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WinZip(R) version 6.3 (SR-1)
Copyright (C) 1991-1997 Nico Mak Computing, Inc.
All Rights Reserved
** Disk Spanning **
WinZip 6.3 features an updated zip/unzip engine with automatic built-in
disk spanning support for multi-disk Zip files. If you create a zip
file on diskettes and the first diskette fills, then disk spanning is
automatically activated, and you are simply prompted to put in a new
diskette to continue the archive. There is no need to specify that you
want to span before you start.
** Interface to WinZip Internet Browser Support Add-On **
WinZip includes an interface to the free Internet Browser Support
Add-On, which allows users to download and open archives from the
Internet with one click via Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Netscape
Navigator. There is no need to "Save to disk" and then switch to WinZip
or to the Windows Explorer or File Manager to open the downloaded file.
In addition, all files that have been downloaded are automatically
copied from the Internet Browser's temporary folders to a folder of the
user's choice; this ensures that a permanent copy of the download is
saved on the user's system, even if the downloaded file is automatically
deleted by the browser.
** Windows 95 & NT Explorer context (right-click) menus enhancements **
- New "Add to <filename.zip>" entry to easily compress files in place.
- New "Extract to folder <filename>" makes it easy to unzip in place.
- New "Create Self-Extractor" entry makes self-extracting zip files.
- All WinZip context menus have a WinZip icon for easier identification.
** Other features in the new zip/unzip engine **
- Empty folders are restored when unzipping.
- Empty folders are stored when zipping (however, they are not listed
in the main WinZip window for cosmetic reasons).
- Empty folders are removed after a successful "Move" zip operation.
- Attributes are automatically restored while unzipping.
- Attribute support for Zip files in the Add and Drop dialog boxes:
- Include files only if archive attribute is set.
- Reset archive attribute after adding files.
- Include system and hidden files.
- Option to "Skip Older Files" while extracting.
** Other changes **
- WinZip includes a work-around for a bug in DCOM95 and some pre-
release versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 that results in a
"Path too long" message when using the Extract dialog box under
Windows 95.
- WinZip no longer includes an option to run the MS-DOS PKZIP 2.04g
(WinZip has not needed PKZIP/PKUNZIP to perform basic zipping and
unzipping operations for the past several releases, but some users
have assumed from the presence of this option that WinZip is only
a shell for PKZIP/PKUNZIP, and required these programs for basic
operations).
- The Add and Drop dialog boxes include a Password button as an
alternative to the Options->Password dialog box.
- Improvements to "View Last Output" dialog box:
- RichEdit control used under Windows 95 and NT for higher capacity.
- View Last Output results improved while testing Zip files:
- OK appears after each line.
- summary line appears at the end of the listing.
- The WinZip Wizard now handles password protected files.
- WinZip handles certain invalid zips more gracefully.
- WinZip Self-Extractor Personal Edition supports password protected
zip files.
- Under Windows 95 and NT, WinZip Self-Extractor Personal Edition is now
a 32-bit EXE file (while earlier versions made it possible to build
32-bit self-extracting Zip files, the program that created these
32-bit files was actually a 16-bit program).
- 32-bit self-extracting Zip files support Microsoft(R) Authenticode(tm)
technology. In earlier versions, the self-extracting Zip file's
integrity check conflicted with Authenticode. (For information on
Authenticode, visit the Microsoft home page, click the "Search" button
and search for "authenticode code signing".)
** WinZip 6.3 (SR-1) **
This is SR-1 (Service Release 1) of WinZip 6.3. It includes a solution
to a problem in the original release of WinZip 6.3 that occurred only
when making changes to Zip files containing certain kinds of "extra"
information, such as the OS/2 extended attribute information saved by
some OS/2 Zip utilities. (Zip files created by WinZip itself, or by any
other MS-DOS or Windows Zip utility that we are aware of, were not
affected, with the exception of Zip files created by version 2.1a or
later of the InfoZip group's text-mode Win32 Zip utility.) For details
on this problem, see the web page http://www.winzip.com/wz63sr1.htm.
** Additional Information **
Information on new features in previous versions of WinZip is included
in the online help file.