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ubaka
03-17-2003, 01:08 PM
can anyone please point to me where i can get a cool zip utility with a GUI frontend that can do disk-spanning with ease and can crack 'winzip' or 'powerarchiver' passwords flawlessly?

i'd appreciate it. thanx.
Sawdusty
03-17-2003, 05:11 PM
Zip utility with a GUI? What on earth for? What's wrong with unzip *.zip? :)

I'm sorry I'm no help. The only thing I know about is called KArchiver or something like that, but I don't know what kind of power it has. It comes with KDE, of course.

Other than that... tar xfvz filename. ;)

Dusty
viperlin
03-17-2003, 05:36 PM
graphically i like file-roller (came with my gnome suite)

but i use the CLI as it's quicker
Fryguy8
03-17-2003, 05:41 PM
why in the world would you need a gui to unzip files?
Icarus
03-17-2003, 05:59 PM
Originally posted by Fryguy8
why in the world would you need a gui to unzip files? I would guess that when browsing your files using a manager like nautilus or konquer it would seem natural for you to being able to double-click the .zip file and see the contents? That's what I use it for, and while I'm there uncomressing a file sometimes.

But if I have more the 3 I want to unzip, the CLi is the only way to go :)
jglen490
03-17-2003, 06:02 PM
There is a difference between "need" and "want".

In Windoze/DOS, I used PKZip until Winzip came along. WZ wasn't necessarily superior in terms of the compression tech, but it was a heck of lot cooler not to mention easier to work with. Buttons and checkboxes are simpler to use than a string of esoteric commandline arguments :D !! Just a thought.
ubaka
03-19-2003, 05:12 AM
i agree with jglen490 -> GUIs are much easier to work with. But i don't think you answered the important part of my question. is there a zip utility (GUI or CLI) out there that can crack 'winzip' passwords? i need it to open some zipped MP3 files i downloaded off the net.
Ludootje
03-19-2003, 11:55 AM
You shouldn't download mp3's, that's illegal! ;)
I don't think you'll find an app which does what you want though, since most (if not all) GUI archive utilities are simply frontends to 'zip', 'tar', 'gzip', 'bzip2' etc. under windows, there are tools which crack those passwords though. if you still have windows on a box, I recommend you to look for those apps. I'd be very much surprised if you find a GNU/Linux app which cracks these pwds.