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Re: Cat a log file into a ZIP file..



John L Fjellstad wrote:

Colin Ingram <cjingram@wisc.edu> writes:

7-zip. Supported formats: 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR,
CPIO, RPM and DEB

Could you expect the an average windows user to have 7-zip?  Most
Windows machines I've seen either comes with winzip or pkzip (and even
pkzip is pretty rare these days).

I'm not aware of ANY windows machine that comes with winzip or pkzip (windows XP has unzip/zip technology built in however). I think that most user are used to obtaining software to view files of various formates. (although windows trys to provide Microsoft's own means of doing this built in which I personally believe stifles competition) Think about it, should I provide documents in .doc just because .pdf would require a windows user to download software which doesn't cost anything and is easily obtain? On the same note, anyone can provide thier documents in any formate they please. I was simply pointed out that there are applications available for windows to handle BZip2.


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