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> Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 22:01:49 -0400
> From: Ian Chapman <ian_chapman AT junk DOT net>
> 
>     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?

Because they are free software and their sources are freely available.

And because we cannot really be sure WinZip and other proprietary
programs will always support all the options supported by Tar, GZip
and Bzip2.

And finally because some DJGPP uses still run DOS machines, where
WinZip will not help at all.

>     The latest winzip I seem to remember seeing tar and gzip
> whizzing past as I installed it.

It also has a nasty habit of munging the directory structure, and
converts all text files into DOS CR-LF format.  This newsgroup has its
share of answering FAQs about botched installations whose cause is use
of WinZip.