Best free ZIP utility

The freeware programs that I download come in archives, zip, rar, you name it, I had to get a free compression/zip utility. I was using WinRar before, let's see which freeware alternative I chose.



I tested J-Zip, 7 Zip and TUGZip. I was trying to unpack an archive, a multiple rar archive. J-Zip couldn't do it, said the archive was broken. 7 Zip did exactly the same thing. TUGZip opened it! After studying the list of supported file formats for each of the three I made my choice: it's TUGZip!




Just take a look at the list of supported file formats, I was completely satisfied:

• Supports ZIP, 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, BH, BZ2, CAB, CPIO, DEB, GCA, GZ, IMP, JAR, LHA (LZH), LIB, RAR, RPM, SQX, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TAZ, YZ1 and ZOO archives.
• Supports BIN, C2D, IMG, ISO and NRG disc-images.

Let me add to that that you can make self-extracting archives with it using the following formats: 7-ZIP, BH, BZ2, CAB, JAR, LHA (LZH), SQX, TAR, TGZ, YZ1 and ZIP. I'm very happy I found this freeware program, my compressing and unpacking is in good hands now. You can download TUGZip from here, it's free!

My Evaluation	9
Operating System	Windows All
Size	3.91 MB
Author	Christian Kindahl
Version Tested	3.5.0.0