gunzip question

[Michael D'Aulerio]

I transfer a lot of files between a Windows 2000 machine and an HP-UX 10.20 system. I use gzip on the HP and WINZIP on the Windows machine. I've noticed that winzip can handle any of the Unix files I generate with tar and gzip but gunzip can't read the WINZIP files. Is there a version of gunzip which reads winzip files. Thanks in advance.

[KapilRaj]

I think winzip handles a tar ot gunzipped file ... Try for an updated version

Also if u transfering it by ftp , use binary mode to transfer ..

ftp host

ftp >bin

Kaps

[Ken Penland_1 · Accepted solution]

dont think you can do that with gunzip, but you can install unzip on HP to do the job, go here:

http://hpux.asknet.de/hppd/hpux/Misc/unzip-5.50/

[Jose Mosquera]

Hi,

Pls check the gzip home page:
http://www.gzip.org/

Specially "Frequently Asked Questions"

Rgds.

[Michael D'Aulerio]

Thanks Ken. That's exactly what I was looking for.

[Thomas Bianco]

Gzip and PKZIP are different compression formats.

winzip is known to unpack (among others) Gzip, but will only create pkzip archives.

gunzip only handels gzip.

ARJ, LHA, RAR, ACE, BZ2 are, again, not compatable.

unix compress is also a different format.