QUAD and
BALZ are very efficient ROLZ-based
compressor developed by Ilia Muraviev (
QUAD 
and
BALZ project pages), featuring
high compression ratio and high extraction speed.
QUAD and BALZ are single file compressors, so compressed files will
feature a double extension, i.e. filename.ext.quad.
In PeaZip, if multiple files are sent to be compressed by QUAD or BALZ
they
will
be automatically added to a TAR archive before, resulting in the doule
extension TAR.QUAD or TAR.BALZ respectively.
PeaZip offers a GUI frontend to
create,
browse and extract QUAD and BALZ compressed files, under Windows
and Linux (on Gnome, KDE or other desktop environments).
To extract a QUAD/BALZ file you can:
- Use context menu entry "- Extract archive(s) here"
- Use context menu entry "- Extract archive(s) to" to
be asked for output path
- Open it in PeaZip and use
"Extract all" button (you can chose output
path in "I/O" tab) or "Extract all to" to be asked for output
path.
