ZipBack 95.2 Release notes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These notes contain details of the updates made from versions 95.0 and 95.1. They cover: 1: The new Set Wizard which creates Options sets automatically 2: Saving of the multi-volume (span discs) wipe and format functions 3: Deletion of temporary files when zipping to a floppy disc. 4: Using Option Sets created in previous versions. Note: If you are upgrading from version 4.0 or above, and have created Option Sets that you wish to preserve, you MUST read section 4 before using these Option Sets. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1: The new Set Wizard which creates Options sets automatically To ease the process of creating Option or Back-up sets, ZipBack now includes a ‘Set Wizard’. This will create a new option set, and can also place the short-cut icon in Program Manager (or Windows 95 Start menu) which allows you to perform the zip or unzip operation with only a double-click on the icon, and without starting ZipBack in the normal way. To use Set Wizard, click on the ‘Run Set Wizard’ button which can be found in the ‘Option and Back-up Sets’ window (click Sets in the main ZipBack window), or in the ‘Help on Option Sets’ window (click Help in the main ZipBack window, then Sets in the Help menu). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2: Saving of the multi-volume (span discs) wipe and format functions ZipBack now stores the settings for the selected Span Discs function in each option set (including the default INI file). This means that if you start ZipBack, or select a different option set, the setting for Wipe Files from Disc, Format Disc, and Format Disc Low Density (in the dialog which appears when you turn Span Discs on) will be set to the same as when you last used that set. In previous version it always defaulted to Add Files to Existing Files on Disc. However if Span Discs is turned off in the option set (or in the default INI file) as it is loaded the setting returns to Add Files to Existing. Before a zip is started which will Wipe or Format the disc, a warning message is displayed, and the operation can be cancelled. This change allows you to create Auto-Run back-up sets which will Wipe or Format the target disc automatically. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 3: Deletion of temporary files when zipping to a floppy disc. When using the Span Discs option to create files on a floppy disc, a file with the same name as that being created is deleted and replaced by the new file. You cannot update an existing file when Span Discs is turned on. (This is a limitation enforced by the nature of the zip file). However when Span Discs is turned off an existing file with the same name is updated, and new or changed files are added to those existing in the zip file (depending on the settings for Update and Add and Freshen you specify). The zip process will naturally fail if the new file will not fit on one floppy disc, and the original file will already have been deleted from the floppy disc. Normally ZipBack will create the new file in the temporary directory on your hard disc before attempting to write it to the floppy (unless you have disabled this feature in the Sets/Advanced Configuration window). In earlier versions of ZipBack this temporary file was automatically deleted if the zip process failed. In the new version you receive a warning that the operation has failed, and that the new zip file is still stored in your temporary directory. You can then choose whether or not to delete it. It has a name of the form _Zxxxxxx with no file extension. You can rename this file so that it has the extension .ZIP and then work with it in the normal way to retrieve the contents. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 4: Using Option Sets created in previous versions. If you are upgrading from version 4.0 or above, and have created Option Sets that you wish to preserve, you MUST read this section before using the old Option Sets. ZipBack will not automatically recognise Option Sets created with earlier versions than 95.2, and will return the settings within them to the standard ZipBack defaults. However you can force ZipBack to read the Sets, and use as many of the settings they contain as is practical. The number it can use depends on which version you are upgrading from, as the contents change with each program version. The Option Set files have an extension .SET and are stored in the program directory (except in the case of the Network Edition where the location is specified as a user or temporary directory). They are plain text files, and can be loaded into any standard text editor such as Windows 3.x NotePad, or Windows 95 WordPad. Load the option set and locate the line that starts with ZipBackVer= This should be the first line. Change it to read ZipBackVer=95.20 and save the file in plain text format again. -----------------------------------------------------------------------