Info-ZIP
| Developer(s) | Info-ZIP |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 3.0 / July 7, 2008 |
| Preview release | 3.1b / April 9, 2009 |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | data compression |
| License | BSD license |
| Website | www.info-zip.org |
| Developer(s) | Info-ZIP |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 6.0 / April 29, 2009 |
| Preview release | N/A / N/A |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | data decompression |
| License | BSD license |
| Website | www.info-zip.org |
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 under a BSD license spawned a horde of PKZIP imitators (WinZip, PicoZip, PowerArchiver, Turbozip, PowerZip and many more), establishing the PKZIP file format as a de facto industry standard.
The first version of what would become Info-ZIP was published by Samuel Smith in March 1989, complete with the source code in both Pascal and C forms. In September he released 2.0, including support for the new IMPLODE method that had been added to PKZIP 1.01. A port to Unix was released by Carl Mascott and John Cowan in December.
In March 1990 a number of interested parties set up a mail list on a disused DEC-20 mainframe at the White Sands Missile Range, agreeing to form a group to clean up the code and make it officially public. In May the first version of this code was released, as Info-ZIP 3.0.
In 1994 and 1995 Info-ZIP turned a corner, and effectively became the de facto ZIP program. A huge number of ports were released that year, including numerous minicomputers, mainframes and practically every microcomputer ever developed. All the while the software had continued to add support for newer compression systems being added to PKZIP, eventually this happened so quickly that there was no reason to use PKZIP. It was also in 1995 that the principal maintainers began working heavily on the PNG format, and changes to Info-ZIP slowed.
In addition to its command-line "Zip" and "UnZip" programs, Info-ZIP also produces a GUI frontends for Windows and Classic Mac OS called "WiZ" and "MacZip", respectively.
The "zip" and "unzip" programs included with most Linux and Unix distributions are Info-ZIP's Zip and Unzip programs.
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