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From:
fanfic-request@fanfic.com[SMTP:fanfic-request@fanfic.com] on behalf of
fanfic@fanfic.com[SMTP:fanfic@fanfic.com]
Sent: 	Friday, 30 May 1997 14:55
To: 	fanfic@fanfic.com
Subject: 	[FFML] [FFML][SPAM] Question about posting 'fics on the
web

 
Gzip is a utility created by GNU.  It is freeware, and is mostly used
on UNIX 
systems although there are ports for other operating systems, namely
DOS.  
 
I would suspect that gzip is a much better compression utility for
text than 
pkzip although I cannot corroborate this.  
 
Anyone want to comment on this ?
 

I'm not sure about the compression of gzip vs zip, but I believe gzip is
better for text, not to mention much more convienient, at least on UNIX
sytems.  UNIX systems have this great little utility called zmore, which
is a text viewer which automaticaly ungzip's the text file and displays
it.  Which means you can keep all your text files compressed, and still
be able to display them in one step.

My question is, does anybody have a windows text browser/viewer that
understands gzip? (and can handle the lack of line feed characters).
I've been looking for one for a while so that I can view the gzip'd
files from the archive directly without having to uncompress them.


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