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- ZDIFF 1.2 : What's new ??
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- ZDiff was partly rewritten, using Borland's Turbo Vision
- Object-Oriented technology to improve speed, memory utilization, and
- re-usability of code, and added some options to speedup the process
- and better date control.
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- The bugs fixed in this 1.2 version are :
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- - Month in .ZOO archives correctly parsed.
- (in ZDIFF 1.1, was bad interpreted, causing skipping of file)
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- - ZOO uses wildcards a little differently from other unarchivers.
- Treated ZOO specially, depending on the wildcard specified on
- the ZDiff command line.
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- - Now exits with a message if no more memory available.
- (was causing a runtime error in ZDiff 1.2 BETA version)
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- And now, here are the improvements of the 1.2 version :
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- - Added -Q (Quick) comparison, if a directory is involved in comparison.
- This skips the CRC check of files.
- So, the comparison is made only with Date and Size.
- This speed up the process, but even if the files may 'look'
- identical, regarding time of last modification and size, they
- may be binary different. So, use this option with care.
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- NOTE : if no directory is involved, there is no need of using
- this option, since the CRC is already stored inside archives.
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- - Added -C (Country Flag override) option, when the dates in ZIP files
- are not correctly recognized (useful in non-US countries).
- This is because PKUNZIP displays the date according to the
- DOS's country information. So I have to do it too !
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- - Speed up the storage of file informations in memory.
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- - Better utilization of memory : increased the number of files
- that ZDiff can handle, and reduced the memory needed.
- (up to 9900 files, now)
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- - Added seconds in comparison of file's TimeStamp for all files,
- except for ZIP files. (no seconds specified, using PKUNZIP -v).
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- - Added 16 bit CRC for ZOO archives.
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- I am aware of no bug in this version. This is the final version of ZDiff.
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