ZDIFF 2.3 : What's new ?? 2.3 : FIXED : Files containing 3 '-' or more in their names no longer cause ZDiff to stop reading archives or lists after they are read. FIXED : Pathnames over 80 chars were truncated - now limit is 128. FIXED, ZIP reading didn't work with Win95 because temp file ZDIFF.NEW, used to test temp dir, was not closed after use. FIXED, seconds discarded from LST made from ZIPs (without seconds) ADDED, error dialog box when open errors on files, so you can Retry, Skip or Abort. ADDED, '-Ex' to skip files with errors automatically. ADDED, in the status dialog, files skipped because of errors. ADDED, '-FD' to scan hidden/system DIRECTORIES also (i.e. Win95's) ADDED, reference to my WEB page (updates ,infos) in closing screen and in help screens. 2.2 : FIXED : Errorlevel now correctly set in Automatic mode. FIXED : Empty directories (that have subdirectories but no file in the root) are now correctly handled by ZDiff. ADDED : Documentation on using SHARE with ZDiff in protected mode. ADDED : Confirmation dialog when saved file exists. CHANGED : Better support of hidden/system files in directories. CHANGED : LIST filenames no more need to be preceded by '@' to be recognized as LISTS (@ still works for compatibility). The extension .LST selects automatically LIST files. CHANGED : Directories that have an archive extension are well recognized as directories and not as archives. (You can scan a directory called ALL.ZIP) CHANGED : In saved DIFF files, if two files have different sizes, they are automatically 'Different' even if CRC is ignored. CHANGED : Better Legend dialog. 2.1b : FIXED : The last file of the list was not displayed if the list was more than one screen long. ADDED : Better control of resource file errors at open. 2.1 : ADDED /F option to include special attributes files (Hidden and/or System files) ADDED the environment variable ZDIFF to set a path where to search the unarchivers. (pkunzip.exe, arj.exe, zoo.exe, etc) ex : SET ZDIFF=D:\UTIL\ARCTOOLS ADDED detection of keyboard while scanning, so when a key is pressed, a dialog box appears, waiting for your choice (continue or abort) ADDED a confirmation dialog before quitting, if a list in memory is not saved. ADDED : if any difference is found (according to filters options), the ERRORLEVEL (DOS exit code) is set to 2. So you can detect this in a batch file. FIXED the /b (batch) output so that only file names are saved to file, so this file can be re-used as input to an other program FIXED the color of the message 'No file matching filter' 2.0 : ADDED Turbo Vision visual interface -> much more handy ! ADDED the /A switch, to use standard output like in version 1.4 ADDED Colorization of results on screen ADDED eXclude filters (act on comparison criteria) ADDED Ignore filters (act on dates, size or crc) ADDED side-by-side output, for screen and/or file output (option) CHANGED sort order - dirs and files are now independant in sort DPMI version available separately 1.4 : ADDED the LIST feature. Now you can GENERATE a list from a set of files. (using /L) Later, you can re-use this list as any other set of files : you can use it to compare to another list, directory or archive. (use @FileName as the list file name) Note : you can also specify a label which will be included in the list - use /Lxxxx, where xxxx is your own label. Slightly changed the output, to allow more room for pathnames. FIXED : if a directory with no file in it, but with sub-directories was specified, and wildcards was used, ZDiff couldn't use it. This was fixed (in 12/29/93 version). 1.3 : CHANGED the GetDateformat information to use DOS Country accurate information only, instead of KEYB country flag. ADDED Japan date format in /Cx (override). ADDED /B option : Batch output. This tells ZDiff to output only the file names. You may use it in conjonction with -D (Diffs only) to obtain a list of the changed files, re-usable in an other program. (archivers...) ADDED /M option, Matching files only, to display only the files that are both in the NEW and OLD set of files. ADDED /Z trouble shooting option, to display technical informations while running, like date format used, ZIP format detected, and more. Use it if you think that the date format is not well detected on your machine, for example. This option doesn't appear in the help screen. ENFORCED ZIP control : Using PKUNZIP.EXE output, if compress ratio is 100%, or files are more than 999999 bytes, then the lines scroll on the right. This is now handled in ZDiff. ADDED Subdirs warning : Now, if you haven't specified the -R option, and an archive involved in the comparison contains directory path, a message is displayed to warn you, that NOT all the files from the archive were scanned. ADDED NoPath option : now, you can compare a ZIP or directory that contains subdirs, to a ZIP or directory that doesn't contains subdirs. You can then compare a 'built' version of a software, where elements are located in subdirs, and the development version, where all the elements are stored in the same directory. (there are many other applications for this option) CHANGED the way ZDiff display results in Quick mode, when two files have a size or date or time difference, it is marked as 'Differs' instead of 'Same'. Before, if CRC was not computed, files were assumed to be identical, and 'Same' was displayed, even if the time or size difference was indicated on the same line. 1.2d : DPMI support added. Now, you can scan very large disks, and even compare huge CD-ROM disks ! The maximum number of files you can compare is 16380 with the DPMI version, and between 5000 and 9000 with the DOS version (approx.). END OF "WHAT's NEW"