PrepZip 1.60 Whats New Released 09-10-91 Rob Roesch Net/Node 064/003 704-492-2081 Modem 704-492-2023 Voice ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ» º Changes,Additions,Etc.º ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³8-15-91 to 9-05-91³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ PrepZip 1.50 Official Release ARJ comments have been added. You can now add a "Archive Comment" to either ZIP or ARJ archives. Not much else really.... A few cosmetic changes, optimization changes, etc.... Just have not had the free time I would like to code..... ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³8-10-91 to 8-15-91³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ PrepZip 1.54 BETA The ability to remove unwanted files from within the archive is now a reality. You will find on the first page of the configuration, an added variable. It has been named "Unwanted List" for lack of a better term. In this field, put the name of a plain ASCII text file that contains a list of filenames that you want deleted before a new archive is created. Here's an example..... C:\>TYPE DEL_LIST.TXT READ-ME.TXT BBD-ADD.TXT CALL_US.NOW README.* COME_C.US C:\> Notice that each file is on a separate line and STARTS IN COLUMN ONE. This is very important! Also notice the filename README.*, yes PrepZip WILL delete all occurrences of README with ANY extension. Please be careful with this file. If you place *.* on a line by itself, PrepZip will delete EVERY file out of the archive, no questions asked. You have the capability of deleting any files that you want, but at the same time you have the capability of deleting files that you DON'T want deleted. Use with caution. Along with this new option comes a new command line parameter '/I'. If you put /I on the command line PrepZip WILL NOT delete any files prior to rearchiving. This is kind of an override that will allow you to configure your Unwanted Listing, but skip the processing on certain archives. By the way, /I stands for 'Ignore Unwanted List'. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³8-08-91 to 8-10-91³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ PrepZip 1.53 BETA First thing that happened with this version was a bug fix reported by Dennis Ivy. PrepZip was not exiting with ERRORLEVEL 2 as it was supposed to when an archive was unsuccessfully processed. This is now fixed. The major change for this version is the addition of a third configuration screen. Your Virus Scanner can now be completely configured. Additional information that you may now specify include the following...... Initial Run Options: This will allow you to configure the command line options for the first run of your virus scanner. If you want to run a memory scan on the first execution of your scanner, specify that option here. These options will be passed to the scanner ONLY on the first execution of your scanner..... Sequential Run Opts: This will allow you to configure the command line options for any and all sequential runs of your virus scanner. Unless you want to run a memory scan each time your scanner runs, place your scanners option here that dis- allows memory scanning. This set of options will be passed on every virus scanner run following the first one...... Virus Scanner Errorlevels: Three Virus Scanner Errorlevel exits are configureable. The 'Normal Exit' number should correspond to the errorlevel your virus scanner passes if no virus' were found and no problems were incurred. The 'Virus Detected' number should correspond to the errorlevel your virus scanner passes if a virus was found in any of the files. The 'Abnormal Exit' number should correspond to the errorlevel your virus scanner passes if an error occurs during operation, but no virus' was detected. Please consult your virus scanner documentation for the appropriate errorlevels. NOTE: PrepZip will default to the parameters needed to use SCAN.EXE from McAfee Associates. No changes are necessary if you are using this Virus Scanner. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³7-30-91 to 8-08-91³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ PrepZip 1.52 BETA A new command line option: /R Using /R on the command line will tell PrepZip NOT to check files for Virus. Basically if /R is used, the Scanning Section of PrepZip will be entirely skipped. This command line option was requested so that PrepZip could be used as a archive converter only. If you have already checked an archive for a virus, PrepZip can now convert the archive to another format without duplicating the virus scanning. /R can also be placed into the Default Options section in PrepZip's configuration, but I don't really see a need for doing it. If you never want to check for virus' simply configure the Scan Path to NONE. Of course a /R in the Default Options can be bypassed with the use of /O on the command line. This was suggested by Jim Knight. If you are converting to ZIP,ARJ,or LZH format, the attributes of the files contained within the archive will be maintained. Previous versions of PrepZip were removing all attributes from the archived files. Older versions of today's popular archivers may not support the command line options that are now passed to the archiver from PrepZip. PrepZip has been tested with the following versions of archivers: LHA version 2.05 Copyright(c) 1988-91, H.Yoshizaki PKZIP Version 1.1 Copr. 1989-1990 PKWARE Inc. ARJ Version 2.20 Copyright (c) 1990,91 Robert K Jung. The following command line options are passed to the archivers by PrepZip to allow for file attributes. Extracting: PKUNZIP -Jhsr ARJ e -y LHA x -a Compressing: PKZIP -wHS -Jhsr LHA a -a ARJ a -e -a Thanks goes to Michael Kuhl for reminding me about file attributes. ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³7-15-91 to 7-30-91³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ PrepZip 1.51 BETA Additions to the Configuration Page 2 and some deletions from the command line arguments. PrepZip now allows you to use any Virus Scanner that you choose, ie. it does not expect the scanner to be from McAfee Associates. You will notice that a new config option has been added under the Scan Pathname. This section allows you to place any and all command line arguments that your 'virus scanner' requires for proper oper- ation. Now for the deletions that I referred to..... -NM and -NA have been removed. If you want to modify your 'virus scanner' with command line options you MUST configure the 'Virus Scanner Opts.' on Page 2 of the configuration. The seed for this idea came from Ken Opdyke. When converting to ARJ style archives, PrepZip will tell ARJ.EXE *NOT* to store the pathnames in the archive. PrepZip 1.50 was storing \PZ_WRK_1 in the name of the archive for each file that was placed into the ARJ. -e is now placed on the ARJ command line to prevent the storage of complete pathnames. Thanks to Ricky Schradin for finding this bug. Some minor changes: Notice the new format of the "meter" that is displayed on the "Processing" display. Gave it more of a Norton style look. Also some of the configuration displays were rehashed just a bit, minor however...... Also PrepZip will not report UNREGISTERED upon the completion of configuration if you do correctly enter the Registered Name and Registered CRC. Previously PrepZIp would say you were unregistered until the next run...... Thanks to Jim Knight for finding that one.