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Also known as: .zip
The general-purpose archive format, common for software and small file collections but rare for large Usenet releases. Standard ZIP has no multi-volume convention as reliable as RAR's, and no built-in recovery record, so posters preferred RAR for anything split across many articles. ZIP still shows up inside releases for subtitles, sample clips, and documentation bundled with the main archive.
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