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Unzip refers to the action of decompressing, expanding, inflating, etc. files that have been compressed by one of the many compression algorithms. Many systems have built-in compression/decompression utilities but not all, and no program will handle all formats. |
Unzip refers to the action of decompressing, expanding, inflating, etc. files that have been compressed by one of the many compression algorithms. Many systems have built-in compression/decompression utilities but not all, and no program will handle all formats. |
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== MS-Windows == |
== MS-Windows == |
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A good MS-Windows zip/unzip program is [http://www.7-zip.org/ 7Zip]. |
A good MS-Windows zip/unzip program is [http://www.7-zip.org/ 7Zip]. |
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Another option for decompressing image files is [http://www.bzip.org/downloads.html bzip2] |
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== General Information == |
== General Information == |
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Latest revision as of 18:14, 4 December 2007
Unzip refers to the action of decompressing, expanding, inflating, etc. files that have been compressed by one of the many compression algorithms. Many systems have built-in compression/decompression utilities but not all, and no program will handle all formats.
MS-Windows
A good MS-Windows zip/unzip program is 7Zip.
Another option for decompressing image files is bzip2
General Information
For a review of the technology, you may want to read Wikipedia's article on the subject and its