On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:50:40PM -0600, Thomas Dodd wrote: > > > Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Nalin Perera wrote: > > > >> Is it possible to compress a file (Within Linux) to a WinZip format file, > >> from Linux? > > > > Yes. > > > >> If so how? > > > > Install the zip and unzip packages, and "man zip". Or if you're looking > > for a GUI frontend, install kdeutils and run ark. > > > > LLaP > > bero > > The last version of WinZip I used (~2 years ago) > also suported tar and gzip formats. > If a file contained a single file > that was also a supported type, it would > offer to "unzip" to a temporary file, and > then open the temporary file. Worked well for > compressed tar files like *.tar.gz or *.tgz. > gnu-tar creates. > > -Thomas > We are getting confused between zip and gzip. zip which the man page identifies as a combination of tar and compress is analogous to the old pkzip in dos. It produces archives of files rather than compressing a file as gzip does. To make a long story short zip-ing a series of files forms the archive most related to winzip. The handling of .tgz files is an added feature. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200
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