Thread: mac equiv to WinZip/WinRAR

I'm well familiar with gzip the free software compression utility that's practically standard for any form of Unix including BSD. And, ever since I tried the first beta of OS X, opened a term, and typed "vi helloworld" I've been conscious of OS X's retention of the standard Unix utilities. However, gzip is not the same as zip. I know nothing about Windows machines other than that I am having to use one...

In windows Right click->Send to-> Compressed folder. XP+: Zip built in winzip: Not free but you can use it for as long as you want 7-Zip: Free unzip.exe: (command line based) free but hard to use. 95-98-2000 = no zip built in If you are using windows XP and you open a zip file and it doesn't know what to do with it then someone has installed and removed a zip program (ie winzip). In this case, select the zip file, hold...

The entry in the context menu doesn't contain the word ZIP at all. If you could take a picture of your contextual menu, that would be hugely helpful to me, because as it stands, I have never seen a copy of OS X that doesn't have the "Create Archive..." entry in the right-click contextual menu.

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Why not just make a folder on the desktop, right click, or ctrl + click and create an archive of the folder. It will zip and you can send. Opening of a zip archive is just a double click on a mac.

Win Zip™® isn't built into Windows, if you catch my drift, but .zip archiving and unpacking certainly is. Haven't you ever just clicked on a folder with the little clamp icon on it, to find the contents presented in a window? OS X has archiving built in, it uses native BSD commands to zip and unzip files.

Quote: Originally Posted by 2ms Is it absolutely certain that OSX has it built in native? yes, why not follow the instructions and see for yourself. just right click or control+click on a folder/file and create archive.

Quote: Originally Posted by thewhitehart Win Zip™® isn't built into Windows, if you catch my drift, but .zip archiving and unpacking certainly is. Haven't you ever just clicked on a folder with the little clamp icon on it, to find the contents presented in a window? Of course we can keep debating it pointlessly, but just in case anyone wants to try it... I'm on a Windows Server 2003 client at the mo', but I'm pretty...

Zip format is going down anyway, there is a software called compress (freeware), can do the compression with output in the formats of tar, dmg, zip, etc, unfortunately, it won't add anything to your context menu.

Quote: Originally Posted by clevin Zip format is going down anyway, there is a software called compress (freeware), can do the compression with output in the formats of tar, dmg, zip, etc, unfortunately, it won't add anything to your context menu. What makes you think Zip is going away? I still see tons of Windows stuff and cross-platform stuff (like PHP scripts) distributed as Zip files.