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│ 15.57 │ Minor and bug-fix release │
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■ Fixed the problems with ArcInArc. This was a very nasty and hard to
track problem. Thanks to one of our beta-testers (Felix Mueller from
Muenchen) who experimented with the various settings, I was able to
pinpoint the problem and to correct it. Normally only users who use
the BBSPaths option would have the problems. Fixed;
■ Thanks to another beta-tester (Bob R. from the USA) I was able to
track another nasty problem. Sometimes files would be removed from
the archive (only 1 reporter of problems though). It seemed that the
wildcard-routine was invalid in a way that it matched A.REG with a
file A.RE (or B.DL with B.DLL). Fixed;
■ Fixed problems with OS/2 HPFS and *NIX extended filenames. For OS/2
there seems to be a reversed engineered ZIP-alike program which can
produce ZIP files with these files. The internals for these files
are NOT correct though because directories cause problems. If a OS/2
ZIP file contains extended filenames (like D:\MYDIR\HELPME_OS2.TEST)
MTA will now ignore these archives (warning) and will not try to
convert them. These files CAN occur in the pick-list (MTA without a
selection) as the pick-list will not look at the filenames of the
archive. MTA will;
■ Fixed problems with some invalid files inside ARJ archives. If such
an archive contains invalid files (files with spaces), MTA will then
ignore the archive like with OS/2 HPFS files with extended filenames
inside the archive;
■ Sometimes files were not deleted from temporary directories (most
obvious when using /SIM with archives containing files with READONLY
and HIDDEN attributes). This is fixed;
■ Many strange errors in the DPMI version were fixed as a result of
an update of the 3PV routines I use;
■ As I had to rewrite the wildcard selection routine (see bug above) I
could add a whole new suite of wildcards. See chapter 3.15 for the
complete list of supported wildcards. Almost all selection routines
have been altered to allow the new wildcards (including sets, NOT
relations and 4DOS compatible wildcards). BE WARNED that the new and
much requested wildcards CAN cause strange mismatches when files
actually contain these wildcards (like [123] and {az}). The old and
conventional wildcards will (hopefully) give you no problems;
■ Added the StowbeforeSubst option to make it possible to pass some
characters to the keyboard buffer (like Y^M or N^M). Some of these
programs (like MAP.EXE) sometimes need an answer. Normally this
would cause MTA to halt until the answer was given;
■ When you create a GOMTA.BAT file with the help of the online help
(MTA /?), MTA will now display that this batch-file is created;
■ The little file-list window at the right border of the screen (when
MTA is switched in this mode) would already display LHA 1 and LHA 2
for LHA archives and will now also display ZIP 1 and ZIP 2 for the
old and new formats of PKZIP (only a cosmetic change, internally MTA
already knows the difference between PKZIP V 1.xx and 2.xx formats;
■ Added the /WTI{+|-} option to switch the WarningTime value on the
command-line to ON or OFF;
■ Added the UNZIPCompression option and the related /CU command-line
parameter to add extra options to PKUNZIP.EXE. Normally you don't
need to add -o as it is impossible within MTA that a file should be
overwritten by another file from the same archive. See the notes on
ZIP for a special case that could need the -o option;
■ Changed the ExcludeFile option in a way that it is now possible to
limit the excluded files also on minimum and/or maximum size (both
in combination with a filemask). Also added the option to allow one
special filemask <ARCNAM>.ext for which the <ARCNAM> part at runtime
is replaced by MTA with the name of the original archive (eg. T.ZIP
containing an advertisement as T.SEC);
■ Added an example for the IBM IBMAVSP.EXE virus detection program and
added *.OBJ to the example VirusMask option. Thanks to Jan Terpstra
of IBM Nederland for the information !
■ Changed much of the internal code and optimized the overlay version
a bit;