Happy Easter: PACL 6.0 Beta 1 is out!

Dear blog readers,

We have little Easter surprise for you: PACL 6.00 Beta 1 is herw. Packed with latest PA technology, it brings PACL up to date with new engines and many improvements such as multicore support, unicode and much more. Here is the full list:

• PACOMP.EXE:
  • New ZIP engine (requires PACLIB.DLL) 
    • support for large ZIP (over 4 GB).
    • support for PPMd, WavPack, BZIP2, LZMA compression methods.
    • support for Unicode archives (both archives and files inside).
    • support for multicore compression (ZIP Deflate and ZIP LZMA).
    • New switches:
      • unicode : parameters and output are in unicode format. 
        (PACOMPU.EXE removed from distribution)
      • 0 : start as low priority process.
      • c  : added new compression methods for ZIP.
      • o : force Unicode saving of filenames.
      • u, h : update and freshen actions for ZIP archives.
• PAEXT.EXE
  • New ZIP engine (required PACLIB.DLL) 
    • support for large ZIP (over 4 GB).
    • support for PPMd, WavPack, BZIP2, LZMA decompression.
    • support for decrypting PKAES and WZAES encrypted files.
    • support
    •  for Unicode archives (both archives and files inside).
    • New UnRar engine with up to 30% faster uncompression.
    • New switches:
      • unicode  : parameters and output are in unicode format, (PAEXTU.EXE removed from distribution)
      • 0 : start as low priority process.
• PAENCODE.EXE
  • New switches:
    • unicode : parameters and output are in unicode format.
      (PAENCODEU.EXE removed from distribution)

You can download it from here. Happy Easter everyone!