Ze blog » WinZIP http://blog.vautier.net it's all blue Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:25:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Goodbye, WinZIP http://blog.vautier.net/2008/11/25/goodbye-winzip/ http://blog.vautier.net/2008/11/25/goodbye-winzip/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:55:17 +0000 Eric Vautier http://blog.vautier.net/?p=24 I registered and have been using WinZIP for several years, and mostly didn’t have issues with it for the longest time. Then, a few months ago, as I attempted to unzip the latest WordPress package for a local installation, it failed repeatedly (cringed at seeing plugins.php and a few others, if I remember correctly). Not only was the problem reproductible on the .tar.gz file even after I re-downloaded it, the very same issue also occured on my older WinXP laptop.

Today, I tried unzipping the latest XOOPS — a 3.6 Mb .tar.gz file… –, and WinZIP just went unresponsive, sending the drive on what appeared to be infinite R/W access. Had to kill the process. It seems to be an issue with the untarring process.

7-Zip has been on my hard drives for a while. Hasn’t been complaining at all. Is generally faster.

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