Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:53:05 11/08/01
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On November 08, 2001 at 09:45:13, Tina Long wrote: >http://www.powerarchiver.com/ > >Power Archiver: Freeware, Looks like Winzip, very easy to use, unzips many >formats including .bz2 > Would you happen to know if it -- or any other program, free or commercial -- has a few key features I can NEVER find in PC programs: 1. The ability to RENAME an element (file or folder) within the archive _without_ having to decompress and recompress that element 2. The ability to MOVE items within the folder hierarchy of the archive (i.e., from one folder to its parent or another folder within the hierarchy) 3. The intelligence, when decompressing, to create a subdirectory with the same name as the archive (without the .zip extension) WHEN, BUT ONLY WHEN, the archive contains more than a single element at the top level? (If there's just a single item, I prefer NOT to create a new subdirectory for it.) 4. The ability to select several (say a dozen) archives on the desktop (i.e., in Windows Explorer) and have the program decompress ALL of them, each to its own default-named new subdirectory (the single-item archives don't get new directories, as stated in #3)? 5. The ability to select several folders and/or files on the desktop and have the compression program compress each one to a SEPARATE archive, named appropriately according to each item selected? These are all features that Stuffit, a Mac program, has had for a DECADE at least. It can also handle many formats including .zip. Yet when I purchased Stuffit for Windows, I discovered that it was an awful program both for GUI/features and for stability. So still I can find no Windows compression/decompression app that has an acceptable GUI and feature set. I use WinRAR currently, but it lacks nearly all the features I listed above. Thanks for any info from anybody!!
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