Re: xxx.tar.gz on Windows.
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Jens K. Olsen wrote:
> I know this is a little off subject, but I think it's a problem may
> people are running into.
>
> I have a ftp server with lot's of files on it. I usually use .tar.gz for
> large archives rather than .zip because not all my UNIX users has unzip
> installed. Winzip supposedly supports tar and gz also.
>
> I recently found that when my Windows users download the .tar.gz
> archives using Netscape and try to unzip them using Winzip, they get an
> error message and they don't get anywhere.
>
> I would like to understand what is going on, and how I can fix the
> problem. If anyone had the same problem and found a good solution
> (meaning NOT having to use .zip rather than .tar.gz, and NOT having to
> use that terrible "OS" called Windows), please let me know.
I've extracted *many* .tar.gz files with winzip. Are they using a current
version ? What's the error ?
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