Info-ZIP project
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Info-ZIP is a set of open-source software to handle ZIP archives. It has been in circulation since 1989. It consists of 4 separately-installable packages: the Zip and UnZip command-line utilities; and WiZ and MacZip, which are graphical user interfaces for archiving programs in Microsoft Windows and classic Mac OS, respectively.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- software suite
- Field of work
- ZIP
- Developer
- Jean-Loup Gailly
- Official website
- infozip.sourceforge.net
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- derivative work
- zlib
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Features
- History
- UnZip
- Zip
- WiZ
- MacZip
- Forks and patches
- Official betas
- Replacements
- See also
- References
- External links
Info-ZIP is a set of open-source software to handle ZIP archives. It has been in circulation since 1989. It consists of 4 separately-installable packages: the Zip and UnZip command-line utilities; and WiZ and MacZip, which are graphical user interfaces for archiving programs in Microsoft Windows and classic Mac OS, respectively.
Info-ZIP's Zip and UnZip have been ported to dozens of computing platforms. The UnZip web page describes UnZip as "The Third Most Portable Program in the World", surpassed by Hello World, C-Kermit, and possibly the Linux kernel. The "zip" and "unzip" programs included with most Linux and Unix distributions are Info-ZIP's Zip and UnZip.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Info-ZIP project” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.