| A 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. |
