Zipeg is an
open source
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free software
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that
extracts files from a wide range of compressed archive formats. Zipeg works under
Mac OS X
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and
Windows
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. It is best known for its file preview ability. It is incapable of compressing files, although it is able to extract compressed ones. Zipeg is built on top of the
7-Zip
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backend. Its UI is implemented in Java and is open source.
The list of supported archive formats includes:
ZIP,
7z,
RAR,
ARJ, LHA/LZH,
TAR,
GZ,
TGZ,
CPIO
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,
BZIP2
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,
RPM,
CHM,
Z,
ISO
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Me ...
,
CBR,
CBZ,
EAR and WAR.
Zipeg automatically detects filenames in national alphabets (code pages) and correctly translates them to Unicode. Zipeg reads Exif thumbnails from JPEG digital photographs and uses them for "tool tip" style preview and item icons.
The development has halted since version 2.9.4 from July 2012, the website zipeg.com is no longer available and the source code has also been archived. (Though that happened automatically when Google Code was archived in early 2016.)
There is also no recent activity on Leo Kuznetsovs GitHub-Account related to zipeg.
See also
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Zip (file format)
ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless compression, lossless data compression. A ZIP file may contain one or more files or directories that may have been compressed. The ZIP file format permits a number of Data compression, compr ...
*
Data compression
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References
Zipeg review from c, netby
Macworld
External links
Zipeg official site ''zipeg.com'' (down)
Zipeg source code ''code.google.com''
Windows compression software
Free data compression software
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Software using the BSD license
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