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WinRAR is a trialware file archiver utility, developed by Eugene Roshal of win.rar GmbH. It can create and view archives in RAR or ZIP file formats, [6] and unpack numerous archive file formats. To enable the user to test the integrity of archives, WinRAR embeds CRC32 or BLAKE2 checksums for each file in each archive.
7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver, a utility used to place groups of files within compressed containers known as "archives". It is developed by Igor Pavlov and was first released in 1999. [2] 7-Zip has its own archive format called 7z introduced in 2001, [12] but can read and write several others.
Windows Windows 8.1: 2013-08-27 Active Proprietary Bundled [d] Disk ARchiver: Denis Corbin 2002 Cross-platform 2.7.16 [6] 2024-12-08 Active GPL-2.0-or-later No cost Expander: Haiku: 2002 Haiku R1/beta5 [7] 2024-09-13 Active MIT No cost Filzip: Philipp Engel Unknown Windows 3.06 [8] 2006-07-19 Inactive Proprietary No cost FreeArc: Bulat ...
5.0 – supported by WinRAR 5.0 (released April 2013) and later. [7] Changes in this version: Maximum compression dictionary size increased to 1 GB (default for WinRAR 5.x is 32 MB and 4 MB for WinRAR 4.x). Maximum path length for files in RAR and ZIP archives is increased up to 2048 characters. Support for Unicode file names stored in UTF-8 ...
On newer formats such as 7-zip, there is a solid block size option that allows for the concatenated data block to be split into individually-compressed smaller blocks, so that only a limited amount of data in the block must be processed in order to extract one file. Parameters control the maximum solid block window size, the number of files in ...