Archive comments Main index
Menu : Actions > Comment

Zip and GZip archives can store archive comments.

I recommend that you do not use archive comments because...

  1. The comment does not get saved when the archive is extracted.
  2. The comment may never be seen by the person extracting the archive.

If you need to comment an archive a much better idea would be to include a 'readme.txt' file within the archive.

However, if you decide to use archive comments the following points should be noted.

  1. Comments can only be saved in Zip and GZip archives.
  2. If the archive is a zip.gzip then the comment will be read from and written to the zip. (Any gzip comment will not be displayed!)
  3. Comments are not compressed so using large comments somewhat defeats the purpose of using a compressed archives.