Gunzip unknown suffix -- ignored

[THUFIR HAWAT]

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?

thanks,

Thufir