From:	grantl AT deerinet DOT nb DOT ca ("Grant Leslie")
Subject:	Re: Any opinions of tar and gzip vs. pkzip? also any major problems in tar?
23 Jan 1997 10:59:53 -0800 :
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> >
> Well, I must say I've sort of sided with ZIP files. When I
downloaded
> all 14 megs of GNU-Win32 stuff, I concatanated all of the XA? files
> into all.tar.gz, and went ahead and ran GUNZIP. Well, it worked for
a
> minute or two, and then gave me an error message that says that I
did
> not own the file. :p... I did too own it! :) I probably just
> configured something wrong, but I launched WinZip and it worked
fine.
> This probably is a Un*x type problem, but still.. :)

This is right out of the Winzip 6.2 help file for those curious about
Winzip

  "Thanks to Jean-loup Gailly for permission to use portions of his
gzip source in WinZip.  The original sources to gzip are available on
Internet as prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/gzip-*.tar."

I've never had any trouble using it to Gunzip and Untar files, it
MUCH easier to use if you only want some files, and very easy to
p[lace the files where you want, using the archive directories if you
want, or not using them.


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