Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:04:57 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de> 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: <20020329160457.GA19139@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <3CA48B14.55A54F0A@liwing.de> References: <3ca45d7a.212a.1804289383@subdimension.com> <200203290619524.SM00968@there> <3CA48665.EEF3ED8A@cs.umu.se> <20020329152647.GA18888@student.uu.se> <3CA48B14.55A54F0A@liwing.de>
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On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 04:41:08PM +0100, Jens Rehsack wrote: > > > 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. It seems you are right on that. I wasn't aware of gunzip being able to do that (and it is even documented in the manpage). This feature is of course of limited usefulness since most .zip archives contain more than one file and such archives cannot be unpacked with gunzip. For handling .zip archives in general one need to use zip/unzip. > > Definitively WinZip and WinRar are able to uncompress / unarch .gz, .bz2, .tar Wouldn't surprise me. As I understand it WinZip can handle many different compression/archive formats, not only .zip with relatives. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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