See zip file on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2003, David Gallardo, Ed Burnette, Robert McGovern, Eclipse in action: a guide for Java developers, page 244:",
"text": "To make that functionality available, you have to place a zip file containing the source in the top-level directory of the plug-in [...]",
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"ref": "2004, Alan Simpson, Alan Simpson's Windows XP Bible, page 505:",
"text": "To e-mail a zip file, you need to attach the zip file to an e-mail message.",
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"ref": "2006, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Java I/O:",
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"ref": "2006, Phil Mason, SAS tips and techniques from around the globe, page 269:",
"text": "However, pipes can't be used to read SAS data sets from a zip file in this way. Pipes are used with FILENAME [...]. There is a way to read and write SAS data sets that are stored in a zip file.",
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"sense": "a compressed computer file",
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