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beltorak0:
winzip should handle it properly for any underlying M$-OS.  Winzip will be executed because windows sees the ".zip"; winzip then will read the first few bytes of the file, which will indicate that it is a ".tar.gz" file; it will then ungzip it, discover that the gzip contains only one file, and pop up a dialog asking the user if he wants to de-tar it to a temp folder (although it says "decompress" instead of "de-tar").  That is the only indication that the windows user has that it is not a regular ".zip".  Once untarballed though, it can be "_"extracted"_" like any other ".zip".  For the most part it is transparent; but if you are posting for really clueless users, you might want to add an explanation of that extra dialog box to your site.

btw, AFAIK winzip cannot handle the more efficient bzip2 format.

flap:
I just tried that with winzip 8.1 using wine. It definitely doesn't work.

Calum:
which doesn't? bzip2 or gzip? bzip2 does not work, and i just found out that there are indeed some gzip archives that winzip can't deal with. it does deal with all the normal ones i have made on the command line though, the only ones i came up against a problem with so far were the xfce skins i made (available at www.orkney.cjb.net) which are .tar.gz archives, but cannot be opened in winzip. these were made using the xfskin GUI, so not sure what weirdo options it might have passed to gzip to make it do this.

[ January 09, 2003: Message edited by: Calum ]

flap:
No, what I said originally - renaming a tarball to .zip doesn't work. Winzip just reports an invalid archive. When you rename it back to .tar.gz it works.

Calum:
Crikey! i am prepared to eat my words and my hat! i just used this small tarball to test this with and bless my cotton socks if you are not entirely right and i am entirely wrong!

opens with winzip if extension is tar.gz, fails to open if extension is .zip. I am certain that i have had this work in the past though (using a different version of windows and a different version of winzip though). The solution is just going to have to becall the files *.zip and then to tell the users to download the file and then add the filename extension ".tar.gz" on the end.

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