Template talk:Compression Software Implementations

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[edit] Windows Compression utility

I noticed that the compression utility that comes with Windows isn't listed here. Is there a reason? :) Strawberry Island 19:15, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

It's non-notable. Plenty of applications have home-brewed zip support, Windows being one of them. I suppose if someone were to write something on Wikipedia about Windows's Compressed Folders feature we might be able to include it, but it's not a huge omission. Chris Cunningham 07:53, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Archivers are divided into rather arbitrary categories

Open source, proprietary, freeware and command line.

Command-line applications can be any or all of the other three groups, all of which themselves overlap (and the odd application might be in all four categories; it's not impossible). A better division might be proprietary versus free, or GUI versus command line. What's there now is neither informative nor easy to predict, and would be as usefully served as an uncategorized list. 82.163.145.48 (talk) 16:53, 2 January 2008 (UTC)