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WhatsNew file for Zip 2.31

(See Changes for details)

New things in Zip 2.31

- Crypt now part of source distribution (see Readme.cr)
- Bug fixes:
  - Debian patch 001 - Converted quoted strings
  - Debian patch 002 - Makefile changes
  - Debian patch 003 - Build changes
  - Debian patch 004 - Changes to unix/configure
  - Debian patch 005 - Fix for FNMAX path bug
- Split VMS -V into -V and -VV (see Manual)
- New VC6 project files thanks to Cosmin
- AtheOS port (thanks to Ruslan Nickolaev)
- Add api.c kluge for zip32.dll to support Visual Basic
- Binary detection changed from 20% binary to new algorithm
  that should better detect word processing files as binary
  and should accept UTF-8 files as text.  This flags the file
  in the archive as TEXT or BINARY for use by UnZip for line
  end conversion (see proginfo/txtvsbin.txt)
- License update
- DJGPP fixes
- Many Makefile updates
- Fixes to ZipSplit, ZipNotes, and ZipCloak

New things in Zip 2.3

- IBM OS/390 port (Unix like, but EBCDIC) by Paul von Behren
- Apple Macintosh (MACOS) port by Dirk Haase
- Theos port by Jean-Michel Dubois
- Multibyte characterset support by Yoshioka Tsuneo
- Support for ISO 8601 date format with -t and -tt options
- Info-ZIP license

New things in Zip 2.2

- BEOS port by Chris Herborth
- QDOS port by Jonathan Hudson
- TANDEM port by Dave Smith
- WINDLL port (16-bit Win 3.x and 32-bit WinNT/Win95) by Mike White
- SYSV packages support by John Bush
- zip -P SeCrEt encrypts entries in the zip file with password SeCrEt
  (WARNING: THIS IS INSECURE, use at your own risk)
- zip -R recurses into subdirectories of current dir like "PKZIP -rP"
- zip -x@exclude.lst excludes files specified in the file exclude.lst
- zip -i@include.lst includes files specified in the file include.lst
- zip -@ only handles one filename per line, but supports whitespace in names
- zip -t mmddyyyy, 4 digit year number for uniqueness of years beyond 2000
- zip -tt mmddyyyy only includes files before a specified date