>         Item     Tool/Suite   Free   Website
>         ----     ----------   ----   -------
>         Winzip      tool       n    http://www.winzip.com/downwz.htm

Built-in support for zlib would be better of course. Anyway, I'd
suggest to restrict the above list to OSS.

See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_archivers

It should also be mentioned that many programming languages have
support for zlib in their standard library[1]. At least with ruby,
handling gz compressed files is rather trivial (see e.g. [2]). Maybe
vim's own gzip plugin could be augmented with methods that use
compiled-in ruby/python on windows? This would probably require that
users can express their preference in a global configuration variable,
e.g. g:gzip_method = "external" (= the current behaviour) | "ruby" |
"python" | ... Just an idea.


[1] http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/zlib/rdoc/index.html
http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/module-zlib.html
[2] http://github.com/tomtom/vimtlib/blob/master/ruby/vimball.rb
around line 420

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