Download FreeArc 0.51

FreeArc is an open source archiving program that can run on Windows, Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD. It includes various optimizations to compress the data quickly and compactly as in various tests of Maximum Compression is visible. The developers have released version 0.51 with the following list of changes:

Main changes in this version:

• Significant improvements in GUI and lots of fixed problems, result in that now GUI version is more stable, feature-rich and may be used for daily work
• -m2/-m3/-m4 modes now use 96mb dictionary by default. Speed/compression ratio was also improved in many other ways
• Fixed three (de)compression bugs – while these are not critical, I recommend you to upgrade

Also:

• GUI: Skin changer provides more themes; default theme was also improved
• GUI: You can change menu/toolbar (just copy freearc.menu.example to freearc.menu and edit it as you wish)
• GUI: Run any program/document just by double-click (or Enter) on it
• GUI: Single-click on the empty space at the right clears selection, double-click selects all files
• GUI: If you move/resize any window, dialog or filemanager column – its size and position are preserved
• GUI: You can sort columns by clocking on column header, second click reverses sorting; sorting order is preserved too
• GUI: FAR-like keys for marking files: Shift+ Shift- Ctrl+ Ctrl- Alt+ Alt-
• GUI: You can start a file search by typing the first letters of its name. *? wildcards are also supported
• GUI: Every day FreeArc automatically checks for program updates over the Internet
• FAR/TC plugins: support for copy/move of empty directories to/from archive
• Windows: unicode (utf-16) cmdline processing
• Encoding selection options: -sct for console; -sci for log file; -scf for filenames on disk (Linux only)
• “-ms-” option: disable fast compression of already compressed files
• “lt” command: technical archive listing
• –language=LANGFILE option provides translation of error/warning messages for console version
• -rr0.1%, -rr0.01% options support (translated to -rr0*4kb, -rr0*64kb)
• -m1xx..-m4xx: very fast decompression modes (by default, require 1gb of free memory to decompress!)
• Tornado: support for :t :ah :al options, :l that’s not power of 2; tor:7:c1 .. tor:11:c3; checks at decoding in order to prevent segfaults
• Installer SFX-es: freearc-installer*.sfx: extracts into tempdir, runs setup.exe and then optionally deletes extracted files
• External compressors: Copies data intact when compression program returned non-zero error code
• External compressors: Raises error when decompression program returned non-zero error code
• External compressors: Improved syntax for description of external compressors
• arc.ini: large 40kb variant with support for External Compressors PowerPack
• Initial CLS support (external compressors in cls-*.dll), see Addons\CLS directory
• Error code 21 is returned when archive/file cannot be decrypted using supplied password
• Logfile: hiding passwords used in cmdline/cfgfile