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7-Zip

7-Zip is an open source file archiver with a high compression ratio. The program supports 7z, ZIP, RAR, CAB, GZIP, BZIP2, and TAR formats. Compression ratio in the new 7z format is 30-50 percent better than ratio in ZIP format. It also compresses to ZIP 2-10 percent better than PKZip and WinZip. It has an additional powerful command line version and FAR Manager support.

For more information, see the glossary definitions for:

ZIP

Related software tools:

7-Zip v4.60 Beta (Open source)
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.

7-Zip Portable v4.57 (Freeware)
7-Zip Portable is the popular 7-Zip packaged as a portable app, so you can take your file archiver with you and work with your compressed 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR files and more on the

WinRAR v3.80 Beta 5 (Shareware)
WinRAR is a powerful archiver and archive manager.

WinZip v12.0 (Shareware)
WinZip is the most popular compression/decompression utility for Windows.

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