Comparison of Archivers?

[ms]

I use Filzip, but it is rarely updated. I see on ACF references to:
ICEows, 7-zip and IZArc.

A comparison between them- some shortcomings?

I use W98SE, P166 but they must all work with that.

Mike Sa

 

[Steven Burn]

I use Filzip, but it is rarely updated. I see on ACF references to:
ICEows, 7-zip and IZArc.

A comparison between them- some shortcomings?

I use W98SE, P166 but they must all work with that.

Don't have comparisons, but my personal favourite is ZipCentral

http://zipcentral.iscool.net

..... and it works perfectly on my mother P120 (worked on her P90, and my old
486 aswell)

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Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

 

[Mel]

I use Filzip, but it is rarely updated. I see on ACF references to:
ICEows, 7-zip and IZArc.

A comparison between them- some shortcomings?

I use W98SE, P166 but they must all work with that.

Mike Sa

I use Filzip and 7-zip (and occassionally Slim).

FileZip has an excellent UI.

7-Zip supports solid archives in its own 7zip format which in some cases
can give much better compression than using zip. and it can extract
some self-extracting zips that FileZip can't but its UI doesn't permit you
to drag and drop files from an archive to a folder.

(Slim is a comand line archiver (beta), it gives extremely good
compression, but at the cost of speed.)

 

[Iain Cheyne]

I use Filzip, but it is rarely updated. I see on ACF references to:
ICEows, 7-zip and IZArc.

A comparison between them- some shortcomings?

I use W98SE, P166 but they must all work with that.

I do not like 7-zip at all. The format is good, but slow, and the interface
of the archiver itself is awful.

I prefer ZipGenius, but it will probably be too bloated for your weedy
system. Quickzip Lite or WinImp would be worth looking at.

http://tinyapps.org/file.html

 

[Mike Henley]

I use Filzip, but it is rarely updated. I see on ACF references to:
ICEows, 7-zip and IZArc.

A comparison between them- some shortcomings?

I use W98SE, P166 but they must all work with that.

Mike Sa

zipgenius will be too much for your system, and in fact, so will
probably be IZArc. Anyhow, i use an athlon 64 computer so performance
is not a concern, but usability is, so lately I went through almost
all the freeware and payware archivers I could find and eventually
settled on 7-zip and ICEows. I use both from within the context menu
of windows file explorer. Basically you hold down shift or ctrl button
and click all the files you want to select, and then right click on
one of them and choose compress from the context menu. Similar for
extract though you'd select one file. I've not been to the archiver
program window itself for ages.

 

[Bob Adkins]

I use Filzip, but it is rarely updated. I see on ACF references to:
ICEows, 7-zip and IZArc.

A comparison between them- some shortcomings?

I use W98SE, P166 but they must all work with that.

IZArc has the best feature set and best shell extensions. I actually prefer
it to WinZip and WinRAR.

-- Bob

 

[ms]

zipgenius will be too much for your system, and in fact, so will
probably be IZArc. Anyhow, i use an athlon 64 computer so performance
is not a concern, but usability is, so lately I went through almost
all the freeware and payware archivers I could find and eventually
settled on 7-zip and ICEows. I use both from within the context menu
of windows file explorer. Basically you hold down shift or ctrl button
and click all the files you want to select, and then right click on
one of them and choose compress from the context menu. Similar for
extract though you'd select one file. I've not been to the archiver
program window itself for ages.

Several questions on the above:
Why do you say Izarc would be too much for my P166? And, what about ICEows?

And, I don't use the context menu as you do. I typically set the file association
for the desired program. Every time I click on a zip file, my archiver opens it
and I choose the action I want. I assume Izarc and ICEows will work on this manner?

Mike Sa

 

[Bob Adkins]

And, I don't use the context menu as you do. I typically set the file association
for the desired program. Every time I click on a zip file, my archiver opens it
and I choose the action I want. I assume Izarc and ICEows will work on this manner?

IZArc works fine either way. However, it's quicker and takes fewer resources
to run it from the context menu.

-- Bob

 

[John Corliss]

IZArc works fine either way. However, it's quicker and takes fewer resources
to run it from the context menu.

My experience with IZArc was that it can't handle multipart .rar
files. Has this changed?

 

[Onno Voors]

My experience with IZArc was that it can't handle multipart .rar
files. Has this changed?

in my experience that has always worked.

 

[Bob Adkins]

My experience with IZArc was that it can't handle multipart .rar
files. Has this changed?

Handles them great. I simply drag and drop, and select "Extract Here". I
actually like IZArc better than WinRAR, which doesn't have a "Checkout"
feature.

I think I remember IZARC having a multi-part RAR problem a few months ago.
IIRC, the progress bar would disappear if it lost focus. I guess they fixed
that.

-- Bob

 

[ms]

I do not like 7-zip at all. The format is good, but slow, and the interface
of the archiver itself is awful.

I prefer ZipGenius, but it will probably be too bloated for your weedy
system. Quickzip Lite or WinImp would be worth looking at.

http://tinyapps.org/file.html

Noted your comment on 7-zip. I liked the GUI for Filzip, but the program had some
limits.

Mike Sa