2002

   RAR - What's new in the latest version


   Version 3.20 beta 1

   1. Previous WinRAR and RAR versions stored only the file modification
      time and only in DOS FAT format with 2 seconds precision.
      While it was enough for FAT, modern file systems provide a higher
      precision. Now RAR format can preserve modification, creation and
      last access time with the precision up to 0.0000001 second.
      The following changes had been done to support this facility:

      a) new "Time" part of archiving dialog includes "File time to store"
         options controlling file time processing. Other time related
         options also had been moved from "Backup" to "Time" section;

      b) new "Advanced" part of extraction dialog contains "File time"
         options allowing to select time fields to restore;

      c) command line -ts<m,c,a> switch chooses time fields to process
         and precision of these fields;

      Time precision provided by ZIP format is not changed and equal
      to 2 seconds.

   2. Changes in the extraction dialog:

      a) extraction dialog has been split to "General" and "Advanced"
         parts;

      b) "Display files in Explorer" option in "General" part instructs
         WinRAR to open Explorer window and display contents of
         destination folder when extraction is done;

      c) "Save settings" button saves the current state of both parts
         ("General" and "Advanced"). Saved state will be used as
         the default when activating the dialog next time. WinRAR saves
         all options except the destination path;

      d) "Advanced" part includes "File time" options allowing to
         select time fields to restore;

      e) new "Set file security" option in "Advanced" part controls
         restoring of NTFS file security information. Previous versions
         always extracted this information.

   3. It is possible to rename files inside of RAR archives.
      It can be done either with "Rename file" command in "Commands"
      menu or in the context menu displaying on the right mouse click.
      In the command line mode you may use 'rn' command for this
      purpose.

   4. "Next volume" dialog allows to choose the disk or folder for
      a new volume. WinRAR displays this dialog when creating volumes
      on removable disks or if "Pause after each volume" option
      is switched on. Previous versions did not allow to modify
      the volume name here.

   5. "Test" and "Convert" commands can be applied to archives
      directly from Explorer context menu. By default these menu
      items are disabled, but you may enable them in WinRAR
      "Settings/Integration/Context menu items..." dialog.

   6. "Pause" item added to context menu displayed on the right mouse
      button click on WinRAR tray icon. So you may pause WinRAR minimized
      to tray and continue it without restoring WinRAR to normal window.

   7. If one of SFX volumes is missing, SFX archive displays
      "Next volume" dialog proposing to browse for required volume.

   8. WinRAR allows to resize the window containing results of "Find"
      command. It saves modified window dimensions and restores them
      when using "Find" next time.

   9. Toolbar: