What's new in FreeArc 0.52
May 12, 2009
- GUI: Skin changer provides more themes; default theme was also improved
- GUI: You can change menu/toolbar (just copy freearc.menu.example to
- freearc.menu and edit it as you wish)
- GUI: Run any program/document just by double-click (or Enter) on it
- GUI: Single-click on the empty space at the right clears selection,
- double-click selects all files
- GUI: If you move/resize any window, dialog or filemanager column - its size and
- position are preserved
- GUI: You can sort columns by clocking on column header, second click reverses
- sorting; sorting order is preserved too
- GUI: FAR-like keys for marking files: Shift+ Shift- Ctrl+ Ctrl- Alt+ Alt-
- GUI: You can start a file search by typing the first letters of its name. *?
- wildcards are also supported
- GUI: Every day FreeArc automatically checks for program updates via Internet
- FAR/TC plugins: support for copy/move of empty directories to/from archive
- Windows: unicode (utf-16) cmdline processing
- Encoding selection options: -sct for console; -sci for logfile; -scf for
- filenames on disk (Linux only)
- "-ms-" option: disable fast compression of already compressed files
- "lt" command: technical archive listing
- --language=LANGFILE option provides translation of error/warning messages for
- console version
- -rr0.1%, -rr0.01% options support (translated to -rr0*4kb, -rr0*64kb)
- -m1xx..-m4xx: very fast decompression modes (by default, require 1gb of free
- memory to decompress!)
- Tornado: support for :t :ah :al options, :l that's not power of 2; tor:7:c1 ..
- tor:11:c3; checks at decoding in order to prevent segfaults
- Installer SFX-es: freearc-installer*.sfx: extracts into tempdir, runs setup.exe
- and then optionally deletes extracted files
- External compressors: Copies data intact when compression program returned non-zero error code
- External compressors: Raises error when decompression program returned non-zero error code
- External compressors: Improved syntax for description of external compressors
- arc.ini: large 40kb variant with support for External Compressors PowerPack
- Initial CLS support (external compressors in cls-*.dll), see AddonsCLS directory
- Error code 21 is returned when archive/file cannot be decrypted using supplied password
- Logfile: hiding passwords used in cmdline/cfgfile