WinRAR for Mac is an archiving utility that completely supports RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives. It consistently makes smaller archives than the competition, saving disk space and transmission costs. WinRAR for Mac offers you the benefit of industry strength archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a key of 128 bits. It supports files and archives up to 8,589 billion gigabytes in size. It also offers the ability to create self extracting and multi volume archives. With recovery record and recovery volumes, you can reconstruct even physically damaged archives. Overall, WinRAR for Mac is a powerful archiver and archive manager.
RAR files can usually compress content 8-30% better than ZIP files. WinRAR for Mac main features are strong compression, strong AES encryption, archive protection from damage, and self-extracting archives. WinRAR for Mac only offers a command line interface. 'Repair' command efficiency is improved for recovery record protected RAR5 archives. Now it can detect deletions and insertions of unlimited size also as shuffled data including data taken from several recovery record protected archives and merged into a single file in arbitrary order. If encoding of comment file specified in -z switch is not defined with -sc switch, RAR attempts to detect UTF-8, UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE encodings based on the byte order mask and data validity tests.
Mac users interested in Winrar for os x 10.6.8 generally download: WinRAR 5.40 WinRAR is a powerful compression tool with many integrated additional functions to help you organize your compressed archives.
'Update' and 'Fresh' commands ('u' and 'f' in the command line mode) quit immediately if no files are to be updated. Previously they created a temporary archive before quitting when updating archives with recovery record or quick open information. 'Repair' command issues 'Recovery record is corrupt' message after repairing RAR5 archive containing a broken recovery record. Previously such message was issued only by 'Test' command and 'Repair' handled most of recovery record damages silently. Bugs fixed: Fixed potential security issues when processing corrupt RAR archives.tl and -tk switches did not work with archive modification commands. Command like 'rar a arcname.rar subdir/arcname.rar' erroneously issued 'No files' warning and refused to add the file.
WinZip was on the first file compression and decompression applications for Windows and still remains popular. It's taken years to reach the Mac and although not as effective or as popular as the Windows version, WinZip for Mac offers some interesting features. The first thing you notice is that WinZip for Mac features a much slicker and user friendly interface than the Windows version. However, you soon realise that it supports far fewer formats namely (ZIP, Zipx, RAR, LHA, 7Z) which offers no major advantages over Stuffit which supports thirty different file types. Improved support for Mac application bundles (.app), with the option to view package contents before unzipping. You can also extract individual applications in a Zip file directly into your applications folder.
Option to include hidden files when zipping, in order to preserve the full content, structure, and presentation of file folders. Ability to extract an even wider range of compressed file types, including files without Zip or Zipx extensions(such as.jar and.war files). Enhanced interface gives an at a glance breakdown of file sizes before and after compression, showing you exactly how much space was saved by zipping.
'Zip and Email' feature now allows you to resize and compress your high-resolution photos before attaching them to your email, reducing their size and optimizing them to fit standard computer screens. 'Zip & Burn' compressed files to CD/DVD. Changes. Improved support for Mac application bundles (.app), with the option to view package contents before unzipping. You can also extract individual applications in a Zip file directly into your applications folder.
Option to include hidden files when zipping, in order to preserve the full content, structure, and presentation of file folders. Ability to extract an even wider range of compressed file types, including files without Zip or Zipx extensions(such as.jar and.war files). Enhanced interface gives an at a glance breakdown of file sizes before and after compression, showing you exactly how much space was saved by zipping.
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'Zip and Email' feature now allows you to resize and compress your high-resolution photos before attaching them to your email, reducing their size and optimizing them to fit standard computer screens. 'Zip & Burn' compressed files to CD/DVD. WinZip supports the following formats ZIP, ZIPX, RAR, LHA, 7Z.