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CAUTION! As of version 6.4a, switch /X was switched to /M. /X is
now used to enable or disable SFX file processing.
Features added to version 6.5
- Further enhanced the processing of self-extracting archives.
It will now optionally check executables contained in an
archive for self-extracting status. See NESTEDSFX= in the
manual.
- Added option to ignore executables that are not self-
extracting archives instead of treating them as corrupted
archives. See NONSFX= in the manual.
Features added to version 6.4
- Now supports detection and processing of self-extraction
archives (SFX). The SFX= command in the configuration file
is used to declare how to detect an SFX file type (see the
manual for additional details).
- /X (enable/disable ems/xms) has been changed to /M.
- /X enables and disables the detection and processing of
self-extracting archives when a wildcard extension (.*) is
specified in the filename. The switch is not necessary if
an explicit extension of .EXE or .COM is given.
Features added to version 6.3:
- Fixed a bug where the configuration file wasn't being
properly closed.
- You can now override the PRE=, MID=, POST=, and FIXER=
specifications in the environment. The syntax is identical
to what is used in the configuration file except you will
need to enter two percent characters in place of one when
using the SET command. For example:
SET PRE=NOCMNT.EXE %%1
- Pressing ESC will halt ZZAP after the current archive
conversion is completed. The "fixup" program will not be
executed (see /C switch). The message "ESC pressed!" will
be dislayed flashing in the upper left corner of the screen.
- Added the /O switch. This allows all archives to be repacked
to their same archive type instead of converting to the default
archive type. Use this if you always want the archive to remain
in it's original archive format.
- The default extension is now displayed on the status line.
- The status line has been changed to allow room for additional
information to be displayed.
- You can now pass the full path and file name of ZZAP to an
external program by including %Z in the command line options.
Features added to version 6.2:
- Can accept a filename containing an list of files to convert. The
file name must be preceded by an '@' character. The file
must be a standard ASCII text file with one file
specification per line.
- The log file name must be specified in the environment and
the /L switch is no longer accepted. This was necessary to
allow ZZAP to log errors before the configuration file is
processed.
Features added to version 6.1:
- ZZAP will now allow subdirecty information to be included in
archives with the /B command line switch. The ARC= and
UNARC= configuration file commands must, however, be
properly configured to allow subdirecties.
- Temporary files are handled differently to make it possible
for ZZAP to work with multi-line BBS's without problems.
Previously, a conflict could have arisen if ZZAP was
creating the new archive and someone tried to access it
(e.g. view or download) it at the same time. The BBS must,
however, lock an archive to allow reading only while a
download is in program to avoid any possibility of a
conflict.
Features added to version 6.0:
- Test-Only mode added so that a virus scan can be run as well as
a test of the archive integrity without the overhead of rebuilding
the archive.
- Three programs can be declared that will be executed just before
an archive is extracted, after the file have been extracted, and
after the new archive is created.
- The %COMSPEC% variable can be used when declaring programs to be
executed so that DOS (usually COMMAND.COM) can be executed to
run a batch file (or do whatever you desire).
- External programs can be defined to be executed just before and
just after an archive has been processed.
- More extensive control of time/date stamping of files has been
added. You can now set a file to today's date, keep the original
date, or set the date to that of the newest file contained in
the archive.
- Processing can optionally be skipped on files that are more than
a specified number of days old.
- Redirection of input is now supported so that you can automatically
add comments to some types of archives.
- You can now repack an archive to the same type, e.g. ZIP to ZIP,
to take advantage of improved compression techniques as well as
to test archive integrity and run a virus scan.
- Default command line options can be specified in the configuration
file.
- The target archive extension can be specified on the command line.