ZIP is a popular archive format
widely using in Internet. Like other archives, ZIP files are data containers,
they store one or several files in the compressed form. After you downloaded
ZIP file, you need to unpack its contents in order to use it. WinRAR provides
the complete support for ZIP files, so you may both create and unpack them. If
you installed WinRAR on your computer and downloaded ZIP file from Internet,
you may double click on ZIP file icon to open it in WinRAR, select all files,
press "Extract To" button, enter a destination path and press
"OK". Another way is to click on the ZIP file in Explorer using the
right mouse button. If you enabled "Shell integration" option when
installing WinRAR, the file context menu will contain "Extract to
..." item. The main advantage of ZIP format is its popularity. ZIP file
format was developed a long time ago and perhaps it is still the most known
archive type, so a large part of Internet archives are ZIP files. But many
important RAR format features
(recovery records, Unicode
names, strong AES
encryption, etc.) are missing in ZIP. RAR archives usually provide a noticeably
higher compression ratio than ZIP file format.
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