< tool > A file compression and archiver utility for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows from PKWARE, Inc. . PKZIP uses a variation on the sliding window compression algorithm . It comes with pkunzip and pklite and is available as shareware from most FTP archives in a self-expanding MS-DOS executable.
Current versions as of 1999-10-07: PKZIP 2.60 GUI for Microsoft Windows 3.1 x, Windows 9x , Windows NT ; PKZIP 2.50 Command Line for Windows 9x NT; PKZIP 2.04g for MS-DOS ; PKZIP 2.51 for Unix , ( Linux , SPARC Solaris , Digital , HP-UX , IBM AIX and SCO Unix); PKZIP 2.50 for OS/2 ; PKZIP for Open VMS / VAX .
WINZIP is a version with a GUI for Microsoft Windows .
A distribution in about 1995-06-22 claiming to be "PKZIP 3" was actually a trojan horse which attempted to reformat the hard disk and delete all files on it.
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(1999-01-16)