PKZIP is a file archiving computer program, notable for introducing the popular ZIP file format. PKZIP was first introduced for MS-DOS on the IBM-PC compatible...

originally created in 1989 and was first implemented in PKWARE, Inc.'s PKZIP utility, as a replacement for the previous ARC compression format by Thom...

co-creator of the ZIP file format for data compression, and the author of PKZIP, a program for creating zip files that ran under DOS. A copyright lawsuit...

PKARC. He released his own compression program, which he called PKZIP, in 1989. PKZIP was the first program to use the new ZIP file format, which Katz...

released in April 1991 as a Graphical User Interface (GUI) front-end for PKZIP. From version 6.0 until version 9.0, registered users could download the...

and Huffman coding. It was designed by Phil Katz, for version 2 of his PKZIP archiving tool. Deflate was later specified in RFC 1951 (1996). Katz also...

the portable archiver of the Info-ZIP and the tools compatible with the PKZIP archiver for MS-DOS. He worked on zlib in collaboration with Mark Adler...

widely used lossless compression algorithm originating from the program PKZIP Deflationary theory of truth Inflation (disambiguation), the antonym of...

Retrieved 2009-04-08. Arlen Walker. "Technical Specifications - PKZIP Server - PKWARE - server - pkzip - software". pkware.com. Archived from the original on 18...

where "PK" are the initials of Phil Katz, author of DOS compression utility PKZIP. Headers in 7z files begin with "7z" (full magic number: 37 7A BC AF 27 1C)...