When working in the office, of course you often receive files with the .zip extension, and you certainly know WinRar or WinZip. Second application is used to open the archives files with the .zip extension.
Both the applications that I mentioned above are paid, and not free. If you want open source applications and not paying, I encourage you to use 7-Zip. For the same purpose, 7-Zip has the capability of no less than paying application. 7-Zip can compress files in the Zip archive, gzip, bzip2, and tar.
Some of the features offered by the 7-Zip is:
- Integration with Windows Shell
- Own Plugin for FAR Manager
- Powerful File Manager
- Powerful command line version
- Ability to Self-Extracting 7z format
- supports 63 languages
- a high compression ratio in the 7z format with LZMA compression
- Supporting the format-format:
Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, TAR, and BZIP2
Unpacking only: rar, CAB, ISO, arj, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS - For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio of 2-10% better than the PKZip and WinZip
7-Zip running on the Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP or via Wine program in linux. There is also a command line version for Linux / UNIX.
Popularity: 44% [?]
You would often use the zip archives to minimize the size of the file, so do not eat a lot of space. Sometimes zip file that we receive or download from the Internet can not be opened with both, even damaged total.



