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Latest release version Latest release date Status License Cost 7-Zip: Igor Pavlov 1999-01-02 Cross-platform 24.09 [1] 2024-11-29 Active LGPL-2.1-or-later (RAR plugin is proprietary) No cost ALZip: ESTsoft: 1999 [a] Cross-platform 12.22 [2] 2024-02-07 Active Proprietary No cost [b] Archive Manager (File Roller) Paolo Bacchilega 2001-05-12 Cross ...
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.
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)
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 ...
WinRAR 3.93 is the last version to support Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98 and Windows Me. [10] WinRAR 4.11 is the last version to support Windows 2000. [10] WinRAR 6.02 is the last version to support Windows XP (except the console version Rar.exe). [10] WinRAR 7.01 is the last version to support Windows Vista (and 32-bit Windows ...
Sami Runsas (the author of NanoZip) maintained Compression Ratings, a benchmark similar to Maximum Compression multiple file test, but with minimum speed requirements. It offered the calculator that allowed the user to weight the importance of speed and compression ratio. The top programs were fairly different due to the speed requirement.
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 ...
The LZMA implementation extracted from 7-Zip is available as LZMA SDK. It was originally dual-licensed under both the GNU LGPL and Common Public License, [12] with an additional special exception for linked binaries, but was placed by Igor Pavlov in the public domain on December 2, 2008, with the release of version 4.62. [11]