[muglo] Re: StuffIt and DropZip

This came to so I am forwarding it for your information

Paul

> From: Lee Dickey <ldickey@xxxxxxxxxx

Begin forwarded message:

> Dear MUGLOs,
> In addition to ZIP is another great tool from the Unix side of
> OS X.  I am thinking of GZIP!  Fantastic tool. I have always
> used it in terminal mode.  If you have a file called "foo" and
> you want to compress it, you must navigate to the directory
> where it resides and type "gzip foo".
>
> Where "foo" was you find instead a compressed file  called "foo.gz".
> To uncompress, you type "gunzip foo.gz" and the file "foo" is
> restored and "foo.gz" goes away.
>
> Tried and true.  A great tool.
>
> Lee Dickey
>

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