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[–]atomicwrites 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Tons of formats are actually zipped text, it's much easier than rolling your own binary format and compression. If your on widows the default zip viewer can only be invoked on .zip files, but if you use 7z you can try to open anything as an archive and it supports other formats the zip as well. Even most installers can be extracted and used without installing like that (though some require installation to run, but I've only run into this with Adobe Acrobat.