| 2.03 |
07/24/2001 |
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The archive view now
contains the additional column "path". If the
option "Display directory structure in
archives" is switched off, the path of a file in the
archive will be displayed in this column. If the option
is switched on, this column will be left blank. |
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Command "Extract
here" has been added to the shell extension (context
menu). |
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Fixed: On some
occasions, WinAce captured all archive file extensions if
the language setting has been changed directly after the
installation, even if no archive extensions were
selected. |
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| 2.03 |
03/08/2001 |
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Password handling has
been improved |
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Fixed some minor bugs |
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| 2.02 |
02/14/2001 |
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The tree
view will now be updated properly when opening an archive
in another directory. |
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Adopted
the HTML documentation files to the look and feel of www.winace.com |
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Fixed:
Confirmation menu for right-mouse-button drag & drop. |
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Fixed:
Empty directories in ZIP archives will now be extracted
correctly. |
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Fixed:
Option "CRC-Check after compressing files" will
now be stored permanently, if set. |
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Fixed:
Error in saving default vaules for ACE 2 compression
parameters. |
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Fixed:
TGZ files will now be extracted correctly. |
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Fixed:
Pasting the password with CTRL-V now works as desired,
content of clipboard is no longer pasted twice. |
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Fixed:
Error when dragging&dropping from archives to the
directory tree view. |
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Fixed:
The number of files will be displayed correctly in the
compression progress window. |
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Fixed:
Errorous message "Enough free disk space..."
when extracting ZIP files |
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Fixed:
Problems when using wildcards for ACE compression - some
files from subdirectories were not compressed correctly. |
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Fixed:
Context menu item "Open with WinAce" for Sfx
files (*.exe). Files containing one or more blank spaces
could not be extracted correctly. |
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Fixed:
Error message "XXX.tmp could not be found" when
using the context menu. |
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Fixed:
Problems with TGZ files containing more than one dot in
the filename. |
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Fixed:
Problems with moving items in the control bar. |
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| 2.01 |
02/01/2001 |
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Fixed an
error in the installation routine that occured on Windows
NT and some first generation Windows 95 systems
("Entrypoint SHGetSpecialFolderPathA could not be
located..."). |
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Fixed a
minor problem int he Win-GUI sfx file. |
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| 2.0 final |
01/26/2001 |
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All program icons can
now be user-defined (Options/Icons). |
| Added the context menu
option "open with WinAce/Extract" when a file
is recognized as an sfx file. |
| The option for
"Check CRC after compressing" files will now be
stored permanently, if checked. |
| Revised the setup
routine. |
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Fixed an error that
occured when WinAce was minimized and sent to the tray. |
| Fixed error when
handling Unix RAR files (error code #25136). |
| Fixed problems when
dealing with some RAR archives (not all files from those
archives were displayed/extracted correctly). |
| Fixed problems in the
GUI of sfx files that occured on some systems. |
| other miscellaneous bugs
were fixed as well. |
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| 2.0 beta 5 |
12/21/2000 |
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The internal viewer has
been expanded and can now handle the following additional
file formats:
- TIFF images (*.tif;
*.tiff)
- Photoshop images
(*.psd, *.pdd)
- Paintshop Pro
images (*.psp)
- Portable network
graphic images (*.png)
- Compuserve images
(*.gif)
- Standard Windows
bitmap images (*.bmp, *.rle, *.dib)
- Standard
Windows icons (*.ico)
- SGI images (*.bw,
*.rgb, *.rgba, *.sgi)
- Autodesk image
files (*.cel; *.pic)
- Truevision images
(*.tga; *.vst; *.icb; *.vda; *.win)
- ZSoft Paintbrush
images (*.pcx, *.pcc)
- Word 5.x screen
capture files (*.scr)
- Kodak Photo-CD
images (*.pcd)
- Portable
pixel/gray map images (*.ppm, *.pgm, *.pbm)
- Dr. Halo images
(*.cut, *.pal)
- SGI Wavefront
images (*.rla, *.rpf)
- GFI fax images
(*.fax)
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| Adapted Sfx-Modules for
large archives (>2GB) |
| The complete folder size
can now be displayed in the file list. |
| e-mail item in context
menu is now optional and can be turned off |
| EXE files (Sfx-Modules)
can now be opened through the context menu |
| Added an optional
default target directory for archive extraction |
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Fixed CPU hogging
on some systems (mainly Windows NT and Windows 2000) |
| Fixed an error when
extracting archives that included a stored drive letter. |
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| 2.0 beta 4 |
11/20/2000 |
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Added additional buttons
for easy navigation. |
| Background of the view
pane may now be set to different colors for fileview and
archive view. |
| Password can be entered
and set for all actions by a status bar icon. |
| Passwords can be entered
in non-asterisk mode. |
| When creating multiple
ACE archives, the media can now be deleted before writing
the volumes to the drive ("removable drives"
only). |
| Details of last
archiving process will be stored in a file called
"action.log", making the details available
after a restart or when using the context menu or the
command line for archiving. |
| Changed the input line
for file and directory names. Now the corresponding icon
will be displayed with the file name. Additionally,
automatic completion of user input has been added
(requires MS Internet Explorer4.0 or higher) |
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Fixed a crash that
occured when disabling the shell extension. |
| fixed other
miscellaneous glitches. |
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| 2.0 beta 3 |
09/25/2000 |
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Program launch has been
improved/speed up. |
| Improved
Recovery-Records for v2.0 archives. |
| Improved the level of
security by using AV signatures ( requires a new AV-Key
system - new keys available for registered users at no
charge). |
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Fixed problem when
launching WinAce on Win2000 systems. WinAce occasionally
froze or performed poorly. |
Fixed an error in in Ace
sfx files:
- On rare occassions
an error occured during the extraction of certain
files.
- Execution of program
files after the extraction process was not
working properly.
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| Fixed an error in
creating archives with recovery records. |
| Reworked and improved
"send archive by email" feature. |
| Fixed an error in RAR
multivolumes (during extraction, Winace kept looking for
files with the extension .s## instead of .r##) |
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| 2.0 beta 2 |
08/11/2000 |
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Changed the dialog for
overwriting files. The options "Overwrite older
files only" and "None" have been added.
Additional file information (date, size) will now be
displayed as well. |
| Added option "Show
archives only" ("View" menu). Using this
view mode, only archive files with recognized archive
extensions will be displayed in the file window. |
| Added setting for
default archive folder. If set, all files will be created
in this folder and not in the current working directory. |
| Added setting for
default startup folder. In addition to launch WinAce
pointing to the current folder or the last directory
used, a default startup folder can now be set. |
| Sfx type for Ace
archives can now be selected from a drop-down list.
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| Sending archives by
e-mail added (either from within WinAce or from the
context menu, requires MAPI compliant e-mail client). |
| WinAce shell extensions
(righ-click menu) can now be displayed as a separate
submenu. |
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Fixed: Error when
creating archives with password or adding a password to
an existing archive. |
| Fixed: Setup problems
when running under Windows NT/2000. Error messages should
no longer appear after the installation. |
| Fixed: When handling
multivolumes, all files will now be extracted correctly. |
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| 2.0 beta 1 |
07/07/2000 |
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ACE
1.0 compression has been significantly
improved |
| Added ACE 2.0 compression:
When activated, the new
ACE 2.0 algorithm will analyze the data during the
compression process in order to determine the best
compression approach for that particular data
part. If favourable, one single file may be
compressed using several techniques.
New,
special and optionally selectable compression
techniques:
- Exe encoding
When compression exe files or other files
containing Intel 80x86 code
(*.dll;*.vxd;*.com;*.lib;*.obj;*.ocx etc.), a
preprocessor will be linked before the actual
compression algorithm. The preprocessor
handles address information within the code in
order to achive a better compression ratio.
- Sound
encoding
For compression of mono-/stereo 8-/16-bit sound
files a predictor is used in order to improve
compression results.
- Picture
encoding
Compression of graphic files with ACE 2.0 is
totally lossless (lossy compression, as it may be
used with JPEG or similar formats always results
in a lower image quality). By using a
high-quality two-dimensional predictor, which has
been adapted to high color counts, both high
compression ratio and speed can be achieved.
- Delta
encoding
A preprocessor is used to rearrange chunks of
data and to calculate the differences (delta)
between single byte values, resulting in data
which can be compressed and stored more
efficiently. Before uncompressing the files, the
process will be reversed in order to restore the
data properly.
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| Added GZip- and TAR-
compression as well as support for GZipped Tar files
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| Moved the dialog element
for handling of directory structures for compression
operations to the main page of the compression dialog |
| Added new options for
handling directory structures during compression: Current directory C:\TEST1
Compression of C:\TEST1\TEST2\DEMO.TXT
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Option
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will be
stored as... |
| 1 |
keep directory
structure (store relative path) |
TEST2\DEMO.TXT
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| 2 |
discard
directory structure |
DEMO.TXT |
| 3 |
store full path |
TEST1\TEST2\DEMO.TXT
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| 4 |
store full path
(incl. drive letter) |
C:\TEST1\TEST2\DEMO.TXT
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| New, customizable menus
with bitmap icons |
ACE compression:
64-bit support for compression of files up to 16 exabytes
for operating systems supporting 64 bit file sizes (NTFS
drives). |
| Performance for file
list creation before ACE compression operations
drastically improved |
| Control bar is now fully
customizable and allows menu entries in different groups
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| Added right click drag
& drop extraction capability |
| New mini icons for the
context menu |
| Optional display of
current compression ration during compression process
(ACE format only) |
| Several minor
improvements and cosmetical changes... |
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| 1.32
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05/22/2000 |
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Sfx modules prepared for
additional language selection (Danish sfx module added)
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| New: Danish language
files are available (for version 1.32 only) Danish
translation by Kristian Skouboe. Download the
installation file for the danish language files from http://www.winace.com/ftp/danish.exe (201kb) |
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Fixed an error in the
shell extension that occured when WinAce was installed to
a directory that contained a blank space. In this case,
WinAce truncated files to the 8.3 format when used from
the context menu. Important (if you have
already installed a version previous to WinAce 1.32):
In order to fix this error, the WinAce shell extension
needs to be disabled once (go to Options by hitting
Alt-F9, select the "Archive" tab and disable
the shell extension). Restart WinAce, then activate the
shell extension again. |
| Fixed problem during
testing of RAR archives. In some cases WinAce reported
non-existent CRC errors. |
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| 1.31
|
03/15/2000
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TGZ files
can now be opened directly |
| Contents of
TAR and GZip archives can be displayed directly |
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Fixed error
in extraction of TAR archives |
| Error
during creation of comments for zip files |
| files
without extension occasionally were not extracted from
zip files |
| dragging
files from an archive over the treeview triggered an
exception |
| entering a
target directory manually in the "extract to"
dialog was not working correctly. |
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| 1.3
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02/14/2000
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Rebuild the
progression information screen |
| Increased
performance of ZIP compression |
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Fixed:
Drag&Drop error in connection with sudirectories
within ACE archives |
| Fixed:
Error when executing files from within ACE archives
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| Fixed error
when setting up comments during creation of Zip-files.
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| 1.2 |
12/21/1999
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Added:
Creating directories within ACE archives enabled. |
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Fixed:
Empty directories will now be added when creating ACE
archives |
| Fixed:
Adding file comments in subdirectories in ACE archives
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| Fixed:
Pathname exclusion during decompression of ACE files
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| Fixed: CRC
error during extraction of 0 byte files from ZIP archives
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| Fixed (v1.1
error): CRC error during extraction of some RAR archives |
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| 1.1
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11/10/1999
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Progress
percentage will be shown in task bar. |
| New button
for "compress in background" in the progress
dialog. For background compression WinAce will minimize
to the systray and will be set to low priority. The
systray icon is displayed as a progress bar and will
restore WinAce on mouseclick. WinAce will confirm the end
of the process with a beep. |
| Added an
acoustic signal that indicates when a process that took
longer than 1 minute has been finished successfully. This
feature may be disabled. |
| Archive
type detection has been significantly accelerated.
Detecting large sfx files took to long. |
| Archive
type detection added to "tools menu" . |
| Changed Sfx
modules. <licenced copy> will no longer be
displayed in the title bar caption of the registered
version. |
Additional
variables for default paths in sfx modules implemented:
<PROGRAMS> : for the Program directory; on
english Win95/98 machines usually C:\Program Files
<COMMONFILES> : für the
"Common Files" directory |
| View as
Website implemented. <Ctrl+W> |
| Multi-volume
archives are now available for ZIP compression! In
previous versions ZIP multi volumes could only be written
directly to disk. Now the volumes may be stored in a
directory and in user-defined chunks as well. These new
multi volumes will have the extension .zip-.z99.
However, Sfx modules still can not be stored as Zip multi
volume. You will need to use ACE for this purpose. |
| added
several cosmetical options like font, font size, font and
background color for file lists, adding a background
graphic etc.. |
| <store
full path> can be set to default now.. |
| New menu
entry "Change to" added. The directories and
archives used last can now be accessed by selecting
"next" and "previous". |
| Added
commandline option "-SOPT<Sfx32-config
file>". With this option some additional
parameters for 32-Bit Sfx modules can be set. These
parameters (default target directory, Title bar caption
etc.) have to be stored in a special config file (see
"SFXOPT.INI" for an example on how to use this
feature). |
| Information
window and tree view may now be placed whereever you
want. |
| ZIP
compression/decompression improved |
| LHA
compression/decompression improved. |
| Added
compression and decompression for Java JAR archives. |
| Free disk
space will be displayed in the status bar when no files
or directories are selected. |
| Improved
extraction via the context menu. When more than one
archive has been selected in the previous version, a
WinAce session was launched for every file. Now WinAce
will batch those tasks in one window |
| the
commandline parameter "s" prevents the option
selection when running an self-extracting archive created
with WinAce. |
| improved
recognition of RAR archives (solid mode, dictionary size
etc.) |
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ShellExtension
fix: Entry "Extract to <directory>" will
now be truncated if the full directory path is too long.
In this case only the directory name will be displayed.
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| WinACE-UnInstaller
SXUNINST.EXE has been checked. Some
files have not been uninstalled correctly. |
| When
extracting more than one archive, the option <All>
will now be valid for all archives processed (e.g. for
multi volumes). Until now this option was valid for
the current archive only. |
| Fixed an
error in the german version. The german help file
occasionally was copied to the backup directory and could
not be found. |
| Fixed an
error in archive optimization. |
| Fixed the
display of filenames in the progress window. Some file
names were truncated or displayed incorrectly. |
| Fixed
Access violation that occasionally occured while
exiting WinAce |
| Fixed an
error in the SFX modules: Sometimes only about 40
characters were allowed as target directory entry
(changed sfxlib.dll ). |
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