Re: Success Using IBM Supplied GNUZIP ? -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: Success Using IBM Supplied GNUZIP ?
From: James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 13:56:51 -0700 (MST)
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, William N. Harrell, Jr. wrote:

> One of our programmers is having a problem getting files zipped with the IBM
> qshell GNUZIP Utility to unzip in either PKware Zip or Winzip.

Be aware the the compression algorythms used by gzip are not the same as
that used in .zip files.  So PKZIP and Winzip may not handle .gz files
correctly.  Though other replies suggest that Winzip knows how to handle
.gz files.

James Rich

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