Learn to say popular compressed archive file format names correctly.
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How is ZIP (widely used compressed archive file format) correctly pronounced?
ZIP is pronounced 'ZIP' — exactly like the everyday word for a fastener, one syllable. In a technical interview: "ZIP bundled the whole project into a single file, ready to attach to the email."
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How is TAR (Tape Archive, a Unix archive format that bundles files without compressing them) correctly pronounced?
TAR is pronounced 'TAHR' — one syllable, exactly like the road-paving material. In a technical interview: "TAR preserved every file's permissions and ownership, which the ZIP archive alone couldn't guarantee."
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How is Gzip (compression tool commonly paired with TAR to produce .tar.gz archives) correctly pronounced?
Gzip is pronounced 'GEE-zip' — the letter 'G' plus 'zip', not a soft 'juh' sound. In a technical interview: "Gzip shrank the tarball down to a fraction of its original size before we uploaded it."
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How is 7-Zip (free file archiver known for its high-compression .7z format) correctly pronounced?
7-Zip is pronounced 'SEV-un zip' — the number 'seven' read as a word, plus 'zip'. In a technical interview: "7-Zip compressed the disk image noticeably smaller than the standard ZIP format did."
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How is RAR (proprietary archive format known for strong compression and splitting large files) correctly pronounced?
RAR is pronounced 'RAHR' — one syllable, rhyming with 'car'. In a technical interview: "RAR split the multi-gigabyte backup into a dozen smaller volumes so it would fit on the file host's upload limit."