


Zip files can span multiple disks and provide both compression and file grouping. Zip files are the most common archive format.WinZip Self-Extractor Personal Edition, included with WinZip, creates Windows self-extracting Zip files. This is convenient because the end user does not need an unzip program (like WinZip ®) to unzip files from these self-extracting archives.
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Users can unzip the contents of a self-extracting Zip file by simply running it. To save disk space simply compress these files into an archive when they are not used and decompress them only when needed.Ī self-extracting Zip file is an executable program file (.EXE file) that includes both a Zip file and software to unzip or "extract" the contents of the Zip file.

Many files available for downloading from the Internet are distributed as archives.Archives make it easier to group files and make downloading and copying these files faster. Archives have various extensions (name endings), such as ZIP, ZIPX, LZH, LHA, GZ, or CAB, depending on how they were created. Typically the files in an archive are compressed. Archives are files that contain other files. Zip files are the most common archive type of file.
