A file format developed by Microsoft designed to allow formatting information to be retained when exchanging files among various word proccessing 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 availabe 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 extention.
WinZip is another, very popular, compresion utility for windows available from Nico Mak Computing, Inc . See tucows download page. Choose a directory in which to save the .ZIP file, perhaps a temporary directory for this purpose. Files generally have an .EXE extention and are PC executable files. Choose a directory in which to save the .EXE file, perhaps a temporary directory for this purpose.