Meaning of zip file | Babel Free

Definitions

A computer file containing the zipped (compressed) contents of one or more files; a kind of compressed archive.

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“To make⟳ that functionality available, you have⟳ to place⟳ a zip file⟳ containing the source in the top-level directory of the plug-in [...]”

“To e-mail a zip file⟳, you need⟳ to attach the zip file⟳ to an e-mail message.”

“Because zip is not just a compression format like⟳ deflation or gzip but an archival format, a single zip file⟳ often contains multiple [...]”

“However, pipes can't be used to read⟳ SAS data sets from a zip file⟳ in this way. Pipes are used with FILENAME [...]. There is a way to read⟳ and write⟳ SAS data sets that are stored in a zip file⟳.”

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