You have probably seen several posts on this site covering popular and alternative file archiving tools, such as WinZip or 7-Zip. If you are a Mac user looking for a better tool, check out The Unarchiver.
The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for “BOMArchiveHelper.app”, the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than BOMArchiveHelper, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder.
Supported file formats include Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, Rar, 7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and many other more or less obscure formats.
The Unarchiver is a free download and supports just about every common compression format.
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Thanks! This will be added to a list of Mac apps in case I switch over from Windows-based machines as I am planning to.