I don’t use it myself, but an interesting review here at DonationCoder.com where they seem to rate WinRAR as the best.
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Anyone use PowerArchiver (not free)?
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WSjscher2000
AskWoody LoungerNovember 1, 2005 at 5:19 pm #982456I’ve read that the next version of WinZip will not be included in my free lifetime updates from my current license. Whether that is true or not, I have been looking at alternatives and one of the most full-featured appears to be PowerArchiver 2006 which throws in its Outlook add-in for free (unlike WinZip).
Anyone used PowerArchiver recently and have any comments to share?
Added: I guess the “no free upgrade” rumor for WinZip is true (see attached); there are now “subscription” and “maintenance” options for upgrades…
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joep517
AskWoody MVPNovember 1, 2005 at 5:48 pm #982464Check out the two free products mentioned on the Best Archive Tool – DonationCoder.com page. I prefer TUGZip to 7-ZIP but to each his own.
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AskWoody LoungerNovember 1, 2005 at 11:02 pm #982515Strangely I get “connection refused” for http://www.tugzip.com/%5B/url%5D.
Anyway, I asked about PowerArchiver in particular because I have a special requirement: I need a product that can open ZIP archives I encrypted with the AES used in WinZip 9.0. I also would like one that can read PKZip’s AES encrypted archives. This limits my choices a bit.
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AskWoody MVPNovember 2, 2005 at 8:40 pm #982699The site seems to be up now. I check in the forums and as of TUGZip 3.3.0.0 AES is claimed to be supported. 3.4 is the current version.
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WSHoward Kaikow
AskWoody LoungerDecember 18, 2005 at 12:54 pm #990867Yesterday, I found that PKWAre has a free ZIP Reader at http://www.pkware.com/home_and_small_offic…windows/reader/%5B/url%5D.
It is stated that “Unzips (extracts from) any .zip file”.
I would expect that it extracts the AES stuff, but then I’ved been disappointed before.
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AskWoody LoungerNovember 2, 2005 at 2:41 am #982525If you’re prepared to wade through it, there has been lots of discussion on the usenet: powerarchiver comparison – Google Groups
This thread, for instance, discusses some comparisons with other archiving programs.
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AskWoody LoungerNovember 2, 2005 at 5:08 am #982536See http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=…653&dcaid=17653%5B/url%5D if you are interested in a free (after rebate) Stuffit Deluxe 9 for Windows.
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WSjscher2000
AskWoody LoungerNovember 2, 2005 at 5:48 am #982538Stuffit Deluxe 9 doesn’t open WinZip archives encrypted with AES. See http://support.allume.com/techsupport/foru…topic.php?t=707%5B/url%5D and post 531098. Maybe version 10 (Windows release date unknown)?
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WSHoward Kaikow
AskWoody LoungerNovember 2, 2005 at 12:51 pm #982581Hmmm, I tried posting a response, but it appears to not have made it to the Lounge.
The article you referenced indicates that Stuffit X does support AES.
Also, http://www.stuffit.com/compression/sitxformat.html%5B/url%5D states that Suffit X is supported on Windows.
Also, I downloaded the Stuffit DEluxe 9 Help which states:“StuffIt X archives can be created with encryption. There are 4 compression methods supported:
1=RC4 – Supports up to 512bit key lengths.
2=DES – Supports up to 64bit key lengths
3=BlowFish – Supports up to 448bit key lengths
4=AES – Supports up to 256bit key lengths”
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AskWoody LoungerNovember 3, 2005 at 7:54 pm #982940So, now I have to prove to the WinZip people that I am a registered user of version nine in order to get version ten for fifteen bucks? Oh, yeah, I’ll find that three-year-old confirmation email in a flash…
I, too, may be seriously looking into Power Archiver when WinZip 10 comes out. I’m not entirely happy with them at the moment.
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AskWoody LoungerNovember 4, 2005 at 12:12 am #983008LOL… Come to think of it, I think I bought it in early 2001, so it’s four years, not three. I suppose that’s a fair deal, considering how often I use it, and how long I used the evaluation version before finally breaking down and paying for the license.
How the H*** did you find a seven-year-old email??? LOL.
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AskWoody LoungerNovember 4, 2005 at 2:07 am #983017What about using more than 1 free archiver to get the functionality you need.
For years, I used the free Stuffit Expander and Wiz.
Then I shifted to the free Stuffit Expander and ZipCentral.
Now, I have te free Stuffit Expander (version 6), TUGZip and ZipCentral.
And I will still be getting the free Stuffit Deluxe 9, which I understand has the latest version of Stuffit Expander on the CD-ROM.I guess that I’m all ZIPped up fer a long time!
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