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61 lines
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Zip 3.0f
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We have posted Zip Beta 3.0f, September 24th 2007. This is a beta
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release, but is more or less complete. See the file WhatsNew for
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a list of major features implemented and what's left.
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The archive reading and writing code in this beta has been redone to
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support split archives. We've extensively tested the code over the
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last year, but you should thoroughly test it yourself before relying
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on it. Also note that Unicode support is preliminary and may change
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before release, but currently there seems agreement between Info-ZIP
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and others on how to handle storing UTF-8 paths and that approach is
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implemented in Zip 3.0.
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Please test this beta and let us know if we're ready to officially
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release Zip 3.0.
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New things in Zip 3.0f
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- Split archives - Zip now can create and indirectly update split
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archives
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- Unicode support - Zip now stores Unicode paths that should be more
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portable across character sets and languages and Zip now can
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read Windows file names in most all character sets using Unicode,
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but this support is preliminary and may change by release
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- bzip2 - bzip2 compression is now supported
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- Console writing - Messages to the console are more consistently
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formatted
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- Streaming - Directories are now handled better when streaming
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- Date range - Can now use -t and -tt to set a date range
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- UnZip Check - Check if UnZip 6.00 or later is available for
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testing a Zip64 archive
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- License - minor updates to the license
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- Difference mode - A new option -DF (--dif) creates an output archive that
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includes only files changed or added since the input archive was created,
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and might be useful for incremental backups
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- File Sync - New option -FS synchronizes the entries in an archive with the
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files on the file system, adding, updating, and deleting entries as needed,
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creating an updated archive that should be the same as a new archive, but
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since existing entries are copied and not recompressed it can be faster
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- Fix options - Options -F and -FF now fix split archives
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- Copy Mode - This new mode allows selecting archive entries to copy
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to a new archive
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- Case matching - On Windows and VMS, option -ic (ignore case) turns off
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case-sensitive matching of command line input patterns when matching
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entries in an archive
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- Windows OEM - With this compile option, file names are saved on
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Windows in the local OEM character set, as some other zips do
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- Windows Archive Bit support - On Windows can now select files
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using the Windows archive bit
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- Global dots - Can now set quiet mode, but output progress dots every
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so many bytes read, settable from KB to TB, allowing progress to be
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displayed for large archives without the screen scrolling
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- Empty archives - Options -i or -i@ can now output empty archives,
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which is useful in some scripts
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- Keep extra fields option - Option -X- allows passing through extra
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fields that Zip does not process
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- Large file encryption bug fixed - Fix for bug that very rarely
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results in bad data being stored when deflating and encrypting
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uncompressable large amounts of data and resulting in CRC errors
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- Show Files option - Can list the files that would be operated on
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- Delete date bug fixed - Bug when using -d with -t or -tt is fixed
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