Compressing / Uncompressing

[Kris Bodenheimer]

Don't forget scp (its part of the openssh suite).

Jason Clinton wrote:

> Paul Taylor wrote:
> 
>> Would anyone be willing to give me some pointers?
>> Windows OS. I want to compress files and folders into archive.
>> I will transfer them using SecureFTP to a Linux machine.
>> On Linux machine I would like to decompress files and folders into 
>> original structure.
>> Can anyone help me on the program to use for compression on Windows? I 
>> use Winzip and WinRAR right now.
>> Maybe I can use Winzip or WinRAR to compress them in .tar.gz format 
>> but I haven't figured it out.
> 
> 7-ZIP for Windows from http://www.7-zip.com is Free Software and can 
> compress and uncomress .gz and .bz2 files.
> 
> To get the files from Linux to Windows and back use the SecurityFTP 
> option in FileZilla from http://www.filezilla.com/ -- it will work with 
> any SSH equiped server.
> 
> -- 
> Just my three trits. GPG Finger Print:
> 7A81 0A2F 1ABE DC38 DABC  7C22 B2EE 2304 4A89 46BF
>