Re: ARCHIVES

Addendum:

Just it case,

Un*x=All Unix "flavors," like Linux, Solaris, HP-UNIX, AIX.

Some of the "older" mainframe technologies use some version of Un*x (or
their own OS)--and beat Windows hands-down on stability and speed
(especially for "transactional stuff," like ticket purchases)-- require zip
or tar files.

Andrew





----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Angelopoulos" <angelopoulos(at)csi.com>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2000 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: ARCHIVES


>
> Un*x, in general
>
> But winzip will work them as well, just change the extension to make, and
> associate the extension with Winzip to extract.
>
> Andrew
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <ErthWlkr(at)aol.com>
> To: <sharon(at)linuxmail.org>; <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
> Cc: <ghoyle1(at)airmail.net>
> Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2000 11:24 AM
> Subject: Re: ARCHIVES
>
>
> >
> > Hi Folks:
> >
> > It was written:
> >
> > > It's shareware (1.6M) and can archive Windows 95/98, 2000, NT files in
> tar
> > or
> > > gzip format.
> >
> > This is the second time in as many days that I've come across these
> terms -
> > .tar and .gzip. Are these unique to Linux?
> >
> > - Jeff Kopito
>

HTML: hwg-basics mailing list archives, maintained by Webmasters @ IWA