Michael Kjorling wrote:

>On 2005-07-12 22:39 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>         We have a utility in linux to unzip the files, No matter in
>>         what format, they have been compressed. The utility is
>>         "tar" archive. I suggest you can very easily use this handy
>>         utility to decompress or unzip or untar the files.
>>    
>>
>
>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"?
>
>  
>
Michael,
Tnx for the info which I finally found on my own...it took a bit, but I 
went to LDP and got a whole lot of stuff.  I checked yast and sure 
enough zip and unzip are on the system. 
Jim




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