Windows XP and Winzip Files Question
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From: Twayne on 3 Mar 2010 21:26 In news:Xns9D309413184A1nilch1(a)130.133.4.11, Nil <rednoise(a)REMOVETHIScomcast.net> typed: > On 03 Mar 2010, "Toni" <Toni(a)nowhere.com> wrote in > microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: > >> I've been using Winzip for as long as I can remember - >> probably since it first came out. >> >> I've absolutely never had any problems whatsoever unzipping >> anything that Winzip is designed to unzip. Never. > > This guy is claiming the opposite, that archive files that > Winzip creates cannot be opened by other programs. > > I don't believe it. It's entirely possible if they are trying to open files that were zipped with other than "legacy" format settings in Winzip. Winzip has other zip formats available, several of which can only be unzipped with Winzip. You get smaller files, but you also single-source what can unzip them. You can read about it on their web site. I don't know of any competition that has yet bothered to keep up with them but I also don't use the special compression choices; legacy is good enough almost all the time. For insatnce, it can use AES encryption in addition to zipping, including passwords, etc.. Zipx and a few other types can't be opened with other apps quite often, but they are the most compressed settings. And so on. Their web site does a fair job of explaining things. Just for grins, I grabbed a copy of the compressed files from Help that winzip can handle. Ut can't necessarily create them but it can unzip them : Zip files *.zip, *.zipx LHA archives *.lha, *.lzh All archives *.zip, *.zipx, *.z, *.gz, *.tz, *.taz, *.tgz, *.lha, *.lzh, *.tar, *.cab, *.wmz, *.yfs, *.wsz, *.rar, *.bz, *.bz2, *.tbz, *.tbz2, *.7z, *.img, *.iso Encoded files *.uu, *.uue, *.xxe,*.bhx, *.b64, *.hqx, *.mim Archives and .exe files *.zip, *.zipx, *.z, *.gz, *.tz, *.taz, *.tgz, *.lha, *.lzh, *.tar, *.cab, *.wmz, *.yfs, *.wsz, *.exe, *.rar, *.bz, *.bz2, *.tbz, *.tbz2, *.7z, *.img, *.iso Archives, encoded, and .exe files *.zip, *.zipx, *.z, *.gz, *.tz, *.taz, *.tgz, *.lha, *.lzh, *.tar, *.cab, *.wmz, *.yfs, *.wsz, *.exe, *.uu, *.uue, *.xxe, *.bhx, *.b64, *.hqx, *.mim, *.rar, *.bz, *.bz2, *.tbz, *.tbz2, *.7z, *.img, *.iso WinZip� job files *.wjf All files (*.*) *.* HTH, Twayne` TH, Twayne` - -- Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. |