I don't know how old the hills are, but creating compressed files has been around for a very long time. I'll be using the two terms interchangeably.įor our readers who aren't aware of this feature, or who are new to the concept of file compression for storage and distribution. zip files that you can create by right-clicking on a file or folder and selecting the option to Compress it? In OS X Tiger and older system versions, the action was called Archive.
Do you ever create what in Mac-speak are Archive files? You know, the handy.
