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> Does anyone know of a good file manager with integrated zip support? I'd
> like to have something that will treat ZIPs like a folder, let me do a
> search for certain file types, and delete those files. Short of extracting
> all the files, I'm at a loss - and I have been googling all morning,
> downloading candidates, and rejecting them...
You don't say what platform and OS you're on. If you're on some flavor of
Windows, try PowerDesk (www.OnTrack.com). It's very flexible and
feature-rich. It has full ZIP support and view/extract support for about any
other kind of archive (ARC, GZ, TAR, etc.
You can view the contents of a ZIP file as if it were a directory,
copy/paste, drag/drop, select using a filespec (e.g., *.backup.*), etc.
Context menu commands make it easy to create new ZIP files, delete selected
files from a ZIP, or extract selected files.
WinXP's Explorer also lets you treat ZIP files like directories. But it
still doesn't have what I consider an essential feature in a file manager --
a dual-pane view!
Richard
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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Voyant Technologies, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT voyanttechDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT freeDASHmarketDOTnet
303-777-0436
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