WinZip

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name = WinZip

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WinZip is a commercial file archiver designed for Microsoft Windows users, developed by WinZip Computing (formerly known as Nico Mak Computing). It uses PKWARE's PKZIP format, and can also handle a number of other archive formats. It is a commercial product with a free evaluation version.

Related Topics:
File archiver - Microsoft Windows - PKZIP - Archive formats

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WinZip began life around the early 1990s as a shareware GUI frontend for PKZIP. Somewhere around 1996 the creators of WinZip incorporated compression code from the Info-ZIP project, thus dispensing with the need for the PKZIP executable to be present.

Related Topics:
1990s - GUI - 1996 - Info-ZIP - Executable

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