JK>> No, don't untar or un-gzip them.. you might mess up the
 JK>> directory structure and some programs need that included in
 JK>> the tgz file.

 GKA> This not what i do with the tar and tgz files, i just pack
 GKA> them into a zip file now.

good deal...

 JK>> The best thing to do is just store the files in a .zip file
 JK>> (store, don't compress them).  If you compress an already
 JK>> compressed file (tgz is already compressed) the file gets
 JK>> bigger :) :)

 JK>> So, if I find a program in .tgz format, I just zip it with
 JK>> -m0 (move, don't compress) and I add a diz to the .zip file.
 JK>> This creates a zip 'envelope' to hold the tgz file.

 GKA> The I do with the tgz files I finding, pkzip filename.zip
 GKA> filename.tgz + a written file_id.diz or a diz file from the
 GKA> ?gz file.

please try to ensure that the file_id.diz follows the file-id.diz specs...
definitely try to ensure that it carries CRLF line endings ;)

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