From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@...>
Date: 2002-01-19T23:44:18+09:00
Subject: Re: zip on Linux

* Tobias Reif (tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com) wrote:

> Will .zip be OK for users on Linux / other Unixes, or should I provide 
> .tar.gz in addition to the .zip?

Tarball's prefered, since tar and gzip are common among all Unix
platforms, where as unzip and bzip2 typically aren't.

> What's a good tool to create tarballs on Windows?

Pretty soon you should be able to use rtar (ruby-tar) :)

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