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WinAce
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| WinACE | |
 WinAce version 2.6 under Microsoft Windows |
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| Developer: | e-merge GmbH |
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| Latest release: | 2.65 / July 12, 2006 |
| OS: | Cross-platform |
| Use: | File archiver |
| License: | Proprietary |
| Website: | www.winace.com |
WinAce is an archiving program with its own relatively powerful "ACE" compression format and built-in support for other common archive formats types such as ZIP, RAR and MS-CAB. The Mac OS X and Linux versions are called Unace and are command line programs. WinAce peaked in popularity around 2000, but since fallen in popularity to WinRAR and Windows' built-in Zip functionality.
- Compression of the following formats: ACE, ZIP, GZip, LHA, MS-CAB, and Java JAR
- Decompression of: ACE, ZIP, LHA, MS-CAB, RAR, ARC, ARJ, GZip, TAR, ZOO, JAR
- Multi-volume (disk spanning) archives for ACE, ZIP, CAB
- Self-extracting archives (SFX) for ACE and ZIP
- Password encryption & recovery records for data protection
- Integrity check for ACE, ZIP, LHA, MS-CAB, RAR, ARC, ARJ, GZip, TAR, ZOO, JAR
- Repair functionality for ACE and ZIP archives
- Authenticity verification for ACE archives
- Comment files in HTML, ANSI or ASCII for ACE- and ZIP-Archives
- Full command line access (compatible with DOS ACE)
- Detailed information for all archive types
- Quickviewer for graphic files, Word documents, HTML pages and ASCII files
- Full drag-and-drop support
- Complete file-management (copying, moving and deleting of files and directories)
- Optimization of existing archives
- Access to archives in Windows Explorer and via the context menu (shell extension)
- Table of contents in the "Properties" panel of ACE and ZIP files (shell extension)