compress for windows

[vikmos]

Hi, I made a file to be emailed as attachmentfor for viewing in Windows world.
I did compress like:
gzip $FILE
mv $FILE.gz $FILE.tgz

in 50% cases I can succesufully decompress my .tgz with winzip and open it. Otherwise
I'm getting errors with winzip (attributes missing) or end-of-line messed.
Original file is from MVS, no any low~ or high-values, was FTP to HP-11.00 without any options. I assume that problem is in compressing.
Thanks to all

Vittorio

[Francisco J. Soler]

Hi Vittorio,

I don't know why you change the extension, winzip opens well the gz files from unix world.

If you want to open a tgz, you can do:

tar cvf file.tar file_to_compress
gzip file.tar

then uncompress it from windows, but i think it is not necessary to do that.

HTH
Frank.

[Jim Mallett]

Are you consistent in your FTP transfer method? Be sure that you specify binary rather than ascii for that transfer, especially with compressed data.

Jim

[Steven E. Protter]

You might want to open up a CIFS/9000 Samba share on the HP-UX box. Then mistakes with binary/ascii with your ftp transfer will be eliminated.


SEP

[Ronelle van Niekerk]

Jim may be on the right track.
Make sure that you are transferring the files in binary mode.

And I agree with Francisco, you don't need to change the extension. WinZip see .gz files just fine.