File Archiver Software List

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File Archiver Software List

A file archiver is a computer program that combines a number of files together into one archive file, or a series of archive files, for easier transportation or storage. Many file archivers employ archive formats that provide lossless data compression to reduce the size of the archive which is often useful for transferring a large number of individual files over a high latency network like the Internet. The most basic archivers just take a list of files and concatenate their contents sequentially into the archive. In addition the archive must also contain some information about at least the names and lengths of the originals, so that proper reconstruction is possible. Most archivers also store metadata about a file that the operating system provides, such as timestamps, ownership and access control. The process of making an archive file is called archiving or packing. Reconstructing the original files from the archive is termed unarchiving, unpacking or extracting. source:wikipedia

WinRar

Title	WinRar
Developer	Eugene Roshal, Alexander Roshal
Last Version	4.20
Language(s)	Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazilian, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Valencian, Vietnamese.
Type	File archiver
Platform(s)	Windows, Linux,FreeBSD, Mac OS X.
Official Web	www.win-rar.com
License	Commercial Proprietary Shareware

WinZip

Title	Winzip
Developer	WinZip International LLC, Corel Corporation
Last Version	17 (Build 10381)
Language(s)	English
Type	File archiver
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, IOS and Android
Official Web	http://www.winzip.com
License	Shareware

7-Zip

Title	7-Zip
Developer	Igor Pavlov
Last Version	9.30 alpha (2012-10-26)
Stable Ver.	9.20 (2010-11-18)
Language(s)	English,Bulgarian,Chinese Simpl.,Chinese Trad.,Esperanto,French,German,Hungarian,Japanese, Polish,Portuguese,Brazil,Russian,Spanish,Ukrainian
Type	File archiver
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X
Official Web	http://www.7-zip.org
License	GNU LGPLv2.1 + with unRAR restriction*

*unRAR restriction means that you must follow both GNU LGPL rules and unRAR restriction rules.