Compressing / Uncompressing

[Steven Elling]

On Monday 14 July 2003 20:02, 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

www.gnu.org has gzip and tar DOS executables.

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/