For a zipping program I have been using Winrar 3.6 beta 2, from
www.rarlabs.com/, on both Win98se & Win2kPro systems with good success.
They now have 3.8 beta 4 out, these beta programs are free shareware
versions, for a user to try free for typically 40 days, or so. Using
this & Free Commander, at www.freecommander.com/, similar to the old
Win3x File Commander but with many more features, I can open a
compressed folder and view files, copy into, or out of, the compressed
folder as though it is an ordinary folder. I have been using this on an
old raid 5, using a rocket raid 454,
www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/rr454.htm, daughter board with 5 WD160g
drives, win98se server that was setup several years ago with no
problems. All keyboard work is done from a win98 or win2k workstation
with no, or very little, keyboard work done on the actual server. Win98
seems reasonably stable if you don't touch the keyboard. Re-boots only
needed every 30 to 90 days or so, when CPU usage gets to high. I have,
from time to time, 3 to 8 workstations working off the server, used for
data mostly with only one server app on board for workstation access.
Winrar also lets the user password protect the files created although a
couple of features are restricted on the free beta copy. Each time it
is run a pop-up nag appears to upgrade to the full version. Close makes
it go away. I don't know if the latest beta works with win98 though as
I have not run it.

JamesSoCal

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L.S. wrote:
Have a laptop finally running and need an AV program. (See Invalid
Hibernation partition/file???)
Running AVG on all other systems(XP) but 98se can't handle 7.5 or 8.0...
Would also like to load a firewall program, currenly running ZA on other
systems also.

Any suggestions please,