Mail Archives: djgpp/2002/05/31/03:09:54
Ian Chapman (ian_chapman AT junk DOT net) wrote:
: may be I'm missing some thing. Why with winzip so readily available would anyone other than
: Linux people need gzip? and why do we have bzip?
You need to configure your mail/post tool to break lines at about 70
columns. Or press Enter now and then.
Winzip doesn't run on plain DOZE.
There's no source available.
bzip2 is just another compression format, which compresses somewhat
better than gzip's.
: The latest winzip I seem to remember seeing tar and gzip whizzing past as I installed it. I
: think it can even uncompress a unix compressed file. I do not want to be critical just curious as
: to how all these gnu ports fit into the big picture.
So how do you uncompress a bzip2 compressed file (if that's what you
got)?
: --------------BCA0A90DB84217046C07E45B
: Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
: <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
: <html>
: Hi,
: <br> may be I'm missing some thing. Why with winzip
Your tool is severly misconfigured. Stop that HTML rubbish in your
posts. Thank you.
Right,
MartinS
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