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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Examples

“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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