What is a '7Z' file?

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What is a '7Z' file?

Post by :FI:Igor » Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:59 pm

Tried to install some more Squadron skins, but a few files have a '7Z' extention. What is it? How do I extract the contents?


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Post by :FI:Gurberly » Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:29 pm

Its the file extension for a file compression tool called 7Zip

You can download the extraction tool here.

http://www.7-zip.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Post by :FI:Falcon » Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:02 pm

Let us know if you have any troubles with 7Zip. If there are none then we can significantly reduce the space we use on Gurb's file server.

Most 50 skin ac files compress to 25-38 megs using rar or winzip. With 7zip the file has so far been closer to 8-13 megs.

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Post by :FI:Sneaky_Russian » Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:25 pm

I've had no problems extracting 7Zip with Winrar
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Post by :FI:Igor » Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:50 am

7Zip worked fine. Thanks.


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