Category : Utilities for DOS and Windows Machines
Archive   : DIARC200.ZIP
Filename : HISTORY.DOC

DiArc Release History *PoleWare*
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Version 1.00
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þ Initial release.


Version 1.50 áeta
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þ Configuration File Option
Allow installation of "external" unpack programs and installation of
virus check programs to automatically check unpacked files for viruses.

þ Support for ZOO files.

þ If DiArc tries to make a new subdir and fails, the program will assume
that the subdir already exists and try to continue, in v 1.0 DiArc
exited on this error, now an error message (DiArc: ERROR: permission denied)
is displayed and operation continues.


Version 1.51 áeta
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þ Extended capability to parse commandline switches.


Version 1.52 áeta
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þ Added capability to handle archives in archives (i.e. a ZIP containing
other ZIP's or any format mixed in a file, and in several levels).
This may be suppressed with a commandline switch.


Version 1.53 áeta
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þ Configuration Program to help you install external options.


Version 1.54 áeta
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þ Buggfixes, some problems with recursive unpacks.


Version 1.55 áeta
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þ Built-in support for McAfee's excellent ScanV !
This was demanded by the Beta testers as soon as ScanV could do
recursive scans.


Version 1.56 áeta
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þ New option to extract specified files only from archives.
Such as *.DOC etc, another demand from the betatesters.

þ Now an external archiver using the same filetype as an internally supported
archiver override the internal, thereby allowing for new better unpackers to
replace the originals.


Version 1.57 áeta
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þ A problem with the -m argument fixed from 1.56.

þ A few cosmetic changes to give the program a cleaner look.

þ DiArc Delete empty directories (if an archive could not be unpacked or
of no files in archive matches specified files)

Version 1.58 áeta
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þ DiArc searches for PKXARC.COM if it does not find PKXARC.EXE.

þ A very elusive bug fixed (the beta-testers found it but couldn't tell me
why, when or how it occured - a programmers nightmare)
This was the same bug I though I fixed in 1.54á, DiArc had problems
with recursive unpacks, sometimes.

Version 1.60 áeta
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þ Added support for a DOS environment global variable DIARC.
Now possible to SET DIARC= instead of using commanline switches.

Version 2.00 Gamma-1
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þ Finally everything works, I can hardly believe it!