gHacks technology news » unpacker http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:43:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 PeaZip an alternative to IZarc ? http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/30/peazip-an-alternative-to-izarc/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/30/peazip-an-alternative-to-izarc/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:28:41 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/30/peazip-an-alternative-to-izarc/ PeaZip is a Open Source packer that supports many formats, much like any other packer out there. The most command formats like zip, rar, ace, 7z are handled but also many lesser used ones like bz2, upx and cab. The user is asked during installation which context menu items he wants to add which is very user friendly. Most packers simply add their entries to the context menu even if the user would never use some of the options.

Once integrated users can right-click files and unpack them and create files as well using the main program interface. The user can choose between three options on how the progress is displayed for him. Two are graphical representations while one uses the command line. File checks can be performed as well displaying checksums / hash information of various algorithms which is great for verification purposes.

Peazip does have one problem though which makes it unusable for me. Peazip extracts selected archives at once. This means that if I select two archives they are unpacked at the same time which in turn means that the unpacking processes takes longer than in tools that unpack files after each other.

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A quick benchmark with two rar archives had the result that PeaZip needed about twice as much time as IZarc to unpack those archives. Peazip was a little bit faster though when only one rar archive was unpacked.

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Next to that it can also unpack files from installation packages, it would be no problem for instance to unpack Windows Installer Package files (msi) or unpack the latest Firefox release with the Universal Extractor. It does not make that much sense to use a program like Winrar if you never pack files yourself, a tool that would extract all the archives would be more than enough.

Universal Extractor adds menu entries to the right-click men. You can choose to extract files, extract the archive in the same directory and extract the archive into a sub-directory.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/21/universal-extractor/feed/ 3 Freeware Packer Muzip http://www.ghacks.net/2006/02/08/freeware-packer-muzip/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/02/08/freeware-packer-muzip/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2006 07:02:51 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=314 Muzip is a freware packer that supports formats like zip, gzip and tar. It´s only 460K in size and offers an explorer like interface. It also offers the possibility to backup files on your harddrive and even schedule them using the windows scheduler.]]> Muzip is a freware packer that supports formats like zip, gzip and tar. It´s only 460K in size and offers an explorer like interface. It also offers the possibility to backup files on your harddrive and even schedule them using the windows scheduler.

A unique feature is the manual rebuild functionality which lets you make all the changes you need to do to an archive before the archive itself is rebuild. If you are looking for a winzip alternative try muzip.

[tags]packer, unzip, winzip, muzip, winrar, compression, compress, backup[/tags]

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2006/02/08/freeware-packer-muzip/feed/ 3 Freeware 7-Zip Packer http://www.ghacks.net/2005/11/20/freeware-7-zip-packer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2005/11/20/freeware-7-zip-packer/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2005 09:26:00 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=157 If you are looking for an alternative to the windows xp build in unpacker you might want to take a look at 7-Zip. I was always looking for an unpacker besides the big two Winrar and Winzip who are both not free, after some researching I found 7-Zip which handles the most used file formats like zip and rar without problems.

Head over to 7-zip.org do download this excellent freeware.

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