ZIP programs

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ALZip,# No Time Limits

# 100% Fully Functional

# 36 archive and compression file formats (More than 36 file extensions)

# Open CD burning file formats: ISO and BIN

# Open virtual CD files: LCD

# Password retrieval

# Create SFX (EXE) files for FREE

# Create spanned archives over 2600 volumes

# Unlimited archive size with ALZ

http://www.altools.net/ALTools/ALZip/tabid/53/Default.aspx

 

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My personal favorite...

WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.

http://www.rarlab.com/

 

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The main features of 7-Zip
    * High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression

    * Supported formats:

          o Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR

          o Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS

    * For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip

    * Self-extracting capability for 7z format

    * Integration with Windows Shell

    * Powerful File Manager

    * Powerful command line version

    * Plugin for FAR Manager

    * Localizations for 63 languages

http://www.7-zip.org/

 

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Universal Extractor is a program do to exactly what it says: extract files from any type of archive, whether its a simple zip file, an installation program, or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package. This is still a work in progress (see details below), but so far its proven quite useful and I feel others can also benefit from it.

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