Thanks for this workaround, it worked. This might be a tip to be put on the mailing list, since other people using Windows NT and Winzip might have the same problem. Friendly Jan Brosius ----- Original Message ----- From: Simon Peyton-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Jan Brosius' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 1:58 PM Subject: RE: .gz files > | However if you have no problems opening these files with > | winzip, then I > | don't know > | anymore. > > I do have a problem. > I download them. > If winzip complains I remove the .gz suffix. > Then ghostview reads them fine. > > I have no idea why they are invisibly uncompressed. I'm just > telling you a workaround that works for me > > Simon >