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Compression software

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Compression software like Winzip and Winrar formerly popular in the community. The software is not free, then there is an alternative that is as follows.

1. IZArc
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IZArc freeware application developers claim they are the best artificial. Some features of IZArc:

  • Supports 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, bz2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA , LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, uue, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO.
  • Can convert BIN to ISO and NRG to ISO
  • Can be configured to check for Antivirus checking the archives
  • Can protect data with encryption 256-bit AES

2. 7Zip
Screenshot 7-Zip
In addition to making 7-zip compression format (7z), 7-zip.org also helped develop the 7-zip. 7-zip is available for various operating systems, like Windows (7/Vista/XP/2003/2000/NT/ME/98), Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and others.

– High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression   Formats supported:
– Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM. Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, squashfs, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR and Z.
– For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides compression ratio is 2-10% better than PKZip and WinZip compression applications
– Same with IZArc, can protect data with encryption 256-bit AES– Supports 79 languages in the world.

3. PeaZip
Screenshot of PeaZip
PeaZip is a compression application open source cross platform, available as portable and installable for Windows (9x, 2k, XP, Vista, 7) 32 and 64 bit and Linux x86 and x86-64. Some features of PeaZip:

  • Full support: 7z, FreeArc’s arc/wrc, sfx (7z and arc), bz2, gz, paq/lpaq/zpaq, pea, quad/balz, split, tar, upx, zip
  • PeaZip supports most extensions of other open source. PeaZip can read (browse, extract, test) 134 file extensions: 7z, apk, bz, bz2, bzip2, tbz2, tbz, gz, gzip, tgz, tpz, tar, zip, zipx, z01, smzip, arj, cab, chm, chi, CHQ, CHW, hxs, hxi, hxr, hxq, hxw, lit, cpio, deb, LZH, LHA, RAR, R01, 00, rpm, z, taz, tz, iso, jar, ear, war, LHA, pet, pup, pak, pk3, pk4, slp, [Content], xpi, wim, u3p, lzma86, lzma, udf, xar, dmg, HFS, part1, split, SWM, tpz, kmz, xz, txz, vhd, mslz, apm, mbr, fat, ntfs, exe, dll, sys, msi, msp, ods, OTS, ODM, OTH, oxt, ODB, ODF, ODG, OTG, ODP, otp, odt, Ott, GNM, doc, dot, xls, xlt, ppt, pps, pot, docx, dotx, xlsx, xltx, swf, flv, quad, balz, zpaq, paq8f, paq8jd, paq8l, paq8o, lpaq1, lpaq5, lpaq8, ace, arc, WRC, 001, pea, CBZ, CBR, cba, cb7, CBT (and many more …)
  • And as well as software compression above, PeaZip can protect data with encryption 256-bit AES

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