You might want to take a look at http://www.ultimatezip.com/ for UltimateZip "the freeware archive utility for the new millennium." (Quoted from their site - I have not tried the software but will be looking at it) Contact SWE von Schleusen Haeselerstr. 31 40470 Duesseldorf Germany E-mail: info@ultimatezip.com Support: support@ultimatezip.com Contact: Oliver von Schleusen ============================================================= Message: 6 Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 03:18:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Derek Neighbors To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Free Software for m$ Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > OK, I'll drop that off the list. I think it would be better not to require > CygWin at this point We dont want to peddle Cygwin as thats emulating *nix on windows, if we are going to introducte that we need to just install *nix for them. :) I made a 10 minut list, and pt the function to the side. I also added some stuff I didnt readily know alternatives to but are poppular tasks. ===== =================>8 Snip 8<====================================== Other Tasks Need Alternatives For --------------------------------- Unzipping VCD Making ICQ/MSN/AIM client IRC Client (chatzilla maybe?) Paint Shop Pro (can gimp run w/o cygwin) ===== -Derek Fred Wright fawright@earthlink.net