support for the following archive formats

Stephan Busch (CSA) · Post by **Stephan Busch (CSA)** » 01 Jan 2006, 13:17

Hello Guys,

I am a Compression Strength Auditor and therefore compare the
compression performance of almost all available archivers.
A link to my work is here:

http://www.maximumcompression.com/bench ... 02005.pdf

I wish there was support for the following archive formats:
UHARC, PAQ7, StuffIt (SITX) and Squeez 5 (SQX2)
There's a SDK for Squeez 5 and the source od PAQ7 is also
freely available. And the commandline archivers UHARC and the
weird SITX format might be integrated by the 'Archivers
Auto configuration' option.
PAQ7 offers a new JPEG compression technique that performs close
to StuffIt 9, but PAQ7 is free and its C++ source can be easily
implemented in perhaps a special 7-zip.dll that you might provide.

BTW: When will the german translation of Servant Salamander 2.5
be finnished?

More than 1.200 people read my PDF each month,
and I could place an advertisement for your very cool and handy
Servant Salamander if you want me to do so.
Please answer me at squeezechart@gmx.de

Yours faithfully,

Stephan Busch

Post by **Jan Rysavy** » 01 Jan 2006, 15:02

There was a massive demand for 7-ZIP implementation and Igor Pavlov has released the 7-ZIP archiver under less restrictive LGPL license (LGPL library is usable in a commercial, closed source product).

We will support other archive formats too under these conditions.

German translation will be included in the final Servant Salamander 2.5 (ASAP).