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ZIP TAR GZ BZ2 7z XZ RAR LHA/LZH ACE SIT SITX ARJ KGB DAR ARC CAB ALZ ISO/CD Image ZPAQ Special 7-Zip: Yes Yes Yes [b] Yes [b] Yes Yes [b] No No No No No No No No No No No No No ALZip [c] Yes Yes Yes Yes No Unknown No No No No No No No No No Yes Yes Unknown No Archive Manager: Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No [d] Yes Unknown Unknown Unknown ...
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.
The 7z format initially appeared as implemented by the 7-Zip archiver. The 7-Zip program is publicly available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. The LZMA SDK 4.62 was placed in the public domain in December 2008. The latest stable version of 7-Zip and LZMA SDK is version 24.09. [2] The 7z file format specification is ...
The LZMA compression algorithm as used by 7-Zip. .lzo application/x-lzop lzop: Unix-like An implementation of the LZO data compression algorithm. .rz rzip: Unix-like A compression program designed to do particularly well on very large files containing long distance redundancy. .sfark sfArk: Windows compress/decompress- Linux and macOS ...
ZIP files generally use the file extensions.zip or .ZIP and the MIME media type application/zip. [1] ZIP is used as a base file format by many programs, usually under a different name. When navigating a file system via a user interface, graphical icons representing ZIP files often appear as a document or other object prominently featuring a zipper.
It is used natively in the 7z [1] and RAR [2] formats, as well as indirectly in tar-based formats such as .tar.gz and .tar.bz2. By contrast, the ZIP format is not solid because it stores separately compressed files (though solid compression can be emulated for small archives by combining the files into an uncompressed archive file and then ...
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7-Zip is LGPL and very complete feature wise. IZArc and TugZip are very complete too but are proprietary. Personally, I use 7-Zip, because if there's a open tool and a closed tool that both do the same jobs, I would use the open tool. — Ambush Commander 18:41, August 7, 2005 (UTC)