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| The free-for-noncommercial-use Unzip utility handles zip, tar, gzip etc. formats. Available for many platforms including Win32 GUI and non-GUI |
Bzip2 - free, high quality command-line compression program | |
Es95
by
Dirk
Paehl
lets
you
identify
archive
formats
by
their
content
rather
than
by
exension.
Use
from
the
command-line
or
right-click
from
windows
explorer. [f2.org copy of es95.zip (388 Kbyte)] | |
Stuffit
Expander
by
Aladdin
Systems
allows
you
to
decomress
.ARJ
files
and
Macintosh
StuffIt
(.HQX)
files. [f2.org copy of Aladdin Expander 6.0 (2.4 Mbyte)] | |
CD/DVD |
CDBurnerXP
Pro
NB!
Requires
Windows
Installer
for
installation
under
Win98SE. |
Ross
Smith
has
a
convenient
ZIP
file
of
CD
command-line
utilities
compiled
under
Cygwin,
including
mkisofs,
which
allows
you
to
create
an
ISO
image
with
Rock
Ridge
extensions
(mkiso
-r
-joliet
-joliet-long
-o
outfile
file1
file2... )[f2.org copy of cdrtools-2002-12-16.zip (1.6 Mbyte)] | |
Disk
Usage
by
Markus
Seger
lets
you drill
down
into
directories
showing
the
disk
usage
of
each
subdirectory.
Find
out
where
that
space
went! [f2.org copy (268 Kbyte)] | |
Duplicate
detection |
"How
many
copies
of
Vbrun300.dll
does
your
computer
contain?
Dupeless
by
Neil J. Rubenking
ferrets
out
duplicate
files
on
your
hard
disk
and
helps
you
decide
which
ones
to
blow
away." NOTE: [Apr 2003] PC Magazine now requires a paid subscription for access to their formerly free software downloads. Some PCMag utilities may still be directly downloaded from other sites around the web. NOTE: [Jan 2004] At the request of Ziff-Davis (publisher of PC Magazine) I have removed a link to an external site hosting the file dupeless.zip 402K which I had found via an FTP Search Engine. |
Resource | Resource Hacker by Angus Johnson lets you view, modify, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables on Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, and Win2000. |
IconSnatcher
by
CDI
extracts
icons
from
.exe-
.dll-
.icl-
and
files.
Can
be
used
as
a
sent-to
exporer
target. [f2.org copy of IconSnatcher 3.61 (794 kbyte)] | |
ResThief by Peter Stuer is a tiny utility that extracts icons, menus, sounds etc from .EXE files [f2.org copy (6 kbyte)] | |
IconRipper [990 kbyte] by Marco extracts icons from .exe- .dll- and .ico- files. Handles 16-colour icons; can save icons as GIF / BMP ; groks ICO-to-GIF transparency | |
Binary Editor |
HackMan
from
the
HackMan
Crew
is
a
nifty,
free
binary
editor.
Patch
those
hardwired
strings!
NB
-
requires
Administrator
priveleges
to
install
under
windows
NT. [f2.org copy of HackMan 7.02 (3.1 Mbyte)] HackMan also requires the Visual Basic 6.0 sp5 Runtimes, which may already be installed on your computer [Visual Basic 6.0 sp5 Runtimes (1020 Kbyte)] |
File Comparison |
WinDiff
is
a
Microsoft
utility
that
lets
you
compare
individual
files
or
directories
for
differences.
Handy
for
checking
revisions
in
text
files. RunWinDiff is a nicer front-end to WinDiff which lets you browse to select the files or directories to compare. [f2.org copy of WinDiff 4.0 and RunWinDiff Build 061198-01 (100 Kbyte)] |
Bulk File Renaming |
Renamer
by
Albert
Bertilsson
allows
bulk
renaming
of
files
based
on
patterns. [f2.org copy of renamer v5.0 beta 3 (60 Kbyte)] |
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