History of revisions for AC(Archive Converter) =============================================================================== *(NR)==Not Released Version 1.08 Rev.B [08-01-91] ============================= -Fixed bug that caused AC to report an error message even though there were no errors. Version 1.08 Rev.A [07-30-91] ============================= -Minor modifications to code. Version 1.08 [07-29-91] (NR) ======================= -Added support for .LZS file created with larc.exe program Version 1.07 [07-29-91] (NR) ======================= -Added support for .PAK files using pak V2.51 archiver Version 1.06B [07-29-91] (NR) ======================== -Added recursive ability to continually check & prompt for new file name until unique name is given. Version 1.06A [07/28/1991] (NR) ========================================= -Minor modifications. When entering new file name an extension is automatically added, unless it is given Version 1.06 [07/28/1991] (NR) ======================================== -AC will now ask for new file name if it already exists. -Output fixed when using /s option. Problem w/ARJ not producing a carraige return when executing. Version 1.05 [07/27/1991] (NR) ======================================== -AC now converts MD files created with MDCD archive program. Version 1.04 Rev. C [07/24/1991] (NR) =============================================== -If a file conversion is processed, but there are errors and the new file is not created, then AC will not delete the original file. Version 1.04 Rev. B [07/21/1991] ================================ -AC will report an error message if a given file or file specification was not found. Version 1.04 Rev. A [07/17/1991] ================================ -AC now accepts multiple filespecs on command line. All files will be converted to same archive type, but can convert multiple types to one type. EG 'AC *.arj *.dwc' will convert all arj & dwc files to ZIP files Version 1.03 Rev. C [07/14/1991] ================================ -Maintenance upgrade. Minor modifications to screen output Version 1.03B (NR) ===================================== -Maintenance upgrade. Screen output, more organized. Added feature to output totals, but only if more than one file is processed. Version 1.03A ============= -Added feature to report percent difference(approximate) and difference in bytes for each archive converted, also tells whether new file is larger or smaller. Version 1.03 [07/13/1991] ========================= -Added feature to the program to ouput the total number of files processed after all files are converted. -Added more descriptive error message if trying to convert archive to same type. -AC now handles ZIP files inside of ZIP files, or any archive type with the same type inside it. -Reports file sizes of the original archive and new archive Version 1.02 [07/11/1991] ========================= -Added /S option to show output to screen. Can be useful to see just what is happening if things aren't working correctly. -Fixed bug with ZOO.EXE where if a file had no extension it would not be included when using the *.* option. This is a problem with ZOO, and can be duplicated from dos with command 'ZOO a test.zoo *.*' where you have a file with no extension, it will not be compressed! To operate properly: use this command:'ZOO a test.zoo *.* *' Version 1.01 [07/08/1991] ========================= -Fixed bug that caused a temporary path to be included in archive file when it was converted. -Added feature to output name of file being converted, useful when proccessing multiple files, to show progress Version 1.00A [06/30/1991] (NR) ========================================= -Fixed bug which caused AC to crash if pkunzip V1.02 were used since that version does not support a '-e' switch when extracting. -Removed some reduntant code left over from pre-1.00 versions. Version 1.00 [06/29/1991] ========================= -Initial release of AC, fully functional.