Zip

Provides classic zip compression (this flavor created by Info ZIP). Nice for cross-platform compatibility with Microsoft operating systems. Newer versions of zip include support for Unicode and encryption. These can be enabled or disabled at built time on Gentoo systems by their respective USE flags (see below).

The equal and opposite program to zip is unzip, which is included in a separate package.

Emerge
After adjusting USE flags:

Optionally  for unzip capabilities (see the unzip article for more information).

Configuration
zip does not include any configuration files.