KGB Archiver
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Screenshot of KGB Archiver 2.0 beta 2 | |
| Developer(s) | Tomasz Pawlak |
|---|---|
| Initial release | March 2006 |
| Stable release |
1.2.1.24
/ November 1, 2006 |
| Preview release |
2.0 beta 2
/ October 7, 2007 |
| Development status | Discontinued |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows, Unix-like |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Type | File archiver |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | http://sourceforge.net/projects/kgbarchiver/ |
KGB Archiver is a file archiver and data compression utility based on the PAQ6 compression algorithm.
Written in Microsoft Visual C++ by Tomasz Pawlak, KGB Archiver is designed to achieve a very high compression ratio. As a consequence, the program is relatively memory- and CPU-intensive.
KGB Archiver is free and open-source software released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Version 2 beta 2 is available for Microsoft Windows[1][2] and a command-line version of KGB Archiver 1.0 is available for Unix-like operating systems. KGB Archiver is one of the few applications that works with the PAQ algorithm for making its KGB files.[2] It has ten levels of compression, from very weak to maximal. However, at higher compression levels, the time required to compress a file increases significantly.[1] The official website is now offline.
System requirements
The minimum requirements for running KGB Archiver are:[1][3][4]
- 1.5 GHz processor
- 256 MB RAM
Features
- Supports native .kgb files and .zip files[1][2]
- AES-256 encryption[1][3][4]
- It is able to create self-extracting archives[1][3]
- Unicode is supported in both the user interface and filesystems
- Multilanguage support (including Arabic, German, Greek, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, and Ukrainian)[5]
- An Explorer shell extension is available for the Windows versions.[5]
See also
References
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