If there is a command line interface to compress the files but no GUI and the person wants something in the contextual menu, then a short automator script should be able to enable this. I am not personally very agile at using the automator, but there is certainly the ability to "do shell script".
Best wishes, Jonathan On Sep 17, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > Hi Anouk, > You can have the unarchiver from app store to unzip unrar etc. But if you > also want to create your own archives, an option is to install better zip > from the app store. It does cost a little. But with better zip and with the > command line rar tools in place, you can easily create your own rar files if > you wish, and zip is natively built into better zip. I wish its interface > were simpler, but it is very accessible and doable. So, to unarchive, if all > you want is that, use unarchiver. To create your own, one option is better > zip. At least this thing is accessible that I found. > Hth, > Paul. > On Sep 17, 2011, at 7:53 AM, Anouk Radix wrote: > >> Hi, I used to use winrar on windows and would like to have a good program >> that hides in the context menu so that i can unrar and unzip or rar and zip >> files in finder to a folder. >> Is there any good program like this, preferrably for multiple file formats. >> Thanks in advance >> Greetings, Anouk, >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
