7zX
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| 7zX | |
|---|---|
| Developed by | Taskman :: Sixty Five, Ltd. |
| Latest release | 1.7.1 / 14 March 2008 |
| OS | Mac OS X |
| Genre | File archiver |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | http://sixtyfive.xmghosting.com/ |
7zX is a file archiver for Mac OS X that handles the 7z archive file format. It was distributed to the public a few weeks after the release of the 7-Zip Command Line Interface for POSIX systems, which it still uses as the default compression/decompression engine.
With the passing time, 7zX started including a number of features, including:
- 7zX supports archiving Macintosh resource forks, Spotlight metadata, and other Mac-specific information, using AppleDouble encoding as of version 1.6 and the proprietary s7z format in earlier versions;
- it can create self-extracting archives, which will expand on any computer with Mac OS X 10.3 or newer even if the 7zX software isn't installed on the host machine;
- it can compress archives directly from the Finder contextual menu (requires Mac OS X 10.4);
- it enables users to encrypt their archives with the AES-256 algorithm, and automatically recognizes password-protected archives;
- it is compiled as an Universal Binary;
- it supports Growl, a powerful notifications system for Mac OS X.
Since version 1.5, many of the additional options provided by the 7-Zip compression core can be also accessed directly from within the 7zX application.
