A file format developed by Microsoft designed to allow formatting information to be retained when exchanging files among various word processing and other applications. For example, a word processing file saved as .RTF may be opened by other word processors and even on other platforms. 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.