What program do you use most often to open compressed files you download or receive?
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2 comments:
To be exact I should say I open them with Total Commander (it is a program with/under Windows, and I love it), just right-click and "unpack". And sometimes, if TC cannot do this, I use winrar or 7zip. :)
I had to use Total Commander to unpack some songs you sent me one time, Mandula. That program is ancient!! It looks like something from Windows 3.1/DOS says. Actually I think it is. Still, it works.
I like WinRAR myself because it will open almost anything. Better than WinZip by a nudge in my opinion. I just save stuff to the desktop, then right click them and select "unpack here" and it's done (usually after peeking inside it to see if the files are loose in a folder). It's not technically free, though.
For a true Freeware program, nothing beats 7Zip.
And for Mac OS X there is StuffIt, WinACE, ZipIt and some others. DropDMG will create disk images (DMG is Apple's format like ISO or BIN/CUE on the PC).
I liked StuffIt a lot back when I used a Mac. I believe OS X can open ZIP files natively just like Windows, but not the other formats that exist.
If you do any amount of downloading from P2P networks or just from the internet, 95% or more of what you'll run into will be ZIP or RAR files. Thus, I use WinRAR. The interface is easy, the program is stable, and I'm used to it. =)
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