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 http://www.7-zip.org/
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+A graphical file archive management tool, reads many formats. Can create zip files.
+===== Features =====
+Windows, like most operating systems, has had the ability to read zip files for years,
+so why would you go through the trouble to use a separate application? 7-Zip is nice because it
+handles more than just "Zip" files. For starters, it can open ISO disk images, "rar" files, as
+well as it's own highly optimized format. It can also open installer applications made with several
+popular application packagers, to extract the files used in the install.
+One of the other nice feature with the shell integration feature, you can open any file with 7-Zip
+with the shell context menu option "7-Zip->open archive". As long as it is a file format that 7-Zip
+can handle, it will open it, without you having to specifiy why type of archive it is. This is
+helpful because a lot of file types, such as java 'jar' or svg images 'sgvz' are actually just
+zip files with a different extension. The built-in archive processing in Windows will not do this.
+~~DISCUSSION~~

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