7-Zip

March 7th, 2010

Have you ever downloaded a compressed file and you did not have the program to decompress it?

7-Zip aims to take care of that problem for you.

From the 7-Zip website:(http://www.7-zip.org/)

  • High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
  • Supported formats:
    • Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
    • Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z.
  • For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides 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 74 languages

7-Zip can decompress a multitude of zipped(compressed) file formats, it also has a pretty good compression engine for the times when you need to compress a file or a folder.

You can find 7-Zip at http://www.7-zip.org/

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