WinZip

WinZip is one of WinZip Computing (formerly Nico Mak Computing ) software developed for the compression of data for the purpose of reducing memory footprint for their archival or transmission. WinZip is available both for the operating system Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. By default creates WinZip archives in ZIP format, but also supports several other archive formats.

History

WinZip 1.0, a front-end version of the written by Phil Katz compression program PKZIP, was released in April 1991 for the first time as Shareware for the graphical user interface ( GUI) of Windows. Previously, in January 1991, the company Nico Mak Computing a GUI frontend version 2 Presentation Manager had under the name PMZIP for the OS / published. Originally WinZip was published on CompuServe, but was soon on major online services such as GEnie, Prodigy and others.

As of 1993, standing ready for free download software was included among the top selling Windows tangible item, such as the Windows 3.0 book " Windows Secrets" by Brian Livingston on accompanying diskettes. 1994 WinZip had advanced at CompuServe for officially required compression tool.

As of version 5.0 in 1993, the makers of WinZip integrated the compression code from the Info-ZIP project, an open-source variant of the original PKZIP tools by Phil Katz, eliminating the need for the PKZIP running ability was abolished.

In May 2006, announced the Canadian technology company and software manufacturer Corel Corporation, known primarily for its WordPerfect and CorelDRAW product lines, the acquisition of WinZip Computing.

WinZip for Mac OS X was released in November 2010. This version works only with the operating system Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6. Since February 2012, an application for Apple iOS under the brand WinZip is available.

Functions

WinZip is available in Standard and Professional versions. However, the ability of Windows XP and later versions of Microsoft Windows to open ZIP files as a compressed folder and create the need for additional compression programs is limited.

  • Creation, supplementing - and extraction from ZIP archives.
  • Configurable Microsoft Windows Shell Integration
  • 128 - and 256 -bit AES encryption
  • Support for additional file formats: bzip2 (9.0 ), PPMd (10.0 ), WavPack ( 11.0), LHA / LZH (11.2), LZMA (12.0 ), 7z (12.0 )
  • Decompression. Bz2 and RAR files.
  • Support for ARC and ARJ archives if suitable external programs are installed
  • Direct writing of ZIP archives to CD and DVD
  • Decoding. B6. Hqx and. Uue formats
  • Automation of backup jobs
  • Built-in FTP uploading
  • E -mail ZIP archives
  • Unicode support to ensure the display international characters for filenames in a Zip file

WinZip add- ons

  • WinZip Courier: Automatically zipping all the files that are located in an attachment to an outgoing e -mail. Support for e- mail clients Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Gmail and Hotmail.
  • WinZip Self -Extractor: addition of self-extracting modules to ZIP archives.
  • WinZip Command Line Add- on: adding a command line to WinZip
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