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Title: What do you advise for zip files?
Post by: Jose on April 12, 2003, 12:48:49 AM

What would you advise for zip files?
I've survived well with Lha only but now I have  these big zip archives I want to open, and don't want to bother having to continue to rearchive every zip file in Lha format.

Title: Re: What do you advise for zip files?
Post by: Bennymee on April 12, 2003, 12:56:24 AM

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Jose wrote:
What would you advice for zip files?
I've survived well with Lha only but now I have  these big zip archives I want to open, and don't want to bother having to continue to rearchive every zip file in Lha format.

I used the unpacker tool included with OS3.9 (XAD).
You can download additional decrunch modules form the Aminet.

Regards,
Bm.

Title: Re: What do you advise for zip files?
Post by: Jose on April 12, 2003, 01:00:37 AM

Hi. Yeah sure, I know. But they're way too many.  I'd like to know general opinions on compatibility and general use. There seem to be some archivers  that are not very compatible with winzip files.  

Title: Re: What do you advise for zip files?
Post by: amigau on April 12, 2003, 02:45:31 AM

on the amiga side, you should use UnZip - on aminet - i've used it for a couple years now with many zips from PC transfers, no problems yet.

on the PC side, use UltimateZip - it's free, and can make/unlha .lha archives as well as zips, great program. . I've transfered lha's from/to amigas and made them/unarchived them with UltimateZip no problemo. . .

http://www.ultimatezip.com

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

Title: Re: What do you advise for zip files?
Post by: Jose on April 16, 2003, 07:37:09 PM

Yeah, but Unzip doesn't support multidisk spanning...
Will have to check Aminet when I have more time.

Title: Re: What do you advise for zip files?
Post by: AxE on April 16, 2003, 08:30:22 PM

wizarc http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/aminetbin/find?wizarc very nice archiver for opening and creating archives (zip included)

Title: Re: What do you advise for zip files?
Post by: Roj on April 16, 2003, 08:35:10 PM

I could be wrong, but I think you're going to have a tough time finding multidisk support for the Amiga. My A4000 system hard drive device is DH0 while my A1200 device is HD0. Some people name their boot drive "System" while others label it "Workbench". An unpacker wouldn't be able to find the right device half the time and would fail to extract the files, unless its unpacking on the system that created the archive. You could always relabel your drives temporarily, assuming the unzipper gives a decent error message telling you what device name it's looking for. The PC side is easier for multidisk support because drives are labeled C, D, etc.

Anyway, I use Un/ZipPPC on the Amiga. It's at least in the ballpark with Winzip on speed, and I haven't hit an archive it won't unpack yet.

Title: Re: What do you advise for zip files?
Post by: yoodoo on April 16, 2003, 09:01:53 PM

Always wear underwear.

Oh wait, that should be in the thread "What do you advise for zip flies?"