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What's New of XPACK
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[+] addition
[-] removal
[*] improvement
[!] bug fix
[?] future revision
[:] user report b4 current release
What's New in XPACK 1.64 [Oct 07 '96]
[*] XPACKed BC 3.1 EXE will not be unpacked by UPC(v105) now :D
[+] more bonus packs :D
[+] sfx of .XDi compressed diskette image will be a bonus function to
registered users:)
What's New in XPACK 1.63 [Oct 01 '96] (tested in Archive Comp. Test Oct '96)
[*] fix some typo in xpack.frm
[*] put in a warning message b4 uncompressing XDI image file to diskette.
What's New in XPACK 1.62 [Sep 27 '96]
[*] sfx of method5 Optimized by http://www.xs4all.nl/~feldmann
[*] now option -ux set correct ip for watcom c++ compiled file
[*] XPACKed Symantec/Zortech C EXE will not be unpacked by UPC now :D
(Special thanks to Bulent Eren for sending some sample files:)
[*] now XPACK allows you to restore .xdi (XPACKed diskette image file)
to larger diskette (e.g. .xdi of 1.2M to diskette of 1.44M,etc.)
What's New in XPACK 1.60 [Sep 17 '96]
[+] Added option -ux to unpack some high level language compiled progys! :D
(remember use fullpath&extension if u want to unpack a overlay-exe)
(this option doesn't accept wildcards! :D)
[*] XPACKed BC 3.1 EXE will not be unpacked by UPC(v104) now :D
[*] XPACKed MSC EXE will not be unpacked by UPC now :D
(remember unpack MsExePack b4 XPACK!:D)
other compiler users plz send me 2 sample files, tnx ;)
((wc xpack.asm: 17277 Lines, 57314 Words, 557907 Characters))
[+] 1.60+ become shareware :D
The more registrations i get the more improvements i will make to
this program, Thanks! :D
[?] Possible revision in near future:
[+] library for programmer to read XPACKed data files! :D
[+] add anti-virii recovery information to XPACKed EXE! :D
[+] add sfx for windows 3.1, windows 95, os/2, dos protect mode,
dos overlay executable! :D
[:] Subject: "Xpack" (Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 02:59:44 -0700)
'And one more thing, there is a program called "UPC (universal program'
'cracker)" and it is something like intruder and it unpacks any file'
"written with known C and pascal compilers. I compressed one of my"
"BC 3.1 EXE file with XPACK and UPC unpacked it with no problem."
"So I want to ask if you can add some code to XPACK so UPC or intruder"
"like unpackers can not unpack the files ???"
"You can find UPC at SAC."
"I have diffucilties to keep an eye on the latest version of XPACK."
"It has a very high frequency of updates :))"
"Keep up the good work..."
What's New in XPACK 1.52 [Sep 08 '96] (available on hopenet CDROM Oct '96)
[+] Xpack OnLine DeCompression System integrated
added option -z : install Xpack OnLine DeCompression System
-zr: release Xpack OnLine DeCompression System
-z-: deactive Xpack OnLine DeCompression System
-z+: active Xpack OnLine DeCompression System
What's New in XPACK 1.51 [Sep 02 '96]
[+] Supports official 2M formated 1886k,1804k,1558k,1476k,1066k,984k,
902k,820k diskette for .XDi file.
(currently NOT supports 2MGUI formated [128 bytes per sector] diskette)
[*] Now a .XDi file supports diskettes of *ANY* size, as long as:
1. it can be read under dos
2. its 512 bytes per sector
What's New in XPACK 1.50 [Sep 01 '96]
[+] Supports Microsoft 3 1/2" High-Density DMF-format floppy 1.68M
diskette for .XDi file.
(suggestion from Michael E. Webb)
[:] Subject: "XPACK 1.49" (Date: Wed, 28 Aug 96 11:02:09 EST)
"Hello! I have been using XPACK for a couple of weeks, starting with"
"v1.47 from SimTel; I found 1.49 on your web site today and am"
"starting to use it as well."
"I am writing to make a suggestion for future versions of XPACK. I"
"believe that a very helpful addition would be support of the"
"Microsoft DMF format in the options for compressed disks."
"Someone recently told me that FDFORMAT can emulate the DMF format"
"with the following command line;"
"FDFORMAT A: /T:80 /N:21 /C:4 /D:16 /M:240"
"I hope this gives you sufficient information to work with to add this"
"capability to XPACK. Thank you for your time and thank you VERY much"
"for your gift to the computing community."
What's New in XPACK 1.49 [Aug 27 '96] (tested in Archive Comp. Test Sep '96)
[+] added options "-pd"/"-ud" to pack/unpack data files.
those data files can be used by XPACK OnLine Decompression System
which gives painless access to XPACKed-Data files
((wc xpack.asm: 13537 Lines, 46651 Words, 324928 Characters ))
What's New in XPACK 1.47 [Aug 11 '96] (available on hopenet CDROM Sep '96)
[*] In creating compressed diskette image:
If the data is unpackable, it will be simply stored.
Check if disk full.
[*] In restoring compressed diskette image:
Check .XDi signature (6ah,6dh) before unpacking.
Check .XDi filetype (2) before unpacking.
Check .XDi disktype before unpacking.
Check .XDi integrity before unpacking.
[+] Support official fdformated 1.72M, 1.68M, 1.64M, 1.6M, 1.48M
diskette for .XDi file.
[+] Now recognize codeview debug information.
[?] Possible revision in near future:
[+] backup to/restore from: compressed archive
[+] recurse subdirectories/extract files with full pathname
[+] support multi-volume, sfx of compressed archive
What's New in XPACK 1.46 [Jul 20 '96] (tested in Archive Comp. Test Aug '96)
[!] minor bug fixed: some message's offset is incorrect
while i cleanup my source (change spaces to tabs)
[!] bug fixed: avoid generate offset = ffff
when optimizing EXE's relocation
[*] use quick sort instead of bubble sort
if number of relocations <= 8192
[+] create/restore compressed diskette image implemented
What's New in XPACK 1.44 [Jul 03 '96] (available on hopenet CDROM Aug '96)
[-] method2, 3 removed.
[+] method5 implemented (not yet optimized)
[*] message "CRC error" in sfx of exe changed to
"This program has been damaged and cannot be run!"
(suggestion from Peter Gutmann)
What's New in XPACK 1.39 [Jun 01 '96] (available on hopenet CDROM Jul '96)
[*] Optimized by http://www.xs4all.nl/~feldmann
What's New in XPACK 1.34 [Apr 20 '96] (available on hopenet CDROM Jun '96)
[!] bug fixed: reset memory usage to original program's requirement
special thanks to Cristi Bradiceanu for sending a sample file:)
What's New in XPACK 1.33 [Apr 04 '96] (available on hopenet CDROM May '96)
[+] compression method 4 implemented (better ratio if input file > 64k)
[*] startup screen support eten chinese system
What's New in XPACK 1.30 [Mar 11 '96] (available on hopenet CDROM Apr '96)
[*] method3:unpack optimized, Special thanks to Harald Feldmann for hints:)
[-] vga font removed
What's New in XPACK 1.20 [Jan 14 '96] (available on hopenet CDROM Mar '96)
[*] Revised documentation (XPACK.REV) by John Kiernan
[*] Options are now case-insensitive
[*] Option /? (/H) will display a help screen instead of XPACK.DOC
[-] Self-contained XPACK.DOC removed from XPACK.COM
[?] Possible revision in near future:
[+] support .COM and .SYS compression
(implemented in 1992, not yet integrated with xpack)
[+] compression method 3 with better ratio
What's New in XPACK 1.0m [Jan 06 '96] (available on hopenet CDROM Feb '96)
[+] added elapsed time info
What's New in XPACK 1.0a [Aug 30 '95] (1st public version)
[+] added option -h to display Help documentation
Verify Authentication
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To verify authentication, use "pgp" to check the signatures,
the correct messages should read:
...
Good signature from user "JauMing Tseng <s8203143@simon.pu.edu.tw>".
Signature made 1996/??/?? ????? GMT using 2048-bit key, key ID EE317325
...
To get author's public key, send a email to s8203143@simon.pu.edu.tw
with Subject: get public key
tnx:)
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