Wikipedia defines file archivers as per the following,
A file archiver is a computer program that combines a number of files together into one archive file, or a series of archive file, for easier transportation or storage. Many file archivers employ archive formats that provide lossless data compression to reduce the size of the archive which is often useful for transferring a large number of individual files over a high latency network like the Internet.

In our Compression Utilities 2011 Member Choice POLL:

•WinRar is the big winner with 31% of the vote
•7 Zip comes in second with 26%
•Third place goes to WinZip with 15% of the vote.

Other choices we examined were:

•PeaZip
•ZipGenius
•UltimateZip
•Quick Zip
•Zipeg for Macintosh
•Free RAR Extract Frog
•WinArchiver
•Batch Unzip
•TyphoonZip
•Windows Built-In

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by bobbagels edited by lilhurricane
last modified: 2011-12-28 14:43:20