PeaZip
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| Developer(s) | Giorgio Tani |
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| Initial release | October 16, 2006[1] |
| Stable release | 5.2.1[2] / December 26, 2013 |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | Free Pascal[3] |
| Operating system |
Windows Linux BSD Mac OS (Under Development)[4] |
| Platform | IA-32, x64 |
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| Available in | 23 languages |
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List of languages Chinese (traditional), Chinese (simplified), Czech, English, German, Spanish, Français, Galician, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Sinhala, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese | |
| Type | File archiver, file manager, file splitter, file encrypter, file wiper |
| License | GNU LGPLv3 |
| Website | peazip.org |
PeaZip is a free and open-source[5] file manager and file archiver for Windows, Linux[6] and BSD made by Giorgio Tani. It supports its native PEA archive format (featuring compression, multi volume split and flexible authenticated encryption and integrity check schemes) and other mainstream formats, with special focus on handling open formats.[7][8] It supports 177 file extensions (as of version 5.2.0).[9]
PeaZip is mainly written in Free Pascal, using Lazarus. PeaZip is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.
Features
The program features an archive browser interface with search and history features for intuitive navigation in archive's content, and allows the application of fine-grained multiple exclusion and inclusion filter rules to the archive; a flat browsing mode is possible as alternative archive browsing method.
PeaZip allows users to run extracting and archiving operations automatically using command-line generated exporting the job defined in the GUI front-end. It can also create, edit and restore an archive's layout for speeding up archiving or backup operation's definition.
Other notable features of the program includes archive conversion, file splitting and joining, secure file deletion, byte-to-byte file comparison, archive encryption, checksum/hash files, find duplicate files, system benchmarking, random passwords/keyfiles generation, view image thumbnails (multi threaded on the fly thumbnails generation without saving image cache to the host machine), and integration in the Windows Explorer context menu. In addition, the program's user interface (including icons and color scheme) can be customized.[10][11][12]
PeaZip is available for x86 and x86-64 as natively standalone, portable application and as installable package for Windows, Linux (DEB, RPM and TGZ, compiled both for GTK2 and Qt widgetset), and BSD (GTK2). It is available also as PortableApps package (.paf.exe).[13]
Along with more popular and general-purpose archive formats like 7z, Tar, ZIP etc., PeaZip supports the PAQ and LPAQ formats. Although usually not recommended for general purpose use (due to high memory usage and low speed), those formats are included for the value as cutting edge compression technology, providing compression ratio amongst the best for most data structures.[14][15]
PeaZip supports encryption with AES 256-bit cipher in 7z, ZIP and PEA archive formats. In FreeArc's ARC format, supported ciphers are AES 256-bit, Blowfish, Twofish 256 and Serpent 256.[16]
Limitations
The graphical frontend's progress bar is less reliable than the native console's progress indicator for the various backend utilities.
If it is critical to follow the real time progress of the work it is possible to set the program to use the native console interface, or both graphical and console interfaces, for the backend utilities.
Native archive format
PEA, an acronym for Pack Encrypt Authenticate, is an archive file format. It is a general purpose archiving format featuring compression and multiple volume output. The developers' goal is to offer a flexible security model through Authenticated Encryption, that provides both privacy and authentication of the data, and redundant integrity checks ranging from checksums to cryptographically strong hashes, defining three different levels of communication to control: streams, objects, and volumes.[17]
It was developed in conjunction with the PeaZip file archiver. PeaZip and Universal Extractor support the PEA archive format.
Third-party technologies
PeaZip acts as a graphical front-end for numerous third-party open source or royalty-free utilities, including:
- Igor Pavlov's 7z executable and Myspace's POSIX port of 7z under Linux
- Bulat Ziganshin's FreeArc archiver (to not be confused with SEA's ARC)
- PAQ8, ZPAQ and LPAQ executables, maintained by Matt Mahoney and various contributors
- Ilia Muraviev's QUAD and BALZ compressors
- GNU strip and UPX
- UNACEV2.DLL 2.6.0.0 (royalty-free UNACEV2.DLL license) and UNACE for Linux (royalty-free UNACE for Linux license) (maintained by Marcel Lemke, ACE Compression Software)
Most of these utilities can run both in console mode or through a graphical wrapper that allows more user-friendly handling of output information.
Supported formats
Full archiving and extraction support
Browse/test/extract support
Repair
- FreeArc's ARC
Adware
PeaZip installers for Windows / Win64 are bundled with OpenCandy advertising module, that during the installation offers optional recommendation of third party software. Alternatively Windows / Win64 installers without bundle, named 'plain', are offered for download on the official download pages. PeaZip Portable and PeaZip for Linux packages do not feature any bundle.
See also
- Comparison of file archivers
- List of archive formats
- Comparison of archive formats
- List of portable software
References
- ↑ "PeaZip - Changelog". 2011-03-15. Retrieved 2011-03-15.
- ↑ "PeaZip - Changelog". 2011-11-20. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
- ↑ "See for Notes for developers". 2011-03-15. Retrieved 2011-03-15.
- ↑ "PeaZip for Mac OS". 2011-08-17. Retrieved 2011-08-17.
- ↑ PeaZip on Google Code Google Code. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
- ↑ Federico Kereki (2008-03-05). "Archive files in both Windows and Linux using PeaZip". Linux.com. Retrieved 2008-04-09.
- ↑ Jason Parker (2007-12-11). "Killer Download: Top file compression alternatives". Download.com. Retrieved 2008-04-09.
- ↑ O. James Fagbire (2007-09-26). "PeaZip Compression Software". Free Downloads Center. Retrieved 2008-04-09.
- ↑ http://peazip.sourceforge.net/changelog.html
- ↑ Ionut Ilascu (2007-04-10). "Get Your Files Wrapped". Softpedia. Retrieved 2008-04-09.
- ↑ Mihai Marinof (2007-04-10). "PeaZip Review". Softpedia. Retrieved 2008-04-09.
- ↑ "Compress files with the greatest of ease". Softonic. Retrieved 2008-04-09.
- ↑ Zach Hudock; Giorgio Tani (2008-03-25). "PeaZip Portable". PortableApps.com. Retrieved 2008-04-09.
- ↑ "Summary of the multiple file compression benchmark tests". Maximum Compression. Retrieved 2008-04-09.
- ↑ Matt Mahoney (2008-04-06). "Large Text Compression Benchmark". Retrieved 2008-04-09. "The "better" option chooses best compression (equivalent to gzip -9)."
- ↑ Peazip introduction Retrieved on 2009-07-06
- ↑ Tani, Giorgio (2008-03-20). PEA (PDF).
- ↑ Igor Pavlov. "Links". Retrieved 2008-04-09. "Applications that work with .7z archives:"
- ↑ Bulat Ziganshin. "Download FreeArc". Retrieved 2008-04-09. "Third-party GUI for FreeArc"
- ↑ Matt Mahoney (2008-03-09). "Data Compression Programs". Retrieved 2008-04-09. "PeaZip (Giorgio Tani) is a GUI front end for Windows and Linux that supports the paq8o, lpaq1, and many other compression formats."
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