Michael Kjorling wrote:
> Oh please. First off out of four replies *no one* has provided the > obvious answer (and three seem questionable at best), and second, last > time I looked tar did not handle PKZip compression. tar -z will use > gzip, which is a very different file format and compression algorithm. > "-j" will use bzip2, still very different. > > What's wrong with the infozip utilities "zip" and "unzip"? Heh! Until just now, after running 'man zip', I was not aware that I had zip/unzip on my machine.<g> I knew I had gzip, for sure. I wasn't sure which utility Konqueror was using to unzip Windows *.zip files... I had recently discovered the fact that it could display the contents of zipped files by accident, and then discovered it could also unzip them by right clicking shortly thereafter. Thanks for the info! -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ . To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
