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- Price: Free
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- Date added: March 06, 2001
- Total Downloads: 961,824
- Downloads last week: 2,732
- Product Ranking: #2 in File Compression
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- Average user rating: stars out of 83 votes
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Publisher's description
From Dirk Haase:MacZip is a free tool that includes both zip (for compression) and unzip (for extraction) capabilities. MacZip can compress files for the following systems: Unix, VMS, MS-DOS, OS/2, Windows NT, Minix, Atari, Macintosh, Amiga, and Acorn RISC OS. MacZip also can unzip its own zipped archives. MacZip works with archives produced by PKZip, and PKZip and PKUnzip can work with archives produced by MacZip. In addition, the program supports encryption for secure archive creation.
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- All versions: 3.7 starsout of 83 votes
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- Current version: 3.7 starsout of 83 votes
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1 stars
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: MacZip 1.0.6
"Zipeg does it better"
Pros: I sort of agree with bmiller2456`s review. Mac OSX does create zips. But when you expand it by double clicking on it it gets completely unpacked - which is not always what I want. Sometimes I just need 1 picture out of thousand - I will know it when I see it. There is newer free software called Zipeg that does exactly this. Funny it does not even attempt to create ZIPs leaving this job to OS tools.
Zipeg is like WinZip and WinRar but for both Macintosh and Windows. I like it better than StuffIt or MacZip.
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5 stars
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: MacZip 1.0.6
"Good solid freeware."
Summary: Great for transferring large files to pcs
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1 stars
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: MacZip 1.0.6
"Unable to install; it required Mac Classic"
Pros: It seems great, lot of promise.
Cons: I won't install programs that require Mac Classic. Can't you modify / upgrade it to work with Mac 10?
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0 stars
Version: MacZip 1.0.6
"Did not extract the file I wanted it to extract;"
Pros: See summary
Cons: No comment. Didn't use.
Summary: did not extract the file I wanted it to extract; so I didn't use it.
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1 stars
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: MacZip 1.0.6
"Use Zipeg instead"
Pros: nothing good about it.
Cons: it is very old and obsolete by now.
Summary: My friends keep switching to Macintosh and ask me about WinZip, WinRar. Obviously they replace "Win" by "Mac" and end up with 2 non-working products. My advise to them and to all of you: use ZIPEG. It is WinZip/WinRar for Mac.
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1 stars
Version: MacZip 1.0.6
"why don't this programs work, MacRAR and MacZIP, they just are code text in a format that is .sit so completely no use,"
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1 stars
5 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: MacZip 1.0.6
"Completely unecessary..."
Pros: ZIP is a tried and true compression scheme. Although it only works perfectly with text documents and bitmap image files due to the nature of it's compression algorithm.
Cons: This software is completely pointless. The latest and greatest version of Mac OS creates .ZIP files natively. All you have to do is right-click (control click) the item, and tell your Mac to Archive the item(s). It will do the rest.
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1 stars
2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: MacZip 1.0.6
"it wouldnt open"
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1 stars
Version: MacZip 1.0.6
"the file remained the same size"
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1 stars
Version: MacZip 1.0.6
"Ech."
Summary: Did not compress file any further than simple save did, frankly. Had it off of my computer in about 10 seconds and went with StuffIt instead. Much easier, and better.
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