• Fast and secure encryption of uncompressed files. Select from eight different encryption methods
  In addition, the file names can be scrambled as well in order to disguise the file type and tell tale file names.
  Files encrypted with WinAce bear the extension ".xef" and can be opened directly in WinAce.
• added full support for UUEncode, XXEncode and Base64 (*.uue, *.xxe, *.mim)

-x{files/@list}

Example

winace.exe a -x*.zip;*.ace;*.exe*.c?? test.ace *.*

or

winace.exe a -x@exclude.lst test.ace *.*

where exclude.lst contains a list of files (separated by line breaks) to be excluded from the compression

• %DATE% : The current date in the machine's current country setting. Characters that are not allowed in filenames (e.g. ":" or "/","\") underscores ("_") will be used.
  
• %TODAY%: same as %DATE%
  
• %DATETIME%: same as %DATE%, but a timestamp (hh_mm) will be added as well.
  
• %FOLDER%: The last segment of the directory path will be inserted, for instance "My Pictures" if the path is "C:\My Files\My Pictures".
  

The variables can also be combined, e.g. %FOLDER%_%TODAY%.ACE and are also available from the command line.

• TIFF images (*.tif; *.tiff)
• Photoshop images (*.psd, *.pdd)
• Paintshop Pro images (*.psp)
• Portable network graphic images (*.png)
• Compuserve images (*.png)
• 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)

• On rare occassions an error occured during the extraction of certain files.
• Execution of program files after the extraction process was not working properly.

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.

Current directory C:\TEST1

Compression of  C:\TEST1\TEST2\DEMO.TXT