I'm puzzled.
Why would you need an unarchiver when it's all built-in to finder?
Now, with that said.
I always find source (usually on sourceforge) for various utilities,
such as unzip, unrar, lzh, arc, arj, zoo and generally anything I can
locate that does some sort of unarchiving of any sort. I compile
them, and keep them sitting in my /usr/local/bin folder, just waiting
for those incidious plots by folks trying to make me miss a tasty
parcel by couching it in some obscure archiving format, thinking that
only the preferred recipient can unarchive such a devious piece of
work. Well, I tell you, their dastardly plots shall fail, and fail
miserably, because those little electrons just beg to be decoded,
unscrambled, uncompressed, and nestled snuggly down into a nice warm
place on my hd just awaiting the day I stumble across them and sit
around for days wondering just what the heck this particular
compression program is, whereupon hours of google searches finally
turn up some obscure reference about a nice little archiving utility
written by some 9 year old kid in his basement back in 1986 while
waiting for the mailman to deliver his newest superman comic, and
poof, it all breaks wide open, I snag the source, compile it, and
poof, another not so secret secret has been released.
*grin*
Now, if you believe all that, I have some swamp land in Florida you're
welcome to have for a really good price, honest.
Ok, well, maybe not that bad.
But, I do carry around an unwieldy amount of unarchiving programs,
just because I hate not having a tool when I need it, so I don't
generally rely on built-in unarchiving programs on any os, unless it's
for ease of use such as the finder's ability to open zip files
automatically. Otherwise, I handle all my unarchiving on my own, and
generally use command-line utilities compiled from free or opensource
implementations to do so, so really, not using finder's built-in
unzipping ability makes perfect sense to me. As goofy as all that
sounds.
Are you confused yet?
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