File Extension ZIP was created by Phil Katz. Phil Katz was publicly technical documentation on the ZIP format in January 1989. And at the same time, Phil Katz launched the first version of PKZIP.

File Extension ZIP is quite simple; it compresses each file as separate. Compress each file independently of other compressed files can recover individual files without having to read the rest, which increases performance. The problem is that the result of grouping a large number of small files is always greater than grouping all the files and compress as one. The latter is the behavior, also known RAR compression algorithm. In practice, ZIP is almost always used is the algorithm of Phil Katz.

Over time, ZIP file have been including new features such as new methods of encryption. However, these new features are not supported by the most-used applications.

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