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'''Eazel''' was a [[Windows]] compression program. It advertised support for its own format, with the extension ".eaz", which it heavily implied to be proprietary; however, this is actually just [[ZIP]], or, at any rate, a variant thereof which seems to be functionally indistinguishable when reading. At some point before version 3.01<ref>https://eazel.en.uptodown.com/windows/download</ref> (date unknown), "EAZ" was dropped, and the program itself seems to have become a frontend for [[7-Zip]] (more likely is that this occured upon the introduction of versions 2.0 or 3.0, in 2010-2011<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20111027233048/http://eazel.info/descarga.html</ref> or 2012<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20121110233613/http://eazel.info/descarga.html</ref>, respectively; however, no working copies of these seems to be available online<!-- Or they are, and I have not found them in my not-too-passionate search for information on this "format" which is in fact, as far as I can tell, ZIP with the extension changed-->); Eazel itself entirely stopped being updated in 2014<ref>E.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20190630153721/http://www.eazel.info/ - note the copyright date at the bottom</ref>.
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'''Eazel''' was a [[Windows]] compression program. It advertised support for its own format, with the extension ".eaz", which it heavily implied to be proprietary; however, this is actually just [[ZIP]], or, at any rate, a variant thereof which seems to be functionally indistinguishable when reading. At some point before version 3.01<ref>https://eazel.en.uptodown.com/windows/download</ref> (date unknown), "EAZ" was dropped, and the program itself seems to have become a frontend for [[7-Zip]] (more likely is that this occurred upon the introduction of versions 2.0 or 3.0, in 2010-2011<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20111027233048/http://eazel.info/descarga.html</ref> or 2012<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20121110233613/http://eazel.info/descarga.html</ref>, respectively; however, no working copies of these seems to be available online<!-- Or they are, and I have not found them in my not-too-passionate search for information on this "format" which is in fact, as far as I can tell, ZIP with the extension changed-->); Eazel itself entirely stopped being updated in 2014<ref>E.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20190630153721/http://www.eazel.info/ - note the copyright date at the bottom</ref>.
  
 
Eazel is capable of producing and opening self-extracting archives.
 
Eazel is capable of producing and opening self-extracting archives.
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Latest revision as of 19:13, 18 June 2020

File Format
Name Eazel
Ontology
Extension(s) .eaz
Released 2005?[1]

Eazel was a Windows compression program. It advertised support for its own format, with the extension ".eaz", which it heavily implied to be proprietary; however, this is actually just ZIP, or, at any rate, a variant thereof which seems to be functionally indistinguishable when reading. At some point before version 3.01[2] (date unknown), "EAZ" was dropped, and the program itself seems to have become a frontend for 7-Zip (more likely is that this occurred upon the introduction of versions 2.0 or 3.0, in 2010-2011[3] or 2012[4], respectively; however, no working copies of these seems to be available online); Eazel itself entirely stopped being updated in 2014[5].

Eazel is capable of producing and opening self-extracting archives.

[edit] Links

[edit] References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20060225012520/http://www.eazel.com/en/descarga.php is the download page for v. 1.0, and has a copyright year of 2005
  2. https://eazel.en.uptodown.com/windows/download
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20111027233048/http://eazel.info/descarga.html
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20121110233613/http://eazel.info/descarga.html
  5. E.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20190630153721/http://www.eazel.info/ - note the copyright date at the bottom
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