FreeArc

[pat357]

about FreeArc PowerPack - i.e. unofficial archive of executables. it would be great to update this archive too
and there are few non-english comments in arc.ini - how about translating them?

The packers are all on my HD, but often UPX or UPacked..
I'll have to "collect" all the original exe's because some virusscanners are triggered by the Upack'ed .exe's/dll's.
Translation of arc.ini comments : will do that too (but not today !)

[Bulat Ziganshin]

The packers are all on my HD, but often UPX or UPacked..
I'll have to "collect" all the original exe's because some virusscanners are triggered by the Upack'ed .exe's/dll's.

we can start with those executables and replace them later. i don't think it's too important. but providign archive of all executables involed in current arc.ini is real need. otherwise people will wonder looking at all this stuff

Translation of arc.ini comments : will do that too (but not today !)

fortunately, it's just a few strings. please use file from latests disttribution, i've edited it a bit

finally, i will edit more in order to separate simple things like i've done myself and your lots of compression modes

[vi6hd8]

update

edit:
new version crashed my system few times my system while doing "update", either manually from option or automatically on program start
its working up to the point where window with "new informations found" is shown, and then I can not do anything, none button can be pressed, any other program cannot be used, whole windows is stuck, however cursor still moves and its possible to close FreeArc from programs manager
it was never present on previous version
and its odd because sometimes its working normally without this issue... maybe its just my OS
vista x64 here

[Skymmer]

my plans are rarely becomes reality

Please don't be so pessimistic
As we see, some part of your plans works just great so I don't see any reasons to think that another part will fail.

in several months continue to work mainly on GUI...

I only hope that you will code the native GUI and will remove that... well lets say "cosmetically-unreasonable" GTK dependency which just waste the CPU cycles and distr. size.

make docs up-to-date

Its indisputably. I want to suggest you to pay a high attention to
'Параметры алгоритмов сжатия' (Adjustment of algorithms of compression) section. It would be nice to see all the options for every filter\compressor and also minimum\maximum accepted values for such options so anybody new to FA will not crack his head trying to investigate them by oneself.

upgrade to latest lzma that will improve speed

Just curious. What's the LZMA version the current FA LZMA implementation is based on ? Well, I see how much improvements have been done but what version did you started from and did you use some later versions ?

then, there are 3 big features to implement: volumes, freearc.dll and using 7z.dll
i don't yet know in which order to implement them, but they have higher priorities than everything else

Excuse me for possible dumb question but what's the purpose of freearc.dll ?
Is it the DLL which will contain all the compression routines ?
And whats the goal of using the 7z.dll ?

so new archives will be incompatible with previous freearc versions

Will the previous archives compatible with new FA versions ?

[Skymmer]

1.) Seems that 'Open Archive' button doesn't work when you're currently in the root of any disk in FA GUI browser.

2.) I can see all of my hidden folders in FA GUI browser but when I use some function which activates the Explorer standard dialog - those folders are not visible. Yes, I have option 'Do not show hidden files and folders' in Explorer's Folder Options turned on. But I suppose that will be good to have an option in FA GUI which controls it - or I see hidden folders everywere or I don't see them at all.

3.) If I'm currently inside the archive (for example Test.arc) and use 'Convert to SFX' command then Test.arc becomes Test.exe but 'full path field' is not updated and indicates that I'm still inside the 'Test.arc', not in the .exe, so any further SFX related commands don't work. I need manually to re-enter inside the 'Test.exe' to make them work.

[Black_Fox]

I only hope that you will code the native GUI

That dependency speeds up GUI development considerably. Also it assures program's working on all systems supporting GTK, with a bit of luck it can be just recompiled

[nanoflooder]

Is there a possibility to make, let's say, an option, which allows FreeArc to leave some highly redundant (e.g. precompressed) data uncompressed inside an .arc archive? I think that could improve the decompression time sometimes

[osmanturan]

...which allows FreeArc to leave some highly redundant (e.g. precompressed)...

Highly redundant=highly compressible,
Precompressed=incompressible
They are opposite Do not drink too much!

[Simon Berger]

The really funny part is that both is wrong. It should mean "highly compressed", "random" or "incompressible". Precompressed data should be "well" compressible because thats because thats the sense of it.

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Is there a possibility to make, let's say, an option, which allows FreeArc to leave some highly redundant (e.g. precompressed) data uncompressed inside an .arc archive? I think that could improve the decompression time sometimes

for incompressible files it's already supported by $compressed group. for inconpressible parts in binary files this will be supported once lzma2 will be added

1.) Seems that 'Open Archive' button doesn't work when you're currently in the root of any disk in FA GUI browser.

funny bug

2.) I can see all of my hidden folders in FA GUI browser but when I use some function which activates the Explorer standard dialog - those folders are not visible. Yes, I have option 'Do not show hidden files and folders' in Explorer's Folder Options turned on. But I suppose that will be good to have an option in FA GUI which controls it - or I see hidden folders everywere or I don't see them at all.

good idea for the next version

3.) If I'm currently inside the archive (for example Test.arc) and use 'Convert to SFX' command then Test.arc becomes Test.exe but 'full path field' is not updated and indicates that I'm still inside the 'Test.arc', not in the .exe, so any further SFX related commands don't work. I need manually to re-enter inside the 'Test.exe' to make them work.

good spotted. overall, it's not easy to predict archove extension after command execution (i.e. you need to parse whole command first and then parse several options), but i will look into analyzing just "sfx" box contents

[pat357]

we can start with those executables and replace them later. i don't think it's too important. but providign archive of all executables involed in current arc.ini is real need. otherwise people will wonder looking at all this stuff

I uploaded the "packers-collection" here : http://rapidshare.com/files/22254634..._17-04-2009.7z

My arc.ini :

[nanoflooder]

for incompressible files it's already supported by $compressed group. for inconpressible parts in binary files this will be supported once lzma2 will be added

Oh that's actually great I didn't know a thing about lzma2.

DESCRIPTION
-----------
LZMA2 provides the following advantages over LZMA:
1) Better compression ratio for data than can't be compressed.
It can store such blocks of data in uncompressed form.
Also it decompresses such data faster.
2) Better multithreading support. If you compress big file, LZMA2 can split
that file to chunks and compress these chunks in multiple threads.

That's what I love open software for - it feels like it's being made by human beings, not by some marketing monkeys with no soul and no clue about what people actually need
this, in fact, was the main reason for me to switch onto leenooks =)

[Bulat Ziganshin]

I uploaded the "packers-collection" here : http://rapidshare.com/files/22254634..._17-04-2009.7z

http://files.mail.ru/eng please. i can't use rapidshare

encoderu/encoderu login if file >100mb

[nanoflooder]

http://narod.ru/disk/7811262000/all_...4-2009.7z.html
Does this help you?

[JangoFatXL]

just for you

http://files.mail.ru/TACJWK

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Does this help you?

yes, thanks to all

[Bulat Ziganshin]

My arc.ini :

big thanks for update. but why you removed several compressors like old bcm versions? it's importnat to keep old compressors here so that archives created earlier can still be decompressed

[JangoFatXL]

btw
maybe you should build in a warning message, if someone uses external compressors, because you need that compressors to extract the created archives and cannot use sfx-exe-feature. Or better you can use it, BUT not extract it without freearc inclusive the external compressors...

[FreeArc Hunor]

Hi, this is the updated Hungarian language file.

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hi, this is the updated Hungarian language file.

great! can you send me your email via PM so i will be able to notify you in the future?

[pat357]

big thanks for update. but why you removed several compressors like old bcm versions? it's importnat to keep old compressors here so that archives created earlier can still be decompressed

You're right I guess....
I removed these because they 're far worse than the current BCM compression-wise...
I also removed the all the "Mix" version from Shelwien ; does anybody use these ? (except myself for testing).

But no harm done, I can upload the "full" version if you want...

--edit : this is the version before "clean-out" :

http://rapidshare.com/files/222515306/all_packers.7z

Everything is back in.

the arc.ini :

[Bulat Ziganshin]

--edit : this is the version before "clean-out" :

http://rapidshare.com/files/222515306/all_packers.7z

i'm out of business again who can help?

hopefully it also includes full arc.ini

not that it's really important now, but general rule is to keep backward compatibility so people can rely on this feature

[pat357]

i'm out of business again who can help?

hopefully it also includes full arc.ini

Because you're making such a great archiver, I'll re-up it

http://files.mail.ru/5OJ0P1

arc.ini is attached at previous post.

[JangoFatXL]

Small "issue":

If you check "test after compression", the additional line which you added later

"compressed size: ... total compressed size: ..."

disappears after compression in the test dialog.

The same behavior: if you chose test/extract from gui (main window or through "commands->...test/extract").

The strange thing in the second case is, that it doesn't happen always! In some combinations (sequentially of cource) of the commands "add", "exctract", "test", the line appears in test/extract box. In the "add" dialog it appears always.

[Bulat Ziganshin]

One more intermediate version:

http://www.haskell.org/bz/FreeArc-0....2009-04-19.exe
http://www.haskell.org/bz/FreeArc-po...2009-04-19.zip
http://www.haskell.org/bz/FreeArc-0....-04-19.tar.bz2
http://www.haskell.org/bz/FreeArc-co...2009-04-19.exe

A lot of work, mainly bugfixing, was done:

• added icon to arc.exe & freearc.exe
• Skin changer: more skins
• GUI: use stock icons for Yes/No/OK/Cancel/Close buttons
• GUI: save/restore UserID in registry in order to not lose it after reinstallation
• freearc.menu.example: updated to match current menu
• arc.ini: solved non-zero error code problems for packjpg, lzturbo (thanks to pat357)
• fixed (de)compression error handling
• Unarc: fixed bug: crashed on errors instead of displaying error message
• GUI: fixed bug: 'Open Archive' button doesn't work when you're currently in the root of any disk in FA GUI browser
• GUI: change archive name in window title when it's converted to/from SFX
• GUI: fixed bug: encrypted - edit comment - cancel -- resulted in program crash
• GUI: Linux: implemented Run operation for scripts/executables

If no more bugs will be reported, i will make release in a 3 days

ps: seems that site was just referred somewhere. there were ~150 visitors in just a few hours - an order of magnitude more than usual

[nanoflooder]

[Skymmer]

One more intermediate version

Big thanks Bulat !

If no more bugs will be reported, i will make release in a 3 days

So we have 72 hours for hunting

[Black_Fox]

In the newest portable version Nimbus theme throws out some entrypoint error during preview.

[pat357]

One more intermediate version:

A lot of work, mainly bugfixing, was done:[*]added icon to arc.exe & freearc.exe[*]Skin changer: more skins

Maybe a stupid question, but how do I change the Skins ?

[*]arc.ini: solved non-zero error code problems for packjpg, lzturbo (thanks to pat357)

It was more or less a "quick & durty" solution, but it worls !
You 've mentioned something about "adding" some extra things to the ARC.INI,
but I don't see these.... Maybe this is for the next release ?

Edit :
Another question : does the console ARC.EXE require the FACOMPRES.DLL ?
What about UNARC.EXE ?

[Black_Fox]

Maybe a stupid question, but how do I change the Skins ?

bin/gtk2_prefs.exe