Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4348 mails)

[Salman Khilji <skhilji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> ark, lnxzip
>
> Included in SuSE.

Sorry but none of these utilities match the quality of WinZip.  

Try downloading a large zip or tar file.  An example would be 
www.cs.wust.edu/~schmidt and download ACE.  These utilities take forever to 
load the zip file and display its contents---let alone the unzipping part.

WInzip make it very easy to create an archive of a folder...simply right click 
and choose Add to Zip....a new zip file is found in the same directory as the 
foler itself.  In all of the GUI utilities that I have used on Linux, you 
have to first open the app, then select File | New, then give it a name.  The 
click Add files....and browse down a deep hierarchy to the folder of your 
choice....then select the folder....and then the folder is zipped.  Only to 
find half of the time, the darn things crashes if you want to zip a large 
folder (can't recall whether it was Karchiver, or ark that was constantly 
crashing on a large directory that I wanted to Zip)

i was annoyed by the instability of all Linux Zip-like programs so I gave up.  

I use tar -xvf xxxx.tar.  If its zipped then I gunzip it first.  Its ugly.  
But it works.

I also tried Karchiver and it also sucked.  Has anyone of you actually used 
WinZip?  

I almost want to write one from scratch myself.  The only thing is that I am 
not familiar with the zip file and tar file format.  I definitely DO NOT want 
to write a wrapper on top of a command line program.  If these were some 
C/C++ library that handled the archiving part for me, then I could myself 
write a kickass Winzip like GUI using Qt.

Salman