cross-platform compress & decompress

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Mon Dec 1 20:01:50 EST 2003


Mark Brownell wrote:

> On Monday, December 1, 2003, at 04:17  PM, Dave Cragg wrote:
> 
>> Mark, could you provide an example that doesn't work? I've never
>> encountered this problem, and I open a lot of compressed files (usally
>> stacks) across Win and Mac platforms.
>> 
>> Are you using e-mail to transfer the files? I've come across cases of
>> supposedly binary files being "converted" during e-mail transmission.
> 
> I'm zipping the Mac files and then FTPing them to my website. I'm then
> downloading them, unzipping them on Windows. After that I can open the
> text files but I can't use Rev to decompress the Mac .gz files. Windows
> recognizes these compressed files as .gz but won't let me decompress
> them. \ mb

There may be something else in the mix:  RevNet has a lot of gzipped files
from both platforms and this has not been reported as a problem there.

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