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3 unusual facts about PKZIP


Jean-Loup Gailly

He wrote the compression code of the portable archiver of the Info-ZIP and the tools compatible with the PKZIP archiver for MS-DOS.

NetWare

Phil Katz noticed the problem and added a switch to his PKZIP suite of programs to enable 32-bit register use only when the NetWare TSRs were not present.

University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee College of Engineering and Applied Science

Phil Katz ('84, BS Computer Science), a computer programmer best known as the author of PKZIP.


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