On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 02:01:34PM +0100, Nick Humphries wrote: > PCs don't have gzip by default. What's wrong with writing a custom compression > routine which is portable between the various platforms?
Er, PCs don't have that custom compression routine by default either. Anyway, you could use zip instead of gzip as they are rather similar formats when only one file is involved. (You can even make a single-file zip and call it foo.gz, and gunzip won't even notice the difference.) imc
