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  ķ                        Archive Identifier Revision History File
                          
  Ķ Ŀ Ŀ   ĳ         The following is a list of the most
                           recent changes made to the ARCID system
                       by revision level, in reverse order.
                              



* NOTE: If ARCID appears unable to identify some ARJ self-extracting archive,
        this is not a limitation of ULP, but bugs in ARJ versions 2.21, 2.21a
        and 2.22. The ARJ SFX signature was not inserted into the ARJ SFX
        header, therefore no program relying on this signature (such as ARCID
        and ULP) cannot detect ARJ SFXs created with these versions. Version
        2.20 and 2.30+ correctly insert the signature.


1.05     - On a few systems, ARCID would appear to go out to lunch during the
(2/4/94)   beg screen delay.  It seemed most prevalent on DESQview systems that
           removed the time slices from the timer's looping, and could freeze
           the system.  Fixed by changing to a less CPU-intensive timing
           function.

1.04     - It appears I was overzealous in my attempts to not falsely detect an
(12-4-93)  ARC format archive, and was not recognizing some valid ARC archives.
           Fixed.

1.03     - ARCID was unable to automatically identify PKZIP 2.04? self-
(5-9-93)   extracting archives created with the -j switch (SFX junior). Fixed.

           Added a sample SLOWDRV.BAT file for use in conjunction with PCBoard
           version 15.0.

1.02     - The self-extracting archive detection routine could intermittently
(12-22-92) fail depending on the location of the archive signature. Fixed.

1.01     - ARCID is now capable of autmatically identifying SQZ and SQZ self-
(12-16-92) extracting archives. Just add "SQZ" (no quotes) to your ARCID
           command line extension list and trap the appropriate DOS errorlevel.

           The screen-clearing code has been removed for better aesthetics when
           called from other programs or batch files.

           Increased the scanning range, improving it's reliability for archive
           identification.

1.00     - The archive identification routine has been strengthened to reduce
(9-18-92)  false identifications.

           Salt Air (PCBoard Support BBS) has granted me an ULP support
           conference on their system. It is conference #42, and I will be
           monitoring it at least twice per week. You can get support for ARCID
           as well there.

0.93 and 0.94 - Initial beta test releases.
