Talk:KGB Archiver

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KGB is basically a PAQ6 clone. In fact KGB is PAQ6v2 with a GUI created on top of it. Unfortunately the author of KGB doesn't respect the GPL license of PAQ6 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAQ).

Should we remove KGB Archiver from Wiki as it clearly violated the GPL?.

No. Renegadeviking 2:52PM 10/11/06

I used 1.2.1.24 and it is under GPL, so as for I can see there should be no license issues.

First, Neither you using KGB Archiver or KJB claiming to be under GPL says anything about whether KGB Archiver violates the GPL. Second, the article on PAQ has no citation establishing that KGB Archiver violates the GPL. Third, you don't delete an article to punish someone for alleged GPL violations. You document the violation from a reputable source and put it in the article. 72.251.90.20 (talk) 09:15, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

PAQ8 KGB Archiver?

Is there a graphical front end for PAQ8 yet? Renegadeviking 2:52PM 10/11/06

PeaZip is a graphical frontend for Matt Mahoney's PAQ8F and Bill Pettis's PAQ8JD; you can create, browse and extract archives in those two PAQ8 formats. The original PAQ executables used doesn't support additional features, like encryption (that is instead integrated in KGB Archiver), solid archiving or volume spanning, which however you can perform in a second pass using another PeaZip supported format with those features, like split, PEA or 7Z.

THE BEST COMPRESSION TOOL EVER! -- Walt e r Humala - Emperor of West Wikipedia|wanna Talk? 02:49, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know is KGB Archiver PAQ spinoff or not, but I find it very useful tool and I think Wikipedia should have article about it. Imagine if many years ago Wikipedia have deleted article about Winamp or DC++ because of lack of notability. Lets wait and see how KGB Archiver develops. DasReboot (talk) 21:01, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arguments_to_avoid_in_deletion_discussions#Crystal_ball 72.251.90.20 (talk) 09:15, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete

Abandoned, not notable, buggy, not useful. 84.75.167.143 (talk) 09:28, 28 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Abandoned, buggy, and not useful are not reasons for deletion. MS-DOS is abandoned. WinME is buggy. May programs are not useful to many people.

Not being notable is reason for deletion, and KGB Archiver is not notable. It is not included in most "test all archivers against each other" websites, and if it really is based upon PAQ version 6, the world has moved on to using PAQ version 8. Delete it. 72.251.90.20 (talk) 09:15, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is, however, one Hell of a compression archiver! I'm thinking of buying a Mac Pro, Boot Camping it to Windows 7 Ultimate, and maxxing out the RAM, just to run KGB non-stop for my petabytes of data that I need to backup. One experiment took a 1.1 MB file and compressed it to 101 KB. That's great! (I used Digital 8 tape backup from Coolatoola to hold 17 GB per tape.) Still, my personal expriences have nothing to do with the article, and I suggest that, other than ZIP, RAR, SIT, and a few other mainstream compression formats, or maybe all compression formats, should be rewritten in a very long, but accurate, article. Just a thought. Apple8800 (talk) 16:58, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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