Swiss File Knife Files

Maintenance Release.
Read the changelist for details.

Zip File Contents:

1. Binaries Swiss File Knife Base, the multi function command line tool
   for Windows (95 to Vista) and Linux (current and old releases).

2. Sourcecode and build scripts of SFK Base,
   allowing compilation under Windows and Linux.

3. Some documentation, example and test files.

If you are in a hurry and want only a single executable,
download any of the following. NO INSTALLATION is required,
the executables can be used instantly after download:

   sfk.exe              Swiss File Knife for Windows.
   sfk-linux.exe        SFK for current Linux distribs, like Ubuntu.
   sfk-linux-lib5.exe   SFK for older Linux distribs, like DSL.

NOTE:
   All executables have the version number in their filename for clarity.
   You should rename them after download for easy use:

   sfknnn.exe              -> sfk.exe
   sfknnn-linux.exe        -> sfk
   sfknnn-linux-lib5.exe   -> sfk

   under linux, also add "chmod +x sfk" afterwards.
   if unzipping fails on some linux distributions,
   download the current unzip from www.info-zip.org.

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-  add: sfk file transfer: SFT protocol 103 no longer uses
        md5 verify by default for faster transfer.
        it is assumed that TCP mechanisms below provide
        checksum verifications already. to use verify now,
        specify option -verify at the client.
-  add: multi file transfer: no. of seconds info.
-  add: sfk sftserv -rwany: alias for -rw -anysize -deep.
-  add: sfk filter -tabform to split and reformat
        tab separated data easily.
-  add: sfk list: option -flattime to list filetimes
        in a compact format like YYYYMMDD hhmmss
        for better post processing.
-  add: sfk list: option -tabs to separate columns
        produced by -time and -size with tab characters,
        for post processing by +filter -tabform ...
-  add: sfk list: help example on how to rename all
        .jpg in a folder to include their file time.           
-  CHG: invalid time representation: whenever a time
        was unreadable or not calculated, it was shown as 
        "99991231235959" or "9999-12-31 23:59:59".
        the new display for invalid time stamps is
        "19000100000000" or "1900-01-00 00:00:00".
-  CHG: sfk detab: now skips files larger than the
        default memory limit (300 MB). use option
        -memlimit=n to detab larger text files.
-  add: sfk detab: handling of general options
        like -nowarn for more quiet operation.
-  fix: sfk filter -cut * to pattern: if pattern
        was not found, produced empty text. now
        this is detected, and either the file is
        not rewritten at all, or processing is stopped.
        option -nocheck enforces old behaviour.
-  fix: sfk dupfind: stopped at first unreadable file.
        now it skips those files and continues.
-  fix: sfk dupfind: added out of memory checks.
-  fix: missing out of memory message on creation
        of many file objects in memory.
-  fix: sfk detab: text files containing NULL bytes
        after the first 4 kbytes were truncated,
        now they are skipped.
-  fix: sfk file transfer: unexpected forbidden path
        by ftp server due to ".." within path names.
-  fix: sfk replace: wrong info display for >2 billion hits.
-  fix: some help text typos.
-  fix: added parameter check for internal functions.
-  opt: sfk file receive with verify: checksum was calced
        twice, wasting cpu time.
-  del: deprecated functions synctext, maptext removed.