zip

For the management of large quantities of zip files. Also useful when just browsing over zips. (Not designed to create or manipulate zip files.) Lists zips with a line of text taken from readme file (or alternatives). Avoids having to open each zip and then find relevant information files. Good explorer integration including drag and drop TO explorer (to copy or move) and right-click support (context menu extension) when selecting files in explorer to peek.

Zip is a compression and file packaging utility for Unix, VMS, DOS, OS/2, Windows 9x/NT, Amiga, Atari, Macintosh, BeOS, SMS/QDOS, MVS, VM/CMS, and others.

Zip is analogous to a combination of the Unix commands tar(1) and compress(1) and is compatible with PKWAREs PKZIP and Nico Maks WinZip. Its part of the Info-ZIP project.

Here are some key features of "Zip":

· creating zipfiles in a pipe or on a device
· VMS and OS/2 extended file attributes
· conversion between Unix, MS-DOS and Macintosh text file formats
· the ability to run on most of your favorite operating systems.

Whats New in This Release:

· fixed -R operation to match the supplied file patterns in all recursed subdirectories, like PKZIP 2.04 "-p -r" (or PKZIPC 4+ "-recurse")
· handle cases where -x, -R, and -i patterns are mixed
· new example C-Sharp code for using DLLs
· added some directory-search speedups
· fixed bug when encrypting large uncompressible files
· fixed Windows NTFS time problem
· fixed VMS logical name parse problem
· added VMS DEBUG option
· updated VMS help
· fixed selection of files to delete by date
· added -MM option where each input file pattern must match at least one file and all input files must be readable
· added check for when Zip tries to exceed seek limit in output file
· minor changes to compile with Visual C++ 2005
· added support for Unix FIFOs (named pipes)
· other minor fixes

Zip Imploder is a full featured zip program for zipping and unzipping files to and from zip files. Zip Imploder is also capable of Imploding Zip files, something that no other zip program does.

Imploding basically deletes all the files in a folder that are already inside the zip file, sort of "undoing" the unzip process, but doing so intelligently by comparing file size, date, and time so that modified files are not deleted.

Fast compression, compatible with the ZIP industry standard, and command line support. 12-Zip has Explorer integration, a graphical window to manage zip files, for example add, freshen, move, or update files, supporting different compression methods, and features a small executable.

An easy to use zip manager that allows you to manage more than one zip at once with its simple multiple document interface.

The Fireware ZIP application was designed to be a small program for adding files to a zipped (compressed) file with the .zip end. It is difficult to delete files froma zip file with this though, this is best used for quickly adding single files to compressed files.

7-Zip is a ZIP compatible file archiver with highest compression ratio. The program is fully integrated to Windows Shell, so all archive operations like extracting, compressing and browsing can be executed using usual Windows Explorer. The program supports ZIP, RAR, CAB, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR formats and for ZIP format it provides compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than ratio provided by any other zip compatible compression tools, like PKZip and WinZip. There is also additional powerful command line version of program for backup and other purposes. 7-Zip is freeware. In future sources and binaries of 7-Zip will be distributed under free software license. You can use 7-Zip without any fees and registering. However, if you like it and want to support further development of 7-Zip, please register it by paying a small fee.

12Ghosts Zip is a fast compression application, compatible with the ZIP industry standard, and command line support.

12-Zip has Explorer integration, a graphical window to manage zip files, for example add, freshen, move, or update files, supporting different compression methods, and features a small executable. Now supports Zip2, up to 20% smaller zips!

Here are some key features of "12Ghosts Zip":

· Up to 20% better compression than standard zip format
· Easiest handling of compressed files. Only 2 steps to zip - one click to unzip
· Always creates self-extracting files - youll never need a program to unzip 12-Zip2 files
· Send a 12-Zip2 compressed file by e-mail to a friend. They dont need to know anything about zip files. All they need to do is double-click the compressed file.
· Includes subfolders, and re-stores them relative to the target folder, automatically.
· Burrows-Wheeler compression algorithm, generally considerably better than LZ77/78-based compressors