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Why does anyone use 7-Zip? Does it have any advantages over the more widely used alternatives (tarball and zip)?
by olfactory 8y ago
Why does anyone use 7-Zip? Does it have any advantages over the more widely used alternatives (tarball and zip)?
- Boulth 8y agoBetter compression I guess...
- fake-name 8y agoIt has convenient windows packages.
- user5994461 8y agoYou need 7-zip to read tarball and zip on Windows.
- netheril96 8y agoFor me, it is support for unicode filenames. There are extensions for tarball and zip file formats that handles the problem, but not many software supports these extensions, whereas every software supporting 7z handles unicode filenames correctly.