WinRAR, старият конкурент на WinACE бе обновен да версия 2.90 Бета 1. Какво е новото в нея:

Added extraction only support of BZIP2, JAR (Java ARchive) and ACE 2.0 formats.

Now it is possible to use full file paths such as d:\path\name in the exclude lists and -x switch when archiving. Earlier versions understood only relative file paths here.

New option "Append archive name to path" in the "Settings/Compression" dialog. It is used only if the default folder for extracted files is specified and it controls if the archive name is appended to the default folder name when constructing the destination path.

New 'E' parameter for -ag switch denotes a day of year. For example: rar a -agEEE backup.

To provide a reasonable tradeoff between compression and reliability, RAR resets solid statistics between volumes only if sufficient data (about 4 MB) had been processed since the last reset.
- You may use two new switches to change this default behaviour. Switch -sv forces RAR to always reset statistics, regardless of volume size, when -sv- disables such reset at all times.
- Switch -sv- supersedes -sd, though the latter is also recognized by RAR for compatibility purposes.

The choice "Never" is added to the file overwrite request displayed by console mode RAR. Style of console RAR requests is somewhat altered.

"Extract Here" item is added to archives context menu. You may use it to unpack archive contents to the current folder.

If you selected several archives in Explorer and then right clicked them, the context menu will include both archiving and extraction commands, so you may unpack all the archives at once.
- The old group unpacking method, through dragging a group by the right mouse button to the destination folder, is also supported.

File selection is not cleared when a user cancels the archiving in WinRAR, so it is possible to repeat archiving without selecting files again.

File lists (@listfile parameters of the command line) may now contain comments preceeded by // characters.

Disks disabled in the system policy are not displayed in the toolbar and "Change drive" menu.

BUGFIX: Switches -y -inul did not disable some messages in GUI WinRAR;

BUGFIX: Sometimes WinRAR could display "Cannot create temporary file" error when opening a lot of archived files for a short time;

BUGFIX: Now RAR skips archived names like 'prn', which belong to devices reported by Windows 2000 as pipe. Names of character devices are skipped by both this and previous WinRAR versions.

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