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BetterZip

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Developer(s)
  
Robert Rezabek

Development status
  
Active

Initial release
  
2006

Written in
  
Objective-C

BetterZip

Stable release
  
3.0.4 / January 20, 2016; 12 months ago (2016-01-20)

Operating system
  
Mac OS X 10.4 and later

BetterZip is a trialware file archiver and data compression utility developed by Robert Rezabek, and first released in May 2006. It is developed solely for the OS X platform. Unlike the built-in Archive Utility from Apple it includes the ability to extract and compress in many archive formats, as well as the ability to view an archive and selectively extract files without automatically extracting the entire contents.

Features

BetterZip supports extraction of the following file types:

  • ZIP, SIT, TAR, GZip, BZip2, RAR, 7-Zip, CPIO, ARJ, LZH/LHA, JAR, WAR, CAB, ISO, CHM, RPM, DEB, NSIS, BIN, HQX, DD

    • The following file types are supported for archive creation:

  • ZIP, Uncompressed TAR, TAR with Gzip compression, TAR with BZip2 compression, 7Z, XAR

    • BetterZip does not include RAR compression without separately downloading the command line RAR utility from Rarlab. BetterZip will then integrate RAR compression into its GUI like other formats.

    References

    BetterZip Wikipedia
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