TurboPower's Abbrevia allows your applications to handle various industry standard compression and archiving methods - PKZIP (including PKZIP4), Microsoft CAB, tar, and gzip. There are CLX, VCL and COM components, allowing you to use it with Delphi (Windows), Kylix (Linux), C++Builder and any tool that can interface with COM objects (such as Microsoft Visual Basic, etc). The components also support ZIP files that span multiple archive files, self-extracting ZIP files, comments in ZIP files, integrity checks on ZIP files, etc.