LEO KUZNETSOV  I am author of Zipeg. I would be most curious if you can unpack the same encrypted/multipart file with Zipeg application. If you still have trouble please let me know via Zipeg website support page. Thanks  
(Version 1.6.1)

LEO KUZNETSOV  ROBK asked:

>According the the X-Losses Decoder Project, ZiPeg breaks UNIX permissions during the extraction of an archive.

>See http://tmkk.hp.infoseek.co.jp/xld/index_e.html

>Is this true? (Version 2.3.0.896)

It was true prio to version 2.3

I verified that version 2.3 handles tar permissions correctly. I downloaded applications from TMKK XLD and successfully extracted it with correct permissions. Everything seems to work. (I notified tmkk about the fix).

Leo  
(Version 2.3.0.896)

LEO KUZNETSOV  can you send the icon that you like to support [at] zipeg [dot] com, please.  
(Version 2.1.0.852)

LEO KUZNETSOV  version 2.0.0 release.

1. Startup time is improved (make sure your java is 1.5 not 1.4).

2. Implemented correct handling of national encodings in the file names inside archives.

3. Automatic opening of nested archives.

4. Sorting by filename/size/date.

5. Bug fixes.   
(Version 2.0.0.738)

LEO KUZNETSOV  Dear jlaro,

I really appreciate speed measurements.

Yes - Zipeg is Java UI front for excellent p7zip back end engine (kudos to Igor Pavlov).

I've tried on my MPB (2GB, Intel) as well as on two Minis (1GB, Intel/PPC) and on both it starts in sub-second period of time. All three systems are 10.4.x running Java 1.5. What is your configuration?

I would be interested to understand why it is slow on G4 and how to speed up the start up time. If you want to help please drop me email thru http://www.zipeg.com/mac.support.html I will be willing to make a special version for you with startup profile log and see if I can optimize something.

Thank you very much for helping to make Zipeg better.

Leo  
(Version 1.3.0.567)

LEO KUZNETSOV  I believe 24 seconds was due to a bug in an earlier version. It was spent downloading plugin for extra formats. New version is available from http://www.zipeg.com and has plugin already embeded in it. Please give it a try and let me know if it did not fix the problem.

Regards,

Leo  
(Version 1.3.0.567)

LEO KUZNETSOV  Zipeg is not Windows only. It is actually developed on and for Macintosh and was ported to Windows lately.

Try http://www.zipeg.com/mac.index.html  
(Version 3.7)

LEO KUZNETSOV  Dear BetterZip developer. I am Zipeg developer here and I have a very hight respect to BetterZip software. Actually I do recommend my customers to try BetterZip when they are having problems with any archives.

Java? Zipeg is only 25% Java and 75% C and it is definitely not a port of Windows program. Opposite! I've just ported Mac version on Windows and actually enjoyed the port a lot. Fun ride. Anybody can check it out on www.zipeg.com and see if I've messed up.

Drag and drop? I am surprised - zipeg goes a long way to support mac drag and drop. Try archiving jpeg photos that do have Photoshop previews (thumbnails) and dragging them to desktop. Try in another archives. Tell me if I misunderstood something. This my first Mac application. Seriously :-)

I actually learned a lot from BetterZip and from 7-zip and also from WinZip and StuffIt. Zipeg is just small freeware companion to the much more feature rich big brothers.

Peace,

Leo  
(Version 1.4.1)

LEO KUZNETSOV  Apologies for those who experienced cannot download plugin error. Our update server was down. If you just restart the application it should update itself. Detailed explanation can be found in FAQ section of http://www.zipeg.com  
(Version 1.2.2)

LEO KUZNETSOV  try www.zipeg.com it does RAR and it is free and it has UI  
(Version 3.7b1)

LEO KUZNETSOV  Dear Johnatan, please check your particular file association (Info in Finder / Open with settintgs - it may be that this file is still hijacked by creator e.g. StuffIt expander). If this is not the case please contact support@zipeg.com for further investigation. Application Services default role handler is still relatively new for OS 10.4 and I wonder - may be Zipeg is doing something incorrectly.

Would appreciate your help very much.

Regards,

Leo  
(Version 1.2.1.334)

LEO KUZNETSOV  1.0.1 did not support neither 7 zip nor rar, arj or other dozen of formats. I've adopted p7zip plugin (many thanks to Igor Pavlov for his excellent software) and now it is 7zip and other archives compatible. Enjoy. :-)   
(Version 1.2)

LEO KUZNETSOV  thanks. I really appreciate open discussion. Good luck with the improvements.  
(Version 1.5.3)

LEO KUZNETSOV  why? the mac way of doing the same is packing AppleDouble into zip archives. And e.g. BetterZip does a good job on striping it out if it is not necessary... There is naming conventions after all. Oh well. Poor users - yet another new envelope format. :-(  
(Version 1.5.3)

LEO KUZNETSOV  why the file extension is .s7z?!

the 7-zip envelope is .7z

I want to be able to open resulting archives on other platforms with other 7z compatible software.  
(Version 1.5.3)

LEO KUZNETSOV  Developer Note: Why bother? ZIP + JPEG = ZIPEG :-)

Dear Zipeg User,

Here is some explanation of why yet another archive extractor?

I basically developed it for myself at first because I liked WinZip on Windows and lacked ease of archive browsing when I switched to OS X. Though there are many other archivers I needed something that reflects my un-archiver usage pattern.

I've noticed that I rarely create zip files myself but when friends send me photos from the last party I want to preview them before extracting all.

All modern digital JPEG photographs contains tiny EXIF header with a thumbnail in it. Zipeg extracts and shows this thumbnail, and let me decide which files I really want to unzip.

Frequently, when installing open source software, I usually unzip into the same directory first (namely e.g. /User/leo/tmp//) and than work from there.

And in some occasions, I want to navigate inside the archive and simply drag and drop single file or image to desktop without unzipping all 100,000 files from my svn-tar-ball.

I understand that in a way Zipeg is inferior to some of the Bigger Brothers - but I want to develop it further, add more formats and simple to use features.

I would love to hear your comments, critique and suggestions for further development. I enjoyed making it for you. Hope you will find it useful.

And if you experience any problems let me know - I will work hard to fix them.

Enjoy.

Leo Kuznetsov  
(Version 1.0.1)