Author: Sally Weltrop
Date: 12:52:28 11/08/01
Go up one level in this thread
On November 08, 2001 at 13:46:06, Roy Eassa wrote: >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! no problem, nah-noo .. nah-noo heehee
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.