Page 1 of 2
GZIP GUI application for Windows XP?
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 8:15 pm
by JAB Creations
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?
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 8:26 pm
by JAB Creations
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.

Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 9:27 pm
by Kieran Huggins
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!".
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 11:13 pm
by RobertPaul
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 4:08 am
by JAB Creations

...have had it installed for a month I think? LoL thanks.
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 6:14 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
7-ZIP. It takes two steps though 1) create a TAR, 2) gzip the resulting tarball.
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:42 am
by Ambush Commander
That's always bugged me. Tgz is probably one of the most prevalent compression formats; why not support it in one go?
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:24 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
Because there's also bzip2. The idea behind the GNU toolset is small focused functionality you can chain together in whatever way you require.
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:26 am
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).
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 8:17 pm
by s.dot
I love 7zip. Awesome all-in-one GUI tool for all of my compression needs. (and free)
Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 1:22 pm
by feyd
http://gnuwin32.sf.net may be of interest. It's not GUI, but that shouldn't stop you.

Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 2:04 am
by anjanesh
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 ?
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 3:22 am
by s.dot
Just reading around on that site, I found a link to a KDE installer for windows. Interesting!
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:04 am
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)
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:32 am
by Jenk
Windows has "zip" functionality as standard, it's very shoddy though.