It's been literally YEARS since I have run across anything compressed with ACE or even ARC (MS-DOS and BBS era). I used to have WinACE when I was running Windows 98 and even then most things required ZIP/RAR and occasionally ARJ. 55% of what is downloaded from P2P/Usenet is in RAR format, 20% in ZIP (only because Windows has ZIP support built-in) and the remainder in TAR/GZ with a maybe 5% in 7Z format which is truthfully the only reason I have 7Zip on my system as I already have WinRAR. Someone mentioned the fact that 7-zip does not support ARC or ACE. I have read the comments and have just downloaded IZARC and will be checking it out especially since they have a portable version that runs off a USB flash drive. Interface is not the prettiest but I have installed this on several PCs and users can open compressed files they receive easily. BUT it has never misled me about what I can do with RAR archives, and it's always obvious how to do it. Frankly, I think WinRAR's GUI is ugly and does a poor job presenting its Compression Profiles feature and shell Integration options in the Settings dialog. Well if you (or someone else) already created a Solid 7z archive due to the clumsy GUI, you'll simply get a terse error from the command-line when trying to update it, not a clear explanation of what's going on and why. As we can see from anonymouscowturd's confusion, the awkward design of the GUI is leading people to think that certain capabilities aren't available. People look at the GUI and say it's not so bad, but that's solely based on superficial appearance. This is just one of many long-standing annoyances about the GUI. You can override it by choosing Non-solid in the Solid Block size drop-down list, but you cannot customize the Compression level choices to remember this. The problem is that Solid is automatically set by default in the GUI if you choose anything in the Compression level drop-down list other than Store. If so, I still think the GUI is where he could get more buck for the bang.Īnonymouscowturd, you can update 7z archives just fine, as long as they are not Solid. Perhaps the author is trying to shore up the prospects of monetizing 7-Zip in the near future. What 9.xx does accomplish is putting the version of 7-Zip closer to the current version of WinZip, seemingly as a marketing move. Therefore, knowing that you have version 9.06 installed doesn't really tell you how old or how fresh it is (unless it were the first week of January 2009). It was 4 weeks from version 4.62 to 4.63, but 10 months to the following release. But 7-Zip is essentially the work of one man who doesn't appear to be getting rich from it, and so (understandably) the releases tend to come erratically. This is similar to the way ATI versions Catalyst, which may be OK for a video driver being commercially developed by an organization with solid hardware revenue and needing a constant stream of updates to fix software compatibility issues. The author explained on his forum that he jumped from version 4.65 to 9.xx because he wanted 9 to represent the year 2009. In this release, we get a new checkbox in the Options dialog for "Single-click to open an item." I'm grateful for this free program, but I really have to wonder if the audience for extracting LZH files today is larger than the audience wanting a better GUI. In addition to 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, ISO, MSI, WIM, NSIS, RPM, DEB, XZ, and VHD formats, 7-Zip can now extract resources like icons from EXE files and graphic assets from SWF/FLA.yet the 7-Zip GUI continues to evolve at a snail's pace.
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