On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 08:58 +0200, Alexander Apprich wrote: > > THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > > 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/ > > > > > > > > unfortunately, this computer doesn't have winzip and I don't have > > permissions. can I compress files for windows xp somehow? > > > > why not use the Windows-Port of gzip/tar/etc. from > > http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ > > No installation needed, just unpack them and run them. Or just use "zip" (part of Fedora Core) to create standard .zip files, which XP can handle without any extra software. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
