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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.
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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.
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Rating: 8
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