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COMPARISON OF FILE ARCHIVERS

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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of 'file archivers'. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date. Unless otherwise specified in footnotes, comparisons are based on the stable versions without any add-ons, extensions or external programs.

Contents
General information
Operating system support
Archiver features
Archive format support
Reading
Writing
Comparison of efficiency
Unusual support
See also
Corpora
External links

General information


Basic general information about the archivers: creator/company, license/price etc.
Creator(s) First public release date Latest stable version Cost (USD) Software license
7-ZipIgor Pavlov October 1 2001 4.42 Free LGPL, Proprietary (RAR plugin)
Alpha ZIP Alpha ZIP 2004 1.3 $29.95 Proprietary
ALZip ESTsoft 1999 (as a WinZip translation) 6.7 Free for personal use, $20 for commercial or government use Proprietary
Basic zip A programer June 23 2007 1.0 Free for personal uses, $10 for other uses to support software developmentProprietary
BitZipper Bitberry Software 2000 5.0.1 $24.95 Proprietary
BOMArchiveHelper Apple Computer October 24 2003 6.3.3 Part of Mac OS X CoreServices Proprietary
FilZip Philipp Engel 3.06 Free Proprietary
Disk ARchiver Denis Corbin 2002 2.3.0 Free GPL
GNU tar GNU Project 1989 1.15.1 Free GPL
gzip Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler, GNU Project October 31, 1992 1.15.1 Free GPL


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