eli5: Why can’t programs run .zip files although they take just a few seconds to extract?

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Title, really.

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It is the same as a book actually. You get a book for your birthday but it is in a nice birthday box. You want to read the book but you have to unwrap it first which only takes a second.

Also the compression methode changes the binary code of the program. A decompression program has to reconstruct the full binary strings of the files inside the ZIP to make it back to the origional state it was before compressing the data.

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