7-Zip
From Just Solve the File Format Problem
7-Zip is an open source file archiving application. It can decode many compression and archiving formats.
7-Zip has a native compressed archive format named 7z.
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Format cross-reference
7-Zip doesn't seem to provide good information about what formats it supports, so this list may not be completely accurate.
The "RW" column indicates read support (R), write support (W), or both (RW).
| Format | RW | Refer to |
|---|---|---|
| 7z | RW | 7z |
| APM | R | Apple Partition Map |
| ARJ | R | ARJ |
| BZIP2 | RW | bzip2 |
| CAB | R | Cabinet |
| CHM | R | CHM |
| CPIO | R | cpio |
| CramFS | R | |
| DEB | R | |
| DMG | R | Apple Disk Image |
| ELF | R | ELF |
| FAT | R | FAT12, FAT32, IMA |
| FLV | R | FLV |
| GZIP | RW | gzip |
| HFS | R | HFS |
| ISO | R | ISO image, ISO 9660 |
| LZH | R | LHA |
| LZMA | R | LZMA_Alone |
| Mach-O | R | |
| MBR | R | MBR |
| MSI | R | Windows Installer |
| MSLZ | R | |
| NSIS | R | |
| NTFS | R | |
| PE executable | R | EXE |
| RAR | R | RAR |
| RPM | R | RPM |
| SquashFS | R | |
| SWF | R | SWF |
| TAR | RW | Tape Archive |
| UDF | R | ISO image, UDF |
| UEFI | R | |
| VHD | R | VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) |
| WIM | RW | Windows Imaging Format |
| XAR | R | xar |
| XZ | RW | XZ |
| Z | R | compress |
| ZIP | RW | ZIP |
