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way to store a file or program that is too big for
its own good, or for email, for that matter. You can
make a file smaller by zipping it, sending it to
your friends, and letting them unzip it on their
computer to bring it back to full size. You can
identify a zipped file because its address will end
in .zip. You can download winZIP
here.
Zipping is
the act of packaging a set of files into a single
file or archive that is called a zip file. Usually,
the files in a zip file are compressed so that they
take up less space in storage or take less time to
send to someone. There are several popular tools
that can be used for zipping files: PKZIP for the
DOS operating system, WinZip and Netzip for Windows,
MacZip for Macintosh users, and Zip and UnZip for
UNIX systems. The result of zipping is a single file
with a ".zip" suffix. After you receive a
zip file, you may have to extract and decompress the
file by using the same kind of tool that was used to
zip the original file.
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