

PKZIP was the first program to use the new ZIP file format, which Katz developed in conjunction with Gary Conway and subsequently released into the public domain. He released his own compression program, which he called PKZIP, in 1989. įollowing a legal settlement with Systems Enhancement Associates Inc., the owners of ARC, Katz stopped distributing PKARC. PKARC represented a radical improvement over existing compression software (including the ARC utility, on which it was based) and rapidly gained popularity among individuals and corporations. PKWARE was founded in 1986 by Phil Katz, a software developer who had begun distributing a new file compression utility, called PKARC, as shareware. History Compression software (1986–2000)


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