Aqua-Soft ForumsI looking for a good freeware zip tool, I tried the well known winzip but it's shareware. I tried several other like UltimateZip, Zippho ect.. no one support hqx extension I know winzip does, I used stuffit for .sit extension, I dont want to use 2 or 3 zip tools.
Wich Zip Tool To Use?
Winzip is shareware, but as far as i know, it doesnt have limitations at beign shareware, just a screen that pop ups a window saying its shareware, but it wont have limit in file compresion, etc. What OS you have? ME and XP have ZIP support to open, extract and create zip files.
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Use the app that invented or is the major app for that compression. This means having 2-3 compression programs and associate the the format with that app. . If you have WindowsXP it has it's own zipping/unzipping program based on Winzip. For ".rar" use WinRar v3+, and for mac compression format use Stuffitexpander. For ".ace" use WinAce. For other compression formats like .tar you can associate Winzip. Don't install WinZip if you have WindowsXP since it already has it as part of the system.
Most zipping programs have shareware that expire but you can continue to use.
WinRAR will open ACE files as far as I know so the need for that flies out the window as well. Now you can go down to 2! Also, I have XP but I use Winzip cause I hate XP's
I have used WinRAR 3 since it has came out and haven't had any issues on extracting or compressing archives. My pic would be WinRAR 3 and it's really easy to use.
I use Power Archiver.
Complete built-in support for ZIP, CAB, LHA (LZH), TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, BH, RAR, ARJ, ARC, ACE, ZOO, GZ, and BZIP2 file formats
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I use WinRAR 3 for most archiving unless I need to decompress a Mac archive in which case I use Stuffit Expander..
Siddharth
I Used Winrar3.11¡¢StuffIt Expander for windows 7.5
Winzip Is Trash
Now the majority of compressions package all is with RAR form compression!
Moreover Winrar is compatible ZIP form!
Windows XP brings is a trash!
You all do not know ODAY?
Very many software all have explains!
I use 7Zip. It's free and can be found over at Sourceforge . Program's pretty small and does the job very well...from my experience it uses less resources than WinRar and unzips much faster...Don't remember if it handles ACE files but it definite does zip, rar, tar, etc.