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Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip!

"Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip" is a ragtime song published as sheet music in 1918 by Leo Feist Inc. of New York City. It was one of the most popular tunes with United States soldiers during the World War I era. According to the sheet music, it was "written around a Fort Niagara fragment" by Robert Lloyd, "Army song leader." In 1918, both Victor Records (VI18510) and Columbia Records (A-2530) issued a recording of the song by Arthur Fields and the Peerless Quartet. Lyric: We come from ev'ry quarter,
From North, South, East and West,
To clear the way to freedom
For the land we love the best.
We've left our occupations
and home, so far and dear,
But when the going's rather rough,
We raise this song in cheer:
chorus: repeat twice
Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip,
With your hair cut just as short as mine,
Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip,
You're surely looking fine!
Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust,
If the Camels don't get you,
The Fatimas must,
Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip,
With your hair cut just as short as,
your hair cut just as short as,
your hair cut just as short as mine.
You see them on the highway,
You meet them down the pike,
In olive drab and khaki
Are soldiers on the hike;
And as the column passes,
The word goes down the line,
Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip,
You're surely looking fine. repeat chorus twice The reference to "Camels" and "Fatimas" (fa-tee'-mas) are references to popular cigarettes of the time. (Decades later, Fatimas was later a sponsor of the radio version of Dragnet.) Category:1918 songs

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ZIP

ZIP is an abbreviation of:

USPS zoning improvement plan, better known as ZIP Code

zig-zag in-line package, a type of electronic packaging

Zone Information Protocol - implementation of an OSI model layer

Zooming Interface Paradigm, an alternate computer interface design paradigm See also:

ZIP file format

Zip drive -- disk format popularised by Iomega in the late 1990s

zipper -- device for temporarily joining two edges of fabric together

Zip the Pinhead -- circus freak show performer

Zip (airline) -- a defunct Canadian discount airline.

Zip is also slang for zero. de:ZIP he:ZIP it:ZIP ja:ZIP sl:ZIP sv:Zip

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7-Zip

7-Zip is an open source file archiver predominantly for the Microsoft Windows operating system. It operates either as a command line program or with a graphical user interface. It also features integration with the Windows shell environment. 7-Zip is free software, distributed under the GNU LGPL license. Several attempts over the last 2 years have been made to port this onto Linux and one such example is http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/ p7zip. The spring 2005 release of KDE will officially be the first Unix desktop environment to support 7-Zip. It is a competitor to the market-leading WinZip and WinRAR programs, both of which are closed source. The latest version is 4.20, released on May 30th, 2005.

Supported formats

7-Zip introduced the flexible 7z file format, but it also supports a number of other compressed and uncompressed archive file formats, including zip, Microsoft cabinet (cab) files, rar, arj, gzip, bzip2, tar, cpio, rpm, and Debian deb archives. Due to legal issues, the ace format is not supported anymore. 7-Zip is also able to create self-extracting archive files when used with the 7z format.

7-Zip compression algorithms

By default, the program creates files in the 7z archive format (with the file extension .7z) using the LZMA algorithm for compression. These defaults allow the program to achieve the highest compression ratio compared to other popular high compression formats such as ACE and RAR which are based on older, proprietary algorithms. Such files have the MIME-type application/x-7z-compressed. For ZIP and gzip files, 7-Zip uses a modified implementation of the DEFLATE algorithm that is tuned for higher compression levels at the expense of speed. This implementation is also used in the AdvanceCOMP tools.

Supported features

7-Zip supports many features that are found in other compression software.

Encryption

For 7z format files, 7-Zip also supports 256-bit AES encryption

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7-Zip

I'm going to remove the following two items from the featurelist:

Fast compression and decompression

Plugin for FAR Manager The first seems to purely belong in a product advertisment, not an encyclopedia. The second (the FAR thing) I just don't understand (yeah, I'm being a fascist and taking it out). If someone can explain what this is then it might be okay to replace it (but it needs a decent english sentence explaining it, not just a bulletpoint). -- Finlay McWalter 00:20, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC) ::FAR is a filemanager from rarlabs.com, similar to Midnight Commander. Also we have an article on plugins.

PowerArchiver

I added the external link to PowerArchiver because its how I personally discovered 7Zip. I found PowerArchiver (and thus 7Zip) by accident while looking for a GUI frontend for bzip2 for Windows. My opinion is that PowerArchiver is important in the spread of 7Zip as an example of Free/Open Source Software to show to Windows users. Another good app for this purpose is Firefox. I made a lengthier argument in http://lemi4.blogdrive.com/archive/56.html my blog. Does this make my addition POV (and is my use of Wiki slang correct? n00b alert, sorry :o) )? I also discovered AvanceCOMP while meta-researching 7Zip within Wikipedia. My question is which one came first: 7Zip or AdvanceCOMP? -- Lemi4 20:01, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC) Okay then since Power Archiver has been removed, then has any other program (either open or closed) supported the 7z format? Because it is my (perhaps premature) deduction that Power Archiver was the first program outside of 7-Zip itself to support the format (which makes Power Archiver significant in the historical development of 7-Zip) --Lemi4 18:45, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC) :There are many. See comparison of file archivers.

Support in Gnome

This http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsquery.cgi?branch=&dir=file-roller&who=paobac&date=explicit&mindate=2004-10-20%2006:31&maxdate=2004-10-20%2006:33 CVS checkin suggests that

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