> I've got a problem, you see, I don't have a Unix platform, therefore, I > haven't attepted to run GNUZip under Win95 (from what I've heard, GZip or > whatever only runs under MSDOS, Unix, etc), so how do you suggest I download > some tar.gz whatever. files (like most of the CM FTP Site files I can DL get gzip.zip, which is a zip file containing a DOS executable that will gunzip files... so you can use WinZip on gzip.zip, giving you gzip.exe and gzip.doc. Then you run gzip.exe on your .tgz files. > those tar.gz. blah blah under WinZip, but otherwise, WinZip just tells me: > "Please name the file type", but how the hell would I know?") Now you know > why I haven't gotten Linux or those other kewl systems I hear about ever so > often...cause I can't DL 'em!!! actually, you don't necessarily need gzip to install a linux system if you get a distribution. +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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