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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.
-
-