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bbalegere · 09-04-06, 01:41 PM

Igor Pavlo's 7-Zip can be a useful utility for the Windows platform (98 to XP). The main features of 7-Zip: High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression, can "unpack" files in RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM and DEB formats as well as compress and decompress those in 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR formats. The self-extracting LGPL 7-Zip, a free software distributed under the GNU, conveniently integrates with the Windows Shell making it easy to use from any right-click context menu. Available in the standard 32 bit format as well as a 64 bit version the 821 KB 7-Zip v.4.32 can be downloaded at http://www.7-zip.org/

popoko · 09-04-06, 02:10 PM

I thought winzip and winrar had the same capability as 7-zip?

navjotjsingh · 09-04-06, 04:51 PM

So much myth about 7-Zip...it is the best freeware alternative to Winzip and WinRAR after ZipGenius!

bbalegere · 10-04-06, 07:04 AM

I agree.
In the beginning I used to use ZipGenius.
Later I changed over to 7-Zip.

09-04-06, 01:41 PM	#1 (permalink)
bbalegere Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 60 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	7-Zip-The best compression utility Igor Pavlo's 7-Zip can be a useful utility for the Windows platform (98 to XP). The main features of 7-Zip: High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression, can "unpack" files in RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM and DEB formats as well as compress and decompress those in 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR formats. The self-extracting LGPL 7-Zip, a free software distributed under the GNU, conveniently integrates with the Windows Shell making it easy to use from any right-click context menu. Available in the standard 32 bit format as well as a 64 bit version the 821 KB 7-Zip v.4.32 can be downloaded at http://www.7-zip.org/

09-04-06, 02:10 PM	#2 (permalink)
popoko Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 36 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I thought winzip and winrar had the same capability as 7-zip?

09-04-06, 04:51 PM	#3 (permalink)
navjotjsingh Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Delhi, India Posts: 127 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 1 Post	So much myth about 7-Zip...it is the best freeware alternative to Winzip and WinRAR after ZipGenius!

10-04-06, 07:04 AM	#4 (permalink)
bbalegere Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 60 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I agree. In the beginning I used to use ZipGenius. Later I changed over to 7-Zip.