Oh, and you can probably blame me for bz2.
Why bz2? It's open and patent-free. It compresses better than zip, and has fast decompression. It's not ubiquitous like zip, but is widely used.
After a minute of searching, here are some GUI windows compressors that support bz2 (I haven't tried any of them, but they're certainly out there):
http://www.quickzip.org/ http://www.menonsoft.com/products.htm http://www.zipgenius.it/index_eng.htm http://www.tugzip.com/
-b
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