PeaZip free archiver is a portable, open source archiving and compression utility, featuring strong encryption and file split/join tools. PeaZip is cross platform software, it runs on Windows 9x, 2000, XP, Vista and on Linux and supports handling of many archive and compression formats:

Full support (read and write):
7Z, 7Z-sfx, BZip2/TBZ2, GZip/TGZ, LPAQ, PAQ, PEA, QUAD, split, TAR, UPX, ZIP.

Open, browse, extract, test: ACE, ARJ, CAB, CHM, COMPOUND (MSI, DOC, XSL, PPT), CPIO, ISO, Java(JAR, EAR, WAR), Linux (DEB, PET/PUP, RPM, SLP), LHA/LZH, NSIS, OOo, PAK/PK3/PK4, RAR, WIM, XPI, Z/TZ.

PeaZip features a powerful archive browser with search and history features for intuitive navigation in archive's content, and allows to apply fine-grained multiple exclusion and inclusion filter rules to the archive.
PeaZip allows to create, edit and restore archive's layout for speeding up archiving or backup operation's definition.

The program can also handle multiple archives at once; export job definition as command line; create detailed job log; encrypt, split and join files and compress executables with strip/UPX, benchmark the system and wipe files (secure file deletion).

PeaZip's most used functions are available in SendTo and context menu (in Windows) and as .desktop files for contextual menus (in Linux).
The user interface is skinnable for colors, transparence and icons.

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