

They are used for all SAP patches and deliveries, because this tool is available on any from SAP supported platform. These tools are similar and are having the same compression ratio. Usually 7-Zip compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format.Īnd 7-Zip compresses to zip format 2-10% better than other zip compatible programs.Īs SAP customer, you will know CAR (car.exe) or SAPCAR (sapcar.exe) as well. So, have really fun with this nice, tiny, free & very useful tool 7-Zip! " The GIMP 1.2.4 for Windows after full installation" Īs 7-Zip is a Source Forge Project you can benefit with a forum, bug reports and feature requests at 7-Zip's Source Forge Page.Īs example for the compression ratio we compared the following: Winrar - the famous tool for the rar files - would be charged again. Imagine, that it is one of the few tools only, that can even work with RAR files in opposite to Winzip. 7-Zip works in Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP.Self-extracting capability for 7z format.For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip.Supported formats: 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB.7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL.Highest compression ratio because of new 7z format ( 30%-70% smaller archives than ZIP files).But, as it is shareware (and not too cheap for everybody in your company), you can find a very useful freeware with similar features as well:ħZip which can be free downloaded and used ( real freeware!) at the following place: ( below 1MB !) The most often used tool is definetely Winzip. They are able to compress text by factor 10 and most EXE files by about factor 2. ZIP tools were really a great innovation within the last 10 years. '7-Zip' - a totally free file archiver with highest compression ratio - far better than WinZip
