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7-ZIP

7-Zip is a free file archiver by Igor Pavlov, for the Windows operating systems distributed under the GNU LGP license. 7-Zip supports 7z, ZIP, RAR, CAB, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB compressed file formats enabling Unix TAR archives to be created and decompressed under Windows. 7-Zip is comprised of three clients modules: a plug in for Windows Explorer, a plug in for the FAR Manager, and a command line version.
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