License:
Shareware, Free for personal use - Registration Price $45
Rating: Not rated yet
Date added: Feb 4th, 2001
Last updated: Jun 8th, 2002
Review:
ARJ32, without doubt, is the most flexible archiver ever made, but it is definitely not the most user friendly one because there is no graphical interface; it must be run from the command line. ARJ32 offers a few dozen commands and a few hundred switches to choose from. If you want full control over the archiving process, you can't find any other program that gives such precision. Using switches is like directly modifying individual variables in the actual ARJ32 source code. For instance the switch -v250K creates multiple volumes each 250,000 bytes in size.
ARJ32 is both backward and forward compatible, that is regardless of the version of ARJ32 you are using to create archives, any version of ARJ (even 1.0) can extract files from the archives you created. It is also more convenient to extract from multiple volumes in ARJ format than in ZIP format since you don't have to start from volume one to extract files.