PKZIP
<tool> A file
compression and archiver utility for
MS-DOS and
Microsoft Windows from
PKWARE, Inc..
PKZIP uses a variation on the sliding window compression
algorithm.
It comes with
pkunzip and
pklite and is available as
shareware from most FTP archives in a self-expanding
MS-DOS executable.
Current versions as of 1999-10-07: PKZIP 2.60 GUI for Microsoft Windows 3.1x,
Windows 9x,
Windows NT; PKZIP 2.50 Command Line for Windows 9x NT; PKZIP 2.04g for
MS-DOS; PKZIP 2.51 for
Unix, (
Linux,
SPARC Solaris,
Digital,
HP-UX, IBM AIX and
SCO Unix); PKZIP 2.50 for
OS/2; PKZIP for Open VMS/{VAX}.
WINZIP is a version with a GUI for
Microsoft Windows.
A distribution in about 1995-06-22 claiming to be "PKZIP 3" was actually a trojan horse which attempted to reformat the hard disk and delete all files on it.
Home (http://www.pkware.com/catalog/pkzip_win.html).
[Status, history of WINZIP, PKLITE?]
