PIM is a program for archiving and compressing archives. Compression becomes necessary when you want to send large files through email, or if you want to pack several files in just one file that can be later decompressed in another computer.
PIM provides a high compression ratio, thanks to the PIMv2 proprietary format. This program provides support for extracting BALZ, QUAD, ZIP, JAR, PK3, PK4 and QUAKE PAK archives. PIM also provides advanced ZIP archive support featuring PPMd, BZip2 and DCL Implode decompression.
The program´s interface is extremely simple. All you have to do is choose a name and location for the archive, using the File/New sequence. After that, you can choose the files you want to include in your archive through Commands/Add Files (or Folders). Once done, the program will generate a .PIM archive, with all the selected files included in it.
In a test I did with this utility, PIM v2.9 built a 1357 Kb. archive. Using exactly the same files, WinZip produced an archive of 1815 Kb. in size. In other words, PIM v2.9 produced a 25% smaller file than the most known commercial product.
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