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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Gzip help Post 302179353 by era on Thursday 27th of March 2008 12:56:28 PM
Old 03-27-2008
Binary files should not be a problem with sftp in my experience.

Winzip and friends can usually handle .tar.gz just fine, some tools might expect a .tgz file extension but in any event, finding free high-quality tools for this should not be hard.
 

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p7zip(1)						      General Commands Manual							  p7zip(1)

NAME
p7zip - Wrapper on 7zr, a 7-zip file archiver with high compression ratio SYNOPSIS
p7zip [-d] [-h|--help] [file] -h print this help -d decompress file DESCRIPTION
7-Zip is a file archiver with the highest compression ratio. The program supports 7z (that implements LZMA compression algorithm), LZMA2, XZ, ZIP, Zip64, CAB, RAR (if the non-free p7zip-rar package is installed), ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM, ISO, most filesystem images and DEB formats. Compression ratio in the new 7z format is 30-50% better than ratio in ZIP format. p7zip is a gzip-like CLI wrapper script for 7zip FUNCTION LETTERS
-d Decompress file -h, --help Print usage SEE ALSO
7z(1), 7za(1), 7zr(1), bzip2(1), gzip(1), zip(1) AUTHOR
Written for Debian by Mohammed Adnene Trojette. Mohammed Adnene Trojette October 31 2004 p7zip(1)
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