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  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  PKZIP 
 
    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 
 
  {Home  (http://www.pkware.com/catalog/pkzip_win.html)}. 
 
  [Status,  history  of  WINZIP,  PKLITE?] 
 
  (1999-01-16) 
 
 

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