How To Download

Downloading is the process of transferring a file from a remote computer to your computer. There are two different ways of downloading.

Files that you download will be one of three types: Executable, Compressed, and Data.

Executable files can be run as soon as they are downloaded. Executable files that you download will usually be some sort of installation program. Once the installation program is run the file that you downloaded will probably no longer be needed. Executable files have an extension of .exe or .com.

Compressed files are files that actually contain many other files and are encoded in such a way as to reduce their overall size. Compressed files will need some sort of program to uncompress them. A compressed file may contain executables or data files. The most common type of compression is ZIP compression. Files compressed in the ZIP format will have a .zip extension. Winzip is a popular program for decompressing zipped files, you can download it here.

Data files, i.e. text files(.txt), pictures (.gif and .jpg), music (.wav and .mp3), etc... need some other type of program in order to be useful. In some cases this program may also need to be downloaded. In other cases you may already have the program on your computer. As an example, text files can be viewed with the program Notepad which comes with Windows 95

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