ZIP is a very popular compression algorithm that comes in various different "dialects" and is being used in many applications.
On a Linux commandline
.zip
COMPRESS: zip FileName.zip DirName
UNCOMPRESS: unzip FileName.zip
.tar.gz
COMPRESS: tar zcvf FileName.tar.gz DirName
UNCOMPRESS: tar zxvf FileName.tar.gz
.tar.bz2
.tar.bz2
UNCOMPRESS: tar jxvf FileName.tar.bz2
COMPRESS: tar jcvf FileName.tar.bz2 DirName
others
gzip
gzip (GNU zip) is a compression utility designed to be a replacement for compress. Its main advantages over compress are much better compression and freedom from patented algorithms. It has been adopted by the GNU project and is now relatively popular on the Internet. gzip was written by Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@gzip.org), and Mark Adler for the decompression code.
gzip produces files with a .gz extension. gunzip can decompress files created by gzip, compress or pack. The detection of the input format is automatic.
The format of the .gz files generated by gzip is described in RFCs (Request For Comments) 1951 and 1952.
Also see: HowTo/UncompressFilesInLinux
7-Zip
7-Zip is a file archiver with high compression ratio.
7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL.
- Supported formats:
* Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR * Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM and DEB
- For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
- The 7-Zip home page
- [http://www.7-zip.org/download.html Download 7-Zip (available for Windows and Linux)
CamUnzip
Freeware Unzip Software for Windows.
WinZip
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Google Bundles Software with WinZip By Nate Mook, BetaNews June 14, 2005, 3:54 PM
In a marketing tactic used primarily by spyware and adware companies, Google has begun bundling its Google Toolbar and Desktop Search software with the popular WinZip archive utility. The move comes as Google begins to expand its bundling effort with a number of leading software applications.
WinZip quietly updated its download executable last week, which now weighs in at close to 4MB with the added Google tools. Users are given the opportunity to opt out of installing the Google software on the first WinZip setup screen; by default the tools are installed.
Product: WinZip Version: 10.0 the worst zip software EVER
Cons: everything
Posted:04-Dec-2005