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.

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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.

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File archiver: A file archiver combines a number of files together into one archive file, or a series of archive files, for easier transportation or storage. Many file archivers use lossless data compression in order to reduce the archive's size....

PKZIP: PKZIP is an archiving tool originally written by the late Phil Katz, and marketed by his company PKWARE, Inc. PKZIP is an acronym for Phil Katz's ZIP program....

Archive formats: REDIRECT Archive format...