7zip

Name: 7zip Year: 2007 Version: 4.57 Links: Official site Rating: 98% - rated 4 times rate now:  please log in to rate Submitter: Fred128 Score: 20 points Added: Feb 05 2008

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Description: 7-zip is the original compression utility for the 7z compression format.
(Check out the compression ratio comparison to other formats on the official site!)
It supports 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR for archive creation/extraction, and also RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM and DEB for extraction only.
Unlike the commonly recommended WinZip and WinRar which are trialware/commercialware, 7-zip is freeware (open source).
It also supports SFXs for installers by an extra module. The program (as well as source code and modules) can be freely downloaded from the
official website. I think it is a neat and easy-to-use utility that everyone should try.

By Res - Feb 05 2008 - 16:40 Download replaced: version 4.57 (December 2007 release) is now available for download instead of 4.42.

By Nosam - Jan 18 2006 - 23:35 7-zip is awsome, it can create smaller archives then WinRAR. The only problem, is depending on the compression ratio and the size of the file, it can seriously lag up your computer, so it is good to have a good amount of ram (and time) if you are compressing a big file using the smallest compression.

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