[Kde-announce-apps] PeaZip 1.3

[Giorgio Tani]

Name: PeaZip
Version: 1.3
Type: Other Utility
Depend: 
License: LGPL
Homepage: http://peazip.sourceforge.net/
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=52805

Description:
 PeaZip is an OS-portable file archiver, released
under LGPL for Windows and Linux (Linux version
requires libgdk_pixbuf library).
It supports it's native PEA archive format
(featuring compression, splitting and flexible
authenticated encryption and integrity check
schemes) and other mainstream formats, with
especial focus on handling open formats:
Full support: 7Z, 7Z-sfx, BZip2, GZip/TGZ, PAQ8F,
PAQ8JD, PEA, split (.001), TAR, ZIP
Browse/extract support: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB,
ISO, Java archives (JAR, EAR, WAR), LZH, NSIS
installers, Open Office file types, RAR, RPM, Z

USER INTERFACE:
PeaZip's UI aims giving aid to the user to:
edit, save and restore layout of archives;
save job definition, to be used in scripts or for
learning purpose;
have a detailed job log after each operation.
Browsing and selective partial extraction and
listing of 7z-supported archives is implemented
with a navigational browser (featuring also an
optional flat mode) and an advanced filtering
mechanism allowing multiple inclusion and
exclusion filters.
PeaZip's most used functions are also available,
in Windows installable version, from "SendTo"
menu, allowing to: send files to .7z, .pea and
.zip archives, encrypt multiple files and folders
(.pea encrypted archive, with optional two factor
authentication), split files, extract, list or
test multiple archives (even of different types)
at once.
The interface is skinnable, skins can be
customised and saved as plain text to be edited
and shared as freely as possible.

DETAILS:
PeaZip acts as a graphic frontend for:
Pea executable (graphical) from the same Author;
Igor Pavlov's 7z executable and Myspace's POSIX
port of 7z under Linux; 
Matt Mahoney’s PAQ8F and Bill Pettis's PAQ8JD.
which are included in the program’s package and
ready to use; the program doesn't need to be
installed/unistalled, it can run from any path,
even remote (writeable path is recommended).