On Oct 10, 2006, at 9:11 PM, Duane Murphy wrote: You don't need a program with Zip any longer. It's built into Mac OS X (Tiger). Press control and click on a file or folder and one of the selections is "Create Archive of ...". This will zip the file or folder. Double clicking on a zip file will automatically extract the files also. ...Duane ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ So that's what an archive is. I wondered. Carol