One or more files contained in a single compressed file for efficient downloading. Programs to decompress the files are widely available across platforms either as standalone utilities or as file manager or browser helpers. This and other programs to decompress the files are widely available. Files generally have a .ZIP extension. Choose a directory in which to save the .ZIP file, perhaps a temporary directory for this purpose.
Files generally have an .EXE extenuation and are PC executable files.
Choose a directory in which to save the .EXE file, perhaps a temporary directory for this purpose. Use your file management program to start the .EXE file. TAR files are then often compressed using the compress or gzip commands, with the resulting files having .TAR.GZ or TAR.Z extensions. Consult the MAN files for your UNIX system for the appropriate syntax for extracting data from a TAR file. These compressed files are comparable to ZIP files on the PC platform.