PentaWare Releases PentaZip 5.0; New Version Takes Software Compression Technology Into Previously Uncharted Territories.Business & High-Tech Editors HAMPTON, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 17, 2001 PentaWare Inc, a leading distributor of compression software, has announced its latest version PentaZip 5.0, featuring a completely new interface and increased compatibility with Microsoft's Windows operating systems, including XP. PentaZip 5.0 supports multifile/multifolder compressed archives larger than 4GB, using its ZGB(TM) format. The restrictions of the 32-bit ZIP format have been overcome. PentaZip 5.0 is the first compression program to have earned all three Microsoft logos: Designed for Windows 98/NT, Certified for Windows 2000 and Designed for Windows XP. PentaZip has built in support (no additional plugins or third party software is required) for the majority of popular compressed archive formats including: Ace, ZOO, RAR, ARJ, ARC, CAB, TAR, GZIP (GNU ZIP) A popular compression program in the Unix world that has also been ported to DOS/Windows and the Mac. Providing greater compression than the Unix compress command, gzip generates files with a .gz extension. , BH, LZH, LHA and JAR. All of these formats can also be converted to Zip, ZGB, LHa, CAB, TAR, GZip. PentaZip also supports UUEncode, XXEncode, Mime64 and BinHex. With the PentaZip Viewer users can "see" the contents of their files without having to use the program they were created within. The viewer also allows users to open files without triggering Macro viruses that are sometimes found in Excel and Word documents. PentaZip displays the content of zipped archives, supporting many different formats (more than 50) as Ascii Text, Hex, MS Word Doc and RTF (Rich Text Format) A document format from Microsoft for encoding text and graphics. It was adapted from IBM's DCA format and supports ANSI, IBM PC and Macintosh character sets. , HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , Excel XLS, AVI, MOV JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. , BMP (1) (BitMaP) Also known as a "bump" file, it is the native, bitmapped graphics format in Windows. A BMP can be saved in several color options: 1-, 4-, 8- and 24-bit color provide 2, 16, 256 and 16,000,000 colors respectively. BMP files use the .BMP or . , GIF GIF in full Graphics Interchange Format Standard computer file format for graphic images. GIF files use data compression to reduce the file size. The original version of the format was developed by CompuServe in 1987. , TIF, WMF, PCX (1) A bitmapped graphics file format that handles monochrome, 2-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit and 24-bit color and uses RLE to achieve compression ratios of approximately 1.1:1 to 1.5:1. Images with large blocks of solid colors compress best under the RLE method. See PC Paintbrush. , MPG; MP3 and many others. PentaZip 5.0 now also supports AutoCad DXF and DWG in dynamic viewing and contains new graphic features such as crop, copy and paste To copy files from one location to another or to copy text and images from one document to another. All modern operating systems and applications have a copy and paste capability that is typically selected from an Edit menu. See cut and paste and Win Copy between windows. , resize, gray scale, rotate and dynamic zoom. Once installed, the viewer is available anywhere on your system. "We've always said that we did more than just zip and unzip To decompress a file in the .ZIP file format. See Zip file. 1. (tool, compression) unzip - To extract files from an archive created with PKWare's PKZIP archiver. 2. files" says Claude Ostfeld, President and Chief Executive Officer of PentaWare. "With version 5, we've created a suite that incorporates five programs into one tool that any Windows user will want to have" Other features include: -- Search for specific files inside any Zip archive using the standard Windows "find" interface (including by name, date, date range and size) -- Opening, modifying and resaving files in the original Zip archive without unzipping them first -- Dragging and dropping files between different Zip archives -- Unzip, Zip, Zip&Mail and SFX&Mail using the right mouse button is now available everywhere on your system -- Scripting that allows you to create self-running programs for frequently performed zipping and unzipping tasks -- Scheduling that executes Zip or Unzip scripts automatically daily, monthly or weekly -- Explorer interface -- Antivirus support that can verify the integrity of any compressed archive -- SFX and Splitter support that create self Extracting files and also split large files into sections to ease downloading and email handling -- Email support that allows you to attach any file or compressed archive to an email message automatically. PentaZip can interface most email system (such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape Mail, etc.) -- A fully customizable toolbar -- Language support includes English, Italian, French and German. Spanish will be available before the end of 2001. Download PentaZip 5.0 today at www.pentazip.com for $49.95, and boxed version will be available for $59.95. About PentaWare, Inc. PentaWare Inc. is a software distribution company dedicated to providing quality and user-friendly products. PentaZip demonstrates that dedication by being the first compression program to pass the Veritest "Designed for Windows 2000 Professional" certification. It also recently received the coveted SMAU SMAU Stop Motion Aimpoint Update (US Navy) SMAU Smart Media Access Unit SMAU Smart Multistation Access Unit 99 Industrial Design Award. PentaWare's staff strives to bring its customers the finest software products on the market today. |
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