> > "Scot L. Harris" wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 14:25, Matthew Benjamin wrote: > > > I have been attempting to compress a file with gunzip, however when > > trying the error unknown suffix -- ignored error keeps on popping up. > > The command I am using is without the quotes, "gunzip -v9 file.tar", > > I even tried "gunzip -v9 -S .gz file.tar" any ideas? > > > > mB. > > > > > Try: > > gzip instead of gunzip. > > > -- > Scot L. Harris > webid@xxxxxxxxxx > > Serocki's Stricture: > Marriage is always a bachelor's last option. is gzip the same as winzip? specifically, can a tarball be compressed with gzip and then unpacked with winzip from windows? ie, lotsa .txt and .html files in directory foo tar -czf foo.zip /home/thufir/foo/ IIRC thanks, Thufir -- This is an email sent via the webforum on http://fcp.homelinux.org http://fcp.homelinux.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=57269&topic_id=14250&forum=10#forumpost57269
