I always considered making softwares a personal challenge. Unlike most other software authors, I have decided not to make my creations shareware.
In the last 18 hours, I have received an amazing amount of downloads for my softwares. Your appreciation, expressed through your choice, your reviews and your positive ratings really represents for me the greatest gift I could obtain.
I am not going to add nags to my products, or introduce serialization systems, so it should appear obvious that I’m not forcing you towards making donations.
All you will get in change of a small donation (should you decide that I deserve it) is my personal gratitude, the knowledge of having contributed to the development of high quality free software and maybe an iCard for Easter and Christmas.
I cannot accept donations for the tigerized version of BitTorrent. The real author of the software is fart69 — I’m only keeping it updated –, and I do not want to get money for it.
7zX is quite a nice minimalist application. It compresses tightly and decompresses the resulting archives well (if they contain no Macintosh files). It will be most useful for decompressing 7zip archives found on the web. At present, it preserves no Macintosh file information — type, creator, creation date, finder comments, or resource forks — which destroys most Mac files. (The Readme should probably contain this caution.) But you can use it on bloated Microsoft Office files (no resource forks) to great effect.
Would it be practical to access the archive format of the built-in BOMarchive (sp?) function to preserve the Macintosh file info in archives created by 7zX? That would handle everything but the creation date, and extend the utility for Macintosh users.
Thanks for a good program.
The zip archives produced by BOMArchiveHelper have a proprietary method, similar to AppleDouble, for preserving resource forks and other HFS metadata. I have made a few researches already, but it looks like there is no easy way to access this functionality from the outside.
Should I come up with a good solution to preserve such data, it will surely be included in the next version of my compression utility (which is coming in a couple of days).
7zX now supports resource forks and metadata.