IZArc

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IZArc

IZArc 3.4 under Windows
Maintainer:	Ivan Zahariev
Stable release:	3.6 (November 2, 2006) _[+/-]
Preview release:	n/a (-) _[+/-]
OS:	Windows
Use:	File archiver
License:	Freeware
Website:	www.izarc.org

IZArc is a freeware file archiver for Microsoft Windows. This free WinZip alternative handles a wide variety of archive formats, including some of the commonly used ones like zip, rar, gzip, bzip2, and 7z.

Distinguishing features of IZArc are its ability to convert CD images formats, and the unusually high number of supported archive formats.

1 Notable Features
2 Formats
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Notable Features

Archive conversion
CD Images conversion
Disk spanning from and to multiple diskettes or other removable media
Creation of Multi-Volume Sets
Merging of Multi-Volume Sets
Creation of self-extracting archives
UnSFX (Reconversion of self-extracting .EXE files to standard archives)

Broken archive repair
UU/XX/MIME Encode/Decode

Encryption of files using Rijandael - AES (256-bits) encryption
Decryption of (.ize) files

CD/DVD Images support (ISO, BIN, MDF, NRG, IMG, C2D, PDI, CDI)
Integration in Windows Explorer context menu
Automatic installation of most software distributed in archive files
Virus Scan feature

[edit] Formats

IZArc (as of version 3.5b5) currently supports the following file formats: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CDI, CAB, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MBF, MDF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO.