From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 29 7:42:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.liwing.de (mail.liwing.de [213.70.188.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1A8937B41A for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 07:42:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 57263 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2002 15:51:46 -0000 Received: from stingray.liwing.de (HELO liwing.de) ([213.70.188.164]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.liwing.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 29 Mar 2002 15:51:46 -0000 Message-ID: <3CA48B14.55A54F0A@liwing.de> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:41:08 +0100 From: Jens Rehsack Organization: LiWing IT-Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erik Trulsson Cc: Paul Everlund , Chip Wiegand , irado , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Suthida , wonchalerm@ucsbkk.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD's user guide (was empty) References: <3ca45d7a.212a.1804289383@subdimension.com> <200203290619524.SM00968@there> <3CA48665.EEF3ED8A@cs.umu.se> <20020329152647.GA18888@student.uu.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- L i W W W i Jens Rehsack L W W W L i W W W W i nnn gggg LiWing IT-Services L i W W W W i n n g g LLLL i W W i n n g g Friesenstraße 2 gggg 06112 Halle g g g Tel.: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 91 ggg e-Mail: Fax: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 92 http://www.liwing.de/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message