Author: Sally Weltrop
Date: 10:27:23 11/08/01
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On November 08, 2001 at 12:53:05, Roy Eassa wrote: >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!! Powerarchiver does it all , all the things u named
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