Zip files in Linux

I am Spartacus spartacus at home.aafp.org
Tue Aug 6 23:03:39 CDT 2002


try using 'unzip' instead of 'gunzip'.  on my system (redhat 7.3) unzip 
is default installed in /usr/bin

shannon

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

>Ok, I thought I had it all figured, zip up the four files with WinZip and
>send 'em to my Linux server, gunzip 'em and we're all set.
>
>Except gunzip says "unknown suffix -- ignored".  
>
>So, ok, I delete the suffix.  It still says the same thing.
>
>man gunzip (man gzip) says that it understands .ZIP files, but it doesn't
>appear to.  Is there something that does?
>
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