In article <017501bd5998$0869e2a0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bob Stanfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Friday, March 27, 1998 10:06 AM
>Subject: Linux version of PKZIP?
>
>
>>Gentlefolk,
>>
>> Is there a Linux version of PKZIP? I work and e-mail from an Alpha
>machine.
>>My clients don't know from nut'in about tar & gzip. It's a pain to have to
>>move files to the MS machine and back just to archive/zip them.
>>
>
> Try Zip and Unzip...they come with the Intel version of 5.0. They
>appear to be from '96 but that shouldn't matter too much. Don't know if it
>will handle Endian problems (there is a difference between the Alpha and the
>PC in this regard right?).....
Endianness should be utterly irrelevant to a compression suite. The data
being compressed is just a string of octets. How it gets processed is
not a problem provided the same thing comes out in the end as originally
went in.
John
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