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Best Archive Tool / Re: New Review (09/05/05) - Best Archive Tool
« Last post by veekay on December 27, 2005, 05:12 PM »Hello guys,
I am new to this site, and landed here via diggdot.us
Kudos to Zaine for that great review on "Best Archiver".
My favorite remains WinZip, mainly because of its excellent GUI (especially its tight Explorer integration),
and more so since the Zip format is the the most popular archiving format around.
I didn't find any ratings given to the reviewed archivers for their file-format support.
With loads of archive formats floating around the web, it is essential to have atleast a secondary archiving tool,
which supports decompression of these formats.
As of now, my choice of a secondary archiving utility is IZArc.
I agree that IZArc is slow and its UI is basically a clone of WinZip.
But I like it for its support for a multitude of formats:
7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO .
And IZArc's ability to create even .7z files is an icing on the cake (which means I have no need for 7Zip - even though
it is to be commended for coming out with an open-source archive format).
I haven't checked out the new WinRAR (its old versions were nothing but RAR-enabled clones of WinZip),
but thanks to you guys, I will do so soon. Keep up the good work.
Regards,
veekay.
I am new to this site, and landed here via diggdot.us
Kudos to Zaine for that great review on "Best Archiver".
My favorite remains WinZip, mainly because of its excellent GUI (especially its tight Explorer integration),
and more so since the Zip format is the the most popular archiving format around.
I didn't find any ratings given to the reviewed archivers for their file-format support.
With loads of archive formats floating around the web, it is essential to have atleast a secondary archiving tool,
which supports decompression of these formats.
As of now, my choice of a secondary archiving utility is IZArc.
I agree that IZArc is slow and its UI is basically a clone of WinZip.
But I like it for its support for a multitude of formats:
7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO .
And IZArc's ability to create even .7z files is an icing on the cake (which means I have no need for 7Zip - even though
it is to be commended for coming out with an open-source archive format).
I haven't checked out the new WinRAR (its old versions were nothing but RAR-enabled clones of WinZip),
but thanks to you guys, I will do so soon. Keep up the good work.
Regards,
veekay.