Compressing / Uncompressing

[sirsky at lucastek.com]

Winzip for Windows can *uncompress* .tar, .gz, and .tar.gz. WinRAR can also 
uncompress .bz2 files.  I don't think that either of them can compress to 
either of those formats though.

I'd stick with .zip, since that will preserve the file and directory 
structure, and can be decompressed in Linux.  Only other option I can think of 
at 2am, is to install Cygwin on the Windows machine, and use plain 'ole tar, 
gzip or bzip2, since they're all included in the install.

-Lucas

<Forgive the top post - it's late, and I'm a rush to get to sleep...>

Quoting Zscoundrel <zscoundrel at kc.rr.com>:

> 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!)
> 
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