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- Understanding ZIP Files
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- You may notice that most files available for download on this BBS have
- a .ZIP extension on the filename. ZIP files serve mainly two purposes:
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- 1. You can "zip up" many files into a single ZIP file, which
- is easier to upload and download than all the files one by
- one.
- 2. The files are compressed when they're zipped up, so the ZIP
- file takes up less space on your hard drive and because of
- this reduction in size it takes less time to upload and
- download.
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- To zip and unzip ZIP archives, you will need two programs - PKUnzip and
- PKZip. Download the file PKZ204G.EXE. Run it and it'll extract PKUnzip,
- PKZip, some documentation, and a couple other useful utilities.
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- To un-ZIP files from a ZIP archive:
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- Say you downloaded a file called REALCOOL.ZIP. To extract the files
- from it, at the DOS prompt you would type in:
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- pkunzip realcool.zip
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- It would then extract the files contained in REALCOOL.ZIP into the
- current directory.
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- To ZIP-up files into a ZIP archive:
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- Say you want to zip WOW.TXT, NEAT.WAV, and COOL.EXE into a new ZIP
- called MYFILE.ZIP. At the DOS prompt you would type in:
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- pkzip myfile.zip wow.txt neat.wav cool.exe
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- The above are only very basic examples of the capability of PKZip and
- PKUnzip.
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