Compressing / Uncompressing

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Paul Taylor wrote:

> Would anyone be willing to give me some pointers?
>  
> Windows OS. I want to compress files and folders into archive.
> I will transfer them using SecureFTP to a Linux machine.
> On Linux machine I would like to decompress files and folders into 
> original structure.
>  
> Can anyone help me on the program to use for compression on Windows? I 
> use Winzip and WinRAR right now.
> Maybe I can use Winzip or WinRAR to compress them in .tar.gz format 
> but I haven't figured it out.
> Thanks,
> Paul

Linux can uncompress zip files, but I have not seen a utility for 'doze 
that will do Gzip.  Be sure to use the proper attributes to preserve the 
directory structure.  (This does not mean there aren't any,  just that I 
have not seen any!)