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 encryption and integrity check schemes) and other mainstream formats, with especial focus on handling open formats.
PeaZip's UI aims giving aid to the user to:
- edit, save and restore layout of archives (input files and folders list)
- to speed up definition of archiving and backup operations;
- save job definition, as plain text, 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 7za-supported archives is implemented with two alternative mechanism: 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 32 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.
PeaZip acts as a graphic frontend for Pea executable (graphical) from the same Author and for Igor Pavlov's 7z executable (and Myspace's POSIX port of 7z under Linux); 7z can run in console mode or trough a graphical wrapper which allows more user-friendly handling of output information.
Self-extracting archives are built using 7-Zip's sfx modules, with custom icons, compressed with UPX in order to minimize the overhead added to the archive.
The interface is fully skinnable in colors and transparency; skins can be customised and saved as plain text to be re-edited and shared as freely as possible.
The program doesn't need to be installed/unistalled, it can run from any path, even remote; a writeable path is recommended to allow keeping a peristent randomness collector.