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From: Laurence Smith on 31 Mar 2010 11:03 Hi, I was sent today some files compressed with the extension zipx. My normal unzipping utilities can't open these. Can someone recommend a freeware program that successfully extracts these files. thanks -- Larry Smith
From: Duddits on 31 Mar 2010 11:20 On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:03:52 +0000 (UTC), "Laurence Smith" <dr4sight(a)hvi.net> wrote: >Hi, > >I was sent today some files compressed with the extension zipx. > >My normal unzipping utilities can't open these. > >Can someone recommend a freeware program that successfully extracts >these files. > >thanks IIRC zipx files are a proprietary format that WinZip defaults to. Now would be a perfect time to instruct the sender on the virtues of freeware and/or open source software and ask them to recompress and send them again. More info can be found here: http://www.zipxfile.com/ regards Dud -- Easy ACF Troll filter: 1. Add Franklin, Hummingbird, Bear Bottoms, Ari, David W, Jeffrey Bloss, Nicodemus and John Stubbings. 2. Add *anyone* who replies to them. 3. Filter posts from Google Groups 4. Filter posts from x-privat.org 5. Filter posts from theremailer 6. Filter crossposts 7. Enjoy ACF! 8. More Info here: http://clients.net2000.com.au/~johnf/forgery.htm <rev20100104>
From: Andrzej P. Wozniak on 31 Mar 2010 12:03 Osoba podpisana jako Duddits <Duddits(a)Dreamcatcher.com> w artykule <news:2pp6r5hghopurnurf6nemkd36f9pnpn7g9(a)4ax.com> pisze: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:03:52 +0000 (UTC), "Laurence Smith" > <dr4sight(a)hvi.net> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I was sent today some files compressed with the extension zipx. >> My normal unzipping utilities can't open these. >> Can someone recommend a freeware program that successfully extracts >> these files. > IIRC zipx files are a proprietary format that WinZip defaults to. Zipx uses new compression methods, but all the methods and zipx specifications are open. Some of zipx compression methods were earlier implemented in 7-zip and zipx is supported since 7-zip version 9.11. The support is not complete yet, read the thread: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/forums/forum/45797/topic/3604593 Look for message by ipavlov, 2010-03-16 10:48:56 UTC: /---- Unsupported methods in zipx now are jpeg & wavpack. That code is simple. So I don't plan to add these codecs to 7-Zip in near future. Maybe later. \---- -- Andrzej P. Woźniak uszer(a)pochta.onet.pl (swap z<->h in address)
From: Laurence Smith on 31 Mar 2010 16:51 Andrzej P. Wozniak wrote: > Osoba podpisana jako Duddits <Duddits(a)Dreamcatcher.com> w artykule > <news:2pp6r5hghopurnurf6nemkd36f9pnpn7g9(a)4ax.com> pisze: > > > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:03:52 +0000 (UTC), "Laurence Smith" > > <dr4sight(a)hvi.net> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > > > > >> I was sent today some files compressed with the extension zipx. > >> My normal unzipping utilities can't open these. > >> Can someone recommend a freeware program that successfully extracts > >> these files. > > IIRC zipx files are a proprietary format that WinZip defaults to. > > Zipx uses new compression methods, but all the methods and zipx > specifications are open. Some of zipx compression methods were earlier > implemented in 7-zip and zipx is supported since 7-zip version 9.11. > The support is not complete yet, read the thread: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/forums/forum/45797/topic/3604 > 593 Look for message by ipavlov, 2010-03-16 10:48:56 UTC: > /---- > Unsupported methods in zipx now are jpeg & wavpack. That code is > simple. So I don't plan to add these codecs to 7-Zip in near future. > Maybe later. \---- Thanks for the help. I downloaded 7zip version 9.12 (I already had version 4.57 on my PC) and sure enough it was able to properly decompress the file. I appreciate your expertise. -- Larry Smith
From: Mark Blain on 1 Apr 2010 14:44 "Laurence Smith" <dr4sight(a)hvi.net> wrote in news:hp0ckb$39u$1 @news.eternal-september.org: > I downloaded 7zip version 9.12 (I already had version 4.57 on my PC) > and sure enough it was able to properly decompress the file. And thank YOU... I just installed 4.65 on a new box last week because I didn't spot the 9.12 beta download link. Upgrading now.
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