Computer Famous words Meaning

Archive      Special file containing one or more files optionally
                 compressed and/or encrypted.
Compression  A method of encoding data to reduce it's size

CRC          Cyclic Redundancy Check. Mathematical method calculating
                 special checking information for data validity.

  SFX          Archive module used to extract files from when executed.
                 (SelF-eXtracting module), usually in the form of a .EXE
                 file.

  Solid        An archive packed using a special compression method which
                 sees all files as one continuous data stream. Particularly
                 advantageous when packing a large number of small files.

  Volume       Part of a split archive. Splitting an archive to volumes
                 allows storing them on several removable disks.
                 Solid volumes must be extracted starting from first
                 volume in sequence.