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>I hope nobody does this. The reason is simple. Both GatorFTP+ and the Next  
>File Viewer have a built-in understanding of .tar and .Z. This is very  
>convenient. Going to something else removes this advantage.
Use Opener.app from sonata. It will unzip .zip files when you double click
on them.

> There's perhaps one problem with this idea. Many of us post  
packages to sonata  
> in order to make installing them easier for new users. The problem  
lies in that  
> the main file in a .pkg is a .tar.Z file, which would not likely  
compress more  
> than it is already has been. That's always a problem with  
compressing  
> compressed files. In fact, if you force compression of a compressed  
file, you  
> often get a file that's larger than the original.
>

1)Many ( at least half ) of the files on sonata are not pkg.
2)zip will usually get about 15% compression on tar.Z files so .pkg
files will be compressed by at least more than 15%.

Dmitri
dmitri@StarConn.com