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- NOTICE
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- This Version of Re-RAR is WORK IN PROGRESS - it is a wide beta release. Use
- it on your own risk and please report and bugs to us as fast as possible.
- And thus... no proper docs, yet.
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- REVISION HISTORY
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- Symbols used: - Bugfix ! Changed Feature
- + New Featue * Information/Clarification
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- Re-RAR 1.0 Beta-2 over Re-RAR 1.0 Beta-1
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- * Multiple Volume Archives are _NOT_ supported! Please take great care
- when doing automatic conversions. Example: ARCHIVE.ARJ ARCHIVE.A01
- and ARCHIVE.A02 are in the current directory. The default settings
- in RERAR.CFG have not been changed. What Re-RAR is going to do when
- called with *.*, it will try to unpack ARCHIVE.ARJ correctly, but
- the last file will probably not correct. It will then try to call
- ARC (because A01 matches A## and is also the format for compressed
- nodelists) which of course is going to fail.
- If you have any idea how to solve this (without requiring Re-RAR to
- check each individual archive for presence of a multiple-volume
- flag), please let us know.
-
- * We have been asked to include a couple of new functions such as
- - verbally decode the RAR errorlevels
- - log functions
- - optionally update FILES.BBS, replacing the old file-extension
- with the converted extension (RAR or similar) plus possibly
- importing a FILE_ID.DIZ or DESC.SDI
- This will all have to wait until a solution has been found for
- reducing memory requirements. All of these are scheduled but will not
- be included yet. Maybe next release.
-
- - If a comment file was included through the REPACK keyword, RAR would
- refuse to repack the archive and return with a File Creation Error.
- Fixed.
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- - RAR-archive-conversion would only work under very special circum-
- stances. Should be fixed now.
-
- - The ADD keyword would only accept one file from the root-directory.
- Fixed.
-
- ! To display the program information, specify either /? or /H or -? or
- call Re-RAR without any parameters.
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- ! The REPACK option has been changed and now has the same format as the
- UNPACK commands. If you are upgrading from ß1, make sure you make that
- change, otherwise the repacking will not work anymore!
- Example: Version 1.0ß1 REPACK m -r
- Version 1.0ß2+ REPACK RAR RAR.EXE m -r
- You may ask, what's all that for? Well.. so on could use Re-RAR as a
- platform for converting archives into other formats than RAR. Of
- course that would be pretty silly, but certainly there are some of
- these people out there :)) Refer to RERAR.CFG for other examples.
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- + Added LOG keyword - the function itself will be available for
- registered users only, but currently, it has no effect. Refer to the
- second paragraph in this information block.
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- Errorlevels returned by Re-RAR
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- 0 - Everything processed okay
- 1 - Infoscreen shown (no wildcard or filename specified)
- 2 - No files found matching commandline
- 3 - Some error occured during conversion (probably external packer)
- 4 - Unable to locate RERAR.CFG
- 5 - No Unpack-Commands specified in RERAR.CFG, execution terminated
- 9 - One or more viruses found in archives
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