Re: gzip

[vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)]

dcrutch@coplex.coplex.com (Dan Crutcher) writes:

>Is there an Apple II program (GS or otherwise) to extract 
>(compress/decompress) gzip files? These files are created by my local 
>internet board for ul/dl, but they cannot be unZipped by Angel or 
>PMPUnzip. I was told by the sysop that gzip was a Unix program. He 
>offered to send me a DOS version of a program that would extract these 
>files, but of course that does me no good. So: is there an A2 version?

gzip is GNU's version of UNIX compress. It compresses much better than
compress.

I was planning to port gzip, but I'm already working on lots of things.
Does anyone else have plans to to it?

BTW, gzip'ed archives are more often than not tar'ed underneath. GNU's tar
program automatically handles gzipped tar files. The correct extension for
these files is .tgz, but .gz is also used, implying the tar part.
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