IIRC, Winzip has been able to open .tgz files natively for quite some time
without external apps to expand things for it.
I'm personally a fan of the cygwin tools: http://www.cygwin.com
but if you're looking for semi-native tools without the benefits that
cygwin provides, unxutils or the mingw compiled tools (http://www.mingw.org)
work well. The cygwin installer really does make things easier for
those more Windows adept.
When you're forced to use Wind0ze, better prepared with Unix tools
than stuck in GUI hell ;)
- Ian C. Blenke <ian@blenke.com>
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 04:07:47PM -0400, Ed Centanni wrote:
> I found that winzip will handle .tgz files fine IF a copy of tar.exe (
> the Windows version of tar) is in the path. You can get a copy of
> tar.exe here:
>
>
> http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
>
> Ed
>
> Jason Copenhaver wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, edoc wrote:
> > >
> > > > Untar the 2.1 M file on your hard drive, not directly on a floppy and
> > > > follow instructions, and you will probably be okay. Tom's puts an
> > > > extended file system and close to 1.7 MB on a 1.4 MB floppy, but I've
> > > > seen this work. IIRC (it's been a while since I used Tom's) the rest of
> > > > the download is installers and docs.
> > > > - Robin
> > >
> > > Untar on a Win98 PC? I have WinZip but don't recall a Win app to untar,
> > > is there one?
> > >
> >
> > Winzip will be able to handle a tar.gz file just fine
> >
> > Jason
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