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Name: Phil Date: December 20, 2002 at 13:10:53 Pacific OS: 9.2.2 CPU/Ram: G4/512MB
Comment:
Is it possible to create a .gz file from a .zip archive? What application(s) for Mac are built for working with .gz files (not just unpacking, but compressing as well)? Gzip is a Unix compress utility, so maybe this can be done easily from OSX? (P.S. I don't know anything about .gz files, really.)
Name: the pickle Date: December 20, 2002 at 13:16:51 Pacific
Reply:
Just use the command line and enter
gzip [path to file]
If you'd prefer a GUI utility, I'm thinking your best bet is the shareware version of Stuffit.
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Response Number 2
Name: the pickle Date: December 20, 2002 at 13:17:51 Pacific
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For OS 9, of course, neither of the above is going to be a particularly useful solution; go to macupdate.com or versiontracker.com and search for "gzip" and you'll find plenty of OS 9 stuff.
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Response Number 3
Name: Phil Date: December 20, 2002 at 13:20:27 Pacific
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Thank you. So, it is possible to do then - convert a .zip to a .gz directly? Or do you have to unzip the .zip and then compress the results as .gz?
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Response Number 4
Name: the pickle Date: December 20, 2002 at 14:36:09 Pacific
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You can compress *any* file into a .gz file, but that doesn't mean it's going to save much space ;)
p
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Response Number 5
Name: karrots Date: January 17, 2003 at 17:26:13 Pacific
Reply:
You can not directly convert .gz files to zip files. Most of the time .gz files are also .tar.gz files. You will need to unarchive and compress them using StuffIt expander then recompress them in .zip for using ZipIt or DropZip.
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