From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 29 8: 5: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailf.telia.com (mailf.telia.com [194.22.194.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A99A837B416 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 08:05:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailf.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2TG52o07323 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:05:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h68n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.68]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA12972 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:05:00 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 19152 invoked by uid 1001); 29 Mar 2002 16:04:57 -0000 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:04:57 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Jens Rehsack Cc: Paul Everlund , Chip Wiegand , irado , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Suthida , wonchalerm@ucsbkk.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD's user guide (was empty) Message-ID: <20020329160457.GA19139@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Jens Rehsack , Paul Everlund , Chip Wiegand , irado , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Suthida , wonchalerm@ucsbkk.com References: <3ca45d7a.212a.1804289383@subdimension.com> <200203290619524.SM00968@there> <3CA48665.EEF3ED8A@cs.umu.se> <20020329152647.GA18888@student.uu.se> <3CA48B14.55A54F0A@liwing.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CA48B14.55A54F0A@liwing.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i 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 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. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message