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zip (.zip)
File name extension for files compressed or compacted with WINZIP / PKZIP or other programs.

ZMODEM
A transfer protocol. It's the faster of XMODEM, YMODEM, and ZMODEM and is the most popular as well.

Zone
A section of the total domain name space that is represented by the data stored on a particular name server. The name server has authority over that particular zone - or the particular section of the domain name space - described by that data.

Zone Files
A file on a nameserver that designates a domain name with all of its associated subdomains, IP addresses, and mail server. Parts of the zone file include the A record, CNAME, and MX records. A zone file is also called a "DNS table".

Zone Transfer
A special type of query that asks a name server for the entire contents of a Zone. Cached records are never reported in a zone transfer. Zone transfers are usually used by secondary servers to update its own zone data from its primary server.

Zope
Zope is an open source web application server written in Python. Plone uses Zope.

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Anchor - HTML Anchor

An anchor is an HTML tag that marks a specific point in an HTML document as either the source or destination of a hypertext link. This allows you to create links from one hypertext document to another, as well as to different sections within the same document. Anchors that point to different places in the same document use the tag and are frequently used to navigate a long document with many sections. Anchors that point to other hypertext documents use href tag.

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