What zip program are you all using?

fmueller

I have been using 7-zip for some time now, and was pretty happy with it, until the other day I came across an .fzip file that it could not open. It might be time to update my zip program, and I was wondering what you people are all using these days?

As an aside, the .fzip file in question is the Firefox plugin for the Foxit PDF reader. Foxit, BTW, is a freeware PDF reader that I can not recommend highly enough, since it makes opening PDF files sooo much faster than the resource hogging Adobe PDF reader!

Many thanks in advance!

Frank

Ivan

Thrax

I use WinRAR.

Snarkasm

WinRAR.

Colgere

WinRaR

shwaip

tar, winrar

kryyst

windows built in for zips and winrar for most other things.

but the pluggin you should be installing directly through firefox or foxit and not as a stand alone application.

mas0n

7-zip for a few years

Cyclonite

Thrax said:

I use WinRAR.

CB

winRAR

LIN

WinRAR.


LIN

Annes

7-zip.

primesuspect

WinACE

Bioware

Winrar and Total Commander

Zuntar

kryyst said:

windows built in for zips and winrar for most other things.
...........

;)

Gargoyle

7-Zip.

God I hate WinRAR.

Ryder

Gargoyle said:

God I hate WinRAR.

Really? I like the fact that I can just say "unzip here" with a right click or choose the exact location to unpack it.

I use Winrar.

Thrax

I can't imagine ever not using WinRAR. It's exceptionally convenient.

Khaos

PeaZip

Zuntar

Other then "unzipping" I NEVER zip anything anymore.

chrisWhite

I was using WinRAR but have tried running 7-Zip instead for a while, either one seems decent but neither get out of my way the way I'd like. What I really want is something like Unarchiver on Windows where you just click on any compressed file and it unzips everything right to the same place as the archive without ever showing me a GUI or giving me options beyond a progress bar.

Snarkasm

WinRAR:

Right click -> Extract Here.

Done.

chrisWhite

Yep, do that, good, but one step too many ;-)

Khaos

chrisWhite said:

Yep, do that, good, but one step too many ;-)

Might I suggest memorizing the keystrokes to execute the menu option if you do it often enough that the extra clicking annoys you? It's a lot faster than moving the mouse through the menu, even though it's probably 3+ keystrokes (Less if you don't put your unpack commands in a sub-menu).

Gargoyle

7-Zip has context menu options that allow "extract here," too. Isn't WinRAR nagware?

What I really hate is when people host or send .rar files, as if it's some kind of standard. Thankfully 7-Zip opens those too.

Snarkasm

RAR is better compression than ZIP. It's probably just that they want it smaller.

It's nagware if you open and browse the archive. If you extract here, no muss, no fuss.

chrisWhite

RAR seems almost as standard as ZIP these days and they do some really cool things that ZIP doesn't do, I like to use the feature that lets you write out multiple files as pieces of the RAR at any size, so splitting up large 4+ GB files for a Fat-32 drive is doable (though insanely slow if you get into a bind.