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ZIP files generally use the file extensions.zip or .ZIP and the MIME media type application/zip. [1] ZIP is used as a base file format by many programs, usually under a different name. When navigating a file system via a user interface, graphical icons representing ZIP files often appear as a document or other object prominently featuring a zipper.
Express Zip File Compression Software is a file compression and archiving software program developed by NCH Software for Windows and Mac OS first released in 2010. [1] It offers the ability to open, manage, archive, extract, and compress digital documents into .zip, .tar, .tgz, .wim, .arj, and .lzh as well as additional archive formats. [2]
7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver, a utility used to place groups of files within compressed containers known as "archives". It is developed by Igor Pavlov and was first released in 1999. [2] 7-Zip has its own archive format called 7z introduced in 2001, [12] but can read and write several others.
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.
File archivers Developer Initial release Platform Latest release version Latest release date Status License Cost 7-Zip: Igor Pavlov 1999-01-02 Cross-platform 24.09 [1] 2024-11-29 Active LGPL-2.1-or-later (RAR plugin is proprietary) No cost ALZip: ESTsoft: 1999 [a] Cross-platform 12.22 [2] 2024-02-07 Active Proprietary No cost [b] Archive Manager
WinZip 1.0 was released in April 1991 as a graphical user interface (GUI) front-end for PKZIP. [5]Former WinZip icon. From version 6.0 until version 9.0, registered users could download the newest versions of the software, enter their original registration information or install over the top of their existing registered version, and thereby obtain a free upgrade.
It can create and view archives in RAR or ZIP file formats, [6] and unpack numerous archive file formats. To enable the user to test the integrity of archives, WinRAR embeds CRC32 or BLAKE2 checksums for each file in each archive. WinRAR supports creating encrypted, multi-part and self-extracting archives. WinRAR is a Windows-only program.
bzip2 is a free and open-source file compression program that uses the Burrows–Wheeler algorithm.It only compresses single files and is not a file archiver.It relies on separate external utilities such as tar for tasks such as handling multiple files, and other tools for encryption, and archive splitting.