WinAce - because sometimes, size does matter...

WinAce - because sometimes, size does matter...

When you want to compress your files, you should be looking for a utility that offers excellent performance in three categories:

• gives you quick and convenient access to your archives during your everyday work
• blends both compression speed and power in an intuitive interface
• ease-of-use A compression utility that crunches the last free bit from your data, but takes twice to ten times longer for compressing and - even worse - for extracting your data probably will not work for you - or your customers. On the other hand, a compression utility that deflates your files as quick as lightning but leaves a lot of "air" in the compressed file will not take you far either. So you are most likely looking for a versatile utility that
• compression speed
• compression ratio

The compression features of WinAce are not limited to ACE alone - other well known formats, like the common and widely used ZIP format is both used for compression and extraction of data files.

Archives opened with WinAce are handled like ordinary directories. This basically means that archive files is opened or displayed by the internal viewer by doubleclicking on the archive name.

Since handling archives is very similar to handling files and directories, WinAce can as well be used as a file manager shell. It supports operations like copying, moving or deleting files as well as viewing text and commonly used graphic files.

WinAce is a 32-Bit GUI (Windows95/98/ME/NT 4.x/2000/XP) for the recent and widely well known compression format ACE.

WinAce is very simple and user-friendly! To open an archive linked with WinAce you just need to doubleclick it in any shell environment, like the Microsoft Explorer. When running WinAce, archives may as well be browsed for and/or opened by using the File/Open command.

WinAce achieves very high compression rates using the ACE format without sacrificing compression speed.

The ACE compression as well offers easier handling of multi-volume (aka "disk spanning") archives and a more efficient compression formula compared to the ZIP-Format. The use of solid compression improves the compression rates even more, especially when used on data contained in a large number of (small) files.

WinAce has full Drag&Drop support. Files may ba dragged to an already existing archive or from an archive to another folder or onto the desktop. During the compression/extraction process a status window keeps you informed about the file(s) currently processed.

In addition to the Windows version there is a DOS version available that as well includes an easy-to-use shell and several commandline versions for various operating systems (DOS, Win32 and OS/2 as of 6/99).

· but as well permits you to use all the extra features for professional file distribution - like password protection, disk-spanning archives or the possibility to create self-extracting archives?

Due to the high distribution of ZIP files around the globe, the ZIP format is as well completely supported - although ZIP lacks the powerful and fast compression ACE has to offer.

Well, look no further. We would like to invite you to take a closer look at WinAce, the recent companion for your archiving needs.

The program's main purpose is to provide the user with a means to create, modify or extract compressed files of different types.

These are the main features of this software

• access to your archives in Windows Explorer and via the context menu (shell extension)
• optimization of existing archives
• complete file-management (copying, moving and the deletion of files and directories)
• full drag&drop support
• Quickviewer for graphic files, Word Documents, HTML pages and ASCII files
• detailed information for all archive types
• full command line access (compatible with DOS ACE)
• comment files in HTML, ANSI or ASCII for ACE- and ZIP-Archives
• Authenticity verification for ACE archives
• Repair functionality for ACE and ZIP archives
• Integrity check for ACE, ZIP, LHA, MS-CAB, RAR, ARC, ARJ, GZip, TAR, ZOO, JAR
• password encryption & recovery records for data protection
• self-extracting archives (SFX) for ACE and ZIP
• multi-volume (disk spanning) archives for ACE, ZIP, CAB
• decompression of: ACE, ZIP, LHA, MS-CAB, RAR, ARC, ARJ, GZip, TAR, ZOO, JAR
• compression of the following formats: ACE, ZIP, LHA, MS-CAB, JAVA JAR

· table of contents in the "Properties" panel of ACE and ZIP files (shell extension)

Limitations of this software

· 30 day trial

What's new in this release

• WinAce 2.6x contains several GUI fixes and improvements and updates for other compression formats.
• The recent version fixes a possible exploit concerning a buffer overflow in maliciously manipulated ARJ-Archives.

· WinAce now supports the "Zip64" format, that will break the 4 GB barrier for ZIP files....