WinRAR

Eugene Roshal developed an application that can create RAR archives called WinRAR. It is a shareware file archiver and data compression utility released by Ron Dwight in 1993, while Alexander Roshal, Eugene Roshal's brother runs the business. WinRAR provides the complete support for RAR, which is WinRAR's original format in compression, ZIP archives, and unpacking of 7z, EXE, ISO, JAR, BZ2, UUE, ACE, GZ, TAR, LZH, ARJ and Z archives. It has multithreaded compression and can create archive with multi-volume and self-extracting. Damaged archives are provided with date redundancy through recovery record and recovery volumes for reconstruction. It also supports in the advancement in file names of Unicode and file system of NTFS. It has also AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) 128-bit key to be used optionally in archive encryption. The software is available in forty seven languages. It is written in C++ and runs with Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, 7 Mac OS X, FreeBSD, LInux (Wine required for GUI), and OS/2.

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ESTsoft ALZip

In 1999, ALZip is originally developed as an internal application at South Korean software company EST soft. It is an archive and compression utility designed for Microsoft Windows to address their employees frustration with using English interface in WinZip. It can unzip 40 different file archives and can ZIP into eight different file archives like TAR, EGG, ZIP and many others. It runs in Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista with 32/64 bit, and Windows 7 with 32/64 bit. ALZip has the ability to set password using AES-128 bit or AES-256 bit encryption; span a ZIP file into ZIP files; merge spanned files in one, restore corrupted files; check for virus using your anti-virus software; create self-extracting archive (EXE) that enables users to open the archive without installing file compression program; check errors in ZIP files; and command line functions for expert users. ALZip is a shareware and is available in English, Korean and Japanese language.

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