Brook Wood's All About Zip Files

Provided below is a "quick and dirty" guide to unzipping ZIP files with PKzip for Windows. This guide is designed to help novice ZIP file users quickly and easily extract the original files from a compressed ZIP file. Many useful programs, including computer utility programs, games, screen savers, and the like are distributed as ZIP files.

Using PKzip and PKunzip - The Basics

As you probably already know, the ZIP format is the most popular format for compressing files on an IBM PC. "Pkzip" is a DOS program that will compress files into a ZIP archive file, saving valuable disk space. If you intend to transfer the ZIP file by modem, you also save valuable on-line time. The companion program, pkunzip, will extract the original files from a ZIP file. Many files that are available for download on the internet are stored as ZIP files to minimize your download time.

PkZip Win95 Tutorial

This tutorial covers using PKZIP with Windows95. The tutorial is 23 pages and includes audio narration.

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