KGB Archiver

KGB Archiver is a discontinued file archiver and data compression utility that employs the PAQ6 compression algorithm.[2] Written in Visual C++ by Tomasz Pawlak, KGB Archiver is designed to achieve a very high compression ratio. It has ten levels of compression, from very weak to maximum. However, at higher compression levels, the time required to compress a file increases significantly.[3] As a consequence, the program uses memory and CPU intensively.

KGB Archiver
Screenshot of KGB Archiver 2.0 beta 2
Developer(s)Tomasz Pawlak
Initial releaseApril 2006 (2006-04)
Final release
1.2.1.24 / November 1, 2006 (2006-11-01)
Preview release
2.0 beta 2 / October 7, 2007 (2007-10-07)
RepositoryKGB Archiver Repository
Written inVisual C++
Operating systemWindows, Unix-like
Available inEnglish, Arabic, Czech, German, Greek, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, and Ukrainian[1]
TypeFile archiver
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websitesourceforge.net/projects/kgbarchiver/ 

KGB Archiver is free and open-source, released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Version 2 beta 2 is available for Microsoft Windows[3][2] and a command-line version of KGB Archiver 1.0 is available for Unix-like operating systems.

Features

System requirements

The minimum requirements for running KGB Archiver are:[3][4][5]

  • 1.5 GHz processor
  • 256 MB RAM
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See also

References
  1. "Compress 1 GB to 10 MB : KGB Archiver". Cshared. Archived from the original on 2010-05-22. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
  2. "Обзор небольших утилит. Август 2008" [Overview of small utilities. August 2008.]. iXBT.com (in Russian). August 2008.
  3. Nitu, Cosmin (26 May 2006). "Great Compression Solution!". Softpedia. SoftNews NET.
  4. ""KGB Archiver" - Software Informer". Kgb-archiver.software.informer.com. 2009-04-01. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
  5. "Kgb Archiver – The Most Powerful Compression Tool". Genius Hackers. 2008-06-17. Retrieved 2010-05-19.


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