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7-Zip is free software with open source. The most of the code is under the GNU LGPL license. Some parts of the code are under the BSD 3-clause License. Also there is unRAR license restriction for some parts of the code. Read 7-Zip License information. You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. 7-Zip is designed for creating or unpacking archived and compressed files. The application can unpack 7zip, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB files, or create file archives in those formats.

It’s always good to have a good software to archive or unarchive your files. It could be just to save space on your hard-drive or just to better organize things that you don’t use often. If you download more often you are probably going to need an easy use application to open/unarchive the files. The good news is that for PPC it’s not hard to find great options and here are some:

  • Popular Alternatives to 7-Zip for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, BSD and more. Explore 25+ apps like 7-Zip, all suggested and ranked by the AlternativeTo user community.
  • Oct 11, 2019  Don’t be surprised as well if the 7-Zip has expanded to something bigger than the original file size as the size of the archive. This is totally normal. Just be sure that you have enough disk space to accommodate all the uncompressed data. Unarchiver is a well-known solution to all kinds of archive formats available on Mac.

* Stufflt Expander – One of the best, works with PPC 10.5 or later. Easy to use and it can expand over 30 different formats. The Stufflt 12.0.2 works with PPC 10.4. http://www.stuffit.com/mac-expander.html

* The Unarchiver – It’s another app that does the job really good. Very easy to use and runs on PPC 10.4 or later. http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver

* Keka – It’s a very simple app, but runs on PPC 10.4 or later. It’s a good call. http://www.kekaosx.com/en/

* TarPit – It’s a Free software to archive files and unarchive. Runs on PPC 10.3 or later. It’s very easy drag and drop. http://homepage.mac.com/entropy4/software/

* BetterZip – One more option for PPC 10.4 or later. No complaints so far, all these apps do the job pretty well. http://macitbetter.com/

* 7zX – PPC user, this is a great app to archive your file or unarchive. It’s free and it’s simple and fast. Runs on PPC 10.3 or later. http://sixtyfive.xmghosting.com/

* sArchiver – (ShareWare $19.99) File archiving and extraction, supported formats: RAR, Zip, 7z, DMG Images, LHA, ARJ, Bzip2, Tar, tar.gz, tar.bz. PPC 10.5 – http://www.bitpersecond.com/bps/sarchiver.html

Include: ZIP, SIT, TAR, GZip, BZip2, RAR, 7-Zip, CPIO, ARJ, LZH/LHA, JAR, WAR, CAB, ISO, CHM, RPM, DEB, NSIS, BIN, HQX, DD

If you have better options share with us, leave a comment telling us what do you think about these applications. Thanks

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7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.

Download 7-Zip 19.00 (2019-02-21) for Windows:

LinkTypeWindowsSize
Download.exe32-bit x861 MB
Download.exe64-bit x641 MB

Download 7-Zip 19.02 alpha (2019-09-05) for Windows:

LinkTypeWindowsSize
Download.exe32-bit x861 MB
Download.exe64-bit x641 MB

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7-Zip is free software with open source. The most of the code is under the GNU LGPL license. Some parts of the code are under the BSD 3-clause License. Download jw library 2019. Also there is unRAR license restriction for some parts of the code. Read 7-Zip License information.

You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip.

The main features of 7-Zip

  • High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression
  • Supported formats:
    • Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
    • Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z.
  • For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
  • Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
  • Self-extracting capability for 7z format
  • Integration with Windows Shell
  • Powerful File Manager
  • Powerful command line version
  • Plugin for FAR Manager
  • Localizations for 87 languages

7-Zip works in Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP / 2016 / 2012 / 2008 / 2003 / 2000 / NT.

Older versions up to and including 16.16 can be activated with an Office 2016 for Mac volume license. Office for mac. The update history information for version 16.16 and earlier also applies to Office 2016 for Mac, which is also a version of Office for Mac that’s available as a one-time purchase. Starting with the 16.17 release in September 2018, this information also applies to Office 2019 for Mac, which is a version of Office for Mac that’s available as a one-time purchase from a retail store or through a volume licensing agreement.

p7zip - the port of the command line version of 7-Zip to Linux/Posix.

On 7-Zip's SourceForge Page you can find a forum, bug reports, and feature request systems.

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Compression ratio

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We compared 7-Zip with WinRAR 5.20.

FILE SETS: Mozilla Firefox 34.0.5 for Windows and Google Earth 6.2.2.6613 for Windows.

ArchiverMozilla FirefoxGoogle Earth
65 files
85 280 391 bytes
483 files
110 700 519 bytes
Compressed sizeRatioCompressed sizeRatio
7-Zip 9.35
-mx
39 357 375100%15 964 369100%
WinRAR 5.20
-m5 -s -ma5 -md128m
41 789 543106%17 035 432107%

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Compression ratio results are very dependent upon the data used for the tests. Usually, 7-Zip compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format. And 7-Zip compresses to zip format 2-10% better than most of other zip compatible programs.