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 ? __________________________________________________________________ PGP fingerprint = 03 5B 9B A0 16 33 91 2F A5 77 BC EE 43 71 98 D4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.op.net/~darxus Find the next largest prime, be famous: http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm