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from: rob@xxxxxxxxx
But methinks you are right with PKZIP. See also tar in qshell.
'tar' isn't a compression tool, it simply takes many separate files and puts them in a single resulting file archive. You still have to compress the resulting .tar file with gzip or some such. (thus the final .tar.gz suffix, or .tgz, etc.) Some implementations are smart enough to call the compressor themselves saving you a step. FWIW, the reason .jar files can be read be common archive tools like winzip and winrar is because they *are* zip files, just with .jar tacked on instead of .zip. So if 'jar' is available, you can be assured compatibility with anything that reads the standard zip format.
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