WinAce is an archiving program for Windows with its own "ACE" compressed archive format and built-in support for other common archive formats types such as ZIP, RAR and MS-CAB.
WinAce peaked in popularity around 2000, but since fallen in popularity to WinRAR and Windows' built-in Zip functionality.
Despite it's aging last update, ACE archives offers heavy compression, and could still be useful.
Since it's an aging tool and might not be your first chioce, i thought i'd post a portable version of it. I do not reckon i've seen a portable of it before, so here it is...
The feature list of WinAce includes:
* compression of the following formats: ACE, ZIP, LHA, MS-CAB, JAVA JAR
* decompression of: ACE, ZIP, LHA, MS-CAB, RAR, ARC, ARJ, GZip, TAR, ZOO, JAR
* multi-volume (disk spanning) archives for ACE, ZIP, CAB
* self-extracting archives (SFX) for ACE and ZIP
* password encryption & recovery records for data protection
* Integrity check for ACE, ZIP, LHA, MS-CAB, RAR, ARC, ARJ, GZip, TAR, ZOO, JAR
* Repair functionality for ACE and ZIP archives
* Authenticity verification for ACE archives
* comment files in HTML, ANSI or ASCII for ACE- and ZIP-Archives
* full command line access (compatible with DOS ACE)
* detailed information for all archive types
* Quickviewer for graphic files, Word Documents, HTML pages and ASCII files
* full drag&drop support
* complete file-management (copying, moving and deleting of files and directories)
* optimization of existing archives
* access to your archives in Windows Explorer and via the context menu (shell extension)
* table of contents in the "Properties" panel of ACE and ZIP files (shell extension)
* ... and so much more!
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