[muglo] Re: StuffIt and DropZip

I would caution people AGAINST using gzip and gunzip unless they know their 
target audience. .gz files are not at all the same as .zip files and far 
fewer decompression apps will know what to do with .gz files. Additionally, 
.gz is for all practical purposes as *nix format.

Yes, it fully works with Mac OS X (since OS X is a *nix itself) but if you 
plan to send your files to others then you're best off using .sit or .zip 
compression formats.

Besides, it's easy to create and decompress .zip files. Right-click on a 
file, folder or group of uncompressed files and you can automagically create 
a .zip file with Create Archive. Double-click or right-click on the .zip 
archive to decompress. Simple, no fuss, no muss and no CLUI involved.

Eric.

> > 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.


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