The archiving process is where 7-Zip differs most from its rivals. Where WinZip only lets you compress to ZIP and WinRAR to RAR or ZIP, 7zip offers you up to 5 different archive formats to choose from. 7-Zip lets you choose the update mode, depending on whether you want to add and replace files, refresh the archive or just synchronize files. If you don’t want somebody opening up your archive without your permission, you can set a password to protect your archive. We particularly liked the split tool as it can cut up your archive into equal parts which fit on a floppy, CD or DVD, handy if you need to distribute a particularly large archive. Unfortunately, security is where 7-Zip lags behind its main rivals.
There is no option to scan archives for viruses and you can’t repair damaged or corrupted files. 7-Zip might not be as secure as WinZip or WinRAR but it is definitely more versatile.
It works with more archive formats and offers many useful tools like update mode or splitting. If you feel too limited by WinZip and if you don’t like WinRAR, we suggest giving 7-Zip a try and taking advantage of all its possibilities. 7-Zip is designed for creating or unpacking archived and compressed files. The application can unpack 7zip, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB files, or create file archives in those formats.
For the standard ZIP and GZIP formats, 7the application promises to deliver a compression ratio that is 2 - 10% better than that provided by PKZip or WinZip, and the native 7zip format can provide a 45% reduction in file size from the common zip format. Key features:. High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression. 7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL.
Supported formats: Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR; Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM and DEB. For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is 2-10% better than 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 59 languages. By Anonymous Vista Stories: 7-Zip. Compressed files take up less space and therefore they are often found on the Internet as their transmission last s much shorter than uncompressed files. Are you looking for a completely free tool to help you work with this type of file, 7-Zip could be the right choice.
Except that it supports all popular compression formats like ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB, 7-Zip has its own 7z format with which the files can be summed up 30-50 percent more than using conventional ZIP compression. Like most tools of this kind of 7-Zip supports the context menu (menu that appears when you right-click on a file). All you need to uncompress a file using 7-ZIPA is click on it by right mouse button and choose the option Extract to - the directory name. All in all excellent, and even how a free tool that is localized to as many as 60 languages. Congratulations to the author holds that this product is still free, a program that you at least try it and faith in the quality thereof. Reviewed on July 2, 2010.
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WinRAR for Mac is an archiving utility that completely supports RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives. It consistently makes smaller archives than the competition, saving disk space and transmission costs. WinRAR for Mac offers you the benefit of industry strength archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a key of 128 bits. It supports files and archives up to 8,589 billion gigabytes in size.
It also offers the ability to create self extracting and multi volume archives. With recovery record and recovery volumes, you can reconstruct even physically damaged archives. Overall, WinRAR for Mac is a powerful archiver and archive manager. RAR files can usually compress content 8-30% better than ZIP files. WinRAR for Mac main features are strong compression, strong AES encryption, archive protection from damage, and self-extracting archives.
WinRAR for Mac only offers a command line interface. 'Repair' command efficiency is improved for recovery record protected RAR5 archives. Now it can detect deletions and insertions of unlimited size also as shuffled data including data taken from several recovery record protected archives and merged into a single file in arbitrary order. If encoding of comment file specified in -z switch is not defined with -sc switch, RAR attempts to detect UTF-8, UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE encodings based on the byte order mask and data validity tests.
'Update' and 'Fresh' commands ('u' and 'f' in the command line mode) quit immediately if no files are to be updated. Previously they created a temporary archive before quitting when updating archives with recovery record or quick open information. 'Repair' command issues 'Recovery record is corrupt' message after repairing RAR5 archive containing a broken recovery record. Previously such message was issued only by 'Test' command and 'Repair' handled most of recovery record damages silently.
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Bugs fixed: Fixed potential security issues when processing corrupt RAR archives.tl and -tk switches did not work with archive modification commands. Command like 'rar a arcname.rar subdir/arcname.rar' erroneously issued 'No files' warning and refused to add the file.