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WinRK combines many standard archiving features with a new, powerful and feature filled GUI interface. Some of the features included are:

    * Powerful archiving interface using a modify apply paradigm.
    * Full support for several standard archive types, including ZIP, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, ISO and RAR (read-only).
    * Powerful native RK archive format providing many new features (see below).
    * Full internal unicode support, providing faithful reproduction of file and archive names on all unicode file systems.
    * Support for creating self extracting ZIP and RK archives for Win32, Win64 and WinCE platforms.
    * User interface localised to several different languages. Simple support for localisation to any unicode supported language.
    * Support for viewing CJK text even on European Windows versions.
    * Shell integration, including drag and drop and right click menu options and property pages for archives.

The native RK archive format provides the following features:

    * New, state of the art compression algorithms, providing the worlds best compression ratios (see Maximum Compression).
    * Intelligent analysis of file contents, allowing even better compression ratios for common data types.
    * Support for text dictionaries for English, German and Russian languages, improving compression ratios for text and document files using these languages.
    * Encryption with a choice of three different 128bit block ciphers - Square, Rijndael (AES) and Twofish.
    * Multiple volumes spanning essentially any number of volumes (max 2^31) and volume size.
    * 64bit file and archive sizes, allowing for arbitrarily large archives.
    * Essentially unlimited number of files in an archive (max 2^31).
    * Unicode file and path names.
    * Intelligent solid archiving, providing faster archive update speeds.
    * Full ability to modify and update solid archives, including adding, removing, renaming and moving files within the archive.
    * Plugin SDK supporting plugin archive handlers and third party codecs for the RK format.
    * Flexible multi-lingual SFX support, targeting several platforms.

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