Current version: 1.5, released: 2013-04-21
Zipper is a tool for inspecting and extracting the contents of compressed archives.
Zipper was initially written by Dirk Olmes. The original homepage can be found
here.
He was so kind to allow us giving this nice tool a new home on GAP.
Features:
- allows decompression of various archiving formats
- allows archive creation of various archiving formats
- create archive services
Supported (un)compression programs
| Program | decompression supported | archive creation supported |
| ace | X | |
| arj | X | |
| lha | X | X |
| lzx | X | |
| tar (including compression with gzip,bzip2 and xz, if your installed tar supports that) | X | X (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.xz) |
| rar | X | |
| zip | X | X |
| 7z or 7za | X | X |
| zoo | X | X |
Prerequisites
- command line archiver programs for the supported (un)compression programs
Feature wishlist:
- Add more extraction methods: rpm,deb,ar,...
- Display more status/progress info when archiving and unarchiving
- Drag'n'Drop executables to the Preferences dialog
- Drag'n'Drop extraction to GWorkspace
- Display archive structure in NSOutlineView
- Before extracting the archive, check if files exist and ask user what should happen
- Handle password-protected archives
News and history
Version: 1.5, released: 21st April 2013
- support for more decompression formats: ace, arj, zoo
- support for more tar formats: bzip2, xz
- support for more compression formats: tar.bz2, tar.xz, tar, lha, 7z, zip, zoo
- minor bug and 64Bit compatibility fixes
Version: 1.4, released: 10th May 2012
- First version released by GAP
- Interface redone in Gorm
- Extensive fixes to BSD tar support
- Bug fixes in the handling of archiver outputs, options and dates
- Portability fixes and crash fixes
- Updated infrastrucutre to current GNUstep make and runtime
- Macintosh port (to prove portability)
Zipper 1.3 on OpenBSD/i386:
