KGB Archiver

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KGB Archiver
Developer Tomasz Pawlak
Initial releaseApril 2006 (2006-04)
Repository KGB Archiver Repository
Written in Visual C++
Operating system Windows, Unix-like
Available inEnglish, Arabic, Czech, German, Greek, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, and Ukrainian [1]
Type File archiver
License GPL-2.0-only

KGB Archiver is a discontinued file archiver and data compression utility that employs the PAQ6 compression algorithm. [2] Written in Visual C++ by Tomasz Pawlak, KGB Archiver is designed to achieve a very high compression ratio. It has ten levels of compression, from very weak to maximum. However, at higher compression levels, the time required to compress a file increases significantly. [3] As a consequence, the program uses memory and CPU intensively.

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KGB Archiver is free and open-source, released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Version 2 beta 2 is available for Microsoft Windows [3] [2] and a command-line version of KGB Archiver 1.0 is available for Unix-like operating systems.

Features

System requirements

The minimum requirements for running KGB Archiver are: [3] [4] [5]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Compress 1 GB to 10 MB : KGB Archiver". Cshared. Archived from the original on 2010-05-22. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
  2. 1 2 3 "Обзор небольших утилит. Август 2008" [Overview of small utilities. August 2008.]. iXBT.com (in Russian). August 2008.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Nitu, Cosmin (26 May 2006). "Great Compression Solution!". Softpedia . SoftNews NET.
  4. 1 2 3 ""KGB Archiver" - Software Informer". Kgb-archiver.software.informer.com. 2009-04-01. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
  5. 1 2 "Kgb Archiver – The Most Powerful Compression Tool". Genius Hackers. 2008-06-17. Retrieved 2010-05-19.


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