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This file describes changes made to Lharc for the Amiga since vers. 0.31
- Vers. 0.33 3-Sept-89
-15% faster in compressing files
-lharc no more crashes while archiving/listing zero length files
-if T: is not assigned, temporary files go to current directory
-Lharc now checks if a file is already in the archive before adding it
-the add command used to try to add to the archive the archive itself!
-other small bugs removed
- Vers. 0.50 15-Sept-89
-added command 'move'
-added command 'delete'
-added command 'update'
-added command 'freshen'
-added wildcard '*' as a synonim of '#?'
-if a new archive is created but no files are added, an empty archive is
no longer left behind
-sometimes Lharc crashed if you tried to unpack a corrupted archive
-other small bugs removed
- Vers 1.0 27-Oct-89
-now checks if a file already exists and asks for confermation before
overwriting
-switch p pauses lharc after loading (to allow swapping of floppies)
-switch m suppresses confermation questions
-switch x stores/extracts files complete with path names (if needed, directories
are automatically created)
-switch n suppresses the progress indicators
-switch w lets you choose your own directory for temporary files
-switch P lets you choose Lharc's priority
-switch a stores/extracts files complete with their attributes
-switch r recursively collects files to be added (you can now store an entire
disk, complete with directories, with one single command)
-switch u converts file names to uppercase (for 100% MSDOS compatibility)
-wild cards now allowed in archive names (you can now issue commands like
"lharc v *.lzh")
-totally automatic handling of corrupted archives
-name for temporary files is now Lharc.TMP_XXXXXX, where XXXXXX is an hex number
rapresenting the address of Lharc's Task structure (so you can now execute
multiple copies of lharc at the same time)
-file names are no more converted to lowercase
-date of extracted files is now preserved
-better I/O buffering makes it faster with floppies
-Vers 1.10 29-Jan-90
-Compression is now 20%-50% faster (depending on the type of file)
-Decompression is now 17% faster
-Files beeing added can now be sorted alphabetically or chronologically,
both in ascending or descending order (default is alpha ascending sort)
-Autoshow files: if your archive contains an important text file and you
want to be sure taht the one who unpacks the archive reads it (for
example a copyright notice or some special instructions for unpacking),
you can tell Lharc to dislpay the text in a window immediately after
extracting it.
-Now the extract, list and delete commands have the -x switch activated by
default, so you will no more miss path names bacause you forgot that
switch. Anyway if you ignore path names (by overriding the above
default) a warning is printed
-Corrected the famous bug in the 'move' command: multiple files can now
be correctly moved through the use of wildcards
-For convenience of scripts fans, new return code 5 (indicating a minor
problem) has been added besides the usual 0 ('everyting OK') and 20
('fatal error').
-A more intelligent memory allocation tecnique: now lharc will require
less memory while working on archives with a lot of entries.
-New progress indicator display
-Messages that require an interaction with the user (such as 'File
exists: overwrite?') are now sent to stderr so that there is no problem
when the user redirects the output of LHarc to a file.
-Minor bugs removed