Would like a free program that will do the same as WinRar

E

eXistenZ

Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Version: 5.00.2195 Service Pack 4

Downloaded WinRar
Shareware...expires in 40 days.

Would like a free program that will do the same as
WinRar.

Any help or advice appreciated.
eXistenZ
 
M

mark4asp

Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Version: 5.00.2195 Service Pack 4

Downloaded WinRar
Shareware...expires in 40 days.

Would like a free program that will do the same as
WinRar.

Any help or advice appreciated.
eXistenZ
Click to expand...

Although WinRar "expires" after 40 days I think you'll find that
it still works - it just takes longer to load and gives you a
message asking you to get a licensed version. You should still
be able to use the free version after expiry.

There are free programs that archive files but they don't
necessarily do all formats. Many of these archive formats are
proprietary and they also change the algorithms and (archive
format) so that you need the latest version to use recent
archives.

There's a good program I used for the *.z format recently but I
can't remember the name of it! and I doubt that it handles all
formats. Don't worry - keep on using WinRar - if something goes
wrong and for some reason it stops working get back to us here
and I'm sure a solution can be sorted.
 
A

ArjanDotOrg

eXistenZ said:
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Version: 5.00.2195 Service Pack 4

Downloaded WinRar
Shareware...expires in 40 days.

Would like a free program that will do the same as
WinRar.

Any help or advice appreciated.
eXistenZ
Click to expand...

IZArc


Overview:

IZArc is a free archiving tool that suports many archive formats like:
7-ZIP, ACE,ARC, ARJ,BH, BZ2, CAB, DEB, GZ,HA, JAR, LHA, LZH, PAK, PK3,
RAR, RPM, TAR,TGZ, TZ, ZIP and ZOO. It allows you to drag and drop
files from and to Windows Explorer, create multiple archives spanning
disks, view and write comments and there is an integrated password
detector, allows you to find the passwords of one password protected
zip file. IZarc has built-in multilanguage support.

Homepage: http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/

For related software, check out:
http://www.arjan.org/?Compression:Windows


Kind regards,

_____
Arjan

E-mail: (e-mail address removed) (remove NOSPAM)
Homepage: Arjan.org's Absolute Freeware Links (http://www.arjan.org)
 
E

eXistenZ

Thankyou to all who replied so promptly.
I'll let WinRar run and see how I go.
Plenty of alternatives posted here too.

eXistenZ
===================
 
F

FossilButt

mark4asp said:
Although WinRar "expires" after 40 days I think you'll find that
it still works - it just takes longer to load and gives you a
message asking you to get a licensed version. You should still
be able to use the free version after expiry.
Click to expand...

Or just download ARJ (available on your friendly abandonware sites) and get
the freeware Windows frontend for it.
 
F

FossilButt

If you just want the compression, take a look at DCA. It gives about the
same compression ratio as RAR, but is freeware. It's format is proprietary,
however you can create a SEA (SEA - self extracting archive) with it.
 
D

Duddits

If you just want the compression, take a look at DCA. It gives about the
same compression ratio as RAR, but is freeware. It's format is proprietary,
however you can create a SEA (SEA - self extracting archive) with it.
Click to expand...

Do you have a url?

regards

Dud
 

Ask a Question

Want to reply to this thread or ask your own question?

You'll need to choose a username for the site, which only take a couple of moments. After that, you can post your question and our members will help you out.

Ask a Question

Similar Threads

New mail in Outlook Express 3
Program to mimic the Start menu in Windows2000 5
Looking for a program that will create a slideshow. 2
Need mp3 saver/player 4
require a simple password keeper 21
Program to search for particular files. 9
Request something to monitor extenal drives temperature 3
File associations 9

Top