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Description: A .ZIP file typically contains one or more files that have been compressed. This format created in 1989 by Phil Katz was first used in PKWARE, Inc.'s PKZIP utility instead of the previous ARC compression format by Thom Henderson.

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ZIP is an archive format of a file. It ensures lossless data compression through a variety of compression algorithms, though DEFLATE is the most widely used. A .ZIP file typically contains one or more files that have been compressed. This format created in 1989 by Phil Katz was first used in PKWARE, Inc.'s PKZIP utility instead of the previous ARC compression format by Thom Henderson. Currently many software utilities support the .ZIP format. For example, versions of Microsoft Windows have had built-in .ZIP

.ZIP files typically use the file extensions ".zip" or ".ZIP". When searching a file system, users will spot graphical icons representing .ZIP files

Phil Katz of PKWARE created the .ZIP file format after Systems Enhancement Associates (SEA) sued his company for using the archiving products that were derivatives of SEA's ARC archiving system. The name "zip" which means "move at high speed" was introduced by Robert Mahoney, Katz's friend. This name implies that the new product would be much faster than ARC or any other compression formats that existed at that time. The first version of .ZIP File Format Specification was part of PKZIP 0.9 package under the

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