Not too many great archival programs out there; but at least you can try one that close to what you have in mind. PeaZip may not be up there with WinRar; but it sure has some cool features that can help you achieve a lot of things.

What’s Peazip?

PeaZip is a free, open source, cross-platform, portable archiving and compression utility, with encryption and volume-split features. PeaZip has full for support for 7Z, 7Z-sfx, ARC/WRC, BZ2/TBZ2, GZ/TGZ, PAQ/LPAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, split, TAR, UPX, and ZIP. With PeaZip, you can open, browse, extract, test: ACE, ARJ, CAB, CHM, COMPOUND (MSI, DOC, XLS, PPT), CPIO, ISO, Java(JAR, EAR, WAR), Linux, (DEB, PET/PUP, RPM, SLP),LHA/LZH, NSIS, OOo, PAK/PK3/PK4, RAR, WIM, XPI, Z/TZ. Other features of PeaZip include; split/join files, wipe files (secure deletion), byte to byte compare files, checksum/hash files, system benchmark, bookmark files, and folders among others.

PeaZip also includes some new features and updates including the following: UPX 3.09; PEA 0.44; Bookmarks branch in navigation tree moved on first position, starts like default maximized, and containing common useful locations;improved breadcrumb context menu, unified with refresh menu; features history menu; and a host of others.

Downsides

The only drawback in this great freeware is the unavailability of support for Unicode. This is however, not a big issue for some users.

Want to check it out? Visit Peazip.

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