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

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

pitz <pitz.wong@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

WinZip is only one of dozens of archive programs that implement the .zip
format.

In the Windows world, and for the last decade in many other worlds, it has
become the most proliferated format.  (Of course, it had it's share of
"improvements" earlier.  ;-)

> 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).

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