WinAce is a legacy archiving app for

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. It works primarily with the eponymous

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archive format In computing, an archive file is a computer file that is composed of one or more files along with metadata. Archive files are used to collect multiple data files together into a single file for easier portability and storage, or simply to compress ...

but supports

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RAR RAR or Rar may refer to: * Radio acoustic ranging, a non-visual technique for determining a ship's position at sea * "rar", the ISO 639-2 code for the Cook Islands Māori language * RAR (file format), a proprietary compressed archive file format in ...

and CAB. The app is not free, but its developer also developed a

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app called Unace for

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and

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that extracts archive files. Beginning with version 2.65, WinAce was bundled with the

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program. This bundle was removed from the last version (2.69) and had been replaced with an opt-in sponsorship deal via

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. The app has since been discontinued. There is a third the app for the

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operating system, called Commandline ACE. Its title, however, is misnomer because the app sports a

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(TUI) that emulates the color theme of

Norton Commander Norton Commander (NC) is a discontinued prototypical orthodox file manager (OFM), written by John Socha and released by Peter Norton Computing (later acquired in 1990 by the Symantec corporation). NC provides a text-based user interface for ma ...

. In addition to the ACE format, it supports

ARJ ARJ (Archived by Robert Jung) is a software tool designed by Robert K. Jung for creating high-efficiency data compression, compressed file archives. ARJ is currently on version 2.86 for MS-DOS and 3.20 for Microsoft Windows and supports 16-bit, 3 ...

, RAR, ZIP, and LZH (partial) archive formats. Commandline ACE ships with a copy of Unace. Both apps support DOS,

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and Windows operating systems, and recognize

long filenames Long filename (LFN) support is Microsoft's backward-compatible extension of the 8.3 filename (short filename) naming scheme used in DOS. Long filenames can be more descriptive, including longer filename extensions such as .jpeg, .tiff, .html, a ...

. Commandline ACE could be used for

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External links

Official Website - Web Archive Snapshot from 14.07.2017

Download link for last Version 2.69i - Web Archive Snapshot from 21.01.2011
{{Compression Software Implementations Windows compression software Adware File archivers

See also

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