> On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Nick Humphries wrote:
>
> > PCs don't have gzip by default. What's wrong with writing a custom
compression
> > routine which is portable between the various platforms?
>
> Why reinvent the wheel *again*? WinZip can handle gzip, and most windows
> machines have winzip. If they don't, I can supply a Win95 version of gzip
> (precompiled), and bzip2.
Although you are right, I can say: WinZip supports ZIP. So we can use zip.
Why do you think we should use gzip, when WinZip supports it.
WinZip uses zip too.
In addition WinZip is not free, anybody mentioned?
Of course, we can find GNU GPL zip/unzip as well as gzip.
>
> Paul
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