7zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.
7zip is open source software, most of the source code is under the gnu
lgpl license.
[features]
* high compression ratio in new 7z format with lzma compression
* supported formats:
o packing / unpacking: 7z, zip, gzip, bzip2 and tar
o unpacking only: arj, cab, chm, cpio, deb, dmg, hfs, iso,
lzh, lzma, msi, nsis, rar, rpm, udf, wim, xar and z.
* for zip and gzip formats, 7-zip provides a compression ratio
that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by pkzip and winzip
* strong aes-256 encryption in 7z and zip formats
* self-extracting capability for 7z format
* integration with windows shell
* powerful file manager
* powerful command line version
* plugin for far manager
* localizations for 74 languages
[changelog]
- 7-zip now can update solid .7z archives.
- 7-zip now supports lzma2 compression method.
- 7-zip now supports xz archives.
- 7-zip now can unpack ntfs, fat, vhd and mbr archives.
- 7-zip now can unpack gzip, bzip2, lzma, xz and tar archives from
stdin.
- 7-zip now can open/copy/compress disk images (like \\.\c:) from \\.\
folder.
- 7-zip file manager now doesn't use temp files to open nested
archives
stored without compression.
- new -scrc switch to calculate total crc-32 during extracting /
testing.
- new -scc{win|dos|utf-8} switch to specify charset for input/output
(default = dos).
- some bugs were fixed.
[download]: http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=14481&filename=7z904.exe
[homepage]: http://www.7-zip.org