Re: peazip portable archive

> 7-Zip is available in portable version, you loose the handy context menu
> option. Does PeaZip have any advantage in portable version over 7-Zip?

Hi, I'm the author of PeaZip, thank you for taking interest in this
software!
I don't want to convince anyone to switch from 7-zip, a mature and very
good open source software, to PeaZip (that uses some 7-zip's open
source technologies too), however I belive that PeaZip is an
interesting software with some good features that I'll try to explain,
hoping that it may be interesting and that it may worth enough to gain
an user base that want something different form many other file
archivers.
Moreover I hope it may help 7z format diffìusion in Linux environment,
where actually the support to 7z is not so straightforward as in
Windows.

The most evident difference is that PeaZip has a different user
interface, not Explorer-like; that interface is ported almost
identically in Linux version of PeaZip, that uses Myspace's p7zip port
of 7za to support the same formats supported by 7-zip in POSIX
environments.
That style of interface has advantages and divantages over the
Explorer-like interface, as for advantages IMHO it makes simpler to
save and restore layout of archives (as list of files and folders to be
archived), save job definition and detailed job log.
As for context menu, I'm planning to add more handy options to PeaZip
in next releases, I totally agree in thinking that context menu options
are a factor that really improve the usability of a software.

Another unique feature in PeaZip is that it supports it's native Pea
archive format (implementation is under LGPL, format specifications are
under public domain, I don't like very much closed source software nor
proprietary file formats) that is a security oriented archive format
with fast (Zip/GZip like) compression.
I know that people tend to use more what they know and trust more
rather than new things that make claims of this and that, so maybe Pea
file format is not, at the moment, a key factor for use the software
(however, you can stay on 7z, zip, tar with PeaZip, form Options panel
you may choose the default format), but I think Pea is quite an
interesting format, allowing flexible integrity checks and
authenticated encryption (AES in EAX mode) and optional two factor
(keyfile/password) authentication.

Documentation, sources (FreePascal, LGPL) and latest releases are on
http://sourceforge.net/projects/peazip/
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