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Other service functions, such as encryption, archive comments, error logging, etc.7-Zip is open source, meaning it's completely free, even for commercial use.

Recovery volumes allowing to reconstruct missing parts of multivolume archives.

Recovering physically damaged archives.

Creation of self-extracting archives (also multivolume) using the default or optional SFX modules.

Solid archiving, which can raise compression ratio by 10% - 50% over more common methods, particularly when packing a large number of small, similar files.

Non RAR archives (7Z, ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LZH, TAR, UUE, Z ) management.

Shell interface including drag-and-drop facility and wizard.

Special algorithms optimized for text, audio, graphics, 32-bit and 64-bit Intel executables compression.

Highly sophisticated, original compression algorithm.

Complete support of RAR and ZIP 2.0 archives.

It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.

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