Version 2.90
1. Added extraction only support of BZIP2, JAR (Java ARchive)
and ACE 2.0 formats.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. New 'E' parameter for -ag switch denotes a day of year.
For example: rar a -agEEE backup.
5. 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.
6. The choice "Never" is added to the file overwrite request
displayed by console mode RAR. Style of console RAR requests
is somewhat altered.
7. "Extract Here" item is added to archives context menu.
You may use it to unpack archive contents to the current folder.
8. 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.
9. File selection is not cleared when a user cancels the archiving
in WinRAR, so it is possible to repeat archiving without
selecting files again.
10. File lists (@listfile parameters of the command line) may now
contain comments preceeded by // characters. For example:
c:\work\doc\*.txt //backup text documents
c:\work\image\*.bmp //backup pictures
11. Disks disabled in the system policy are not displayed in the toolbar
and "Change drive" menu.
12. Bugs corrected:
a) switches -y -inul did not disable some messages in GUI WinRAR;
b) sometimes WinRAR could display "Cannot create temporary file"
error when opening a lot of archived files for a short time;
c) 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.
1. Added extraction only support of BZIP2, JAR (Java ARchive)
and ACE 2.0 formats.
2. Now it is possible to use full file paths such as d:\path\name
in the exclude lists and -x
Earlier versions understood only relative file paths here.
3. 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.
4. New 'E' parameter for -ag switch denotes a day of year.
For example: rar a -agEEE backup.
5. 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.
6. The choice "Never" is added to the file overwrite request
displayed by console mode RAR. Style of console RAR requests
is somewhat altered.
7. "Extract Here" item is added to archives context menu.
You may use it to unpack archive contents to the current folder.
8. 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.
9. File selection is not cleared when a user cancels the archiving
in WinRAR, so it is possible to repeat archiving without
selecting files again.
10. File lists (@listfile parameters of the command line) may now
contain comments preceeded by // characters. For example:
c:\work\doc\*.txt //backup text documents
c:\work\image\*.bmp //backup pictures
11. Disks disabled in the system policy are not displayed in the toolbar
and "Change drive" menu.
12. Bugs corrected:
a) switches -y -inul did not disable some messages in GUI WinRAR;
b) sometimes WinRAR could display "Cannot create temporary file"
error when opening a lot of archived files for a short time;
c) 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.