One of the first things I usually install on a windows machine is 7zip ( https://7-zip.org). It opens about any archive, is cross-platform free and open source (thus fairly future proof). About speed, I cannot comment. Good luck!
Jan-Pieter On Thu, Jun 25, 2020, 19:30 Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi - I see there's an old arc/zip module in the addons. Has anyone used > this recently? > > I don't see any mention of this supporting encryption. Does anyone know of > a zip API that does? > > I upgraded to Windows 10 a few months ago, so things broke, among them the > routine I used to use for zipping. I did buy a new license for WinZip on > one of my machines but it is much slower than it used to be and I'd rather > not spend more money on something that meh. > > There seem to be many options out there but I'd like to future-proof this > by having as much in J as possible or at least have small, fast external > package. > > Thanks for any help or ideas you can provide. > > Devon > > -- > > Devon McCormick, CFA > > Quantitative Consultant > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
