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- RAR - What's new in the latest version
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- Version 3.20
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- 1. Previous WinRAR and RAR versions stored only the file modification
- time and only in DOS FAT format with 2 seconds precision.
- While it was enough for FAT, modern file systems provide a higher
- precision. Now RAR format can preserve modification, creation and
- last access time with the precision up to 0.0000001 second.
- The following changes had been done to support this facility:
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- a) new "Time" part of archiving dialog includes "File time to store"
- options controlling file time processing. Other time related
- options also had been moved from "Backup" to "Time" section;
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- b) new "Advanced" part of extraction dialog contains "File time"
- options allowing to select time fields to restore;
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- c) command line -ts<m,c,a> switch chooses time fields to process
- and precision of these fields;
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- Time precision provided by ZIP format is not changed and equal
- to 2 seconds.
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- 2. Changes in the extraction dialog:
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- a) extraction dialog has been split to "General" and "Advanced"
- parts;
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- b) "Display files in Explorer" option in "General" part instructs
- WinRAR to open Explorer window and display contents of
- destination folder when extraction is done;
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- c) "Save settings" button saves the current state of both parts
- ("General" and "Advanced"). Saved state will be used as
- the default when activating the dialog next time. WinRAR saves
- all options except the destination path;
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- d) "Advanced" part includes "File time" options allowing to
- select time fields to restore;
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- e) new "Set file security" option in "Advanced" part controls
- restoring of NTFS file security information. Previous versions
- always extracted this information.
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- 3. It is possible to rename files inside of RAR archives.
- It can be done either with "Rename file" command in "Commands"
- menu or in the context menu displaying on the right mouse click.
- In the command line mode you may use 'rn' command for this
- purpose.
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- 4. "Next volume" dialog allows to choose the disk or folder for
- a new volume. WinRAR displays this dialog when creating volumes
- on removable disks or if "Pause after each volume" option
- is switched on. Previous versions did not allow to modify
- the volume name here.
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- 5. "Test" and "Convert" commands can be applied to archives
- directly from Explorer context menu. By default these menu
- items are disabled, but you may enable them in WinRAR
- "Settings/Integration/Context menu items..." dialog.
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- 6. "Pause" item added to context menu displayed on the right mouse
- button click on WinRAR tray icon. So you may pause WinRAR minimized
- to tray and continue it without restoring WinRAR to normal window.
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- 7. If one of SFX volumes is missing, SFX archive displays
- "Next volume" dialog proposing to browse for required volume.
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- 8. WinRAR allows to resize the window containing results of "Find"
- command. It saves modified window dimensions and restores them
- when using "Find" next time.
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- 9. Toolbar:
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- a) "Toolbars..." button in "Settings/General" activates the dialog
- allowing to turn on or off the main WinRAR toolbar, the additional
- small toolbar containing "Up one level" button and the address bar
- with path or archive information;
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- b) buttons may have a variable width. So few large button titles
- in localized versions will not increase the total toolbar size
- too much like it happened before;
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- c) if the width of buttons exceeds the width of toolbar,
- you may click on the small arrow at the right side of toolbar
- and choose hidden buttons from the menu.
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- 10. Console RAR 'lb' and 'vb' commands list contents of archive
- in the bare mode - file names without any additional information.
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- 11. WinRAR recognizes one more tar long file name extension
- designed to overcome 100 characters file name limit in tar archives.
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- 12. Gzip archives contained zero in the file time field are processed
- correctly. Previous versions could display random date values
- for such archives.
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- 13. Recovery volumes:
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- a) when creating recovery volumes, the required disk space
- is preallocated in the beginning of operation. It helps to
- minimize the disk fragmentation;
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- b) console RAR displays the operation percentage when creating
- recovery volumes or reconstructing missing or corrupt volumes.
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- 14. If "Save file security" option is enabled, folders will be
- archived after files which they contain. It is necessary to avoid
- the situation when security attributes of just unpacked folder
- do not allow to extract files to it.
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- 15. Optional description can be entered in "Add to favorite" dialog.
- If such description is available, WinRAR will display it
- in "Favorites" menu instead of folder or archive name.
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- Version 3.11
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- 1. "Convert" command is able to process .tgz archives.
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- 2. GUI SFX modules provide more detailed diagnostic messages
- for CRC errors or file create errors.
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- 3. Command line RAR returns the exit code 9 in case of file
- create errors.
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- 4. Bugs fixed:
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- a) "Convert" command failed to convert archives in folders
- with non-English (high ASCII) names;
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- b) WinRAR could crash when attempting to display too long
- file type inside of archive;
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- c) -ag command line switch placed an incorrect value to minutes
- field;
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- d) options "Put each file to separate archive" and "Turn PC off
- when done", if set together, switched the computer off after
- creating the first archive;
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- e) SFX module could display unnecessary "http-equiv ..." string
- when started under Windows 95.
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- Version 3.10
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- 1. New "Find" command allows to search for text string in archives
- and usual files.
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- Its command line equivalent is 'i' command.
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- 2. New "Convert" command converts archives from one format to other.
- It can process a single archive or several selected archives
- at once. It is possible to select file folders to convert their
- contents.
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- 3. Repair command:
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- a) "Repair" is able to correct data erasure and insertion
- errors in RAR archives containing the recovery record.
- Earlier it was possible to fix only those errors, when
- an archive size was not changed;
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- b) "Repair" uses fixed.arcname.rar and rebuilt.arcname.rar
- names for repaired archives, where 'arcname' is the name of
- original archive. Previous versions used _recover.rar
- and _reconst.rar names;
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- c) It is possible to select several archives in WinRAR shell
- and repair them at once;
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- d) 'R' command accepts wildcards in the archive name to repair
- several archives at once.
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- 4. Recovery volumes:
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- a) WinRAR attempts to reconstruct both missing and damaged
- volumes. Original copies of damaged volumes are renamed
- to *.bad. Previous version was able to reconstruct only
- missing volumes;
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- b) WinRAR automatically detects corrupt recovery volumes
- and ignores them;
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- c) Recovery volumes naming scheme changed from <name>N1_N2_N3.rev
- to less complicated <name>N.rev, where 'N' is the number of
- volume. Old style recovery volumes are also recognized and
- supported;
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- d) WinRAR displays the progress bar while reconstructing volumes.
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- 5. SFX modules:
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- a) Start and License SFX dialogs had been redesigned;
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- b) SFX provides fully functional HTML support in "Text" command.
- Earlier versions supported only very limited set of HTML tags;
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- c) "SavePath" SFX script command and "Save and restore paths"
- option in "Advanced SFX settings" allow to save the destination
- path entered by user in Registry and then restore it when
- executing SFX archive next time.
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- 6. Compression improved when adding small text files to already
- existing archive using "Best" (-m5) or "Forced text" (-mct+) modes.
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- 7. "Flat folders view" command in "Options/File list" menu switches
- between the classic tree style view and flat view, when all archived
- files and folders are displayed in the same list.
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- 8. Option "Turn PC off when done" in "Advanced" part of archiving
- dialog and command line switch -ioff turn a computer off after
- completing an operation. Hardware must support the power off feature.
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- 9. Sizes of ZIP-100, CD-650MB and CD-700MB disks are added
- to predefined values in the volume size list in archiving dialog.
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- 10. New command line switch -iicon<name> specifies an icon to use
- in SFX archive created or updated by WinRAR. This switch is
- supported only by WinRAR, console RAR does not recognize it.
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- 11. Now WinRAR opens tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives in one step,
- so users do not need to unpack .tar manually.
- WinRAR does not store temporary .tar files on the disk,
- all required operations are performed directly in memory.
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- 12. WinRAR is able to decompress multipart ZIP archives
- (.zip, .z01, .z02, ...).
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- 13. New 'N' (archive number) modifier for -ag switch and
- "Generate archive name by mask" backup option of archiving dialog.
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- WinRAR searches for already existing archive with a generated name
- and if it is found, increments the archive number until generating
- a unique name. For example, if you use -agyymmdd-nn several
- times in the same day, every new archive name will include a new
- increasing number.
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- 14. If rarfiles.lst contains such two masks that all files matched
- by one mask are also matched by other, that mask which matches
- a smaller subset of file names will have higher priority regardless
- of its position in the list. For example, in case of *.cpp and
- f*.cpp masks, f*.cpp has higher priority.
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- 15. WinRAR displays CRC16 column inside of LZH archives.
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- 16. It is possible to disable the main menu and settings dialog
- using "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\WinRAR\Policy" or
- "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinRAR\Policy" Registry key.
- This feature may help to preserve WinRAR settings in multiuser
- environment. Read "Configuration settings/Registry variables"
- topic in winrar.hlp for more details.
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