7-zip

michaelper22

Nov 4 2005, 05:37 PM

7-Zip is a wonderful little program for windows that can compress and decompress files in .tar, tar.gz, .zip, Bzip2, and 7z formats. The interface is a little clumsy: Instead of opening a compressd file, you browse your hard drive and compressed files as if the program were a file manager. Cost: free. You can download 7-Zip from sourceforge.net.

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Erwin_X

Nov 4 2005, 06:01 PM

Remenber only one thing for people that compress a lot. 7-zip takes (a lot) more time for compressing to and extracting from archives.

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jlhaslip

Nov 4 2005, 11:43 PM

And how many times do you un-zip the same file? Compared to downlosding the un-zipped version, it is probably still faster...

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pawitp

Nov 5 2005, 12:09 AM

Took me ages to compress a file with maximum compression. But the result worth it. 7z also open other type of files other than it's own 7z archieve. eg. rar, zip, etc.

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kakingho

Nov 5 2005, 02:09 PM

QUOTE(pawitp @ Nov 5 2005, 08:09 AM)

Took me ages to compress a file with maximum compression. But the result worth it. 7z also open other type of files other than it's own 7z archieve. eg. rar, zip, etc.

It sounds good.

Let me try to install it ~~
(I am using WinRaR)

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malish

Nov 12 2005, 04:50 PM

It really takes a lot more time to compress and decompress but... As you noticed it compresses sometimes up to 25 percent better than even win rara and winace.

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