Those incredible shrinking files: compressing your files can save time and hard drive space.Do you ever download large files from the Internet or send them to friends and colleagues? If so, an archive file See archive. manager may shave precious minutes from the interminable in·ter·mi·na·ble adj. 1. Being or seeming to be without an end; endless. See Synonyms at continual. 2. Tiresomely long; tedious. in·ter amount of time it takes to move files from one system to another--especially via the Internet. Quarterdeck's Zip-It 4.0 lets you reduce the size of files by more than 50%, cutting transfer time and making large files easier to handle. Like other archiving utilities, Zip-It compresses files by analyzing and reconfiguring the data using as little information as possible. This smaller reconfigured file, commonly expressed with a ZIP extension, also contains instructions for recreating the compressed data once it has been transferred to the desired computer. Zip-It is more feature-rich than other archiving utilities such as PKZIP and PKUNZIP, the popular shareware Software on the "honor system." The concept is that users try a product, and if they like it, they voluntarily pay a set registration fee or make a donation to the program's creator. There are tens of thousands of shareware programs; some fantastic, some awful. programs (available freely on the Web at www.download.com) that are the de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, for compressing and extracting files on a PC. In addition to the usual archiving components, Zip-It contains a host of extras, including plug-ins for Netscape Navigator An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. and Microsoft Internet Explorer See Internet Explorer. browsers, which allow you to view and extract zipped files while surfing the Net. The program lets you compress or extract files with a single click, or by dragging the file to the Zip-It icon on the desktop. You can also view the contents of archived files before extracting them, giving you the option of unzipping only the files you need. Another useful feature is the software's ability tO create self-extracting ZIP files. A self-extracting ZIP file can be opened by anyone--whether they have a ZIP utility or not--just by double clicking on it. It allows people without an archiving utility tO benefit from I your foresight. Zip-It can even be used as a last resort backup tool. If you don't have backup hardware, just compress your important files and save them on a floppy disk. Price: $39.95. Available for Windows 3.x/95/NT4.0 Visit Quarterdeck's Web site at www.quarterdeck (Quarterdeck Corporation, Marina del Rey, CA) A pioneering software company, founded in 1983, that offered a variety of utilities, diagnostics, connectivity and Internet products for the PC and Macintosh. .com. |
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