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techno_race
02-15-2009, 02:55 AM
I'm kinda bouncing around everywhere, but I think I'll stick with IZArc.
Nile
02-15-2009, 03:06 AM
I use 7-Zip.
Twey
02-15-2009, 03:09 PM
tar and bzip2 serve me well... generally the best compression ratio, in my experience.
diced
02-16-2009, 10:30 AM
I prefer PeaZip
jscheuer1
02-16-2009, 10:57 AM
QuickZip
Schmoopy
02-16-2009, 06:17 PM
What the hell, where's WinRAR :O?
Twey
02-16-2009, 06:28 PM
Forget WinRAR, where's tar? tar is the archiving software. It's old as ages — far older and more common than any of these Johnny-come-latelies. :p
jscheuer1
02-16-2009, 07:38 PM
QuickZip does all (or most - definatelt tar, and rar) those.
Nile
02-16-2009, 08:12 PM
Does it do 7z?
jscheuer1
02-16-2009, 08:58 PM
Quick Zip can Create 10 different formats (Zip,Cab,Lha,Tar,Tgz,Bz2,Bza,7z,Sqx,Rs),
Reads 28 different format of archives
(Zip,Cab, Lha,Tar,Tgz,Bz2, Bza,7z,Sqx, Rs,Rar,Ace,Arj, Gca,Bel,Zoo, Pak,Cpt, Arg,Asd,dzip,shar, zac, MacBin,Compress, Freeze,Splint,Jam), plus various kinds of Encoding formats without using any external programs.

see:

http://www.nonags.com/software.asp?ID=2272