Quake 3 assets are contained in ".pk3" files, which are actually just zip archives with a different file extension. And all of the features available for zip archives (except for encryption) are now also available for pk3 files - this is especially nice in the case of File Manager functionality, affecting several parts ranging from just being an option in various menus all the way to optional association with the pk3 file extension and Windows Explorer context menu integration. However now you can also use it to read, update, and create Quake Live pk3 files. That is still possible with this modified version of 7-Zip.
More specifically: 7-Zip could previously manage reading and updating Quake 3 pk3 files, and you could create a Quake 3 pk3 file by making a zip archive and then changing its extension. It has all of the functionality of the 7-Zip toolset additionally, it supports operations on pk3 files, including encoded Quake Live pk3s. This set of utilities is based on 7-Zip 9.20. This set of utilities is now only useful if for some reason you need to open an encoded pk3 from the old version of Quake Live. Note that Quake Live has changed its pk3 format and no longer encodes the archive as with Quake 3, the Quake Live pk3 files are now just zip archives with a different extension.
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