Info-ZIP

Info-ZIP is a command line based tool for compressing and archiving files for the operating systems DOS, Windows, OS / 2, Linux, Mac OS and Unix.

It originated in 1989 as an open- source version of the original PKZIP tools by Phil Katz. Disclosure of the ZIP file format has been made ​​possible by the published under a BSD license source code. Many programs that use the ZIP algorithm to use during the actual compression source code from Info-Zip. The current version is 3:00 (7 July 2008).