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ZIP

File format
ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. A ZIP file may contain one or more files or directories that may have been compressed. The ZIP file format permits a number of compression algorithms, though DEFLATE is the... Wikipedia
Inventor: Phil Katz
Developed by: PKWARE, Inc.
Initial release: 14 February 1989; 35 years ago
Latest release: 6.3.10; 1 November 2022; 17 months ago
Magic number: none; (empty); (spanned)
Standard: APPNOTE from PKWARE; ISO/IEC 21320-1:2015 (a subset of ZIP file format 6.3.3)