AZip version 2.7

AZip is a Zip archive manager.

Home page: http://azip.sf.net/
Project page: AZip download | SourceForge.net
Mirror: GitHub - zertovitch/azip: AZip: a free, portable Zip Archive Manager
Alire crate: Alire - Azip

Some features:

  • Aimed at simplicity, minimal option set
  • Usual archive management: Add / Remove / Extract files
  • Original, useful built-in tools:
    • Text & name search function through an archive (no file is written during search)
    • Archive updater
    • Archive recompression, using an algorithm-picking approach for improving a Zip archive’s compression.
  • Flat view / Tree view toggle
  • Multi-document
  • Encryption
  • Zip compression formats supported: Reduce, Shrink, Implode, Deflate, Deflate64, BZip2, LZMA
  • Portable (no installation needed, no DLL); can operate with a config file instead of the registry (stealth mode)
  • Installable if desired (application is its own installer)
  • Free, open-source

Summary of latest changes from 2.6 to 2.7:

  • Tabs: each archive subwindow has an own tab on a tab bar (new). This makes the handling of AZip easier to understand.
  • Temporary directory: you can optionally set a specific temporary directory - typically, in a RAM disk - for AZip’s operations such as archive recompression. Your HD or SSD will thank you.
  • Single instance: when Zip archives are opened and AZip is already running, those archives are opened in that running instance - thanks to Nicolas Pinault (@DrPi) for that feature!
  • Fix: sorting column and direction are preserved on operations that modify a Zip archive (delete, add, update, recompress, etc.).

Previous changes: see AZip / News

“Under the hood” features:

  • AZip is from A to Z in Ada :slight_smile:
  • Uses the highly portable Zip-Ada library - all in Ada.
  • (regarding Windows “skin”) Uses the GWindows library - all in Ada.

Enjoy!

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drm@84-47-09-37-40-35 ~ [1]> alr search azip
NAME STATUS VERSION DESCRIPTION NOTES MATCHES
azip UX 2.7.0 AZip - A portable Zip Archive Manager Description, Executable, GPR External, GPR Scenario, Long_Description, Name, Project_File, Tag, Website
drm@84-47-09-37-40-35 ~> alr get azip
error: Release within the requested versions [azip*] does not exist in the index.
drm@84-47-09-37-40-35 ~ [1]> alr install azip
ⓘ Computing solutions…
error: Could not find a complete solution for azip*
error: No solution could be computed for: azip*

Is that a bug on my side ?

The alr message could be clearer, like “crate not available for this operating system”.