This manual was written with the new user in mind. If any section is unclear to you, please respond to me via e-mail. Let me know what section, paragraph, and what it was that was unclear. For PC's, the most common standard for files is the archive. This is a binary file which allows a user to place several files into one, while compressing them to save space.
Several utilities exist for making and extracting files from archives.
The ZOO standard has been adopted for use in the UseNet newsgroup comp.binaries.ibm.pc for the distribution. This is accomplished using a program called 'uuencode', another fairly common standard. The file can then be decoded back into binary form using 'uudecode'. Once again, you will need a version of uudecode to properly handle these files. You will need some form of uudecode, either UNIX or MS-DOS, to decode the binaries.