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Compression and ZIP Utilities

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ZipWorks 2.3 Shareware 563 K ZipWorks is a full featured 32 bit ZIP file manipulater for Windows 95. The built-in 32 bit compression is fully compatible with PKZIP v2.04. With this program you can ZIP, UnZip, add comments to your ZIP files, test archive integrity, and repair damaged ZIP files. For more info, visit the ZipWorks Home Page.
WinZip for Windows 95 6.1A Beta 2.3 Shareware 486 K Probably the most popular archive manager for Windows. Supports long filenames, drag and extract, and now includes helpful Zip Wizards! The new File->Favorite Zip Folders lists all Zip files in your favorite folders by date for easy access. For more info, visit the WinZip Home Page.
ZipFolders Pre-Release 2 Build 121 Shareware 331 K ZipFolders provides a easy way to handle Zip files under Windows and DOS. You can run any program, game and installation program directly from within a ZIP file. No need to decompress any file to a temporary location first, run every file right out of its ZIP file and keep it in the ZIP file to save precious disk space.For more info, visit the ZipFolders Home Page.
Szipw 2.8a Shareware 388 K Szipw is the Ultimate Zip file manager for Windows. It supports command line parameters, Creates and manages backup sets for easy backup operations , makes Zip archives with long filenames. View Zip files like Disks with a directory tree, Internal Zip/Unzip. For more info, visit the Szipw Home Page.
WinRAR 2.00 Beta 3 Shareware 443 K RAR is a powerful tool which allows you to manage and control archive files. The archive is usually a regular file, which name has a ".rar" suffix.
WinPack 32 Deluxe 1.00 Alpha 8 Shareware 910 K WinPack32 Deluxe support ZIP, GZIP, TAR, Lharc, UUENCODE, BINHEX, ARJ, and ZOO. Features include, ability to view any file type within an archive, archive conversion, built-in self-extractor, drag-n-drop, recursive subdirectories, and zip decryption. For more info, visit the WinPack Home Page.
Szipw 2.8 Shareware 388 K Supports command line parameters, Creates and manages backup sets for easy backup operations , makes Zip archives with long filenames.View Zip files like Disks with a directory tree, Internal Zip/Unzip. Easy configuration. Easy edit of Zip comments and file comments. Accepts command line parameters like PKZIP. Internal File viewer, updates zip file when contents changed. For more info, visit the Szipw Home Page.
Zip Explorer Pro 2.02 Shareware 373 K Zip Explorer Pro is an easy-to-use shell extension to your Explorer that allows you to use right-button, pop-up menus to manage your zip archives. Built in multidisk ZIP file support. For more info, visit the Aeco ZIP Explorer PRO 95 home page. NOTE: This app is not related to the SPS ZIPExplorer95.
WinTAR 2.05 Shareware 167 K A TAR program for your Windows95 machine. Supports network backup over TCP/IP to a remote tape drive on a Unix workstation. For more info, visit the WinTAR Home Page.
MicroHelp Zip 1.0 Commercial
Demo
1200 K MicroHelp Zip (tm) lets you zip and unzip files in Windows 95 with just one step. It's the quickest way to compress files as much as 99%. It combines a full drag and drop interface with a built-in Explorer/File Manager view that makes it easy to complete the most often used zip functions. For more info, visit the MicroHelp Zip Home Page.
ZipWorks 2.1 Shareware 537 K ZipWorks is a full featured 32-Bit Zip file manipulater for Windows 95. The built-in 32-Bit compression is fully compatible with PKZIP v2.04. With this program you can Zip, UnZip, add comments to your Zip files, test archive integrity, and repair damaged Zip files. VB40032.ZIP required. For more info, visit the ZipWorks Home Page.
ZipIT! 1.11 Shareware 500 K ZipIT! is an intuitive point-'n'-click ZIP program. It has many functions including password protection, installing to Program Groups, testing the integrity of ZIP files, and creating self-extracting EXE files. ZipIT! allows for easy viewing of the ZIP items even before unzipping. For more info, visit the ZipIT! Home Page.
WinZip 32-bit Install/Try/Uninstall add-on 1.1 beta 4a Free Beta 44 K WinZip's unique Install/Uninstall feature makes it easy to install and uninstall software distributed in archives. This feature can save megabytes of disk space by tracking and removing all traces of an application. For more info, visit the WinZip 32-bit install Home Page.
Visual Zip 1.50 Shareware 1029 K VisualZip is tightly integrated with the Windows shell, VisualZIP allows you treat ZIP archives as if they were normal folders: you can open them, browse, drag and drop to and from the archives, and run programs or view documents directly from within the archive. For more info, visit the Visual Zip Home Page.
EasyZIP Self-Extractor Pro 1.0 Shareware 289 K Another Zip/Unzip utility that uses helpful wizards to create archives. Very easy to use and includes several additional features. For more info, visit the AKSoft Home Page.
Drag and Zip 1.5 Shareware 600 K Drag And Zip works with Windows 95 Explorer or the Windows NT File Manager and makes them into Zip files managers. Under Explorer you can Zip and unzip with just a right button click. For more info, visit the Drag And Zip Home Page.
Infozip Archive 1.0 Freeware 314 K The file infozip.exe is a self-extracting archive containing gzip.exe, unzip.exe, zip.exe, funzip.exe and unzipsfx.exe. These are all command line utilities compliled as 32bit apps to run under Win95. Most importantly they deal with the long file names of Win95. They are also available individually in the Infozip Archive.
GZip 1.2.4 Shareware 43 K GZip (GNU zip) is a compression utility designed to be a replacement for 'compress'. Its main advantages over compress are much better compression and freedom from patented algorithms.
UnZIP95 2.04.00.02 Shareware 452 K UnZIP95 is a very simple Windows95 unzip utility for ZIP archive files. It has all the tools that most users need. A fully integrated Win95 Explorer interface, with custom icons, menus and property sheets, that allows even novice users to expand, test, list, open and manage standard ZIP formats, with only a few mouse clicks. For more info, visit the FlashPoint Development Home Page.
WinZip Install/Uninstall Add-on Beta Shareware 35 K Lets you install, try, and uninstall software distributed in ZIP files with WinZip. Requires Winzip 6.0a or higher. For more info, visit the WinZip Install/Uninstall Home Page.
WinZip Built-in Disk Spanning Add-on Beta Shareware 133 K Updates WinZip 6.0a so it no longer requires PKZIP and PKUNZIP when working with archives that span multiple floppy disks. Requires Winzip 6.0a. For more info, visit the WinZip Built-in Spanning Home Page.
ZipWhacker 1.0 Shareware 159 K Small, fast UNZIP utility.
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