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»X-Arc is an archive management program for the Amiga, designed in a similar fashion to WinZip(r) on Windows(r) systems and Stuff-It(r) for MacOS(r).

X-Arc is somewhat different from previously released archive management tools: those programs provided no more than a graphical interface on top of existing archiver commands, often in a incomplete and inflexible way.

X-Arc offers the user an extremely intuitive interface for the more often performed operations, whilst complimenting this with a range of advanced options suitable for the expert user.

X-Arc provides the user with a brand new and sophisticated way to add files to an archive, mixing speed and power never seen in any similar program on any operating system.

X-Arc is based on a modular concept, allowing any third party to develop modules to handle new archive formats without having to alter the main program.

X-Arc offers the ability to perform many operations, using drag , from within the main program or with standard Workbench icons (ie. drag files from your Workbench screen to X-Arc's lister window). X-Arc also supports drag with Scalos based lister windows.

X-Arc's interface is highly configurable and customisable.

X-Arc allows the user to install software from within the archives, in a matter of seconds, with its installer support.

Where to download it:

FTP:
ftp.vapor.com, pub/xarc/
ftp.us.vapor.com, pub/xarc/
ftp.au.vapor.com, pub/xarc/
ftp.pl.vapor.com, pub/vapor/xarc/

AmiNet, util/arc

X-Arc.lha, 598500 Bytes (Note that ftp.us.vapor.com has generally the best connectivity of the listed mirror sites)

WWW: http://www.vapor.com/ http://vapor.ukonline.co.uk/ (File mirror only) http://www.meanmachine.ch/vapor/ (File mirror only) http://www.AmyResource.it/X-Arc/

New features since X-Arc last release (1.2) include:

• Installer support: you can now install software from within X-Arc, without the needs to extract the archive, by just press the install button
• Several major and minor bugfixes
• Speed improvement
• Some GUI redesign
• Some new small functions and optimized old ones
• Some new settings in the preferences
• Other minor ones improvements

• 4 months spent to rewrite almost all program's basic routines
• Several bugs fixed, some of which where severe ones
• Fixed some illegal memory accesses
• Loading and parsing routines totally rewritten
• All secondary routine has been adapted to the new internal program design
• You can now update the contents of a directory of loaded archive without having to reload the whole archive
• If you perform an operation within one branch of the archive (e.g. adding a file), only this branch is updated. The whole archive is not reloaded again
• New routines can handle flawlessly even archives version 1.1 had problem to manage
• Version 1.2 is 1.5 times faster than the previous version, which is a good result since new routines are more sophisticated and reliable
• Scalos support for drag
• A file-attributes column added
• Other minor ones