The Unarchiver 1.3 review

The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for "BOMArchiveHelper.

License:	Freeware
OS:	Mac OS X
File size:	1556K
Developer:	CircleSoft
Price:	$0.00
Updated:	26 Nov 2006

The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for "BOMArchiveHelper.app", the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X.

The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than BOMArchiveHelper, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder.
It can also handle filenames in foreign character sets, created with non-English versions of other operating systems.

Supported file formats include Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, Rar, 7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and many other more or less obscure formats.

What's New:
More localizations: Portugese and Russian. Thanks this time go to Nylson Coelho and Michael Krekin
Changed the modifier key for extract-to-foler: Either Shift or Option works now. Command was too easy to accidentially trigger when opening a file with Command-O.
Fixed a bug where app bundles in StuffIt files would not run correctly after being extracted.
Fixed a bug where The Unarchiver would hang when trying to extract particularly broken files.
Fixed a bug where apps would be launched when the open-after-extracting option was on.

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The Unarchiver 1.3: The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for "BOMArchiveHelper.
BetterZip 1.3: BetterZip is an archiving tool with a graphical user interface.
OpenUp X 3.2: OpenUp allows you to double-click on compressed and archived files and have them open in the Finder without having to resort to the command-line tools gnutar and gunzip.
StuffIt Standard 11.0.2: StuffIt Standard includes the free StuffIt Expander application for opening compressed, encrypted, and encoded files as well as the shareware DropStuff application for creating StuffIt X (.
Stuff ToolKit 1.1.0: Stuff ToolKit is a 4th Dimension plug-in that provides procedural access to Aladdin Systems Stuffit Engine directly from within the 4th Dimension programming language.
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