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What does PK stand for?

Phil Katz (inventor of ZIP data compression)


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Samples in periodicals archive:
PKWares founder, the late Phil Katz, pioneered and popularized the data compression system commonly referred to as "zipping.
He was a great guy and a good friend," says Phil Katz, former vice president for statistical information at the USBA and the Beer Institute.
ZIP extension are compressed according to a formula developed by Phil Katz, a talented programmer and marketer who developed compression software called PKZIP in the late 1980s.
Tomorrow, it's a jazz jam led by Phil Katz from 7 to 11 p.
html About AppNote PKWARE founder Phil Katz first developed the ZIP data compression format and named the resulting solution PKZIP in 1989.
But as Phil Katz has told me many times, "We can't be next, because we were first.
Phil Katz introduced the ZIP file format and the first version of PKZIP in 1989.
Weinberg & Associates; Phil Katz and Raymond McGrath, vice president and president, respectively, of the Beer Institute.

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