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- WinZip(R) version 6.3 (SR-1)
- Copyright (C) 1991-1997 Nico Mak Computing, Inc.
- All Rights Reserved
-
- ** Disk Spanning **
-
- WinZip 6.3 features an updated zip/unzip engine with automatic built-in
- disk spanning support for multi-disk Zip files. If you create a zip
- file on diskettes and the first diskette fills, then disk spanning is
- automatically activated, and you are simply prompted to put in a new
- diskette to continue the archive. There is no need to specify that you
- want to span before you start.
-
- ** Interface to WinZip Internet Browser Support Add-On **
-
- WinZip includes an interface to the free Internet Browser Support
- Add-On, which allows users to download and open archives from the
- Internet with one click via Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Netscape
- Navigator. There is no need to "Save to disk" and then switch to WinZip
- or to the Windows Explorer or File Manager to open the downloaded file.
- In addition, all files that have been downloaded are automatically
- copied from the Internet Browser's temporary folders to a folder of the
- user's choice; this ensures that a permanent copy of the download is
- saved on the user's system, even if the downloaded file is automatically
- deleted by the browser.
-
- ** Windows 95 & NT Explorer context (right-click) menus enhancements **
-
- - New "Add to <filename.zip>" entry to easily compress files in place.
- - New "Extract to folder <filename>" makes it easy to unzip in place.
- - New "Create Self-Extractor" entry makes self-extracting zip files.
- - All WinZip context menus have a WinZip icon for easier identification.
-
- ** Other features in the new zip/unzip engine **
-
- - Empty folders are restored when unzipping.
- - Empty folders are stored when zipping (however, they are not listed
- in the main WinZip window for cosmetic reasons).
- - Empty folders are removed after a successful "Move" zip operation.
- - Attributes are automatically restored while unzipping.
- - Attribute support for Zip files in the Add and Drop dialog boxes:
- - Include files only if archive attribute is set.
- - Reset archive attribute after adding files.
- - Include system and hidden files.
- - Option to "Skip Older Files" while extracting.
-
- ** Other changes **
-
- - WinZip includes a work-around for a bug in DCOM95 and some pre-
- release versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 that results in a
- "Path too long" message when using the Extract dialog box under
- Windows 95.
- - WinZip no longer includes an option to run the MS-DOS PKZIP 2.04g
- (WinZip has not needed PKZIP/PKUNZIP to perform basic zipping and
- unzipping operations for the past several releases, but some users
- have assumed from the presence of this option that WinZip is only
- a shell for PKZIP/PKUNZIP, and required these programs for basic
- operations).
- - The Add and Drop dialog boxes include a Password button as an
- alternative to the Options->Password dialog box.
- - Improvements to "View Last Output" dialog box:
- - RichEdit control used under Windows 95 and NT for higher capacity.
- - View Last Output results improved while testing Zip files:
- - OK appears after each line.
- - summary line appears at the end of the listing.
- - The WinZip Wizard now handles password protected files.
- - WinZip handles certain invalid zips more gracefully.
- - WinZip Self-Extractor Personal Edition supports password protected
- zip files.
- - Under Windows 95 and NT, WinZip Self-Extractor Personal Edition is now
- a 32-bit EXE file (while earlier versions made it possible to build
- 32-bit self-extracting Zip files, the program that created these
- 32-bit files was actually a 16-bit program).
- - 32-bit self-extracting Zip files support Microsoft(R) Authenticode(tm)
- technology. In earlier versions, the self-extracting Zip file's
- integrity check conflicted with Authenticode. (For information on
- Authenticode, visit the Microsoft home page, click the "Search" button
- and search for "authenticode code signing".)
-
- ** WinZip 6.3 (SR-1) **
-
- This is SR-1 (Service Release 1) of WinZip 6.3. It includes a solution
- to a problem in the original release of WinZip 6.3 that occurred only
- when making changes to Zip files containing certain kinds of "extra"
- information, such as the OS/2 extended attribute information saved by
- some OS/2 Zip utilities. (Zip files created by WinZip itself, or by any
- other MS-DOS or Windows Zip utility that we are aware of, were not
- affected, with the exception of Zip files created by version 2.1a or
- later of the InfoZip group's text-mode Win32 Zip utility.) For details
- on this problem, see the web page http://www.winzip.com/wz63sr1.htm.
-
- ** Additional Information **
-
- Information on new features in previous versions of WinZip is included
- in the online help file.
-