* Gzip-1.3.12 for Windows 
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What is it?

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Gzip: compress files



Description

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gzip (GNU zip) is a compression utility designed to be a replacement for compress. Its main advantages over compress are much better compression and freedom from patented algorithms.
	 


Homepage

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http://www.gzip.org/ 

Sources: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.3.12.tar.gz
	 


System

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Win32, i.e. MS-Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista 
with msvcrt.dll
- if msvcrt.dll is not in your Windows/System folder, get it from
  Microsoft <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;259403">
  or by installing Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher
  <http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie> 



Notes

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Bugs and questions on this MS-Windows port: gnuwin32@users.sourceforge.net

Package 

Availability

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in: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net


Installation

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Sources

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gzip-1.3.12-1-src.zip



Compilation

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The package has been compiled with GNU auto-tools, GNU make, and Mingw
(GCC for MS-Windows). Any differences from the original sources are given
in gzip-1.3.12-1-GnuWin32.diffs in gzip-1.3.12-1-src.zip. Libraries needed
for compilation can be found at the lines starting with 'LIBS = ' in the
Makefiles. Usually, these are standard libraries provided with Mingw, or
libraries from the package itself; 'gw32c' refers to the libgw32c package,
which provides MS-Windows substitutes or stubs for functions normally found in
Unix. For more information, see: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/compile.html
 and http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libgw32c.htm.
