What does 7z mean in File Extensions?
This page is about the meanings of the acronym/abbreviation/shorthand 7z in the Computing field in general and in the File Extensions terminology in particular.
7-Zip format LZW compressed file
7-Zip is an open source file compressor program, LZW=Liv, Zempel, Welch
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What does 7z mean?
- 7z
- 7z is a compressed archive file format that supports several different data compression, encryption and pre-processing algorithms. The 7z format initially appeared as implemented by the 7-Zip archiver. The 7-Zip program is publicly available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. The LZMA SDK 4.62 was placed in the public domain in December 2008. The latest stable version of 7-Zip and LZMA SDK is version 21.06.The official, informal 7z file format specification is distributed with 7-Zip's source code since 2015. The specification can be found in plain text format in the 'doc' sub-directory of the source code distribution. There have been additional third-party attempts at writing more concrete documentation based on the released code.
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