Re: The Saltine's Disks Archived at Mac GUI Vault

[pitz <pitz.wong@gmail.com>]

I think WinZip was originally targeted for the PKZIP archive format.  Though WinZip proliferated, it was still Shareware and not free (as in free beer) so folks may have preferred to use a different archive format and tool.

Since a few years ago, very good free (and open source) archive tools have become available -- I've since dumped WinZip in favor of 7-Zip.

I, too, have encountered bzip since back in the early Unix systems, but it didn't gain popularity in the Windows/PC world.  And once the gzip format became available, Unix-based systems seem to have leaned towards tar.gz (tar/gzip) as the preferred archive format (being that tar has been there since the early days).