Gunzip unknown suffix -- ignored

[Alexander Apprich]

THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
> On Apr 7, 2005 3:24 AM, Vassilios Kotoulas <fedoralist at kotoulas.de> wrote:
> 
>>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/
>>
>>--
>>Vassilios Kotoulas
>>PGP Key ID 0x6F2B0137B1703DF8
> 
> 
> 
> unfortunately, this computer doesn't have winzip and I don't have
> permissions.  can I compress files for windows xp somehow?
> 

why not use the Windows-Port of gzip/tar/etc. from

    http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

No installation needed, just unpack them and run them.

> thanks,
> 
> Thufir
> 
Alex