On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 03:54:43PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:
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> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Faheem Mitha wrote:
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> > Huh? You can use the program zip, available for Linux. You don't need to
> > use a Win machine. Be careful when you extract it, though. The nearly
> > convention that tar.gz archives use that the files will be unpacked into
> > their own directory is not always followed in the Windows world.
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> Sorry, gzip (GNU zip) is better, available as Debian package gzip. Use the
> commands gzip and gunzip.
gunzip won't work if the compressed file contains more than one member.
>From its man page:
Files created by zip can be uncompressed by gzip only if
they have a single member compressed with the 'deflation'
method. This feature is only intended to help conversion
of tar.zip files to the tar.gz format. To extract zip
files with several members, use unzip instead of gunzip.
