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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Gzip, Sharable Content Object Reference Model, Bzip2, Disk image, ARJ, Tar, List of archive formats, Comparison of archive formats, StuffIt, RPM Package Manager, Parchive, BagIt, MHTML, RAR, CFS, NRG, 7z, JAR file, MPQ, Apple Disk Image, BinHex, Windows Imaging Format, LHA, Listaller, FreeArc, Deb, ISO image, Cpio, Autopackage, WAR file format, Cabinet, Comic Book Archive file, MacBinary, Blorb, Direct Access Archive, IMG, AppleSingle and AppleDouble formats, Xz, SIS, ACE, Xar, Zoo, Webarchive, EGG, SQX, LBR, Disk Masher System, PAK, Disk Copy Fast, PK3, Web ARChive, DGCA, FCX file compression, Utz, QUAD, PK2, Service Archive, PK4. Excerpt: The ZIP file format is a data compression and archive format. A ZIP file contains one or more files that have been compressed, to reduce file size, or stored as is. The ZIP file format permits a number of compression algorithms. The format was originally created in 1989 by Phil Katz, and was first implemented in PKWARE's PKZIP utility, as a replacement for the previous ARC compression format by Thom Henderson. The ZIP format is now supported by many software utilities other than PKZIP (see List of file archivers). Microsoft has included built-in ZIP support (under the name "compressed folders") in versions of its Windows operating system since 1998. Apple has included built-in ZIP support in Mac OS X 10.3 and later, along with other compression formats. ZIP files generally use the file extensions ."zip" or ."ZIP" and the MIME media type application/zip, although the ZIP file format has also been used by many programs, usually under a different name. The name "zip" (meaning "speed") was suggested by Katz's friend, Robert Mahoney. They wanted to imply that their product would be faster than ARC and other compression formats of the time. The earliest known version of .ZIP File Forma...
