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IZArc
IZArc 3.81 under Windows Vista
Developed by	Ivan Zahariev
Operating system	Windows
Type	File archiver
License	Freeware
Website	www.izarc.org

IZArc (pronounced like "easy-arc") is a proprietary file archiver for Microsoft Windows developed by Bulgarian programmer Ivan Zahariev. The program is freeware, but not open source. In addition to the most commonly used archive formats, like zip, rar, gzip, tar.gz, bzip2, and 7z, IZArc handles an unusually large number of less common formats (48 in total, see below). Another distinguishing feature of IZArc is its ability to convert archives into different formats (including CD images and conversion between self-extracting and standard archives).

1 Notable features
2 Formats
3 Problems
4 Command line add-on
5 Portable version
6 Awards
7 See also

[edit] Notable features

Archive conversion
CD Images conversion
Disk spanning from and to multiple diskettes or other removable media
Creation of Multi-Volume Sets
Merging of Multi-Volume Sets
Creation of self-extracting archives
UnSFX (Reconversion of self-extracting .EXE files to standard archives)
Broken archive repair
UU/XX/MIME Encode/Decode
Encryption of files using Rijndael - AES (256-bits) encryption
Decryption of (.ize) files
CD/DVD Images support (ISO, BIN, MDF, NRG, IMG, C2D, PDI, CDI)
Integration in Windows Explorer context menu
Automatic installation of most software distributed in archive files
Virus Scan feature
Import and export settings
Multi-language interface
Skinnable interface

[edit] Formats

IZArc (as of version 3.81) currently supports the following file formats: 7-Zip, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, IZE, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MBF, MDF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO.

[edit] Problems

IZArc has incomplete 7-Zip support and lacks the add, move, or update actions, as well as encryption and parameter modification. IZArc does not support ISO editing, either. In addition, it does not support Unicode which limits its use around the world. While IZArc achieves a very high speed when compressing to the 7z format, and still a high speed with the widespread ZIP format, its compression is slow when handling other archive formats.

[edit] Command line add-on

Command Line Add-on is a set of advanced command line tools for Windows. It can be executed by calling from batch files, run from script files or executed from other applications. Its newest version is 1.1 (Build 140).

[edit] Portable version

IZArc is also available as a portable application called IZArc2Go. It includes all features and functions of the permanently installed version, except explorer shell-menu integration and the ability to associate file types with it.

[edit] Awards

It has been awarded by several well-known download sites, such as FileTransit, SnapFiles, SoftNews, Softpedia, WebAttack, etc., for its user-friendliness and wide archive format support.