Archive Comparison Test - by Jeff Gilchrist
(A.C.T.) - September 1998 Edition


        I have decided to add an Options List which shows what archivers
support certain major options.  If you think I should add another
category to the list or you see an error, please let me know.  If there
is an error, please tell me what switch will activate the command that
I missed.

OPTIONS LIST
MULTI MIN. WIN95 DISK AUTH. 'SOLID' DATA CPU/ LONG ARCHIVER SPAN VERI. CRYPT ARCHIVES SFX PROT GUI RAM FILES -------- ----- ----- ----- -------- --- ---- --- ------ ----- ACB 2.00c X X-??? A X 486/16 ACB 1.14a X X-??? A X 386/8 ACE 1.2a X X X-BLFSH X X X X 386/2 X AIN 2.32 X X-??? X x86 AMGC 2.3 X X-??? X X x86 AR 1.10 x86 ARC 6.02 X-XOR x86 ARHANGEL 1.31 386 ARI 2.16m X X-??? X X 386 ARJ 2.60 X X X-GOST X X x86 X ARJZ 0.15 x86 ARQ 3.2 X-??? X x86 ARX 1.00 x86 ASD 0.1.2 A X x86 BOA 0.58b X 386/2 X BSARC 2.0.0 X X x86 BVI 1.70 386 X MULTI MIN. WIN95 DISK AUTH. 'SOLID' DATA CPU/ LONG ARCHIVER SPAN VERI. CRYPT ARCHIVES SFX PROT GUI RAM FILES -------- ----- ----- ----- -------- --- ---- --- ------ ----- BZIP2 0.1pl2 X 386/2 X CABARC 1.0 386 X CODEC 3.21 X-??? X x86 CROSSEPAC 1.35 x86 CRUSH 1.8 A x86 DEEPFREEZE 1.03 X-??? X 386 X DPA 1.1a 386 DST 0.9b 386/2 DWC 5.10 X-??? X x86 ELI 5750 X-??? X x86 ERI 3.1 X X-??? X X X 386/2 ESP 1.92 X X-??? A X X x86 EXP v1 386 X GAS 2.0 x86 GZIP 1.2.4 x86 HA 0.999b x86 HAP 3.05bp 286 HAP 4.03 X 286 MULTI MIN. WIN95 DISK AUTH. 'SOLID' DATA CPU/ LONG ARCHIVER SPAN VERI. CRYPT ARCHIVES SFX PROT GUI RAM FILES -------- ----- ----- ----- -------- --- ---- --- ------ ----- HIT 2.10 x86 HPA 1.8 X x86 HPACK 0.79a0 X X X-PGP X X x86 HYPER 2.6 X x86 ICOMP 3.00.61 x86 IMP 1.0 X X-BLFSH X X 386 X INFO-ZIP 2.2 * X-??? X x86 X JAM - Aug1996 X-XOR x86 JAR16 1.02 X X X-GOST A X x86 JAR32 1.02 X X X-GOST A X 386 X JRCHIVE 1.10 X X x86 KBOOM 1.1 x86 LARC 3.33 X x86 LGHA 1.1 X 386 LHA 2.67 X 386 LHARK 0.4d X-??? X x86 X LIMIT 1.2 286 LZAP 0.20.0 386 MULTI MIN. WIN95 DISK AUTH. 'SOLID' DATA CPU/ LONG ARCHIVER SPAN VERI. CRYPT ARCHIVES SFX PROT GUI RAM FILES -------- ----- ----- ----- -------- --- ---- --- ------ ----- LZOP 0.94w 386 X LZS 3.1 x86 MDCD 1.0 x86 MSCOMPRESS 2.0 x86 MSXIE 1.40 A x86 NETZIP 4.1 X X-??? X X 386/2 X NSK 5.0 X-??? X x86 NULIB 3.24 x86 PAK 2.51 X X-??? X x86 PAK-DD 1.0a 386 PAR 1.45 X-??? X 386 X PKARC 3.5 X-??? X x86 PKPAK 3.61 X-??? X x86 PKZIP 2.04g X X X-??? X x86 PKZIP 2.6W95 X X X-??? X X 386 X PROPACK 2.14 X-??? X x86 PUT 3.47 X x86 QUANTUM 0.97 X 386 MULTI MIN. WIN95 DISK AUTH. 'SOLID' DATA CPU/ LONG ARCHIVER SPAN VERI. CRYPT ARCHIVES SFX PROT GUI RAM FILES -------- ----- ----- ----- -------- --- ---- --- ------ ----- QUARK 1.0beta X X-??? X x86 RAR 2.04 (DOS) X X X-??? X X X X x86 RKIVE 1.4 A 386/4 X RKIVE 1.92b1 X X-??? A 386/4 X SAR 1.0 x86 SARJ 1.21 X X X-XOR A X x86 X SBX 1.2 X X 386 X SKY 1.15 X X x86 SONARC 2.1i x86 SPLINT 2.1 X-??? x86 SQUASH 1.21 x86 SQUISH 1.0 x86 SQWEZ 2.2 X X x86 SQZ 1.08.3 X x86 SUPER PACK 2.0 X X-??? X X x86 SZIP 1.11b 386 TAR 3.21b A x86 X TPDEZIP 1.5 x86 MULTI MIN. WIN95 DISK AUTH. 'SOLID' DATA CPU/ LONG ARCHIVER SPAN VERI. CRYPT ARCHIVES SFX PROT GUI RAM FILES -------- ----- ----- ----- -------- --- ---- --- ------ ----- TURBOZIP 2.1 X X-??? X X 386/2 X TSCOMP 1.3.21 x86 UC2 3.0 PRO * X X-3DES % X X X x86 X UC 2.37 beta * X X-3DES % X X X x86 X UFA 0.04b1 X-XOR X 386/2 X UHARC 0.2 A 386 WINRAR 2.04 X X X-??? X X X X 386/2 X WINZIP95 6.3 X X-??? X X 386/2 X X1 0.95a X X 386/4 X XPACK 1.67l x86 YAC 1.02 X A x86 ZET 0.10b X x86 ZIP-ARCHIV 2.0 X X-??? X x86 ZIPNAV 2.03 X X X X 286 ZIPSERVER 2.12 X X-??? X 386/4 X ZOO 2.10 x86 777 0.04b1 X-XOR X 386/2 X ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MULTI-DISK SPAN = Ability to span an archive over two or more disks AUTH. VERI. = Authentication Verification (Security Envelope) DATA PROT = Data Protection Encoding (Stores Error Recovery Info) CRYPT = Ability to encrypt files in archive with password (Garble) SFX = Ability to create Self-Extracting Archives (.EXE) GUI = Graphical or Text Shell to manage archiver functions and select files for compression/decompression MIN. CPU/RAM = Minimum PC CPU and RAM (in megabytes) to run archiver If no value for RAM is given, archiver will run in 640k WIN95 LONG FILES = Ability to store and extract Windows95 long filenames * - UC2 comes with a utility (SAS.EXE) to SPLIT archives into chunks and then rebuild them after. This is not nearly as nice as multi-disk spanning. - INFO-ZIP comes with a utility called ZIPSPLIT which does the same thing as UC2's SAS utility. % - UC2 uses shared dictionaries between file collections to utilize similarities between files. A - The A denotes that the archiver always compresses in SOLID mode

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