The FreeDOS Project on Nostr: nprofile1q…5m2ru Back in the day, pkzip was _the_ archive tool. It overtook LHARC ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpquhnx67vlf04mwtt7qrjyx47gpmtf3twz4nrfmx9lspw6rrv5gkhss5m2ru (nprofile…m2ru) Back in the day, pkzip was _the_ archive tool. It overtook LHARC and other archivers because the zip file format was open, you didn't have to buy a license to make zip files.

The InfoZip project started in 1989 (actually 1990— see the history in Wikipedia) to make an open source zip/unzip.

We've used InfoZip and zip files for FreeDOS packages since the beginning of FreeDOS (1994).