7Z is a modern, open
source archive format, featuring AES encryption, native volume
spanning,
practically unlimited storage capacity and high compression ratio.
Compression algorithms used (
LZMA
,
PPMd
, BZip2) can take benefit
of parallel computing on
modern multicore CPUs.
The 7z archive format was introduced by
7-Zip
on Windows platform and
ported by
p7zip
on Unix platforms.
PeaZip uses the components from those two programs (which are released
under LGPL license as PeaZip) to offer the same GUI frontend to create,
browse, test and extract 7z archives under Linux and Windows as well.
PeaZip for Linux is
desktop-neutral so it can be used either under Gnome or KDE desktop
environment, or also other desktop managers. System integration
mechanisms relies on FreeDesktop standards and requires a compliant
environment, such Gnome and KDE, but basic archiving operations are not
affected.
7Z is the default archive format for archive creation with PeaZip and,
in Windows, it is available as quickly accessible function in "SendTo"
menu, "+ Add to .7Z" entry which allows to directly archive in 7Z
format multiple selected files and folders.
7Z archive format is supported by PeaZip for:
creation, listing,
navigational and flat browsing, testing and extraction.
To extract one or more files supported through 7Z frontend (7Z, RAR,
TAR,
ZIP and more) you can: