FREE ARC

 

FreeArc is a modern general-purpose archiver. Main advantage of FreeArc is fast but efficient compression and rich set of features.

FreeArc works 2–5 times faster than best other compression programs.

Advantages

    Free, open-source, with console and GUI versions for both Windows and Linux
    Includes LZMA, PPMD, TrueAudio and generic Multimedia compression algorithms with automatic switching by file type
    Filters that further improve compression: REP (finds repetitions at the distances up to 1gb), DICT (dictionary replacements for texts), DELTA (improves compression of tables in binary data), BCJ (executables preproccesor) and LZP (removes repetitions in texts)
    Special compression algorithms are used in fast compression modes (GRZIP for texts and Tornado for binary data)
    Overall, 11 compression algorithms and filters are included (compared to 3 in 7-zip and 7 in RAR) and this number still grows More Info

Features

    Solid compression with smart updates (only changed solid blocks are recompressed)
    User-definable solid block size (-s…) and file sorting order (-ds…), including customized filename ordering (arc.groups)
    AES/Blowfish/Twofish/Serpent encryption with keyfiles support and ability to chain multiple ciphers (-p, -hp, --keyfile, --encryption=ALGORITHMS)
    FAR and Total Commander plugins allow to create/browse/extract archives using the file manager interface
    Ability to create SFX (self-extracted) archives and installers
    Ability to list/extract archives directly from Internet: arc x http://freearc.org/demo/arc.arc *.h
    Archive protection and recovery, including recovery over Internet driven by CRCs of archive sectors (r/rr/-rr/--original=URL) More Info

LINK: Free Arc