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                       Release notes for LhA V1.50

                 Copyright (c) 1991,92 By Stefan Boberg

                           Released 29-Oct-92

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  Beginning with V1.50r there is a special 68030-optimized version of
LhA available. It's named `LhA_030' and can be found in the same directory
as the standard LhA executable. Only the -lh5- decompression is optimized
in this version, but later on (in V2.0) the compression and decompression
routines will be entirely optimized for 68030, and a special 68040 version
will also be available.

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  Originally I did not intend to release any version of LhA publically
until V2.00, but since there were a few bugs in V1.32e I decided to
release this cleaned-up and hopefully bug-free version. It's based on
the old (pre-V2.xx) source code and no major features have been added
since V1.35 - the only changes are bugfixes.

  All changes are described in `update.txt'. The most important are:

 - Illegal command line handling in registered version fixed. Would
   loop ad infinitum earlier :-(

 - Handling of multivolume archives improved significantly (although
   not as good as in V2.00 :-)

 - Updated/added multivolume section in the manual. Sorry if it's a
   bit sparse, but I wrote it in half an hour.

 - Handling of `~', `[' and `]' wildcards now work in non-international
   character translation mode.

 - Security measures to prevent `s:startup-sequence'-type hacks
   implemented.

 - Bug fixed in handling of multivolume archives in evaluation version.

 - The suppressed-system-requester bug has been fixed.

 - Now respects -x option setting at all times.

 - The `-s' option now works as advertised. Somehow this never got
   implemented (actually I thought I had done it but since I don't use
   it myself I never noticed until a bug report arrived).

 - Added `y', `h' and `c' commands. See manual for details.

 - Quick-add mode

 - LhA now enables `*' wildcard for OS2.x - no need for WildStar type
   programs anymore.

  That's about it. All the fancy new stuff is in V2.xx and as the program
has been almost entirely rewritten none of it is present in this interim
release. This is mainly a bugfix release. Boring - but that's life.

  Enjoy,
          Stefan