improve this new version.
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- 2. Total progress percentage is displayed when testing or extracting
- from a single RAR archive (except volumes) or group of archives.
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- 3. New command line switches -to<time> and -tn<time> allow to
- process files older or newer than specified time.
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- 4. Switch -rr and command RR are not limited to 8 recovery sectors.
- Now the recovery record may contain up to 4096 sectors.
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- If the sectors number is not specified, the size of the recovery
- information is about 1.2% of the total archive size, this usually
- allows the recovery of up tp 0.7% of continuously damaged data
- of the total archive size.
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- Note that recovery records larger than 8 sectors cannot be used
- by previous RAR versions.
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- 5. The default value of dictionary size is changed to 1024KB.
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- 6. RAR now supports wildcards in the archive name also in 'RR' command.
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- 7. New switch -idp disables displaying of the percentage indicator.
- May be useful when redirecting RAR output to a file.
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