FreeArc Changelog

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