[Mertsch]

This is the most feature rich and free packer / extractor you will find
its not blaoted with tons of advertising
it will NOT ask you to register
it supports nearlyany format you can imagine
including the very good format 7z
so GET IT NOW
and forget about BS like WinRAR or WinACE

Features Overview

* Supports ZIP, 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, BH, BZ2, CAB, CPIO, DEB, GCA, GZ, IMP, JAR, LHA (LZH), LIB, RAR, RPM, SQX, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TAZ, YZ1 and ZOO archives.
* Supports BIN, C2D, IMG, ISO and NRG disc-images.
* Support for external plugins.
* Windows® shell integration, e.g. drag & drop, shell context menu and drop handlers.
* Create 7-ZIP, BH, BZ2, CAB, JAR, LHA (LZH), SQX, TAR, TGZ, YZ1 and ZIP archives.
* Script support which allows you to make automated backups.
* Basic features like: add, extract, delete, rename, run, view, checkout, install, test, comment, SFX, virus-scanning, disk-spanning and much more.
* Repair corrupted ZIP and SQX archives.
* Can extract multiple archives at once using Multi Extract.
* Encrypt archives using 6 different algorithms. Blowfish (128-bit), DES (56-bit), Triple DES (168-bit) and Rijndael (128-bit, 192-bit and 256-bit).
* Create self-extracting encrypted archives.
* Automatic updates using the "Web Update" function.

Good news! TUGZip 3.3 is released. Download it from here.

My plan was to include the latest translations in the setup package but due the lack of time I just uploaded them to the server. The German, Hungarian, Chinese (traditional) and Swedish translations are updated and available.

I will be out of town for about one and a half month. I'll check my inbox when I can access internet to update the mirrors and translations.

http://www.tugzip.com/news.html

DL:
http://www.dtek.chal...k/download.html

[tobebana]

thx mertsch
always bringin' us good free software.
:beer:

[Dark Biene]

using this new version some days and...
it´s the best packer :-)

[Tuckwit]

I might give it a try. Enjoy it before it gets sold out to some corp, and becomes registered or stuffed with ADs.

But what exactly is the BS with WinRAR ? I have no problems with paying for it for what it's done for me.

[tobebana]

I might give it a try. Enjoy it before it gets sold out to some corp, and becomes registered or stuffed with ADs.

But what exactly is the BS with WinRAR ? I have no problems with paying for it for what it's done for me.

why pay for something you can get for free and even better?

[Mertsch]

I might give it a try. Enjoy it before it gets sold out to some corp, and becomes registered or stuffed with ADs.

But what exactly is the BS with WinRAR ? I have no problems with paying for it for what it's done for me.

why pay for something you can get for free and even better?

thats exatly the point ...
for sure .... winrar does its job well and I have never found any bug or things like that .... but what do they want money for if you e.g. only extracting

register here
register there that is just annoying

winACE is even worse ... even if you own a legal key it does - from time to time - "forget" your key and tell you "unregistered!" again .... and again ...
I just hate apps that are payware all the way ... I do understand that they want to earn money ... but an extractor is no big deal
and as you see you can get a fully working alternative for free

[Tuckwit]

I might give it a try. Enjoy it before it gets sold out to some corp, and becomes registered or stuffed with ADs.

But what exactly is the BS with WinRAR ? I have no problems with paying for it for what it's done for me.

why pay for something you can get for free and even better?

hmmm, maybe because at the time I registered Winrar (some time ago) I hadn't heard of Tugzip

And I have used it for so much more than just extracting zips, i.e. scripted installers, segmented rar extraction, backups, ISO's

But I guess it would make more sense for Tuckwit to use Tugzip. I will try it out later, but I wouldn't really trust archiving data to a young and unproven program.

[Mertsch]

you don't need to ....
you can use it als CLI packer ... when using the winace / winrar plugin you can creat .rar archives which is not done by this tool but by the free CLI versions of rar/ace

[Rosco]

Thanks for the tip! I've never heard of this before. Just downloaded and installed this, and without a doubt this is one of the greatest unzipping/zipping tools I have ever seen. Something like this should be noted on the Warp2 main page.