Filzip is extremely easy to handle, just double click on an archive listed in My Computer, drag'n'drop an archive onto the program or use the standard Open dialog box. It has full support (add and extract) support for ZIP (including Quake III's PK3), BH (BlakHole), CAB (Microsoft Cabinet), JAR (JavaArchive), LHA (LZH), TAR and GZIP (TAR.GZ). Filzip has extracting support for several other archive formats: ACE, ARC, ARJ, RAR, ZOO and support for Internet encoded files .UUE and .XXE. It has standard archive operations like: add, extract, delete or view files from archive and other functions like renaming files within ZIP archives, viewing and writing a comment, define an external viewing program, test the archive if it's valid (after a download), "Checkout" function or automatically install a program out of an archive and set archive passwords.
Filzip has built-in email client and possibility to launch system default email client. It creates SFX
(SelfExtracting) archives to offer your data easily, e.g. over the Internet. The program has Find files in archives and writes ZIP file span (predifined size or user defined). It has Explorer & Shell integration using Filzip Shell Extensions. E.g. extract files from context menu or add from explorer directly to zip. Filzip has converting between several archive formats, (converting ZIP to CAB archive). It has multiExtract support, you can select several archives and extract them at once. The program has strong encryption support and creates Zip files that 'span' multiple disks which is useful if the files you are working are larger than a single disk.