In this how-to, we’ll look at the zip command, a useful utility that enables us to specify lists of files, set a level of data compression and create compressed archives. Whilst you become accustomed ...

Panic mode activated – you’re sending an important folder of pictures via email but the files are too large to send. Or maybe it’s your computer storage that’s the issue, but you just can’t seem to ...

If you've ever wanted to create a .zip file from your application, the System.IO.Compression.GZipStream will let you do it, assuming that you're comfortable with your file being in the ...

I want to programmatically create compressed folders on a Windows 2003 Server. I have checked the ExportedFunctions for the C Windows\System32\zipfldr.dll with both Nirsoft's DLL Export Viewer and PE ...

To start using the Zstandard compression tool, you first need to install it on your Linux system. The installation process varies slightly depending on the Linux distribution you are using. Zstandard ...

A ZIP file is a compressed file that contains one or more other files. ALZip is a free utility that allows you to create and decompress ZIP files -- and not just ZIP files, but also ARJ, ISO, RAR, and ...

Large files are difficult to share via email or through any other media without first compressing them. Windows makes it easy to compress large files through a zip process. Alternative services also ...

Press OK to confirm the process. To create an RAR files directly from the WinRAR program, simply use the Add feature within the software. How to open a RAR file on Windows? Open the archive by ...

If your PDF is too large to be sent via email, or you simply want to reduce your file’s size, it’s easy to compress PDF files ...

In a world with finite storage and an infinite need for more storage space, data compression becomes a very necessary problem. Several algorithms for data compression may be more familiar – Huffman ...

Thanks to ever-growing hard-drive capacities and ever-faster network connections, compressing files isn’t quite the vital and frequent task it used to be. Still, it’s useful in certain situations; for ...

File compression on the Mac has been around since nearly as long has the line itself has. Here are our top picks for squeezing files down as small as they can go on macOS and iOS. In 1987 - just a few ...