On Apr 7, 2005 3:24 AM, Vassilios Kotoulas <fedoralist@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 22:01 +0200, thufir wrote: > > > 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/ > > gzip is not the same as zip, but winzip can handle .tgz and .tar.gz > files. just compress as .tgz > > tar czf foo.tgz /home/thufir/foo/ > > -- > Vassilios Kotoulas > PGP Key ID 0x6F2B0137B1703DF8 unfortunately, this computer doesn't have winzip and I don't have permissions. can I compress files for windows xp somehow? thanks, Thufir
