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| v3.40 |
1. "Fastest" (-m1) RAR compression method has been modified to provide
much higher compression speed and lower ratio. It may be useful for tasks requiring the high speed like
regular backups.
You may increase "Fastest" speed even more selecting 64KB compression dictionary instead of default 4MB. |
| 2. WinRAR is able to decompress archives created by Unix 'compress' tool
(.Z files). Like GZIP and BZIP2 archives, WinRAR opens tar.Z and .taz files in one step, so users do
not need to unpack .tar manually. |
| 3. WinRAR is able to decompress archives created by 7-Zip (.7z files).
"Find" command is not supported for this archive type. |
4. New "Security" dialog in WinRAR settings:
a) "File types to exclude from extracting" option to prevent extracting of potentially dangerous files
like .exe, .scr and .pif;
b) "Propose to select virus scanner" option modifies behavior of "Scan archive for viruses" command.
You may turn it off if you wish to skip the virus scanner selection dialog.
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5. New command line switch -ep3 allows to save and restore full file
paths including the drive letter.
WinRAR shell equivalent of -ep3 switch are options "Store full paths including drive letter" in
"Files/File paths" page of archiving dialog and "Extract absolute paths" in "Advanced/File paths"
page of extracting dialog. |
| 6. You may select and compress disks directly in "My Computer" view in
WinRAR shell. Just choose "My Computer" in WinRAR address bar, select disks to compress and press "Add".
If you selected more than one item, WinRAR will automatically set "Store full paths including drive letter"
archiving mode. |
| 7. If you selected several disks in Windows Explorer "My Computer" view
and started archiving from context menu, WinRAR will automatically set "Store full paths including drive letter"
mode when compressing them. |
8. New command line switch -oc to restore NTFS "Compressed" attribute when
extracting files. RAR always saves "Compressed" attribute when creating an archive, but does not restore
it unless -oc switch has been specified.
WinRAR shell equivalent of -oc switch is "Set attribute Compressed" option in "Advanced" part of
extracting dialog. |
9. Starting from this version RAR volumes contain the volume number field.
If archive was created by WinRAR 3.40 or newer, you may view the volume number in the top line of "Info"
dialog and in the address bar.
In the command line mode the volume number is displayed by 'L' and 'V' commands in the line with the
total volume information.
This feature may be useful if original volume names are lost and you need to rename volumes to
correct names. |
| 10. Commands 'L' and 'V' display NTFS "Compressed" attribute in archive listing. |
11. Switch -ag may include an optional text enclosed in '{' and '}' characters.
This text is inserted into archive name. For example: -agHH{hours}MM{minutes}
Same feature is supported in "Generate archive name by mask" field of WinRAR archiving dialog. |
12. If switch -ac is specified, RAR will not reset "Archive" attribute of
those files, which size or modification time was changed after starting the archiving operation.
So files modified after placing them to archive and before clearing "Archive" attribute, will be included
to next incremental backup. The same is true for WinRAR "Clear attribute "Archive" after
compressing" GUI option. |
| 13. If you use "Add to favorites" command inside of archive subfolder,
WinRAR will save the subfolder and restore it when accessing to this favorite item. Previous versions were
able to restore only the root archive folder. |
| 14. When editing archived files, WinRAR proposes to update them immediately
after detecting that file was changed. Previous versions waited until an external editor terminates before
updating a changed file. |
15. If you drop an archive to WinRAR address bar or toolbar, WinRAR will
display its contents even if other archive is opened now. Previous versions proposed to add a dropped
archive to browsing one.
You may still drop an archive to WinRAR file list if you need to add it to browsing archive. |
| 16. Corrected processing of corrupt LZH archives to exclude a possible
crash when reading corrupt LZH file headers. |
| 17. RAR and WinRAR display the operation progress while repairing an
archive containing the recovery record. |
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| v3.30 |
| 1. New "Scan archive for viruses" command unpacks an archive to
temporary folder and checks its contents with antivirus software installed on a user's computer. |
| 2. New "Generate report" command creates a report containing
the list of usual or archived files. You may optionally include a file size, date and CRC to report, choose the sort order,
save report to file, send it to printer or copy to clipboard. |
| 3. New "Benchmark and hardware test" command allows to compare
performance of RAR compression algorithm on different computers
and detect possible errors caused by hardware failures. |
| 4. New "Print file" command is able to print both archived
and usual files. |
| 5. New "Tools" menu contains "Wizard", "Show information",
"Convert archives", "Find files", "Repair", "Convert to SFX"
commands previously available in "Commands" menu and new
"Scan archive for viruses", "Generate report", "Benchmark
and hardware test" commands. |
| 6. WinRAR supports decompression of ZIP archives created using
"Enhanced deflate" method. |
| 7. WinRAR pre-allocates disk space for files unpacked
from ZIP archives. It helps to reduce disk fragmentation,
especially on NTFS disks. Previous versions did it only
for RAR archives. |
| 8. Now it is possible to decompress TAR, GZIP and ISO9660
archives of any size. Previous versions could not handle
files of these formats, if they exceeded 2 GB. |
| 9. Status bar displays the current operation progress,
when reading contents of large tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives. |
| 10. "Next volume" dialog allows to modify not only a name,
but also a size of next volume, so you may create volumes
of different size. This dialog is displayed if you create
volumes on removable disks or set "Pause after each volume"
option in "Advanced" part of archiving dialog. |
| 11. Several -v switches can be specified in the command
line mode to set different sizes for different volumes.
For example, 'rar a -v100k -v200k -v300k arcname' command
sets 100 KB size for first volume, 200KB for second
and 300KB for all following volumes. |
| 12. More WinRAR commands support Unicode in archive names.
If your Windows is NT based (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, 2003),
you may modify archives with non-English names regardless
of Regional Settings. |
| 13. Small and some of large icons have been updated by
Francesco Indrio. |
| 14. "Diagnostic message" window can be resized. It preserves
new dimensions and restores them when activated the next time. |
| 15. "Mode..." button in the archiving progress window allows to
change the compression method and "Turn PC off when done"
option on the fly. |
| 16. WinRAR supports -cfg- switch in the command line mode.
It forces WinRAR to ignore options saved in the default
compression profile and RAR environment variable. |
| 17. WinRAR opens .qpr and .qpk files (QNX packages) in one step,
like it already does for .tar.gz archives. |
| 18. Extraction command proposes to browse for missing CAB file
in multivolume CAB sequence instead of "Cannot open" error. |
| 19. "Rename" command displays a window with information about
processing files. |
| 20. "Convert" command checks the lowest allowed ratio before
starting the archive test, so if resulting archive is too large,
WinRAR does not waste time to test it. |
| 21. "Files to exclude" field in the archiving dialog has "Append"
button now, so you may browse for excluded files instead of
entering their names manually. |
| 22. WinRAR understands quotes inside of parameters in the command
line mode. For example, "-pmy password" and -p"my password"
will set the same password. Eariler WinRAR understood only
the first syntax ("-pmy password") and only the console RAR
handled both. |
| 23. Data analyzing module is tuned to detect executable and audio
data more accurately. Erroneous selecting of executable
and audio algorithms could reduce the compression ratio
in some situations. |
| 24. WinRAR understands the command line switch -hp without
a parameter and requests to enter a password when processing it. |
| 25. WinRAR preserves NTFS streams of updated archives, if archive
and temporary files are resided on NTFS partition. For example,
if you entered some comments in "Summary" section of archive
properties, they will not be lost when updating an archive
using WinRAR. Do not confuse NTFS streams of archive itself
and streams of archived files, latter can be preserved
by previous versions as well. |
| 26. It is possible to prohibit change of archiving password
with "WinRAR\Policy\Password" Registry value. This feature
may help to avoid encrypting of important data in multi-user
environment. Read "Configuration settings/Registry variables"
help topic for details. |
| 27. "Select toolbar buttons" dialog allows to specify separators
after any toolbar button. |
| 28. New console RAR -si[name] switch to compress data from stdin
(standard input). |
| 29. Console RAR 'vt' and 'lt' commands display symlink target names,
when listing RAR/Unix archives contained symbolic links.
These commands also display NTFS stream names, when listing
WinRAR archives contained streams. |
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| v3.20 |
1. Previous WinRAR and RAR versions stored only the file modification
time and only in DOS FAT format with 2 seconds precision. While it was enough for FAT, modern file systems
provide a higher precision. Now RAR format can preserve modification, creation and last access time with
the precision up to 0.0000001 second.
The following changes had been done to support this facility:
a) new "Time" part of archiving dialog includes "File
time to store" options controlling file time processing.
Other time related options also had been moved from "Backup" to "Time" section;
b) new "Advanced" part of extraction dialog contains "File
time" options allowing to select time fields to restore;
c) command line -ts switch chooses time fields to process and precision of these fields;
Time precision provided by ZIP format is not changed and equal to 2 seconds. |
2. Changes in the extraction dialog:
a) extraction dialog has been split to "General" and "Advanced" parts;
b) "Display files in Explorer" option in "General" part instructs
WinRAR to open Explorer window and display contents of destination folder when extraction is done;
c) "Save settings" button saves the current state of both parts ("General" and
"Advanced"). Saved state will be used as the default when activating the dialog next time.
WinRAR saves all options except the destination path;
d) "Advanced" part includes "File time" options allowing to select time fields to restore;
e) new "Set file security" option in "Advanced" part controls restoring of NTFS file
security information. Previous versions always extracted this information.
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| 3. It is possible to rename files inside of
RAR archives. It can be done either with "Rename file" command in "Commands" menu
or in the context menu displaying on the right mouse click. In
the command line mode you may use 'rn' command for this purpose. |
| 4. "Next volume" dialog allows
to choose the disk or folder for
a new volume. WinRAR displays this dialog when creating volumes
on removable disks or if "Pause after each volume" option
is switched on. Previous versions did not allow to modify
the volume name here. |
| 5. "Test" and "Convert" commands
can be applied to archives
directly from Explorer context menu. By default these menu
items are disabled, but you may enable them in WinRAR"Settings/Integration/Context menu items..." dialog. |
| 6. "Pause" item added to context
menu displayed on the right mouse
button click on WinRAR tray icon. So you may pause WinRAR minimized
to tray and continue it without restoring WinRAR to normal window. |
| 7. If one of SFX volumes is missing, SFX archive
displays "Next volume" dialog proposing to browse for required volume. |
| 8. WinRAR allows to resize the window
containing results of "Find" command. It saves modified
window dimensions and restores them when using "Find" next time. |
9. Toolbar:
a) "Toolbars..." button in "Settings/General" activates the dialog allowing to turn
on or off the main WinRAR toolbar, the additional small toolbar containing "Up one level"
button and the address bar with path or archive information;
b) buttons may have a variable width. So few large button titles in localized versions will not increase the
total toolbar size too much like it happened before;
c) if the width of buttons exceeds the width of toolbar, you may click on the small arrow at the right side
of toolbar and choose hidden buttons from the menu. |
| 10. Console RAR 'lb' and 'vb' commands list
contents of archive in the bare mode - file names without any additional
information. |
| 11. WinRAR recognizes one more tar long file
name extension designed to overcome 100 characters file name limit
in tar archives. |
| 12. Gzip archives contained zero in the file
time field are processed correctly. Previous versions could display random date values
for such archives. |
13. Recovery volumes:
a) when creating recovery volumes, the required disk space is preallocated in the beginning of operation.
It helps to minimize the disk fragmentation;
b) console RAR displays the operation percentage when creating recovery volumes or reconstructing missing
or corrupt volumes.
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| 14. If "Save file security" option is enabled, folders will be
archived after files which they contain. It is necessary to avoid the situation when security attributes of
just unpacked folder do not allow to extract files to it. |
| 15. Optional description can be entered
in "Add to favorite" dialog. If such description is available, WinRAR will display it
in "Favorites" menu instead of folder or archive name. |
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| v3.11 |
| 1. "Convert" command is able to process .tgz archives. |
| 2. GUI SFX modules provide more detailed diagnostic messages for
CRC errors or file create errors. |
| 3. Command line RAR returns the exit code 9 in case of file create errors. |
4. Bugs fixed:
a) "Convert" command failed to convert archives in folders with non-English (high ASCII) names;
b) WinRAR could crash when attempting to display too long file type inside of archive;
c) -ag command line switch placed an incorrect value to minutes field;
d) options "Put each file to separate archive" and "Turn PC off when done", if set together, switched the computer off after
creating the first archive;
e) SFX module could display unnecessary "http-equiv ..." string when started under Windows 95.
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| v3.10 |
| 1. New "Find" command allows to search
for text string in archives and usual files. Its command line equivalent is 'i' command. |
| 2. New "Convert" command converts
archives from one format to other.
It can process a single archive or several selected archives
at once. It is possible to select file folders to convert their
contents. |
3. Repair command:
a) "Repair" is able to correct data
erasure and insertion errors in RAR archives containing the recovery record.
Earlier it was possible to fix only those errors, when an archive size was not changed;
b) "Repair" uses fixed.arcname.rar and rebuilt.arcname.rar
names for repaired archives, where 'arcname' is the name of
original archive. Previous versions used _recover.rar and _reconst.rar names;
c) It is possible to select several archives in WinRAR shell and repair them at once;
d) 'R' command accepts wildcards in the archive name to repair several archives at once. |
4. Recovery volumes:
a) WinRAR attempts to reconstruct both missing and damaged
volumes. Original copies of damaged volumes are renamed
to *.bad. Previous version was able to reconstruct only missing volumes;
b) WinRAR automatically detects corrupt recovery volumes and ignores them;
c) Recovery volumes naming scheme changed from <name>N1_N2_N3.rev
to less complicated <name>N.rev, where 'N' is the number
of volume. Old style recovery volumes are also recognized and
supported;
d) WinRAR displays the progress bar while reconstructing volumes. |
5. SFX modules:
a) Start and License SFX dialogs had been redesigned;
b) SFX provides fully functional HTML support in "Text" command.
Earlier versions supported only very limited set of HTML tags;
c) "SavePath" SFX script command and "Save and restore paths" option in
"Advanced SFX settings" allow to save the destination path entered by user in Registry and then
restore it when executing SFX archive next time.
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| 6. Compression improved when adding small text
files to already existing archive using "Best" (-m5) or "Forced text"
(-mct+) modes. |
| 7. "Flat folders view" command in "Options/File
list" menu switches between the classic tree style view and flat view, when all archived
files and folders are displayed in the same list. |
| 8. Option "Turn PC off when done" in
"Advanced" part of archiving dialog and command line switch -ioff turn a computer off after
completing an operation. Hardware must support the power off feature. |
| 9. Sizes of ZIP-100, CD-650MB and CD-700MB disks
are added to predefined values in the volume size list in archiving dialog. |
| 10. New command line switch -iicon<name>
specifies an icon to use in SFX archive created or updated by WinRAR. This switch is
supported only by WinRAR, console RAR does not recognize it. |
11. Now WinRAR opens tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives
in one step, so users do not need to unpack .tar manually.
WinRAR does not store temporary .tar files on the disk,
all required operations are performed directly in memory. |
| 12. WinRAR is able to decompress multipart ZIP
archives (.zip, .z01, .z02, ...). |
| 13. New 'N' (archive number) modifier for -ag
switch and "Generate archive name by mask" backup option of archiving
dialog. WinRAR searches for already existing archive with a generated name
and if it is found, increments the archive number until generating
a unique name. For example, if you use -agyymmdd-nn several
times in the same day, every new archive name will include a new
increasing number. |
| 14. If rarfiles.lst contains such two masks
that all files matched by one mask are also matched by other, that mask which matches
a smaller subset of file names will have higher priority regardless
of its position in the list. For example, in case of *.cpp and
f*.cpp masks, f*.cpp has higher priority. |
| 15. WinRAR displays CRC16 column inside of LZH
archives. |
| 16. It is possible to disable the main menu and settings dialog
using "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\WinRAR\Policy" or
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinRAR\Policy" Registry key. This feature may help to
preserve WinRAR settings in multiuser environment. Read "Configuration settings/Registry variables"
topic in winrar.hlp for more details. |
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| v3.00 |
1. We introduced WinRAR 3.0 discount program,
so a single user license now is only $29.
As always, already registered users do not need to pay again. RAR 1.x - 2.x registration is valid for 3.0 too.
Also do not forget that we have a lot of regional
sites processing RAR registrations. Complete list is available in rar_site.txt.
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2. Compression algorithm improved. Changes include:
a) dictionary size is increased to 4 MB, this
helps to increase compression on large data sets;
b) a special algorithm for text data, based on
Dmitry Shkarin's PPMII sources: ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/pack/ppmdh.rar
We express our sincere gratitude and respect
to Dmitry for his excellent PPMII;
c) special preprocessing algorithms for 32-bit
x86 executables, Itanium executables, true color data, audio data
and tables. In many cases significantly increasing compression;
d) now RAR chooses the best combination of algorithms
automatically, so "Multimedia compression" mode and switch
-mm are obsolete.
By default, RAR uses only the general compression
algorithm in the "Fast" and "Fastest" compression
methods (-m1 and -m2), advanced algorithms such as audio and true
color processing are enabled only in "Normal"..."Best"
(-m3..-m5) modes, the advanced text compression is activated only
in "Good" and "Best" compression (-m4..-m5).
This default can be overridden using the -mc switch.
RAR 3.0 archives can be unpacked by any RAR version beginning from RAR 2.9, currently it is 2.9 and 3.0. RAR 3.0 can
unpack archives created by all older RAR versions. |
| 3. Encryption algorithm is changed to AES (Advanced
Encryption Standard) with 128 bit key length. |
| 4. Francesco Indrio <naradamoon>,
<naradamoon> has once again done a nice job redesigning
WinRAR graphics. |
| 5. "Wizard" command helps novice users
to perform basic archive operations in simple, step by step mode.
Just click on Wizard button on the toolbar and choose an operation
which you want to perform. |
6. "Send archive by email" option in
the "Files" part of archiving dialog. Your email program
must support MAPI interface, otherwise this option will not work.
In the command line mode you may use -ieml[.][addr]
switch to send a created archive by email. |
| 7. WinRAR adds "Compress and email"
item to Explorer context menu. |
| 8. Default volume naming scheme is changed from
volname.rar, volname.r00, ..., to volname.part001.rar, volname.part002.rar,
etc. Switch -vn and "Old style volumes names" option in
the archiving dialog allow to use the old extension based scheme.
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9. Added support of so called recovery volumes
(.rev files), which can be used to reconstruct missing files in
a volume set. One .rev file allows to reconstruct one missing RAR
volume, for example, 5 .rev files are able to reconstruct any 5
volumes.
In WinRAR you may create recovery volumes either
specifying their number in the archiving dialog or using "Protect"
command inside of the first volume.
In the command line RAR it can be done by the
command 'rv[n]' or switch -rv[n].
RAR and WinRAR automatically use .rev files to
reconstruct missing volumes when unpacking or testing a volume set.
It is also possible to double click on .rev file in WinRAR shell
or use the command 'rc' in the command line to force reconstructing.
I wish to thank developers of Mirror program,
who invented this idea and proposed to implement it in WinRAR. |
10. SFX modules:
a) Windows SFX modules now support archives larger
than 4 GB and Unicode names;
b) It is possible to replace the standard SFX
icon with your own. Just specify the icon file name in "Load
SFX icon from the file" field of "Advanced SFX options/Text
and icon" dialog.
c) new "Shortcut=DestType,SrcName,DestFolder,Description"
SFX script command allows to create shortcuts to unpacked files
on Desktop, Start Menu, Start Menu/Programs or Startup.
This feature is also available through "Shortcuts"
list in the "Advanced SFX options" WinRAR dialog;
d) modified syntax of TempMode SFX script command.
It now uses comma instead of '@' as a question and title separator.
It is important only for those users, who write SFX script manually
instead of specifying SFX parameters in WinRAR "Advanced SFX
options" dialog;
e) "Delete" SFX script command and
"Files to delete" field in "Advanced SFX options"
dialog may include wildcard masks. For example:
Delete=*.tmp
f) removed "Allow external signature"
advanced SFX option and the corresponding "ExtSign" script
command. RAR 3.0 archive format includes the end of archive marker,
so SFX module automatically stops extraction when reaching the end
of archive and all data appended to archive are ignored by default;
g) if you specified INF file in SFX "Setup"
command, SFX will attempt to install it instead of opening its contents
in Notepad as in the previous version;
h) the new DOS SFX module is 32-bit, so it is
not limited to 64 KB dictionary more and can unpack any RAR 3.0
archives regardless of dictionary size;
i) "SFX options" button in the archiving
dialog opens directly "Advanced SFX options" without intermediate
selection of SFX module. If you need to change SFX type, use "Module"
page in the advanced SFX options.
Please note that new SFX modules are able to
unpack only RAR 3.0 archives. They must not be used with archives
created by older RAR versions. |
11. Switch -hp<pwd> can be used instead
of -p<pwd> to encrypt both file data and file headers, so
such information as file names, sizes, comments will not be visible
without a password.
"Encrypt file names" option in
the password dialog provides the same function in WinRAR shell. |
| 12. Added support for ISO9660 (.iso) file format,
which is widely used to store CD images. WinRAR is able to browse
and unpack contents of ISO files. WinRAR also supports Joliet extension
of ISO9660 and displays long file names inside of Joliet CD images. |
| 13. Using switch -mc you may set advanced compression
parameters such as prediction order and memory size for the text
compression algorithm. It is also possible in WinRAR shell using
"Compression..." button in the "Advanced" part
of archiving dialog. |
14. Switch -ms allows to specify files, which
will be stored without compression. For example, -msrar;zip;jpg.
It helps to increase archiving speed without noticeable loss in
the compression ratio.
The same option is available in WinRAR shell
through "Files to store without compression" field in
the advanced part of the archiving dialog. |
15. "Info" command now is available
also outside of archives, when working with uncompressed files.
One task of this command is getting information about selected files,
another is performing miscellaneous operations with groups of archives.
After the files scan step is completed, you may switch to other
pages of the dialog and apply commands like "Comment"
and "SFX" to all found RAR and ZIP archives.
"Info" replaces "Estimate"
command, which function is available as a part of the information
dialog. Amount of estimation information is reduced, because an
accuracy of Estimate results was not enough to provide reliable
results for different compression methods. |
| 16. "Comment", "Protect",
"SFX", "Lock" and "Extract" WinRAR
commands can be also used outside of archives. Their buttons are
disabled by default, but you may enable them in toolbar settings
or use "Commands" menu. "Repair" command is
also available inside of archives. |
| 17. "Test archived files" WinRAR option
and the command line switch -t allow to test files after archiving.
This option is especially useful in combination with the move command,
so files will be deleted only if archive had been successfully tested. |
| 18. "Backup" part of the archiving
dialog provides two new file time selecting modes allowing to archive
files modified before or after the specified date. |
| 19. Switches -ta<date> and -tb<date>
allow to add or extract files modified after or before the specified
date. Date format is YYYYMMDDHHMMSS. It is allowed to insert separators
like '-' or ':' to date string and omit trailing fields. For example,
the following switch is correct: -ta2001-11-20. |
20. Switch -ver tells RAR to keep old file versions
in archive when adding their new versions.
The corresponding WinRAR shell option is "Keep
previous file versions" in "Backup" part of archiving dialog. |
| 21. "My Network Places" item is added
to WinRAR address bar, so you may browse the network in WinRAR file
list. The address bar also includes some other shell folders like
"My Computer" and "My Documents". |
| 22. When you press "Up one level" toolbar
button or Backspace in the disk root, WinRAR will display the disks
list in the file panel. |
| 23. It is possible to copy and paste archived
and usual files in WinRAR with Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V keys. For example,
you may select some files in archive, press Ctrl+C, open a folder
in Explorer and press Ctrl+V to unpack selected files to that folder. |
| 24. "Pause" button added to the operation
progress window. Archiving progress window is now displaying time
left instead of total estimated time. |
| 25. CRC32 column is displayed inside of RAR,
ZIP, ACE and ARJ archives. CRC32 is the special control sum calculated
basing on file data and it may help to detect either two archived
files are the same without unpacking them. Same files always have
the same CRC32 value. |
| 26. When "Put each file in separate archive"
option in the archiving dialog is enabled, WinRAR uses a text entered
in the archive name field as the destination folder for created
archives. Previous versions ignored the archive name in the "separate
archives" mode. |
| 27. "Extract archives to subfolders"
option in the extraction dialog. It is available only when more
than one archive is unpacked. It will place unpacked contents of
each archive to separate subfolder, which name will be generated
basing on the archive name. |
| 28. Switch -ad appends an archive name to destination
path. It may be useful when unpacking a few archives at once, so
files from each archive will go to separate folder. |
| 29. "Extract each archive to separate folder"
item is present in Explorer context menu when unpacking a group
of archives. |
30. Two new options in WinRAR "Settings/General":
a) "Allow history in dialogs";
b) "Start in wizard mode". |
31. Switch -af<type> allows to define a
type of new archive in WinRAR command line. <Type> can be
'rar' or 'zip'. For example, 'winrar a -afzip arc' will create arc.zip
archive.
This switch is supported only by WinRAR. Console
RAR is not able to create ZIP archives. |
32. Switch -en disables adding "end of archive
block".
By default, RAR 3.0 adds "end of archive"
block to the end of new or updated archive. It allows to skip external
data like digital signatures safely, but in some special cases it
may be useful to disable this feature. For example, if an archive
is transferred between two systems via a unreliable link and at
the same time a sender adds new files to it, it may be important
to be sure that the already received file part will not be modified
on the other end between transfer sessions. |
| 33. Now RAR can update encrypted solid archives. |
| 34. "Exit" button is added to the toolbar.
It is disabled by default, you may enable it manually with "Select
buttons..." in WinRAR settings. |
| 35. "Select toolbar buttons" dialog
allows to change the order of toolbar buttons. Just select buttons
to move and press "Up" or "Down". Also you may
drag buttons directly on the toolbar while holding down the ALT
key. |
| 36. "Word wrap" option in "Settings/Viewer"
selects the default wrapping mode in new internal viewer windows. |
| 37. Console RAR sends error messages to stderr
instead of stdout. |
| 38. New '+' modifier for -ag switch allows to
place the date string before a base archive name. |
| 39. In the extraction dialog the entered folder
is opened in the folders tree automatically as you type, with a
small delay about 0.5 second. Also you may locate the currently
entered folder name in the tree pressing "Display" button. |
| 40. It is possible to use wildcards in the path
part of file mask in -x switch and "Files to exclude"
field of the archiving dialog. For example, -x*\temp\*. |
| 41. Switch -ilog accepts the optional log file
name parameter. For example, -ilogc:\log\backup.log. |
| 42. Improved Chinese and Japanese (DBCS encoded)
names processing in ZIP archives (RAR format already supported such
names since WinRAR 2.80). But anyway, it is recommended to use RAR
format for such names, because it uses more portable Unicode encoding
instead of ZIP DBCS. |
| 43. WinRAR uses new visual styles of Windows
XP controls. |
| 44. Improved processing of "Group Policies"
settings. Earlier it was possible to open a disk disabled in the
policies by pressing "Up" button inside of archive or
entering its path in the address bar. |
| 45. Console rar.exe executed from NT service
is continuing to run after user's logoff. |
| 46. If you attempt to close the command window
and an archiving or extraction operation is already performing for
more than one minute, WinRAR will ask for confirmation. |
| 47. WinRAR recognizes and processes TAR @LongLink
records. GNU TAR uses them to store names longer than 100 characters
in TAR archives. |
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