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 > _________________________________________________ For information concerning the MUGLO List just click on http://muglo.on.ca/Pages/joinus.html Our Archives can be viewed at //www.freelists.org/archives/muglo Don't forget to periodically check our web site at: http://muglo.on.ca/