Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 10:46:06 11/08/01
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On November 08, 2001 at 13:27:23, Sally Weltrop wrote: >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 Thank you so much, nice (profile-less) earth resident! I will go and download it immediately!
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