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Date:      Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:41:08 +0100
From:      Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de>
To:        Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
Cc:        Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se>, Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org>, irado <irado@subdimension.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Suthida <suthida@ucsbkk.com>, wonchalerm@ucsbkk.com
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD's user guide (was empty)
Message-ID:  <3CA48B14.55A54F0A@liwing.de>
References:  <3ca45d7a.212a.1804289383@subdimension.com> <200203290619524.SM00968@there> <3CA48665.EEF3ED8A@cs.umu.se> <20020329152647.GA18888@student.uu.se>

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Erik Trulsson wrote:
> 
> > What about gunzip? That's in the base system if I'm correct? Doesn't it
> > work with zipped files on *nix, and even if they're zipped in Windows with
> > WinZip or WinRar?
> 
> No.  Gzip and Zip use completely different compression formats.
> Gzip/gunzip does not know anything about .zip files.
AFAIK is that not true. GUnZip is able to uncompress a .zip-archive
with exactly 1 file in it.

Definitively WinZip and WinRar are able to uncompress / unarch .gz, .bz2, .tar

So long
Jens
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