On Wed 29 Nov 06, 11:22 AM, Henry House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I have a question for those of you who use non-unix operating systems > regularly. How good is support for gzip-format archives? If I were to > e-mail a gzip-compressed file to a typical windows user, would they > likely be able decompress it using typically installed software? What > about bzip2? > > I have the same question about macs as well, though I can guess the > answer because I know that the current mac OS is a unix variant.
Henry, winzip can decompress .gz, .Z, .tar, and .bz2. The only provisio is that it can't *create* these files. I think pretty much everyone has winzip. You can download it for free, and I don't think the demo expires. It just nags. Pete _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
