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Online help: http://peazip.sourceforge.net/peazip_help.pdf
Changelog: http://peazip.sourceforge.net/peazip.html
Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/peazip/
FAQ: http://peazip.sourceforge.net/faq.html

PeaZip is an OS-portable file archiver, acting as frontend for various open source archiving utilities (included in the distribution); it supports it's native PEA archive format and other mainstream formats, with especial focus on handling open formats, and can be used to split/join files.

PeaZip's UI aims giving aid to the user to:
edit, save and restore layout of archives (input files and folders list) to speed up definition of archiving and backup operations;
save job definition, as plain text, to be used in scripts or for learning purpose; 
have a detailed job log after each operation;

Browsing and selective partial extraction and listing of 7z-supported archives is implemented with two alternative mechanism: a navigational browser and an advanced filtering mechanism allowing multiple inclusion and exclusion filters.

PeaZip's most used functions are also available, in Windows installable version, from "SendTo" menu.

The interface is fully skinnable (skins can be customised and saved as plain text to be re-edited as freely as possible) and uses customisable transparency.

The program doesn't need to be installed/unistalled, it can run from any path (even remote; a writeable path is recommended).

Notes for developers:
PeaZip executables are developed to stay as platform independent as possible and are tested under Win32 and Linux (Linux version requires libgdk_pixbuf library), compiled using FPC/Lazarus.
PeaZip binaries and sources are released under GNU LGPL, all related documentation is released under GNU GFDL. 
PEA file format and PCOMPRESS specifications are hereby released under PUBLIC DOMAIN: the Author neither has, nor is aware of, any patents or pending patents relevant to this technology and do not intend to apply for any patents covering it. 
As far as the Author knows, PEA file format is free and unencumbered for all uses.

Special thanks goes to:
Wolfgang Ehrhardt who written and maintains a very good Delphi/Pascal crypto library, used in PeaZip and in PEA file format, you can find his works on: http://home.netsurf.de/wolfgang.ehrhardt/index.html please refer to Wolfgang Ehrhardt for all what concerns those units, (collected in "we"   path in PeaZip source package).
Igor Pavlov for providing under LGPL license his excellent 7-Zip archiver, used in PeaZip (as 7z console executable) to support most of mainstream file formats, along with Myspace, for developing and mantaining POSIX version of 7-Zip, p7zip.
Please refer to 7-Zip/p7zip Authors for all what concerns 7z binaries.
Matt Mahoney and all contributors to PAQ project, the most advanced experimental compressor available.
Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar and John F. Reiser for UPX executable compressor.
Ilia Muraviev for QUAD compressor.
All people on sci.crypt.* and comp.compression, for the useful answers and information provided during PEA format development.
Wikipedia, for the quality of the articles and links provided.
FreePascal and Lazarus teams, for developing and maintaining such a good development environment and related documentation.
Tango Desktop Project team, for releasing under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license many very nice looking icons, used in PeaZip Interface.