Can gzip open Windows .zip files?
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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
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.
Quote: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.
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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.
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.
From what I've seen most common linux programs have win32 ports, usually a little googling is all that is needed.
Quote: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.
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