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Compressed Files

Several resources on this site are available for download in a compressed format. The compression is the standard ZIP format which both groups collections of files and shrinks their size. To be used after download, the files must be extracted from their ZIP collection.

Many software tools are available to extract these files. These tools allow the user to view the contents of ZIP collections, extract those contents, and create new collections. WinZip is one such tool -- a free evaluation version of the software can be downloaded from the WinZip site

The Windows XP operating system already has ZIP compression tools built into its directory management software. XP users need no additional tools to deal with the download files.

Users of non-Windows systems will need to use a compression tool that can handle the ZIP format, or filter the download through a Windows machine.