PeaZip 6.0.0 review

PeaZip project is an archiving application, archive/extract: 001 (raw file split/join), 7z, 7zip sfx, Bzip2, Gzip, Pea, Tar, Z, Zip.

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Giorgio Tani

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PeaZip project is an archiving application, archive/extract: 001 (raw file split/join), 7z, 7zip sfx, Bzip2, Gzip, Pea, Tar, Z, Zip.

PeaZip is an OS-portable archiver tool (released for Windows and Linux); it supports it's native Pea archive format (featuring compression, splitting and flexible encryption and integrity check schemes) and other mainstream formats, with especial focus on handling open formats.

Full support: 001 (raw file split/join), 7z, 7zip sfx, Bzip2, Gzip, Pea, Tar, Zip; Browse/extract-only support: Z.

PeaZip doesn't follow the Explorer-like interface paradigm; the interface is more similar to a CD/DVD-burner application, allowing the user to:

- save and restore layout of archives (input files and folders list) to speed up definition of archiving and backup operations;
- save job definition (as plain text, to be used in any script language);
- have a detailed job log after each operation;

The interface is fully skinnable (skins can be customised and saved as plain text to be re-edited as freely as possible) and uses customisable transparency.

What's New in This Release:
This update is focused in giving the program more usability, through many UI improvements and fixes.
Windows version now runs fine also on 9x systems; most used functions as add to archive or extract here are accessible from shortcuts in SendTo menu;
Windows installer now asks for optionally creating additional file associations.
For Linux is now available also a Gtk2 build (and the traditional build for Gtk1).
Both Linux versions are standalone, you just need to unpack and run them.