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BBS: Re: The WinZip monopoly - June 10, 1998 at 12:30:17

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Posted by Jason Turner on June 10, 1998 at 12:30:17:

In Reply to: Re: The WinZip monopoly posted by Martin Webb on June 09, 1998 at 06:37:42:

The tar.gz (tgz) is about 80% the size of a .zip on average, and can be uncompressed using Winzip. It would make an attractive option for many, although the de-facto zip would still be required.

And if so are there any Windows tools for creating TAR files?

Yes, (for Win32) www.cygnus.com.
As well as EXE's for tar & gzip/gunzip, you also have the bash shell and all the utils; sed, tr, gawk, grep..... all powerful text processing tools in their own right.

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