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and other archiving products. Since WinACE support is discontinued, users are advised against opening ACE archives in WinRAR and possibly other products using this library. WinRAR stopped supporting ACE as of version 5.70, and similar products are following suit.
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developed by Marcel Lemke, and later bought by e-merge GmbH. The peak of its popularity was 1999–2001, when it provided slightly better compression rates than
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called "Unace". e-merge GmbH also provides several libraries for developers, including a freeware decompression
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In February 2019 several major security vulnerabilities were found in the unacev2.dll library which is used by
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This article is about the data compression format. For the file format specification used in genomics, see
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called "unace.dll". Some third-party archivers can read the format using this DLL. None of the above is
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application, MeMedia AdVantage, which replaces WhenU. No other major changes are in this release.
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was able to uncompress ACE archives, but support for the ACE format in security products such as
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of ACE files is licensed as proprietary information and only available through WinACE, while
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A newer version of Unace 2.5 that supports ACE 2.0 archives is available under a restrictive
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by the author Marcel Lemke, but it cannot extract ACE archives from version 2.0 and newer.
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utility by Daniel Roethlisberger, that supports unpacking of ACE 2.0 format archives.
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On November 23, 2007, version 2.69 of WinACE was released, including a less-intrusive
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Download link for last Version 2.69i - Web Archive Snapshot from 21.01.2011
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by Dirk Stöcker. It is limited to unpacking ACE 1.0 archives.
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to victims by e-mail. This tactic was viable because popular
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Since at least 2015, ACE archives have been used to deliver
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Official Website - Web Archive Snapshot from 14.07.2017
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ACE (genomic file format)

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"ACE" compressed file format
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Internet media type
data compression
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data compression
file format
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WinAce
WinAce
Microsoft Windows
WhenU SaveNow
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Commandline ACE
command-line interface
Linux
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