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What is new in SH Archive Identifier 2.70 (28 Jul 2000)?
- added 54 new archive id's and 30 new sfx archive id's over a period of 6 months
What is new in SH Archive Identifier 2.60 (12 Jan 2000)?
- The following formats have been added: RK SFX, ZOO SFX, NRVDEMO, LZS221, IICOMP, 3270comp,
MS Compress, DOZ, AKT32, XPA32, Car, LHICE SFX, RKU, Flash, Car SFX, RK SFX, ZOO SFX
- Enhanced recognition for: IMP SFX, ZIP SFX, RAR SFX, ACE SFX,
LZH, ARQ 3.2+3.12, ZAR 2.60+2.6
- Fixed recognitions for: ARX SFX, ARJZ, SARJ
What is new in SH Archive Identifier 2.50 (16 Feb 1999)?
- Added formats: RAX (+sfx), CabPack SFX, HPA (+SFX), BZIP 1-2, ArHangel (+SFX), IMP, JRC SFX, EXP, PAR, Dvoinikov's PAK, SBX, RNC, IComp, HIT, NSK,
DST, ADS, BTSPK 2, BIX, LZA (+SFX), ARJX SFX, Crush
- Enhanced: many SFX recognitions: ZIP, ARJ(32), Hyper, RAR
- Enhanced: LZH now works well; it goes thru the archive and checks the highest version that have been used in archive compression
- Enhanced: GZIP / true TGZ recognition
- Fixed: X1 TGZ, UFA(32), LHA/LHark
What is new in SH Archive Identifier 2.42 (14 Jan 1998)?
- The following formats have been added: TAR, MSXIE, LGHA SFX, TGZ SFX
What is new in SH Archive Identifier 2.41 (10 Dec 1997)?
- Fixed: false LARC SFX recognitions with *.*
- Fixed: RAR authenticity verified SFXs
- Enhanced: BOA recognition
What is new in SH Archive Identifier 2.40 (04 Dec 1997)?
- The following formats have been added:
BOA, LZOP, ARG, 777, BTS, Magic 2, QFC, ELI 5750
- Fixed: ARI recognition of single-file archivers
- Fixed SFX recognition of: ACEjr 1.0c, LHarc 1.00, ARJX/MakeSFX (all models)
What is new in SH Archive Identifier 2.31 (08 Oct 1997)?
- The following formats have been added:
ARI, JARCS, RKive 2.0, UHARC
- Fixed problem with opening read-only files
- Fixed SFX recognition of: ACEjr 0.9d1 .. 1.0b, ESP 1.9, BSArc 1.6 and 1.9.3
- Enhanced recognition of LHark and LHark SFX
What is new in SH Archive Identifier 2.30 (23 May 1997)?
- The following formats have been added:
ARQ, ACE (+SFX +SFXjr), XPack, PKPAK SFX, BSArc 2.0,
AR7, NuLib, CAB, X1 TGZ, true TGZ, PSA, SKY SFX
- Added option /P which will pause the screen in usage 1
- Fixed SFX recognition of: PKZIPjr 1.10, LHarc SFX 1.12-1.14,
SQZ 1.08.2, ESP 1.8c, LARC exe
- Fixed false alarm of: older ARJ SFX
- Fixed recognition of: BSA 2.0 rel 1.10
(formerly tested only with rel 0.972), BSArc 1.6, 1.9.3
- Fixed recognition of: Codec 3.21, AIN 2.32
- Fixed: reading smaller files than 8 bytes
- Fixed: does not halt on errors in wildcard mode
- Fixed: did not close files in wildcard mode
- Widely tested with older versions of archivers
What is new in SH Archive Identifier 2.20 (30 April 1997)?
- The following formats have been added: ARJZ, UFA, TSComp, LEO (+SFX), ZAR, SKY, SOF, ZPK, MP3, ZET
- Added: AIN 2.32 SFX format (previous version 2.20 had no SFX feature)
- Fixed: false recognition of RKive archives
- Fixed: now recognizes older ARJ SFX files than v2.20 (tested on 0.20, 1.10, 2.00, 2.10)
- Fixed: removed special characters from file_id.diz (this caused problems in TriBBS systems)
- Fixed: /S (delete largest) option in ACVT.BTM
What is new in SH Archive Identifier 2.10 (10 February 1997)?
Comparing to SH Archive Identifier 2.00:
- The following formats have been added: ACB, RKive, JAR, ESP (+SFX), DPA
- Strenghtened recognition of PKZIP
- Added some more errorchecks
- A little bit faster
- Fixed: did not recognize big DWC archives
- Fixed: crashed on smaller executables than 30KB
- Removed "new" ARJ SFX specification (unnecessary)
What is new in SH Archive Identifier 2.00 (05 November 1996)?
- In addition to normal usage (default errorlevels, 1 parameter) the program can now be used like TESTFILE or Stacy Smith's ARCID: "archid %1 arj zip lha rar .."
- The following formats (and possible SFXs) have been added: AIN, AMGC, ARX, BSA, ChArc, Codec3, CrossePAC, DWC, FOXSQZ, HAP3, Hpack, JRchive, Larc, LHark, Limit, Mar, MDCD, Quantum, Quark, SqWez, YAC, X1
- All old & new formats have now been tested!
- Re-numbered errorlevels, normal archives correspond with the value of 100 and below
- According to File Format List 1.50, an added a support for:
- Newer ARJ SFX's
- Older LHA SFX versions (<2.13): LHarc 1.xx, LHA 2.10
- Fixed identifying routine for the following archive types: LHA, ZOO, GZIP
- Enhanced PKSFX identifying (also InfoZip)
- Differentiates between LHA, LHarc and SFX's of them
- Differentiates between LHarc and ARX file types
- Differentiates between LHA and LHark file types
- Differentiates between PKPAK and ARC files (special method)
- Fixed a bug in ARC/PAK files: some PAK files were identified as ARC files.
- Optimized the old part of the source code
- Additional errorlevels 249 and 250
- Enhanced help page: it's a 2-column list with clear topics, a screen pause and a monitor of redirection. Formerly it was a single column non-stopping list.
- Shows the errorlevels (also error codes) in brackets.
- Shows messages "open error", "close error"
SH Archive Identifier 1.00 (30 June 1996)
- First public version
- Some old and uncommon formats have been added (NOT TESTED): ARC, GZIP, HA, HYP, PAK, SQZ, ZOO