Phil Katz
American software developer, developer of the ZIP file format (1962-2000)
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Lived 1962–2000, aged 38United States
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Phillip Walter Katz was a computer programmer best known as the co-creator of the ZIP file format for data compression, and the author of PKZIP, a program for creating zip files that ran under DOS.
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