Winzip 8.1, showing the contents of a zip file
is a
compression utility 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.
WinZip is also capable of running under WINE on Linux and other Unix-compatible systems.
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
See also
External link
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