[thelist] opening .gz files in XP

Anthony Ettinger apwebdesign at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 18 09:46:35 CDT 2005



--- Sheriff <sheriff at drivestream.com> wrote:

> Stuart Young scribeva in 2005-09-15 12:52:
> > I have some users who need to open up a .gz
> archive file...
> > Is there a windows archive utility that supports
> .gz files that
> doesn't need to be installed?
>  
> Check out http://www.7-zip.org/ a free file archiver
> with high
> compression ratio for Windows. Supported formats:
> 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR,
> ARJ, LZH, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB.
> For ZIP and GZIP
> formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is
> 2-10 % better than
> ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip.
> 
> It has lots more feature and comes handy under the
> Window file context
> menu (on right click). Cooler than Winzip. And, of
> course, this is a
> freeware (the least assured from any sourceforge.net
> project).
> 
> 

It isn't freeware, it's open source. There is a diff.
Freeware may be free, but come with a restrictive
license and no source code.


Anthony Ettinger
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