How can I open a PC zipped file?
Most datafiles are compressed in zipped (.ZIP) or executable (.EXE) format.
If a user downloads the ZIP (PC) version of a dataset, software such as WINZIP or PKUNZIP (Windows)
Stuffit Expander or Zipit (Macintosh) may be used.
Executable (self-extracting) files are opened by clicking or double-clicking on the filename AFTER it
has been downloaded to the user's hard drive. The executable version of a downloadable dataset file
is not an application, it is simply a file that will extract the file contents of the EXE file.
The contents of a ZIP and an EXE file are identical.
