

You can download the latest version of the CAR or SAPCAR in the SAP Service Marketplace. So, you may want to download SAPCAR instead of CAR. This tool can still work wtih CAR files, but is able to work with the newer SAR files as well. As of 4.6C this tool was enhanced and then renamed to SAPCAR.EXE. This tool can compress ("car -cvf file.car. If you are having CAR or SAR files to decompress, you have to use this tool, as Winzip, Winrar, 7-Zip, Easyzip 2000 and so on are NOT compatible with these files. "sapcar -xvf file.sar" for decompressing the files. They are used for all SAP patches and deliveries, because this tool is available on any from SAP supported platform. These tools are similar and are having the same compression ratio. Usually 7-Zip compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format.Īnd 7-Zip compresses to zip format 2-10% better than other zip compatible programs.Īs SAP customer, you will know CAR (car.exe) or SAPCAR (sapcar.exe) as well. So, have really fun with this nice, tiny, free & very useful tool 7-Zip! " The GIMP 1.2.4 for Windows after full installation" Īs 7-Zip is a Source Forge Project you can benefit with a forum, bug reports and feature requests at 7-Zip's Source Forge Page.Īs example for the compression ratio we compared the following: Winrar - the famous tool for the rar files - would be charged again. Imagine, that it is one of the few tools only, that can even work with RAR files in opposite to Winzip. 7-Zip works in Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP.Self-extracting capability for 7z format.For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip.Supported formats: 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB.7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL.


ZIP tools were really a great innovation within the last 10 years. '7-Zip' - a totally free file archiver with highest compression ratio - far better than WinZip
