7-Zip

7-Zip is a file archiver with high compression ratio.

The main features of 7-Zip

* High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
* Supported formats:
o Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
o Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS
* For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
* Self-extracting capability for 7z format
* Integration with Windows Shell
* Powerful File Manager
* Powerful command line version
* Plugin for FAR Manager
* Localizations for 63 languages

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over 2 years ago

Fantastic archive manager.

by Halleck

I first got a taste of 7-zip on windows, where it has been outfitted with explorer integration and a very functional GUI. It can handle some pretty intense operations (multi-gig archiving) where the built-in windows archiver craps out. I have since installed it on all of my Linux boxes and use it from the command line. It supports a great range of archive formats and is easy to use. I still use tar for making .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 archives out of ... [More]

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p7zip 9.04 released (Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:34:08 GMT)

Posted 29 days ago by mys...@users.sourceforge.net (my space)

Released at Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:34:08 GMT by myspace
Includes files: p7zip_9.04_x86_linux_bin.tar.bz2 (2036789 bytes, 124 downloads to date), p7zip_9.04_src_all.tar.bz2 (3759021 bytes, 223 downloads to date)
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7-Zip 9.04 beta released (Sat, 30 May 2009 09:39:24 GMT)

Posted about 1 month ago by ipa...@users.sourceforge.net (Igor Pavlov)

Released at Sat, 30 May 2009 09:39:24 GMT by ipavlov
Includes files: 7za904.zip (375495 bytes, 49 downloads to date), 7z904-x64.msi (1271296 bytes, 166 downloads to date), 7z904-ia64.msi (1793024 bytes, 11 downloads to date), 7z904_extra.7z ... [More]