Re: Need a source of a good, FREE stuffit/zip it program for a Mac OS 10.2

WazoO wrote:
> "Frog Prince" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> We're using 10.2 and as near as I can figure (I'm not Mac literate and my
>> wife's Mac wakes up with a message 'does not play well with others -- me
>> being the 'others') the Stuffit will un zip but not compress files.
>>
>> What and where is gzip?
> 
>>From the Finder;
> Go | Applications | Utilities | Terminal
> type in (without quotes)[
> "whereis gzip" .... should return;
> /usr/bin/gzip
> for help, type in (without quotes)
> "man gzip"
> return should be a number of screens that
> will detail the various options/flags on how
> to use the tool

gzip is one of the older compression tools.  Unlike zip, it cannot 
create archives, only compress individual files.  Generally it is used 
in conjunction with tar which combines multiple files into a single file 
and then you gzip it to compress that file.  It is the unix philosophy 
of creating utilities that only do one thing and combine them with other 
single purposed utilities.

But unzip and zip have been pretty common in most unix based systems for 
quite a while.  You might try the same steps above using "zip" and 
"unzip" instead of "gzip".  On my Linux system, they are in /usr/bin.