Glossary
PROMISLingua has a very innovative approach which requires a common understanding and a common nomenclature. The following section presents a list of specialist words and their definitions
- ZIP
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An open standard for compression and decompression used widely for PC download archives, ZIP was developed by Phil Katz for his DOS-based program PKZip, and it is is now widely used on Windows-based programs such as WinZip and Drag and Zip. The file extension given to ZIP files is .zip.
- Zip disk
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Portable storage disk that can hold 100 or 250 MB of information, manufactured by the Iomega corporation. Used in a Zip drive, Zip disks can archive or back up large amounts of data.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Zip drive
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An external data storage device that reads Zip disks.
Source: Learning Circuits
- Zip file
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1) A file that has been compressed, often with the .ZIP format originated by PKWARE.
2) A file on a Zip disk, not necessarily compressed.
3) A compressed file with the .EXE extension that is self-extracting (can be unzipped simply by opening it). Source: Learning Circuits
