Reading The following table identifies the
archive formats that each archiver can read. Note that gzip, bzip2 and xz are compression formats rather than archive formats.
Notes: Writing The following table identifies the
archive formats that each archiver can write and create. Note that gzip, bzip2 and xz are compression formats rather than archive formats.
Notes: Uncommon archive format support PeaZip has full support for Brotli, Zstandard, various LPAQ and
PAQ formats, QUAD / BALZ / BCM (highly efficient
ROLZ based compressors),
FreeArc format, and for its native
PEA format. 7-Zip includes read support for
.msi,
cpio and
xar, plus Apple's
dmg/
HFS disk images and the
deb/
.rpm package distribution formats; beta versions (9.07 onwards) have full support for the LZMA2-compressed .
xz format. == See also ==