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Manfred Bartz <mbartz@werple.net.au> wrote:
MB> Hans McKay <st9530d1@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au> writes:

> Does anyone know of any compression utilities that are cross compatible
> between MS-DOS and UNIX.. 
> eg. Is there a PKUNZIP for UNIX or a GZIP or something for DOS??
> I would appreciate any help..

MB> gzip and gunzip are compatible with pkzip and pkunzip compression
    ^^^^     ^^^^^^
MB> formats. However, the behaviour is different. gxxxx will replace the
MB> existing file with the (un)compressed file as appropriate, pkxxxx will
MB> create a new file, leaving the existing one (on default).
MB> Also, the behaviour may be different with regard to sub-directories -
MB> read the man-page.

No.  gzip and gunzip are completely different from pkzip and pkunzip.
The programs you are probably thinking of are 'zip' and 'unzip'
by the Info-ZIP team.  These programs have a very good degree of
compatibility with pkzip and pkunzip.

To answer the other original question: yes, you can get gzip and gunzip for
ms-dos, e.g. you should find them at djgpp sites.

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