

Streamed archives, but recent changes in the zip file standard may facilitate better compatibility). (supporting most PKZIP features up to PKZIP version 4.6), and PKZIP and PKUNZIP can work with archives produced by zip (with some exceptions, notably


The zip and unzip(1L) programs can work with archives produced by PKZIP Is analogous to a combination of the Unix commands tar(1) and compress(1) and is compatible with PKZIP (Phil Katz's ZIP for MSDOS systems).Ī companion program ( unzip(1L)) unpacks zip archives. Zip is a compression and file packaging utility for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, Windows 9x/NT/XP, Minix, Atari, Macintosh, Amiga, and Acorn RISC OS. Some oldĬommand lines that depend on command line inconsistencies may no longer work. Note: Command line processing in zip has been changed to support long options and handle all options and arguments more consistently.
