Can gzip open Windows .zip files?

gzip can't open normal zip files, but I think pretty much every linux distribution around comes with zip support too. At least all the ones I'v used. not sure about Mac though.

When gzip doesn't work, I usually try unzip.

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Original post by Simian Man The thread name really says it all. I am wondering because I want to put some source code on my website so anyone can download it, but it would be a pain for me to put it in .tar.gz

It would be a pain..?

Assuming your game is just sitting in one directory (called 'game' for example), I don't see what is such a big deal about typing,

tar zcf MyGame.tar.gz game

Which will create a gzipped tar file containing everything in the game directory.

Well you see, It is the code that I want to put up. It is in about 20 files on my Windows machine. To put it in a tarball, I would have to burn it to a CD, take it to school, put it on my school drive, secure shell to a Linux machine (via Putty), put it all in my Linux account, create the tar ball, then do the previous again in reverse.

That's why it would be a pain (compared to using winzip), but since the response was pretty much lukewarm to Linux users being able to unzip it, I decided to do it anyway.

You could just install cygwin on your Windows box.

7-Zip has a Windows version, and it can create gzip files.

From what I've seen most common linux programs have win32 ports, usually a little googling is all that is needed.

Thanks guys.

googlyeyes: that is an awesome link thanks!

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Original post by googlyeyes From what I've seen most common linux programs have win32 ports, usually a little googling is all that is needed.

I prefer GnuWin32.

Simple answer: Yes. I used it several times. 'gunzip -S zip filename.zip' should do the trick.

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Original post by j0seph Simple answer: Yes. I used it several times. 'gunzip -S zip filename.zip' should do the trick.

From the gunzip man-page:

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Files created by zip can be uncompressed by gzip only if they have a single member compressed with the 'deflation' method. This feature is only intended to help conversion of tar.zip files to the tar.gz format. To extract a zip file with a single member, use a command like gunzip members, use unzip instead of gunzip.

Will winzip not gzip files? I swear i've extracted them in win xp before. of course, i wouldn't be shocked to see windows doesn't ship with the ability to extract files compressed in an open source format.