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2. 7-Zip - Wikipedia

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   7-zip.org. 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, but can read and write several others.

3. Zamzar - Wikipedia

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   Launched. 2006. Current status. Online. Zamzar is an online file converter and compressor, created by brothers Mike and Chris Whyley in England in 2006. [1][2] It allows users to convert files online, without downloading a software tool, and supports over 1,200 different conversion types. [3] Since its formation, the service has converted over ...

4. Comparison of file archivers - Wikipedia

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   Information about what archive formats the archivers [a] can write and create. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the archiver or extensions that provide such functionality. Note that gzip, bzip2 and xz are compression formats rather than archive formats. File archivers. ZIP.

5. List of archive formats - Wikipedia

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   Unix-like. RPM files consist of metadata concatenated with (usually) a cpio archive. Newer RPM systems also support other archives, as cpio is becoming obsolete. cpio is also used with initramfs. .shar. application/x-shar. Shell archive. Unix-like. A self-extracting archive that uses the Bourne shell (sh). .LBR.

6. XZ Utils - Wikipedia

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   Compression can be much slower than gzip, and is slower than bzip2 for high levels of compression, and is most useful when a compressed file will be used many times. [4] [5] XZ Utils consists of two major components: xz, the command-line compressor and decompressor (analogous to gzip) liblzma, a software library with an API similar to zlib

7. Data compression - Wikipedia

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   Data compression. In information theory, data compression, source coding, [1] or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation. [2] Any particular compression is either lossy or lossless. Lossless compression reduces bits by identifying and eliminating statistical redundancy.