Paul Howarth wrote:
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.
I don't know how good you know Windows Xps integrated zip function, but
to me it's a PITA, and as I know how to handle the GNU utils from Linux
I appreciate they exist for Windows , and make my life easier working w/
Windows. The POWER of GNU for Windows, isn't that great?? ;-)
Just my opinion...
Paul.
Alex
