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Encyclopedia: WinZip

WinZip is a file archiver and compressor for Microsoft Windows, developed by WinZip Computing (formerly Nico Mak Computing). It natively uses the PKZIP format but also has various levels of support for other archive formats.

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Decompression party

software Winzip where File Compression and Decompression are combined with drinking and revelry...

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7-Zip

LGPL licence. It is a competitor to the market-leading WinZip program, which is closed source. 7-Zip...

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Cyclic redundancy check

the CRC types is that used by (among others) Ethernet, FDDI, PKZIP, WinZip, and PNG. It uses the...

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Info-ZIP

Info-ZIP is an open source version of Phil Katz's "deflate" and "inflate" routines used in his popular file compression program, PKZIP. The free code released by the Info-ZIP project spawned a horde of PKZIP imitators (WinZip, Power Archiver, Turbozip, PowerZip and many more), establishing the...

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List of software

Publisher wget Winamp Wordperfect Wordweb Windows Media Player Windows Messenger WinRAR WinZip X-Chat...

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Phil Katz

PKZIP, allowing Nicosoft (makers of WinZip) to gain the larger usershare that it holds to this day...

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Patch (computing)

software. WinZip has a self-extraction utility that will launch a program that can apply a patch...

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Patch (computing)/Temp

RTPatch, which only delivers changes to the software. WinZip has a self-extraction utility that will...

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Bulletin board system

example was Phil Katz's PKARC (and later PKZIP, using the same algorithm that WinZip now uses); also...

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Lossless data compression

by PKZIP and WinZip, and the Unix programs bzip2, gzip and compress. Lossless compression is used...

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