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Title: what do you use to compress files?
Post by: jumpship on February 28, 2003, 09:27:03 PM

I am wondering what programs people use to compres thier files with. Do you use a gui or do you prefer cli's? and which one(s) do you think are the best?

Title: Re: what do you use to compress files?
Post by: KennyR on February 28, 2003, 09:33:46 PM

LzX. It's the best.

It has only CLI but I'm no newbie, and it's hard to decompress on other systems - but who cares? :-)

Title: Re: what do you use to compress files?
Post by: xeron on February 28, 2003, 09:48:38 PM

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It has no CLI but I'm no newbie,

Surely you mean GUI? :)

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and it's hard to decompress on other systems

I don't know, theres an UnLzx for the win32 console, and most *ix flavours...

Title: Re: what do you use to compress files?
Post by: KennyR on February 28, 2003, 10:11:35 PM

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Surely you mean GUI? :)

I meant "only CLI" not "no CLI". Argh! :-x

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I don't know, theres an UnLzx for the win32 console, and most *ix flavours...

Yeah, it's open source and can be compiled on just about any system. Still needs to be used in sh or MS-DOS though. :-P ;-)

Title: Re: what do you use to compress files?
Post by: on February 28, 2003, 10:17:15 PM

UnLHA, LHarc, LHA.  :-D    :-D   :-D

Title: Re: what do you use to compress files?
Post by: Targhan on February 28, 2003, 10:35:24 PM

X-Arc by Federico Pomi from the NetConnect2 package.  It is gui, and, by far, the best archiving program I've ever used, Amiga/PC/Mac.  I'm sure I haven't used all of them, but of the many I've tried--I like X-arc the best.  


X-Arc supports Mime-Types, so you can extract a file directly to a viewer.  X-Arc can happily be used to automatically open files from your browser (downloads).

Another great feature of X-Arc is that it can be updated by the user.  Say a new archive method comes out, we'll call it Glzx.  By installing our pretend glzx, we only need to give X-Arc the commands used by glzx to have the new archive system covered.

The best feature of X-Arc is that it detects installer-scripts, so you don't have to unarchive to a temporary directory to install something.  It even detects if there are multiple install scripts.

I'm not sure how well the demo works, but it is available on the Aminet.  I believe registration is through Vapor.

Another neat Amiga-way to do this is to get some sort of a tools-daemon.  Configure Lzx from there, then it's as simple as a right click and menu-selection away from de-archiving to ram.

On the PeeCee, I use FilZip, as it does everything WinZip does, and FilZip is free. It's kind of hard to argue with "it works and it's free" :lol:

Title: Re: what do you use to compress files?
Post by: Mike_Amiga on February 28, 2003, 11:18:36 PM

Stuff it.  8-)

Title: Re: what do you use to compress files?
Post by: iamaboringperson on February 28, 2003, 11:28:37 PM

i use good ol LHA, on CLI - love it!
 :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D

Title: Re: what do you use to compress files?
Post by: takemehomegrandma on March 01, 2003, 12:00:25 AM

@ Amiga

Lha and Lzx (IMO, Lzx is the best in compression, Lha is the best in broad support).

@ PC

Zip, Rar and Ace (IMO, Ace is the best in compression, Zip is the best in broad support).

I prefer a good cli envireonment, but on the PC I use Win*** (where *** is either zip, rar or ace).

Title: Re: what do you use to compress files?
Post by: takemehomegrandma on March 01, 2003, 12:03:32 AM

@ iamaboringperson: notaboringavatar! :-)

Title: Re: what do you use to compress files?
Post by: iamaboringperson on March 01, 2003, 12:16:00 AM

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takemehomegrandma wrote:
@ iamaboringperson: notaboringavatar! :-)

heheh! mwahhahahahah perhapsimnotsuchaboringpersonafterall! :-D

Title: Re: what do you use to compress files?
Post by: Elektro on March 01, 2003, 12:45:26 AM

Pressure chamber.

Title: Re: what do you use to compress files?
Post by: Desmon on March 01, 2003, 12:51:27 AM

A vice.

I have many!

Title: Re: what do you use to compress files?
Post by: hagar on March 01, 2003, 01:07:34 AM

*nix:
tar + gzip or tar + bzip2, the usual stuff

Does anyone use zoo today?

Title: Re: what do you use to compress files?
Post by: iamaboringperson on March 01, 2003, 03:58:49 AM

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hagar wrote:
*nix:
tar + gzip or tar + bzip2, the usual stuff

Does anyone use zoo today?

how about 'compress'?  :-P