New Winzip for .zipx files

[frogman]

As some people are now using the latest winzip that uses smaller files when extracting, this is now causing a problem for users like myself that are unable to extract these files with their current extraction programs such as Winrar, and Winrar 8.

I fear that we are going to miss out, and wondered if there was an alternative?

This post concerns files that have the .zipx extention.

Any ideas folks?

Edited July 16, 2009 by frogman

[jaclaz]

Doesn't 7-zip work?

http://www.7-zip.org/

jaclaz

[frogman]

Doesn't 7-zip work?

http://www.7-zip.org/

jaclaz

Nope, it says Unsupported compression method.

Edited July 16, 2009 by frogman

[eidenk]

It's just too new a format to be supported by anything but Winzip right now I guess.

[frogman]

It's just too new a format to be supported by anything but Winzip right now I guess.

Yeah, but the problem will be that when winrar starts to support it we won't be supported by that either.

It does look like we are going to be forced to upgrade 98 eventually doesn't it.

[jaclaz]

It's just too new a format to be supported by anything but Winzip right now I guess.

Things appear to be in the works :

http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=7488010

http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=7498208

http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=7488138

http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=7488238

I guess one should give Igor Pavlov some time, the specs are public:

http://www.winzip.com/comp_info.htm

You may want to issue on the said Sourceforge thread a request, so that the importance of adding the format to 7-zip is notified to to Igor.

jaclaz

[frogman]

It's just too new a format to be supported by anything but Winzip right now I guess.

Things appear to be in the works :

http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=7488010

http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=7498208

http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=7488138

http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=7488238

I guess one should give Igor Pavlov some time, the specs are public:

http://www.winzip.com/comp_info.htm

You may want to issue on the said Sourceforge thread a request, so that the importance of adding the format to 7-zip is notified to to Igor.

jaclaz

Yeah, but will he support windows 98?

[BenoitRen]

As the specs are public, it shouldn't be hard for someone to make a program compatible with Win9x that can extract them.

[jaclaz]

Yeah, but will he support windows 98?

I don't see why it shouldn't.

Currently 7-zip:

http://www.7-zip.org/

7-Zip works in Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista. There is a port of the command line version to Linux/Unix.

jaclaz

[frogman]

Yeah, but will he support windows 98?

I don't see why it shouldn't.

Currently 7-zip:

http://www.7-zip.org/

7-Zip works in Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista. There is a port of the command line version to Linux/Unix.

jaclaz

I don't know why you posted this again, we do know that 7-zip works for windows 98, but it don't work for the new zip format .zipx, so I don't see the point you are trying to make.

[jaclaz]

I don't know why you posted this again, we do know that 7-zip works for windows 98, but it don't work for the new zip format .zipx, so I don't see the point you are trying to make.

I am not trying to make any point.

You made a question (pretty much conjectural BTW and IMHO ):

Yeah, but will he support windows 98?

I am completely missing the connection between the fact that adding support for .zipx may cause the end of current supported OS by the app, and expressed my perplexity, no more, no less.

The only known fact is that Igor Pavlov is aware of the problem and that he may add support to the .zipx format, as per given links, I guess that if and when this will happen, then we will see if support to Windows 98 will be kept.

As said, my personal advice if you are interested in such features, would be to post on the 7-zip Forum saying so.

jaclaz

[eidenk]

Yeah, but will he support windows 98?

I don't see why it shouldn't.

Currently 7-zip:

http://www.7-zip.org/

7-Zip works in Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista. There is a port of the command line version to Linux/Unix.

jaclaz

I don't know why you posted this again, we do know that 7-zip works for windows 98, but it don't work for the new zip format .zipx, so I don't see the point you are trying to make.

I think you don't understand that a file format is not OS specific. It's just a file format. Whether there is going to be a software implementation for it on different platforms is another story.

As Jaclaz said there is good chances Igor Pavlov is going to implement the zipx spec in 7-Zip which is 9x compatible.

[frogman]

I don't know why you posted this again, we do know that 7-zip works for windows 98, but it don't work for the new zip format .zipx, so I don't see the point you are trying to make.

I am not trying to make any point.

You made a question (pretty much conjectural BTW and IMHO ):

Yeah, but will he support windows 98?

The only known fact is that Igor Pavlov is aware of the problem and that he may add support to the .zipx format, as per given links, I guess that if and when this will happen, then we will see if support to Windows 98 will be kept.

As said, my personal advice if you are interested in such features, would be to post on the 7-zip Forum saying so.

jaclaz

Because if igor makes 7-zip compatible with .zipx then the new update may not support windows 98, and that was the point I was trying to make.

[eidenk]

Well if you are so frightened just upgrade to Windows 7 which is due to be out soon.

Best advice I can give you

[eidenk]

Because if igor makes 7-zip compatible with .zipx then the new update may not support windows 98, and that was the point I was trying to make.

See how you tie the implementation of the zipx spec to possible incompatibilty. This does not make sense. The only data file format that could be incompatible with 9x I can think of would be a format whose spec specifies that the filesize must be at minimum bigger than the maximum file size a 9x system can handle. Other than that I can't see anything that would make a data file format intrinsically incompatible with the given system.