Program: 7-Zip, version 4.57
Publisher: Igor Pavlov www.7-zip.org
Category: Compression/Decompression Archiving Utility

7-zip is open-source software and is licensed under a user-friendly license. You can download it for free and use it for free, including redistribute it (as long as you include the license with it).

I’ve been trying 7-Zip recently as an alternative to Filzip — ot because I’ve become dissatisfied with Filzip, but because some readers recommended it to me.

Let’s look at an example — using 7-Zip to look at, and extract, 7-Zip. One of the ways you can download 7-Zip is as an .EXE executable file, so it can be installed by running the file. Interestingly, it can extract itself out of its .EXE file. However, this ability doesn’t mean that it can unpack other .EXE files that are actually install programs.

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