With WinXP, most people (meaning at least me) don't bother with WinZip because XP has .zip support built in. Of course I do have to resort to Cygwin for tar.gz or even tar.bz2 files--but that's just me.
Please join "THE GPL CLUB" in this arena ;) When I need to go down to the Windows world I use 7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/ for the task you sadi above.
<from-the-website> Supported formats: 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB </from-the-website>
IMO, why? Cygwin gives me UNIX on a Windows box, right down to the compression support--there is no need. I have my CVS, my tar, my zip/bzip2/gzip/etc. needs all taken care of--not to mention SSH, SCP, and other things.
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"They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin