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ZDIFF 2.0 : What's new ??
2.0 : ADDED Turbo Vision visual interface -> much more handy !
ADDED Colorization of results on screen
ADDED eXclude filters
ADDED Ignore filters
ADDED side-by-side output, for screen and/or file output (option)
CHANGED sort order - dirs and files are now independant in sort
DPMI version available separately
1.4 : ADDED the LIST feature. Now you can GENERATE a list from a set
of files. (using /L)
Later, you can re-use this list as any other set of files : you
can use it to compare to another list, directory or archive.
(use @FileName as the list file name)
Note : you can also specify a label which will be included in the
list - use /Lxxxx, where xxxx is your own label.
Slightly changed the output, to allow more room for pathnames.
FIXED : if a directory with no file in it, but with
sub-directories was specified, and wildcards was used, ZDiff
couldn't use it. This was fixed (in 12/29/93 version).
1.3 : CHANGED the GetDateformat information to use DOS Country accurate
information only, instead of KEYB country flag.
ADDED Japan date format in /Cx (override).
ADDED /B option : Batch output.
This tells ZDiff to output only the file names.
You may use it in conjonction with -D (Diffs only)
to obtain a list of the changed files, re-usable in an other
program. (archivers...)
ADDED /M option, Matching files only, to display only the files
that are both in the NEW and OLD set of files.
ADDED /Z trouble shooting option, to display technical
informations while running, like date format used, ZIP format
detected, and more. Use it if you think that the date format is
not well detected on your machine, for example. This option
doesn't appear in the help screen.
ENFORCED ZIP control : Using PKUNZIP.EXE output, if compress
ratio is 100%, or files are more than 999999 bytes, then the
lines scroll on the right. This is now handled in ZDiff.
ADDED Subdirs warning : Now, if you haven't specified the -R
option, and an archive involved in the comparison contains
directory path, a message is displayed to warn you, that NOT all
the files from the archive were scanned.
ADDED NoPath option : now, you can compare a ZIP or directory
that contains subdirs, to a ZIP or directory that doesn't
contains subdirs. You can then compare a 'built' version of a
software, where elements are located in subdirs, and the
development version, where all the elements are stored in the
same directory. (there are many other applications for this
option)
CHANGED the way ZDiff display results in Quick mode, when two
files have a size or date or time difference, it is marked as
'Differs' instead of 'Same'. Before, if CRC was not computed,
files were assumed to be identical, and 'Same' was displayed,
even if the time or size difference was indicated on the same
line.
1.2d : DPMI support added. Now, you can scan very large disks, and even
compare huge CD-ROM disks !
The maximum number of files you can compare is 16380 with the
DPMI version, and between 5000 and 9000 with the DOS version
(approx.).
END OF "WHAT's NEW"