7-Zip Archiver
Posted on December 18th, 2008 by roger
I was shocked to learn that everyone doesn’t know aobut 7-Zip!!!
Z-Zip is a very good archive utility for Windows; from the 7-Zip web site:
- High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
- Supported formats:
- Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
- Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, MSI, WIM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS
- For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zipprovides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
- Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
- Self-extracting capability for 7z format
- Integration with Windows Shell
- Powerful File Manager
- Powerful command line version
- Plugin for FAR Manager
- Localizations for 69 languages
Other than supporting almost any and every format a Windows user is likely to encounter, it’s support for LZMA compression (one of the absolute best general compression algorithms around — only BZIP2 is even a close competitor) gives you the ability to create small archives for upload, email, etc.
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