Hi all

Is it possible to copy zipped (my.zip) files from Windows systems to Linux systems and unzip them without any corruption.

I know the command unzip is available, but I want to know if this copying from WIndows to Linux could lead to file corruption.

any suggestions?

Thanks

Hi,

That should be possible. I'm not sure if you need to use unzip or gunzip on the linux/unix system.

I'm sure it works with rar (unrar on the linux/unix platform), but that's not your actual question.

Anyway, hope this helps.

Definitely.

Samuel Smith ported the algorithms of Phil Katz's original "PKZip" program, into an open source project he called "Info-ZIP", way back in 1989 (Katz had published how they worked, anyway).

He released it under a BSD license, so essentially everyone else's "Rocket-Powered ZIP program", ever since, has been (pretty much) a cut&paste job, as far as the actual archiving process goes. (Many such defacto standards are the product of a BSD licenses meeting up with the ctl-c and ctl-v keys. How do you think we ended up with TCP/IP?)

("What's that, you say, Skippy? 'Attribution'? Oh, there's a comment in the source code - honest!")

.zip file ---> unzip

.gz file ---> gunzip

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@pixellany: Thanks, I always confuse these 2.......

That's cool----I confuse **everything**.....

thanks for all comments

You're welcome.

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