GZIP GUI application for Windows XP?

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GZIP GUI application for Windows XP?

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Does anyone know of any GUI based programs (binaries software programmers refer to) for Windows XP? Along the lines of Winrar or Winzip but allowing me to use the GZIP algorithm?
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Found it on one of those I don't think I'd trust this software listing sites but visited the home page and it seems to work well...
http://www.irnis.net/soft/wingzip/

Other recommendations welcomed. 8)
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since gzip is a "one file only" compression scheme, what's the problem using the CLI version? I just drag and drop the file I want gzipped onto the gzip.exe binary and it does it's magic. Can't think of any options or anything, just "gzip it!".
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RobertPaul wrote:http://7-zip.org/ :D
:roll: ...have had it installed for a month I think? LoL thanks.
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7-ZIP. It takes two steps though 1) create a TAR, 2) gzip the resulting tarball.
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That's always bugged me. Tgz is probably one of the most prevalent compression formats; why not support it in one go?
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Because there's also bzip2. The idea behind the GNU toolset is small focused functionality you can chain together in whatever way you require.
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Post by Ambush Commander »

I totally understand (and agree) with this philosophy. But I view 7-zip as a convenience tool (otherwise I'd be using cli!) and even the command line tools have shortcuts for doing both (also excluding the fact that piping makes it trivially easy to chain the two together).
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I love 7zip. Awesome all-in-one GUI tool for all of my compression needs. (and free)
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http://gnuwin32.sf.net may be of interest. It's not GUI, but that shouldn't stop you. ;)
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Kieran Huggins wrote:since gzip is a "one file only" compression scheme, what's the problem using the CLI version? I just drag and drop the file I want gzipped onto the gzip.exe binary and it does it's magic. Can't think of any options or anything, just "gzip it!".
LOL ! I've never known abt this kind of feature till now ! How can a command-line program intercept drag-n-drop ? Use default options ?
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feyd wrote:http://gnuwin32.sf.net may be of interest. It's not GUI, but that shouldn't stop you. ;)
Just reading around on that site, I found a link to a KDE installer for windows. Interesting!
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Post by matthijs »

Why isn't zipping/archiving not a standard feature in XP? Is it because it's a proprietary format?
I wonder because with OSX it's build in (right-click and archive)
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Windows has "zip" functionality as standard, it's very shoddy though.
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