zip vt.
[primarily MS-DOS] To create a compressed archive
from a group of files using PKWare's PKZIP or a compatible
archiver. Its use is spreading now that portable implementations
of the algorithm have been written. Commonly used as follows:
"I'll zip it up and send it to you." See tar and feather.
[primarily MS-DOS] To create a compressed archive
from a group of files using PKWare's PKZIP or a compatible
archiver. Its use is spreading now that portable implementations
of the algorithm have been written. Commonly used as follows:
"I'll zip it up and send it to you." See tar and feather.
Related:
- zip: [primarily MS-DOS] vt. To create a compressed archive from a
group of files using PKWare's PKZIP or a compatible archiver.
Its use is spreading now that portable implementations... - tar and feather: [from UNIX `tar(1)'] vt. To create a
transportable archive from a group of files by first sticking them
together with `tar(1)' (the Tape ARchiver) and then
compressing the result (see {compress}).
The latter action is dubbed `feathering' partly... - tar and feather vi.
[from Unix tar(1)] To create a
transportable archive from a group of files by first sticking them
together with tar(1) (the Tape ARchiver) and then
compressing the result (see compress).
The latter action is dubbed `feathering' partly... - well-behaved adj.
1. [primarily MS-DOS] Said of
software conforming to system interface guidelines and standards.
Well-behaved software uses the operating system to... - ping
[from the submariners' term for a sonar pulse] 1.
n. Slang term for a small network message (ICMP... - inflate vt.
To decompress or puff a file. Rare among
Internet hackers,
used primarily by MS-DOS/Windows types... - Here's a floppy with a tar of a compressed cpio archive.
and they say Unix is hard to use... --... - DEC /dek/ n.
1. v. Verbal (and only rarely
written) shorthand for decrement,
i.e. `decrease by one'. Especially used by assembly... - spool: [from early IBM `Simultaneous Peripheral Operation
On-Line',
but this acronym is widely thought to have been contrived...
