Author: fredoport | 19 November 2010 | Views: 5840
WinRK is a high performance, multi-format file archiver. WinRK supports all of the most common archive formats in use today, including ZIP, RAR, ACE, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ISO and the native RK format. The native RK format provides industry leading compression, encryption and analysis capabilities. WinRK’s ZIP support is fully compatible with both the Zip64 standard and the new WinZIP AES encryption standard. This means that ZIP files created with WinRK can take advantage of file and archive sizes of over 4GB, along with strong encryption capabilities. The ZIP deflate and deflate64 algorithms have been improved as well, providing 10-20% smaller archives in most cases, without loosing any compatibility!
WinRK also provides a new high performance RK archive format. This format was designed from the outset to remove many of the limitations of older archive formats, and so provides much better compression and security than other formats. It supports a virtually unlimited archive size, which makes it ideal for very large backups. It also provides compression options ranging from fast and efficient, all the way to a ‘spare no cost’ approach which provides the very best compression ratios in the world.
One of the most interesting innovations that WinRK brings to archiving is a unique modern user interface design. WinRK provides access to archives using a modify then apply paradigm, allowing many changes to be made to an archive in one single batch. This can be especially important for very large archives as it means that many normally prohibitively expensive individual changes can be made to to the archive in one single action. WinRK also places no arbitrary restrictions on modifying existing archives, unlike many existing popular archivers. This allows files to be added to, removed from, renamed or moved within an existing archive.
A new addition to WinRK is support for a Plugin API. This allows developers to extend WinRK by writing plugins to support different archive formats. Support is also provided for new compression algorithms to be plugged directly into the native WinRK format, allowing codec developers to leverage the full potential of the WinRK format with very little extra work.
