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Also known as: 7z, .7z, 7zip
An open-source archiver and its .7z format, offering stronger compression than RAR and multi-volume output as .7z.001, .7z.002 and upward. The Windows tool also unpacks RAR and ZIP, so it serves as a general extractor for downloaded material. Some posters use .7z for text-heavy or source-code releases; video releases still overwhelmingly use RAR, largely by long-standing convention.
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