Timeline for What is the difference between the "unzip" and "extract" tags?
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| Mar 11, 2012 at 18:32 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod |
I'd vote to close as duplicate of this if I could. Merging them sounds a lot like what Psycogeek would recommend: "Combining extract and zip or rar or tar makes unzip, unrar, and untar unnecessary!" Not sure where the cutoff should be. I don't think we need to act here.
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| Mar 11, 2012 at 18:18 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | Zip file doesn't refer to .zip files in a particular way. :) | |
| Mar 11, 2012 at 18:16 | comment | added | avpaderno | Unzip doesn't refer to .zip files in a particular way: "Computing decompress (a file) that has previously been compressed." It is like google, which doesn't necessary means "searching with Google." | |
| Mar 11, 2012 at 18:10 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | I would think [extract] is more generic, while [unzip] refers explicitly to taking something out of a zip file. For [extract] you can have a question like extracting frames from a video and such kind of problems. | |
| Mar 11, 2012 at 17:57 | history | asked | avpaderno | CC BY-SA 3.0 |