Filzip is a freeware file archiver program for the Microsoft Windows platform. It was written by Philipp Engel. While free, the author does request donations to help the cost of development and reward him for his work. As of March 2019, no new version has been released since version 3.0.6. Filzip has been presumed unmaintained the software development.

Features

The program has been localized to more than twenty languages. Filzip supports seven different archive formats, allowing the user to add and extract files from the archives. These include ZIP, BH, CAB,

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, LHA (LZH),

TAR Tar is a dark brown or black viscous liquid of hydrocarbons and free carbon, obtained from a wide variety of organic materials through destructive distillation. Tar can be produced from coal, wood, petroleum, or peat. "a dark brown or black bi ...

, and

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. A handful of other formats are supported for extraction only, including

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, ARC,

ARJ ARJ (Archived by Robert Jung) is a software tool designed by Robert K. Jung for creating high-efficiency data compression, compressed file archives. ARJ is currently on version 2.86 for MS-DOS and 3.20 for Microsoft Windows and supports 16-bit, 3 ...

, RAR, and

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. Files within most formats can be viewed without explicitly unpacking them, and can be removed or renamed within the archive. ZIP files may be spanned; that is, written to any number of files with a fixed maximum size so that they can be placed on removable media. The program has integration, and can create self-extracting executable archives for redistribution without licensing fees.

Reception

CNET rated it 4/5 stars and wrote, "Easy program operation sets this freeware file compression tool apart from the crowded genre."

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File compression review including Filzip

{{Compression Software Implementations Windows-only freeware Windows compression software Data compression software File archivers Pascal (programming language) software

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