Find Articles in:
All
Business
Reference
Technology
News
Lifestyle

PentaZip - Software Review - Evaluation - Brief Article

Home Office Computing, July, 2000 by Marshall F. Lager

HOC RATING 12345678

IT TAKES AN AWFUL LOT TO MAKE A FILE compression and decompression utility stand out from the crowd, but PentaWare has pulled it off with PentaZip ($40 boxed, $30 download; 480-491-0642, www.pentazip.com). This high-powered program impressed us with support for 14 methods and nine levels of compression, a file viewer for zipped and unzipped archives, a scheduler for regular file compression, and the ability to create self-extracting and disk-spanning archives. There's a laundry list of features here, and we liked them all.

The program is comfy as well as technically competent--most of PentaZip's functions can be used straight from Windows Explorer. It's useful for the casual archivist, but it's also overkill: Many users can get by with a freeware archiver. If you need to do serious file manipulation, though, PentaZip is a potent challenger to the category king WinZip.

RATINGS

HOME OFFICE COMPUTING rates products on a scale of 1 to 10--with few 9's or 10's--based on value, performance, innovation (medals go to rare standouts in these areas), ease of use, and suitability for home offices. The A and B symbols indicate pros and cons.

Rating: 8

COPYRIGHT 2000 CURTCO Freedom Communications
COPYRIGHT 2000 Gale Group
 

BNET TalkbackShare your ideas and expertise on this topic

The following tags are supported in BNET comments:
<b></b> <i></i> <u></u> <pre></pre>

Leave a Reply

  1. You are currently a guest | Login?
advertisement
CIO SessionsVision Series on ZDNet

See and hear what CIOs the world over thinks about the business of technology and how it's changing the way we live and work.

Go
advertisement
  • Click Here
  • Click Here
advertisement

Content provided in partnership with http://findarticles.com/source//