Posted by Toby Inkster on 09/16/05 10:09

Neredbojias wrote:

> A point to consider but I think most people have unzippers of some kind.
> What I find disgruntling is that some tech sites use "gzip" (-think
> that's the name,) like for instance the php manual site, and "tar"
> files, both of which I always have trouble with.

Gzipped tar files are the most common form of compressed files in the
Linux/UNIX world, though Bzip2ed tar files are catching on, as they're
usually a little smaller.

Winzip can open gzipped tar files.

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