RE: Success Using IBM Supplied GNUZIP ?

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

AFAIK WinZip does OK with gzip compression.  We've been using the pair for
over a year in more than one process with no known bad results.  Either we
have a time bomb, or it's been working properly. <g>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Rich [mailto:james@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 12:57 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Success Using IBM Supplied GNUZIP ?
> 
> 
> 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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