Cannot find any free and good unarchiver for zip, rar, tar, bz2, gz, ace, z7, sit?!

[ionas]

Cannot find any free and good unarchiver for zip, rar, tar, bz2, gz, ace, z7, sit?!
(further compression formats would be great, but this is mainly what i need)
any ideas?

[Veldek]

Cannot find any free and good unarchiver for zip, rar, tar, bz2, gz, ace, z7, sit?!
(further compression formats would be great, but this is mainly what i need)
any ideas?

What’s wrong with Stuffit Expander?

Edit: OK, it can’t do .ace. But there are some apps for this, e.g. iUnacer.

[ionas]

first of all i dont know but i guess i cannot use it to compress stuff in formats like zip and rar.
2nd i cannot view archives before i unzip tzem
3rd it isnt the best app genreally.

[Veldek]

first of all i dont know but i guess i cannot use it to compress stuff in formats like zip and rar.
2nd i cannot view archives before i unzip tzem
3rd it isnt the best app genreally.

AFAIK, it can do zip and rar (though not all). But zip extraction is built-in in Panther and for rar I either use MacPar Deluxe or Gumby.

I don't know of any app that is as powerful as Stuffit, but perhaps someone else does.

I never understood why it is so important to look into a zip archive before decompressing, but ok. I don't know an app, that can do this though.

[dragula53]

I use stuffit, and unrarX

I haven't run into anything I can't decompress.

[LeeTom]

I use the command line:
tar -xvf for tar
tar -zxvf for gz
unzip for zip

Lee Tom

[musicpyrite]

I use the command line:
tar -xvf for tar
tar -zxvf for gz
unzip for zip

Lee Tom

I prefer to use gzip.

gzip -c9 ~/directory/directory/directory/ > ~/desktop/compressed\ gzip\ file.gz


For all my compression stuff, I just use the built in one. File>Create Archive.

[flyfish29]

Cannot find any free and good unarchiver for zip, rar, tar, bz2, gz, ace, z7, sit?!
(further compression formats would be great, but this is mainly what i need)
any ideas?

I am confused...you say "unarchiver" in this post, but later you say "I can not use it to compress stuff..."

Do you want to just decompress stuff or both compress and decompress? Those are two very different animals and to compress stuff sometimes means paying for a program to do so.

Stuff it is great and free to decompress, but I think they charge for compressing using stuff it...works sort of like Acrobat...the "reader" is free and usually built in now a days, but the "writer" is the one they make money off of.

[cyks]

So a bunch of 7z files were just dropped in my lap... what's the program of choice- or any program that can unstuff them? Anyone know of any?
..or am I just missing something obvious (wouldn't be the first time).

[Macs R Us]

So a bunch of 7z files were just dropped in my lap... what's the program of choice- or any program that can unstuff them? Anyone know of any?
..or am I just missing something obvious (wouldn't be the first time).

I'll look into this and let you all know later.

Mark Jozaitis

[kewpid]

So a bunch of 7z files were just dropped in my lap... what's the program of choice- or any program that can unstuff them? Anyone know of any?
..or am I just missing something obvious (wouldn't be the first time).


http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

[Counterfit]

Stuff it is great and free to decompress, but I think they charge for compressing using stuff it They only charge for the Deluxe version, which is pretty good. It adds a contextual menu add-on for the Finder, which lets you preview, compress, uncompress, and do a bunch of other stuff. I've heard that the new version (9) doesn't hog the Finder all to itself too ;) You can compress with Stuffit Standard, which comes with Expander, DropStuff, DropZip, and DropTar.

[cyks]

http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

Well, yes... thank you Kewpid, now does anyone know of a Mac based solution (other then going through VirtualPC)