- #Pkware pkzip server install#
- #Pkware pkzip server archive#
- #Pkware pkzip server rar#
- #Pkware pkzip server zip#
This decision was made around '92 (when many superior alternatives available), before my arrival. Unfortunately this was done through a binary only pkware library (for SCO but running on Sequent).
#Pkware pkzip server archive#
:-PĪ very dumb company I once worked for chose pkware to archive (and sell) many terabytes of text and images. Sometimes, I think it's better to not have two different companies trying to get control over a single format.
#Pkware pkzip server rar#
The only downside I can see is that RAR is a closed source format, with only the decompressor being open. Sure, I can use a command line archiver, but I wouldn't like to. And the official bzip2 package compiled for Windows doesn't come with a GUI so that makes it a bit less useful to me at least, especially when RAR has a comparable compression ratio. The problem is the lack of a good feature set besides the core archiving part. I know about for example bzip2 and 7-zip, but 7-zip still seems like a rather immature archiver, although it's interesting. We're installing it at our company too, since it isn't even a hard to use archiver for geeks in any way. That it happens to use the superior RAR format makes the decision easy for me. IMHO, it would be better than WinZip even if it didn't support RAR, simply from its arhiver support and features. WinRAR came in version 3.30 today, for the same price as WinZip and a lot more features.
I'd say that the PKZip way would be more attractive to companies that need enteprise wide security and may have built it around RSA, and the WinZip way would be adequate for users who simply want to avoid having people poke around in their files. I haven't looked at the PKZIP product, but the assymetric encryption should allow for digial signatures on archives as well, which would provide authentication and non-repudiaiton.
#Pkware pkzip server zip#
However if you already have the public key infrastructure in place, it is probably going to be nice to use it for your zip archives too, in a belt-and-suspenders kind of way. Probably most people who need to do this would prefer a solution that handles e-mail and other kinds of documents as well. However, if you are interested in exchanging archives with other people, then you have the headache of key exchange, and assymetric encryption is quite useful. That's only true if you are interested in creating an archive for your own future use. It even has an encryption feature.Īctually I think this is one of the cases, where there is no need for asymmetric encryption at all. Infinitely superior to WinZip in every way (except for the fact that it doesn't do disk spanning).
#Pkware pkzip server install#
Heck, I have managed to install and use the Microsoft ZIP folder on Windows NT 4.0 (regsvr32 zipfldr.dll), and it ran perfectly fine.
It runs on virtually every Win32-based Microsoft OS. And if you look hard enough, you can actually find a copy of it on Microsoft's web site (disguised as an update/bug fix for the ZIP folder it won't install if you don't have it already, but you can extract the files from the self-extracting CAB and install it manually). The first version of Windows to include it as part of the operating system was Windows ME. Oh, and by the way, the Windows ZIP folder class has been around since Windows 98, when it came with the Windows 98 Plus! pack. Of course, if you want to verify this yourself, you are going to have to make sure that you test it on a virgin XP box that you haven't raped yet by installing WinZip on it.that'll kill the built-in ZIP "folder" class as WinZip messes with the file associations. Yes as other posters have pointed out, you can not only open ZIP files in Windows XP natively and use them as if they were normal folders *without installing a third-party piece of software*, but you can add and remove files from these ZIP archives quite easily (drag-'n-drop) and even create new ZIP archives quite easily, too: either right-click file -> Send To -> Compressed Folder, or right-click empty space -> New -> Compressed Folder, and start dragging things into it.
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