Re: The term "zip"

On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:49:06 -0700, Evan Kirshenbaum <kirshenbaum@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Steve Hayes <hayesmstw@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Actually, it's an archive file format that can, I believe, use many
different compression methods. The one primarily used for Zip files
(and created by the creator of the Zip format) is called "DEFLATE".

The Wikipedia article implies that the name came from a reference to
the speed of the algorithm, but I had always understood it to come
from the image of "zipping" a bunch of files into an archive. (That
is, putting them into an archive and doing up the zipper.)

I think speed has something to do with it. Wasn't a Zip fastener called that
because it was quicker than doing up buttons?


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