From: Lyndon Samson <lyndon.samson@...>
Date: 2005-04-18T18:31:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows support for tar and bzip2

On 4/18/05, Alexey Verkhovsky <alex@verk.info> wrote:
> James Britt wrote:
> 
> > winzip knows about taz, gzip, and tgz.
> > I had to install a separate app for bzip2.
> 
> WinRAR is better, knows more formats, handles things smarter (e.g., it
> shows contents of a .tgz as a tree of folders, not as a flat thing a la
> mainframes of old age) and has a better interface (less mouse clicks for
> the usual things). It is even notably faster, even for zip files.

Thats the  worst thing about it. The tree view is fine if you are
going to spend alot of time in the archive poking around like you
would in a filesystem. But mostly when I open an archive I just want
to see all the files, sorted by name, director or maybe size and
extract all or view a single file.

How do you quickly find a readme in WinRAR?
How do you quickly find the largest ( sometimes most interesting )
file in WinRAR?




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