Jun 06, 2001 01:29 PM
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For Zipping and Unzipping, WinZip( http://www.winzip.com) is the best utility. WinZip support not just ZIP files, but also file formats like CAB, TAR, gzip, UUencode, BinHex, and MIME.
One of the best things is that you can use drag and drop from and to Explorer for most of your activities, which makes things too easy. Shell extension support helps you right click on files and folders and Zip/Unzip directly. Other advantages are ability to maintain favorite Zip folders, and to have self extracting Zip files
It is not surprising that WinZip has won a lot of awards. The awards include People's Choice Award 2000 for Best Application, the Shareware Industry Award 2000 for Best Overall Utility, the Best Utility MVP Award from PC Computing(1/2000 issue), the Win100 2000 from Winmag.com, was voted Download of the Millennium on ZDNet, and the 1999 Editor's Choice Award from PC Magazine.
If you are looking for a tiny command line utility for Zipping and Unzipping, you can go to https://pkware.com where you can get the complimentary applications **pkzip** and **pkunzip**.
