Use WinRAR as default ZIP packer / unpacker (ZIP2RAR)

[ZoSTeR]

I noticed a big performance improvement when using WinRAR (Zip mode) instead of the internal TC Zip functionality so I wrote a little translator to use WinRAR as the default Zip application.

These are two short AutoIt scripts (source included) that translate the PKZIP specific command line switches and expand the short file names in the file list.

Put them in the TC folder along with WinRAR.exe and configure TC as follows:

Packer -> Zip Packer: zip2rar.exe
Use Internal disabled

Packer -> Zip Unpacker: unzip2rar.exe
Use Internal disabled

Use the debug versions to show the command lines.

Please report any errors or suggestions and/or your performance measurements.

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[tbeu]

DDL to avoid RapidShare delay and captcha.

[novozhilov]

Thanks. Interesting project.
So far no problems with basic usage!

[icfu]

When entering an archive and trying to extract a directory containing subdirectories, this is the result:

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Total Commander
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Unfortunately, unpacking directories from a ZIP subdirectory cannot be realised with PKUNZIP with reasonable expense!
Please use the built-in unzipper or unzip from the ZIP file's ROOT directory!
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OK   
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Looks like the hardcoded TC packer integration is rather limited and not meant to be tricked with a proxy unpacker.

Icfu

[tosbsas]

cannot confirm that, but I get an empty folder outside of the zip file. When using internal unzipper folder is filled with the data its suposed to contain

Ruben

[ghisler(Author)]

2icfu
The problem is that there is no command to tell pkunzip to unpack dirs from a zip subdir and NOT keep the full name, but only the relative name to the subdir. Since there is no such command, there is also no way to tell it to a replacement unpacker...

[icfu]

WinRAR doesn't have these limitations:

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WinRAR.exe x "X:\path\to\bla.zip" directory\subdirectory

So, the problem is that the command line is limited to the abilities of PKZIP/PKUNZIP.

It would be much better if all parameters would be freely adjustable, with the standard PK(UN)ZIP parameters being the default.

If would be even better if TC would offer a way to integrate custom command line packers also for different extensions, for example for .7z. If you need something to work on, this would be nice for TC 8...

Icfu