User-visible changes ==================== 2.61.01 08/11/1998 First alpha version. Minimal functionality. 2.61.02 09/11/1998 Environment filtering to avoid near memory shortage, long filenames are no longer converted to uppercase. 2.61.03 11/11/1998 ANSI comments now supported; some minor bugfixes. 2.61.04 12/11/1998 Help facility works, ARJSFXJR/2 added, -h2p & -h2d switches added, Host OS changed to OS/2, free space on HPFS volumes (up to 4GB) is now determined correctly. 2.61.05 13/11/1998 Removed ARJSFXV size limitation. The efforts are now aimed on ARJSFXV conversion... 2.61.06 15/11/1998 Fixed a glitch with "arj m ..." creating ARJSFXV archives. Note that if no files are found, "arj m" leaves a temporary file. It's the glitch of original ARJ 2.61, and it's left for compatibility. ARJSFXV: Minimal functionality achieved (no LFN yet). 2.61.07 16/11/1998 ARJSFX: Minimal functionality achieved. ARJSFXV: Shareware limitation still intact. Removed. 2.61.08 17/11/1998 ARJSFX: "1 error(s)" due to rudimentary CRC check. 2.61.09 19/11/1998 Now able to truncate files. 2.61.10 21/11/1998 GA version. -h2a switch added. 2.61.11 26/11/1998 ARJ/2 2.61.10 would cause exception 0Dh if ARJ$DISP is killed from the task list. The "clear screen" ANSI sequence now works. 2.61.12 06/12/1998 "ARJ M" fixup, code size decreased. 2.61.13 13/12/1998 ARJ/2 now also works under Windows NT. 2.61.14 31/12/1998 Minor fixes. 2.62.01 03/01/1999 First alpha version. 2.62.02 09/01/1999 Retail version. Minor fixes in the message section. 2.62.03 12/01/1999 ARJ/2 v 2.62 crashed under Windows NT when creating directories. ARJSFX/ARJSFXV might come into loop on some LFN archives. ARJ/2 might crash if LFN goes beyond 131 chars. 2.62.04 24/02/1999 Various problems with ANSI comments were fixed. Some documentation enhancements. 2.62.05 01/05/1999 ARJSFXV v 2.62c has been introduced. The 5-second delays in SFX modules have been eliminated. 2.62.06 17/06/1999 Integrity test (ARJ I) is now operable. 2.62.07 23/08/1999 ARJ i reported damage in earlier versions of ARJ/2. Modified file seek logic for newer IFS. The ARJ/2 distribution archive is now ARJ-SECURED. 2.62.08 29/08/1999 Fixed header comment corruption problem. Fixed problem with free space detection on FAT volumes larger than 1G. Enabled custom environment variable setting (-+). Added support for spaces in filenames. Changed default extension to lowercase ".arj". Resurrected the -& error handling option. Volume labels are now saved and restored. Removed Windows NT checking and host OS stamping to avoid confusion with native ARJ32 archives. Packaged a full set of ARJ utilities. 2.62.09 04/09/1999 Fixed problems introduced in 2.62.08: destination directory parsing and ARJSFX stack corruption 2.62.10 15/09/1999 Timestamps are now restored upon directory creation. Added support for extended attributes to ARJ and ARJSFXV. Fixed a problem with directories being mishandled by ARJSFXV. 2.62.11 22/09/1999 Added check for encryption when creating SFX archives. Fixed chapter mark creation with EAs enabled. Fixed to allow commenting of any ARJ chapters. Added check for files larger than 2048M. Fixed volume handling of "hollow" archives ("-j#"). Fixed handling of encrypted archives with the "j" and "y" commands. Disabled volume prompting when a volume is not an ARJ archive. Changed multi-volume function to automatically handle volumes over 99. Implemented internal ARJ-PROTECT storage as in ARJ32 v 3.02. 2.62.12 26/09/1999 Fixed "CRC error" reported for some multivolume EAs. Fixed EAs being lost in multivolume ARJ-SECURED archives. Verbose list command now skips EA records if they are garbled and no password is given. 2.70.01 05/10/1999 Changed error message display. Fixed to work in xterm of XFree86 for OS/2. Fixed possible loop when -hk is used with multivolume option. Fixed a problem with temporary archive not being deleted when no files are added. Fixed ARJ-PROTECT percentage report. Fixed "Bad header" error when running "ARJ x -d". Fixed search pattern query in "ARJ w". 2.70.02 25/10/1999 Fixed date/time stamping in ARJSFXJR. Removed M_UNREG_SFX from commercial modules. Fixed recursive repacking in REARJ. Added custom -h# format feature. Added comment compatibility option. 2.70.03 31/10/1999 Added day number option to -h#. 2.70.04 06/11/1999 Fixed extracted file postprocessing. Added automatic testing of ungarbled archives. Fixed chapter command parsing from the configuration file. Added default configuration file lookup. Fixed garble password prompting. Corrected to work with EXT2FS.IFS. 2.70.05 31/12/1999 Fixed rare "Can't find ..." errors when parsing list file. The SFX executables are now compressed with standard EXEPACK. Introduced new ARJ registration scheme. Added ARJ.KEY registration file lookup. Fixed "clear to end of line" ANSI sequence handling. Fixed "Out of memory" errors appearing after a long sequence of archive volumes. Fixed abnormal effects when extracting damaged archives. Fixed timestamp handling during extraction. Fixed recursive verification with /G in REARJ. REARJ/2 has been updated to version 2.42. 2.70.06 02/01/2000 Minor optimizations of the compression procedure. 2.70.07 06/01/2000 Added "-2L" option for .LONGNAME EA conversion on archiving. The "/J" option was not properly working in registered REARJ/2. 2.70.08 07/01/2000 Fixed a problem with valid registration keys being rejected by ARJ/2. 2.70.09 14/02/2000 Changed "-ha" option to skip read-only attributes on packing. Fixed century display in dates beyond 2000. Added "-2k" switch to skip century display in list commands. Fixed parsing of the "-v...K" and "-v...M" size modifiers. 2.71.01 19/03/2000 Fixed license information display in ARJSFXJR. Changed REGISTER.EXE to use "-arj" and "-arj32" options instead of "-all". Changed the meaning of the "-s"option of ARJSFXV to enable file sharing. Fixed the count of long filenames across volumes. Added an alternate multivolume archive naming feature. 2.71.02 25/03/2000 Fixed file handle deficiency (occured in 2.70.09 and 2.71.01) 2.71.03 29/03/2000 Fixed abnormal behavior of -b and -b2 switches. 2.71.04 28/05/2000 Moved a part of assembly code to C (up to send_block) 2.71.05 27/06/2000 Slightly optimized the compression engine. 2.71.06 03/08/2000 Fixed looping on self-pointing headers. 2.72.01 16/06/2000 Reproduced basic STDOUT concepts 2.72.02 02/07/2000 Switched to C versions of huf_encode_*() 2.72.03 10/08/2000 Commercial versions now never expire. Fixed a minor cosmetic display issue when using the "-t1" option. 2.72.04 11/08/2000 Implemented the CFA internal filelist format. 2.72.05 15/08/2000 Fixed the filelist overrun glitch (occured in version 2.72.03+ but has its roots back in the earliest builds!). Fixed abnormal handling of "-*". Fixed damaged archives resulting from -m4. 2.72.06 18/08/2000 Added option checks when modifying an existing self-extracting archive. Modified ARJ version messages for compatibility with Winzip. Fixed multiple volume diskette updating to work properly when a work directory is specified. Fixed rare issue of ARJ building an empty archive as the last of a series of volumes. Fixed the ARJSFX self-extractor to detect and display an ARJ-SECURITY envelope. Fixed the "jc" extract count option to work with volume split files. Fixed a problem using "-js" in ARJ_SW/ARJ32_SW and on the command line. Changed the "l"ist command to show " 00" for year 2000 and "100" for year 2100. Added a "-2k1" switch for non-ambigous date formatting. Added "-hy1" and "-hy2" options to force OEM/ANSI codepage settings. Fixed garbling to accept "-hg" when garbling an existing ungarbled archive. Modified help display not to display milestone indicators. ARJCRYPT has been updated to version 2.1. 2.72.07 18/08/2000 The same as 2.72.06 but real hot-fix GA. Fixed ARJSFX hash table and comment formatting bugs. 2.72.08 18/08/2000 Merged with 2.71.05...2.71.06 branch. 2.73.01 19/08/2000 Minor modifications of the message section. Added "-" symbol option to ARJ configuration file to work like "+" symbol except with prepending of its associated switch string. Fixed volume size handling during update of ARJ-PROTECTED volumes. Corrected total file count output on list command. Fixed the purging "k" of chapter volumes. Fixed volume series breakups. Fixed a problem with the "-vw" option when updating a volume. Fixed alignment on verbose list command. Corrected "-i3" and "-i6" total percentage counts for multiple volumes. Fixed the "-jc" extract count option to terminate prompting for unneeded volumes. Fixed looping when using "-va" on large partitions. 2.73.02 19/08/2000 The distribution version of 2.73.01 (contains mostly DOS-related fixes). 2.75.01 09/09/2000 Restored the C version of encode_f() (this finally frees us from RTL usage in ASM modules). Official release. 2.75.02 15/09/2000 Removed references to M_MALICIOUS_ARCV fix from the documentation. Slightly optimized the ARJ-SECURITY verification routine. Began rewriting the assembly routines in 32-bit compatible way. 2.75.03 30/09/2000 Low-level interface routines have been portabilized. 2.75.04 15/10/2000 Portabilized the encoding/decoding routines. 2.75.05 18/10/2000 Introduced the OS/2-32 version. Made the appropriate changes to various source and documentation files. 2.75.06 18/10/2000 DOS and Borland fixes. 2.75.07 20/10/2000 Fixed processing of volumes beyond 99 in ARJSFXV. 2.75.08 24/10/2000 Automation Release #1. Added the packaging tool. 2.75.09 27/10/2000 Automation Release #2. Clean-up and minor fixes. 2.75.10 28/10/2000 Automation Release #3. Concurrent compiles. 2.75.11 29/10/2000 Automation Release #4. Added IBM LIBC option. Fixed intermittent traps on startup of ARJSFXV. 2.75.12 03/11/2000 Automation Release #5. Multiplatform READMEs. 2.75.13 17/12/2000 Fixed a problem with the "-vw" whole file volume option looping. Fixed a "-i3"/"-i6" milestone percentage problem with the "-vw" option. Fixed the "Y" command to allow "-hk" and "-g" simultaneously. Changed "-q" option to NOT continue to query about extracting subsequent sections of a split file. 2.75.14 31/12/2000 Fixed LOCALE branches in ARJ_DATA.C. 2.75.15 09/01/2001 Added "-2f" option to avoid serialization of comments. 2.75.16 15/01/2001 Fixed volume size parsing when specified with "-vxxxK" or "-vxxxM". 2.75.17 05/02/2001 Fixed overwriting of existing EAs in 32-bit OS/2 version. 2.75.18 21/02/2001 Fixed crashes when loading the ARJCRYPT module. Fixed crashes in 32-bit OS/2 version if an incorrect date results from -odb. Added creation and packaging of debug symbols and map files. 2.75.19 07/04/2001 Improved debugging for header errors. [Merged with MetaWare branch up to arj-2_75_18_3]: Fixed displaying files with ARJ p -ja. Fixed possible errors on termination of ARJSFX/ARJSFXV. 2.75.20 11/05/2001 Fixed handling of /A option (with no archive types specified) by REARJ. 2.75.21 04/06/2001 Fixed volume size calculation. 2.76.01 25/01/2001 Raised the filelist limit in commercial versions. Changed the storage order of subdirectories to retain timestamps on extraction. 2.76.02 28/01/2001 Fixed matching for "[xxx]" wildcards when -h* is given. 2.76.03 19/06/2001 Merged with later 2.75 builds, yielding a separate post-2.76.02 sparse tree. 2.76.04 21/06/2001 Added a free memory check for DOS version. Fixed the "r" command to remove paths properly in dual-name archives. Fixed an error processing directories with very long filenames. Fixed ARJSFXV to NOT beep when using options to inhibit volume prompting. Fixed ARJSFXV to work with an archive that contains the encryption module. Fixed phantom EA records. 2.76.05 24/06/2001 Changed order of password prompt in the large self-extractors. 2.76.06 15/08/2001 Fixed launch of DOS archivers from REARJ. ARJSFX now automatically enables the VIO ANSI support for comments. Fixed error messages appearing when -hk is used with -va. Added a way to specify priority deltas. Made some performance enhancements to the -m4 extractor. 2.76.07 25/08/2001 Added handling of the new (revision 11) timestamp format. 2.77.01 01/09/2001 ARJDISP is now being called instead of ARJ$DISP as the display front-end. ARJ.CFG syntax was enhanced to allow comments ('#' as the first character on a line). Preliminary support for UNIX-like platforms. REARJ has been enhanced with a "T" modifier. Fixed the parsing of -t1g. Specifying -t0 on extraction will retain the 8th bit. 2.77.02 06/09/2001 Fixed file mode conversion to the DOS format. Fixed ARJCRYPT incompatibility. Fixed deletion of special files. Fixed "-2a" to work correctly with the ".*" files. 2.77.03 07/09/2001 Fixed DOS->UNIX timestamp conversions. 2.77.04 09/09/2001 Fixed -hk protection block size calculation. Fixed the updating of archives with extended headers. 2.77.05 15/09/2001 Fixed the display of archive dates in DOS and OS/2 versions of ARJ. Fixed some EXT_HDR regressions in 16-bit mode. 2.77.06 23/10/2001 Fixed handling of "-2f". Removed the dependence of /usr/bin path in UNIX platforms. Changed the names of configuration files in home directory to be prepended with '.'. 2.78.01 27/03/2002 Merged with German NLS branch. Fixed the "-i5" indicator to show correct percentage at the beginning of each file. 2.78.02 09/04/2002 Official Open Source release. 2.78.03 03/05/2002 Fixed modification timestamping in main archive header. 2.78.04 15/05/2002 Fixed handling of "+" and "-" in ARJ.CFG (regression from 2.73.01) 2.78.05 06/07/2002 Fixed timestamp handling. Fixed crash at startup with "ARJ Q" and no other arguments. Added "-d1" and "-d2" options. 2.78.06 14/12/2002 Fixed "Out of memory" type errors on UNIX-like platforms. 2.78.07 25/01/2003 Fixed ARJCRYPT key generation (regression from 2.77.02). Added preliminary support for Win32 platform. 2.78.08 07/02/2003 Install into /usr/local by default on UNIX-like platforms. Determine the number of lines on screen for -jp where possible (DOS, OS/2 VIO and Win32). Experimental color output in a JAR style: 1. "-*2" gets obsoleted. "-*1" designates a "silent" mode (all error msgs suppressed), "-*" stands for the "normal" mode (error msgs still displayed). 2. ARJ has "-2t" switch to set the colors. "-2t" alone will disable the color support; "- -2t" in ARJ.CFG is recommended to turn it off for all commands. 3. REARJ has a "COLORS " configuration parameter. REARJ updated to 2.43 - allow arbitrary positioning of parameters within the configuration file. Fixed looping on symlinked directories without "-a1". Added the "-2b" parameter to specify reference devices. German locale: "ge" -> "de". Fixed to display error messages properly under Win32. 2.78.09 31/03/2003 Prevent "ghost" progress indicator from appearing on the screen. Added hardlink to symlink conversion. Removed counter granularity (actually, it's 26624 now in the most cases instead of 40960). Added the "-2r" parameter to revert to the "standard" unarchiving order. 2.78.10 03/04/2003 Workaround for stack/near memory shortage in 16-bit versions. 2.78.11 06/04/2003 Fixed several options being disabled in REARJ. Fixed stack overrun during directory recursion in 32-bit OS/2 (except EMX). 2.78.12 12/04/2003 Fixed a possible incompatibility with mainstream ARJ when using the "-hg" or "-hg!" encryption. 2.78.13 11/05/2003 Revised build and packaging on GNU systems after a patch from Guillem Jover : * The build system honours DESTDIR, so our packaging is easier. * Updated configure.in. * The arjcrypt module is moved to its own dir under $libdir ($pkglibdir). * The join program now return proper exit codes. It was causing the autobuilders to fail on some architectures. * Man pages provided. * The rearj.cfg.example now supplies the correct bzip2 options. Changed the OS/2 version to use the same canonical wildcard matching logic as the Win32 one. Fixed "-jp" being inoperable (regression from 2.78.08). Fixed the unintentional fallback to ARJCRYPT V1 when ARJCRYPT V2 ought to be used. Displays the safety factor in ARJ-PROTECT notice. Fixed the "arj o" command (regression from 2.62.08). 2.78.14 14/05/2003 Fixed REARJ terminating with an error when the configuration file is padded with blank lines. 2.78.15 30/06/2003 Fixed the "-i" overall progress indicators to not count the skipped files. Fixed "double skip" with "-2b" when the first file to be skipped was surrounded by symlinks. Fixed to ignore symlink access attributes. Workaround for EA size query during extraction on OS/2-32. Fixed various problems with updating extended headers (regression from 2.77.01). 2.78.16 15/07/2003 Added "-2o2" to save a symbolic representation of both UID and GID when archiving. 2.78.17 14/09/2003 Skip changing the archive attributes under UNIX. Optimized the progress counter performance by avoiding unnecessary output. 2.78.18 16/10/2003 Re-fix the attributes patch for 2.78.17 to make the SFX attributes correspond to the current umask. 2.78.19 21/02/2004 Do not ask for pause when "arj -?" is redirected. "-t1g" replaces the non-trivial "-t1gf". Bell is handled correctly with the new console output. Corrected lookup for arjcrypt.so on UNIX-like platforms (regression from 2.78.13). Archiving with "-2l" on platforms without EA support would produce malformed filenames. Added the "-_" option to store/restore filenames in lowercase. 2.78.20 18/04/2004 Prevent the -jz comments from being automatically appended with newline. "-jb" failed to pick the requested chapters (regression from 2.62.08). 2.78.21 18/06/2004 Registration wizard reported error on many platforms (regression from 2.78.15). Fixed OEM/ANSI discrepancies that showed up in Win32 version when obtaining filenames from argv[]. Copying temporary files with "-jt" enabled might result in a "CRC error". Added "-2i". Introduced new modifiers (G/T/P/E) and hexadecimal prefix format to numeric parameters. Fixed the inability to sustain binary mode for "arj p" under OS/2-32.