TUGzip: Decompress anything

by Robert Headley Jan 22nd 2008

Have no idea what an ACE file is? Got a few ISO files laying around but you have no idea what they are? Well peek inside using Freeware archival utility TUGZip. TUGZip opens every archive format you could possibly care about, and several more, you probably don't.

Archive formats - ZIP, 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, BH, BZ2, CAB, CPIO, DEB, GCA, GZ, IMP, JAR, LHA (LZH), LIB, RAR, RPM, SQX, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TAZ, YZ1
Disc image formats - BIN, C2D, IMG, ISO and Nero's NRG

TUGZip can also create archives in most of these formats, Including self extracting archives. All the wile using a 3 pane explorer interface (or you can change it via options to a more standard one or two pane. TUGzip also includes an explorer context addon, so you can compress files into your favorite archive, without even having to open the program. All of this, and blazing fast too.

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Tags: Archive, Freeware, ISO, RAR, Tugzip, Utility, Windows, Zip

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Xoxor said 9:24PM on 1-22-2008

According to the author's news dated 9 April, 2007:

"...Unfortunately the future of TUGZip does not look very bright at the moment. I need to figure out what to do. ..."

No new updates since then. Guess I'll be staying with 7-zip...

CT A said 9:57PM on 1-22-2008

Why couldn't they add .DAA =(. Poweriso is SUCH a pain.

gtnconcept said 11:58PM on 1-22-2008

@CT A: Sounds like you need a little program called DAA2ISO

John said 11:45PM on 1-22-2008

After making so many corrupt zip files with TUGZip, I've just avoided the product all together. Dunno why, but files over 2GB consistently get corrupted by the software on our servers.

gtnconcept said 11:55PM on 1-22-2008

Like many free zip programs, TugZip fails to decompress passworded RAR files with the encrypted filenames option set.

7-zip however will handle such files without any issue.

Anth said 2:08AM on 1-23-2008

I use uniexctract on files that winrar can't open, it even extracts setup files. http://legroom.net/software/uniextract

Guillaume said 5:39AM on 1-23-2008

TugZip has some bugs, like it does not extract empty folders from a zipfile. That's an old bug. (see forum)

These days, I'm using IZarc.

colehilling said 6:43AM on 1-23-2008

Like many free zip programs, TugZip fails to decompress passworded RAR files with the encrypted filenames option set.
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Mark said 7:09AM on 1-23-2008

I also had problems this programs, and after reading other's experiences I would hesistate to trust this for my important files. There are far better free programs out there, 7zip for example. Myself, I bought a copy of Powerarchiver and have been very satisfied with it.

blewett said 8:15AM on 1-23-2008

UIF?

Mark said 8:20AM on 1-23-2008

If you mean the UIF image format, no. It's proprietary and MagicISO is the only program that supports it.

Radical Dreamer said 10:25AM on 1-23-2008

IMO, 7-Zip / IZArc are the best freeware compression tools other there.

Robert Headley said 12:15PM on 1-23-2008

Izarch and 7-zip are both excellent programs. I mentioned TUGzip because I had never heard of it before, and at first glance it seemed like a great program, perhaps it could use further development, in which case I hope this post convinces the author to continue work on it. Because it is very promising.

Keith Ketover said 10:06PM on 1-23-2008

I used to use 7zip exclusively. Now I use ALZip (http://www.altools.net/). The main feature that won me over was something I miss from my Mac days... ALZip will extract an archive when you double-click it! Now if only you could set it to delete the archive after extraction it would be perfect!

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