PentaWare Releases PentaZip 5.0; New Version Takes Software Compression Technology Into Previously Uncharted Territories

Business Wire, Oct 17, 2001

Business & High-Tech Editors

HAMPTON, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 17, 2001

PentaWare Inc, a leading distributor of compression software, has announced its latest version PentaZip 5.0, featuring a completely new interface and increased compatibility with Microsoft's Windows operating systems, including XP.

PentaZip 5.0 supports multifile/multifolder compressed archives larger than 4GB, using its ZGB(TM) format. The restrictions of the 32-bit ZIP format have been overcome.

PentaZip 5.0 is the first compression program to have earned all three Microsoft logos: Designed for Windows 98/NT, Certified for Windows 2000 and Designed for Windows XP.

PentaZip has built in support (no additional plugins or third party software is required) for the majority of popular compressed archive formats including: Ace, ZOO, RAR, ARJ, ARC, CAB, TAR, GZIP, BH, LZH, LHA and JAR. All of these formats can also be converted to Zip, ZGB, LHa, CAB, TAR, GZip. PentaZip also supports UUEncode, XXEncode, Mime64 and BinHex.

With the PentaZip Viewer users can "see" the contents of their files without having to use the program they were created within. The viewer also allows users to open files without triggering Macro viruses that are sometimes found in Excel and Word documents.

PentaZip displays the content of zipped archives, supporting many different formats (more than 50) as Ascii Text, Hex, MS Word Doc and RTF, HTML, Excel XLS, AVI, MOV JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIF, WMF, PCX, MPG; MP3 and many others. PentaZip 5.0 now also supports AutoCad DXF and DWG in dynamic viewing and contains new graphic features such as crop, copy and paste, resize, gray scale, rotate and dynamic zoom. Once installed, the viewer is available anywhere on your system.

"We've always said that we did more than just zip and unzip files" says Claude Ostfeld, President and Chief Executive Officer of PentaWare. "With version 5, we've created a suite that incorporates five programs into one tool that any Windows user will want to have"

Other features include:

-- Search for specific files inside any Zip archive using the standard Windows
"find" interface (including by name, date, date range and size)

-- Opening, modifying and resaving files in the original Zip archive without
unzipping them first

-- Dragging and dropping files between different Zip archives

-- Unzip, Zip, Zip&Mail and SFX&Mail using the right mouse button is now
available everywhere on your system

-- Scripting that allows you to create self-running programs for frequently
performed zipping and unzipping tasks

-- Scheduling that executes Zip or Unzip scripts automatically daily, monthly
or weekly

-- Explorer interface

-- Antivirus support that can verify the integrity of any compressed archive

-- SFX and Splitter support that create self Extracting files and also split
large files into sections to ease downloading and email handling

-- Email support that allows you to attach any file or compressed archive to an
email message automatically. PentaZip can interface most email system (such as
Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape Mail, etc.)

-- A fully customizable toolbar

-- Language support includes English, Italian, French and German. Spanish will
be available before the end of 2001.

Download PentaZip 5.0 today at www.pentazip.com for $49.95, and boxed version will be available for $59.95.

About PentaWare, Inc.

PentaWare Inc. is a software distribution company dedicated to providing quality and user-friendly products. PentaZip demonstrates that dedication by being the first compression program to pass the Veritest "Designed for Windows 2000 Professional" certification. It also recently received the coveted SMAU99 Industrial Design Award. PentaWare's staff strives to bring its customers the finest software products on the market today.