• PKZIP is a file archiving computer program, notable for introducing the popular ZIP file format. PKZIP was first introduced for MS-DOS on the IBM-PC compatible...
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  • originally created in 1989 and was first implemented in PKWARE, Inc.'s PKZIP utility, as a replacement for the previous ARC compression format by Thom...
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  • PKARC. He released his own compression program, which he called PKZIP, in 1989. PKZIP was the first program to use the new ZIP file format, which Katz...
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  • Phil Katz (section PKZIP)
    co-creator of the ZIP file format for data compression, and the author of PKZIP, a program for creating zip files that ran under DOS. A copyright lawsuit...
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    released in April 1991 as a graphical user interface (GUI) front-end for PKZIP. From version 6.0 until version 9.0, registered users could download the...
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  • and Huffman coding. It was designed by Phil Katz, for version 2 of his PKZIP archiving tool. Deflate was later specified in RFC 1951 (1996). Katz also...
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  • widely used lossless compression algorithm originating from the program PKZIP Deflationary theory of truth Inflation (disambiguation), the antonym of...
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  • the portable archiver of the Info-ZIP and the tools compatible with the PKZIP archiver for MS-DOS. He worked on zlib in collaboration with Mark Adler...
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    Retrieved 2009-04-08. Arlen Walker. "Technical Specifications - PKZIP Server - PKWARE - server - pkzip - software". pkware.com. Archived from the original on 18...
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  • where "PK" are the initials of Phil Katz, author of DOS compression utility PKZIP. Headers in 7z files begin with "7z" (full magic number: 37 7A BC AF 27 1C)...
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  • Indian film actor and politician Phil Katz (1962–2000), creator of the PKZIP file compression software Philip K. Wrigley (1894–1977), American chewing...
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  • on x86_64 and ARM AES Extensions on AArch64. 7z Amanda Backup B1 PeaZip PKZIP RAR UltraISO WinZip Away RJN Cryptography uses Rijndael Algorithm (NIST...
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  • Interpreter Program), but the latter clashed with the widespread use of .zip for PKZIP-compatible archive files starting in the 1990s, after Activision closed...
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  • work (BL) Lossless TIFF/IT (1998, 2004) ISO 12639 Rare 80B216 Deflate, PKZIP variant (obsolete) Lossless Proprietary According to TIFF Specification...
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  • Compression on Dr. Dobbs Journal (October 1, 1989) Shrink, Reduce, and Implode: The Legacy Zip Compression Methods explains LZW and how it was used in PKZIP...
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  • files) extended COFF, used in AIX XEX – XEX is Xbox 360 executable .XPI – PKZIP archive that can be run by Mozilla web browsers to install software. XSD...
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  • FED-STD-1003, ITU-T V.42, ISO/IEC/IEEE 802-3 (Ethernet), SATA, MPEG-2, PKZIP, Gzip, Bzip2, POSIX cksum, PNG, ZMODEM, many others 0x04C11DB7 0xEDB88320...
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  • FUD-Spat: States Prepare to Ban Zip and PDF Files". Retrieved 2010-12-24. "PKZip Must Open Up". Retrieved 2010-12-24. Duff Johnson (2010-06-10), Is PDF an...
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  • (decompression only) TUGZip ZipGenius Commercial ARC ALZip Archive Utility ARJ BetterZip MacBinary PKZIP/SecureZIP PowerArchiver StuffIt WinAce WinRAR WinZip...
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  • Smith. It included support for the "unimploding" (method 6) introduced by PKZIP 1.01. George Sipe created Unix version. UnZip 2.0a (December 1989) was released...
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  • OS and Mac OS X platforms. It was designed to be highly compatible with PKZIP on MS-DOS machines, reading and writing those files as well as performing...
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    success of the IBM PC Norton Commander and XTree, file management utilities PKZIP, the utility that quickly became the standard in file compression ProComm...
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  • offer compression and archiving in a single program. Largely replaced by PKZIP. .arc, .cdx application/x-freearc FreeArc Windows, Linux Windows, Linux...
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    software through BBSes. A notable example was Phil Katz's PKARC (and later PKZIP, using the same ".zip" algorithm that WinZip and other popular archivers...
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    hardware, could be run. For example, although a console program such as PKZIP worked perfectly and offered more facilities than the CP/M-native ARC archiver...
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  • general-purpose compression systems. LZW is used in GIF images, programs such as PKZIP, and hardware devices such as modems. LZ methods use a table-based compression...
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    are often used as a "back-end" to other compression methods. Deflate (PKZIP's algorithm) and multimedia codecs such as JPEG and MP3 have a front-end...
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  • be decompressed with a 16-bit application such as the older versions of PKZIP for DOS systems. Instead, software such as a 32-bit DOS version of Info-ZIP...
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  • more hubs or hosts in compressed form (ARC was nominally standard, but PKZIP is universally supported); one toll call could then be made during off-peak...
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  • spanning utilities are available for nearly every OS and platform. Below are a few examples: PKZip/WinZip RAR/WinRAR PAR/Parchive split (Unix) File splitter...
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