Gunzip unknown suffix -- ignored

Thu Apr 7 02:24:07 UTC 2005

On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 22:01 +0200, thufir wrote:

> is gzip the same as winzip?  specifically, can a tarball be compressed with gzip and then unpacked with winzip from windows?
> ie, lotsa .txt and .html files in directory foo
> tar -czf foo.zip /home/thufir/foo/

gzip is not the same as zip, but winzip can handle .tgz and .tar.gz
files. just compress as .tgz 

tar czf foo.tgz /home/thufir/foo/

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