Difference between the evaluation and the registered version of PACL 6.02

Micke · Oct 17, 2010, 8:17 PM

Hi!
I have now begin testing PACL 6.02. In one of the threads I asked what’s the difference between the evaluation and the registered version of PACL.

Well, after testing 6.02 I can see now a clear difference between the evaluation and the registered version of PACL. This is exacly what I’ve been asking for. Now the user have a small limitation in the unregistered version but still able to test it and evaluate the functionality.

Here’s the results after these tests.

PACOMP
Shareware Version

D:\PACL_Test>pacomp -a Test.zip *.jpg
PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL)              Version 6.02       [Oct 10 2010]
Copyright(c) 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.  Shareware Version

Remainder: This is unregistered version of PACL. Please register at http://www.p
owerarchiver.com
Press <enter>to continue.</enter>

Registered Version

D:\PACL_Test>pacomp -a Test2.zip PICT001*.jpg
PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL)              Version 6.02       [Oct 10 2010]
Copyright(c) 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc.  All Rights Reserved. Registered Version
This product is licensed to:
Archive Compression Utility -- ZIP,ZIPX,7-ZIP,CAB,LHA,BH,JAR,TAR,GZIP,BZIP2
  Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com  Email: support@conexware.com

Archive: D:\PACL_Test\Test2.zip
  preparing to compress...
  adding: PICT0017.JPG   --> Done. [36%]
  adding: PICT0018.JPG   --> Done. [69%]
  adding: PICT0019.JPG   --> Done. [100%]

All OK

D:\PACL_Test>

PAEXT
Shareware Version

D:\PACL_Test>paext
PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL)              Version 6.02       [Oct 10 2010]
Copyright(c) 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.  Shareware Version

Remainder: This is unregistered version of PACL. Please register at http://www.p
owerarchiver.com
Press <enter>to continue.</enter>

Registered Version

D:\PACL_Test>paext
PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL)              Version 6.02       [Oct 10 2010]
Copyright(c) 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc.  All Rights Reserved. Registered Version
This product is licensed to:
Archive Extr.---ZIP,ZIPX,7Z,CAB,LHA,ARJ,RAR,ACE,TAR,GZ,BZ2,UUE,ZOO,B64,YENC,...
  Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com  Email: support@conexware.com

Example PAEXT commands:
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PASPAN
Shareware Version

D:\PACL_Test>paspan
PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL)              Version 6.02       [Oct 10 2010]
Copyright(c) 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.  Shareware Version

Remainder: This is unregistered version of PACL. Please register at http://www.p
owerarchiver.com
Press <enter>to continue.</enter>

Registered Version

D:\PACL_Test>paspan
PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL)              Version 6.02       [Oct 10 2010]
Copyright(c) 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc.  All Rights Reserved. Registered Version
This product is licensed to:
Archive Span Utility --- ZIP, ZIPX
  Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com  Email: support@conexware.com

Example PASPAN commands:
-----------------------

PAFIX
Shareware Version

D:\PACL_Test>pafix
PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL)              Version 6.02       [Oct 10 2010]
Copyright(c) 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.  Shareware Version

Remainder: This is unregistered version of PACL. Please register at http://www.p
owerarchiver.com
Press <enter>to continue.</enter>

Registered Version

D:\PACL_Test>pafix
PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL)              Version 6.02       [Oct 10 2010]
Copyright(c) 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc.  All Rights Reserved. Registered Version
This product is licensed to:
Archive Recovery Utility --- ZIP, ZIPX
  Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com  Email: support@conexware.com

Example PAFIX commands:
-----------------------

PAENCODE
Shareware Version

D:\PACL_Test>paencode
PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL)              Version 6.02       [Oct 10 2010]
Copyright(c) 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.  Shareware Version

Remainder: This is unregistered version of PACL. Please register at http://www.p
owerarchiver.com
Press <enter>to continue.</enter>

Registred Version

D:\PACL_Test>paencode
PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL)              Version 6.02       [Oct 10 2010]
Copyright(c) 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc.  All Rights Reserved. Registered Version
This product is licensed to:
File Encode Utility --- UUE, XXE, B64 (MIME), yENC
  Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com  Email: support@conexware.com

Example PAENCODE commands:
--------------------------

PACRYPT
Shareware Version

D:\PACL_Test>pacrypt
PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL)              Version 6.02       [Oct 10 2010]
Copyright(c) 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.  Shareware Version

Remainder: This is unregistered version of PACL. Please register at http://www.p
owerarchiver.com
Press <enter>to continue.</enter>

Registered Version

D:\PACL_Test>pacrypt
PowerArchiver Command Line (PACL)              Version 6.02       [Oct 10 2010]
Copyright(c) 1999-2010 ConeXware, Inc.  All Rights Reserved. Registered Version
This product is licensed to:
File Encryption/Decryption Utility
  Internet: http://www.powerarchiver.com  Email: support@conexware.com

Example PACRYPT commands:
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Bugs found in these tests
When running PACOMP without any parameters, there’s no remainder message saying the program is unregistered as the other programs have (i.e PAEXT, PASPAN, PAFIX, PAENCODE, PACRYPT). PACOMP should work the same as the others when no parameters are used.

The file PACONV.bat says version 6.01, but it should say 6.02.

I get back with more results after I have tested my other reported issues.

Kind Regards
Micke

burman · Dec 6, 2010, 5:29 PM

thanks!!

spwolf · Apr 2, 2011, 8:50 PM

so Micke… what else do you want improved/fixed in 6.02?

Micke · Apr 2, 2011, 8:50 PM

Hi!
@spwolf:

so Micke… what else do you want improved/fixed in 6.02?

Well, in this thread PACOMP doesn’t behave like the others when using the 6.02 unregistred version, because there’s no remainder to register the program. So if you could fix the small thing with PACOMP in 6.02 that would be great.

From what I have read, you want one wish in each thread to keep tracking of them. When I use PACL I have these things I would like to be fixed/improved in priority

Remove many files from one archive in one command. This is something I would appreciate a lot and I have also describe why this is a problem with no support for it in this thread. I have tested in 6.02 but it’s not working properly yet.
Support for creating SFX archives using PACL. Today I’m dependent on PA to create SFX archive, but it would be great if I could create it directly when using PACL and also add a predefined path of where the archive is to be extracted to when the user open it. This has been discussed in this thread and in this thread to.
Support for \machinename\sharename when creating archives. Discussed in this thread and tested for 6.02 here.

Kind Regards
Micke

Badders · Apr 8, 2011, 12:58 PM

Point 3) is the real killer for me. If this can be fixed then I can replace my 4.01 version.

Cheers,
Badders

Badders · Apr 18, 2011, 12:51 PM

Is there any news on a 6.03 with the above fixes?

spwolf · Apr 18, 2011, 7:55 PM

we are adding one large feature to the zip engine, so as soon as this is done, we will be doing next release of PACL as well.

Badders · Apr 21, 2011, 11:26 AM

Any idea on timescales?

Badders · Aug 9, 2011, 2:33 PM

Once again, 4 months later, any idea on timescales now PA 2011 V12 is out?

spwolf · Aug 9, 2011, 2:33 PM

@Badders:

Once again, 4 months later, any idea on timescales now PA 2011 V12 is out?

we will start looking Now at moving new features/code to PACL 6.x, from PA 12.x.

This includes FIPS, zip x509 decryption, VSS and more.

Yay!

Badders · Aug 9, 2011, 2:45 PM

That indeed is good news but would it be possible to produce an interim version with the issues already identified fixed?

spwolf · Aug 9, 2011, 2:48 PM

@Badders:

That indeed is good news but would it be possible to produce an interim version with the issues already identified fixed?

this should not take a long time, we have to update engines to what we use in PA 12.xx for other issues/improvements.

Badders · Aug 16, 2011, 3:04 PM

OK - thanks for the update.

Badders · Dec 5, 2011, 12:38 PM

Hi again, any news on an update to PACL? Thanks

spwolf · Jan 28, 2012, 6:06 PM

Here is updated PACL 7.00 BETA 1:
http://www.powerarchiver.com/test/alpha120/pacl700b1.exe

Badders · Jan 30, 2012, 10:49 AM

Thanks spwolf - I’ll give it a test this week.

spwolf · Jan 30, 2012, 5:21 PM

please do - we didnt do much testing here, but there were huge changes in the compression engines.

Badders · Jan 31, 2012, 6:20 PM

@Micke:

Hi!

Well, in this thread PACOMP doesn’t behave like the others when using the 6.02 unregistred version, because there’s no remainder to register the program. So if you could fix the small thing with PACOMP in 6.02 that would be great.

From what I have read, you want one wish in each thread to keep tracking of them. When I use PACL I have these things I would like to be fixed/improved in priority

Remove many files from one archive in one command. This is something I would appreciate a lot and I have also describe why this is a problem with no support for it in this thread. I have tested in 6.02 but it’s not working properly yet.

Support for creating SFX archives using PACL. Today I’m dependent on PA to create SFX archive, but it would be great if I could create it directly when using PACL and also add a predefined path of where the archive is to be extracted to when the user open it. This has been discussed in this thread and in this thread to.

Support for \machinename\sharename when creating archives. Discussed in this thread and tested for 6.02 here.

Kind Regards
Micke

Point 3) doesn’t seem to work still. Is this intended to be fixed?

Mili · Feb 8, 2012, 1:00 AM

still logged in Badders, thanks for testing again!

Badders · Feb 8, 2012, 11:37 AM

I haven’t done too much unfortunately. Very busy at the moment. The time taken to compress seems a hell of a lot quicker though. :) I’ll try and do a time comparison shortly. Most of my archiving is for backup purposes using the \<machine>\ <share>syntax which worked in 4.01 but hasn’t worked since. I’m using 6.01 for any non-share archiving so will compare with 7 later.</share></machine>

spwolf · Mar 21, 2012, 6:51 PM

PACL 7.00 RC1 http://www.powerarchiver.com/test/alpha120/pacl700.exe

please check it out.

Badders · Mar 22, 2012, 11:35 AM

“-PP” wow, looking good after initials tests:) Thanks for implementing this. I’ll give it a bash on my production boxes…

Micke · May 15, 2012, 8:35 PM

Hi!
Made som more tests with PACL 7.00 [May 11 2012] and noticed one small thing.

When running PACOMP without any parameters, no remainder pop up to tell the user that the program is unregistred. However if I run the PACOMP with parameters and a file to create the remainder will pop up.

This is inconsistant behaviour as
PACLREG.exe
PACRYPT.exe
PAENCODE.exe
PAEXT.exe
PAFIX.exe
PASPAN.exe

all have the pop up remainder to register the program when running it without any parameters.

It’s really not a big issue, just noticed that PACOMP don’t behave the same as the other program when running unregistred without any parameters.

Kind Regards
Micke

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