Projects tagged ‘archive’, ‘compress’, and ‘tar’

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 ... [More] 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 [Less]

The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for "BOMArchiveHelper.app", the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than BOMArchiveHelper, and to better fit in with the design of the ... [More] Finder. It can also handle filenames in foreign character sets, created with non-English versions of other operating systems. I personally find it useful for opening Japanese archives, but it should handle many other languages just as well. [Less]

Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants, several cpio formats, and both BSD and GNU ar variants. It can also write shar archives and read ISO9660 ... [More] CDROM images and ZIP archives. The bsdtar program is an implementation of tar(1) that is built on top of libarchive. It started as a test harness, but has grown into a feature-competitive replacement for GNU tar. The bsdcpio program is an implementation of cpio(1) that is built on top of libarchive. [Less]

tarlimit is a simple command line utility designed to create backups of their data onto fixed media. If the data being archived is larger than the selected media, the data must be split up and placed on several separate disks. tarlimit is the ... [More] solution to this problem, which would otherwise be solved manually. It will take a directory and archive it, starting a new archive whenever it nears the user specified size limit. [Less]

gnochive is a GUI frontend for all common archivers under linux. gnochive was formally known as gnomerar Supports: - rar - gzip - tar - zip/unzip