Hi CHARLES! :-)

 CA> Yes, you need all of the versions of 'zip' in order to
 CA> uncompress various Linux archives but for FIDO only InfoZip
 CA> will generally be of use for compressing/uncompressing echomail
 CA> packets (QWK etc.). 
InfoZip exists for Linux and most distributions include the "zip"
and "unzip" packages that work just like you are used from DOS
InfoZip.

 CA> BooitNG compresses the image files but I would think that Linux
 CA> can also compress the image on-the-fly as it is being created.
 CA> I _think_ the general consensus has been to use 'dd' for
 CA> creating image files for backup purposes from a Linux install? 
Yep. dd and then gzip or bzip2 to compress the image works great. One can
also backup a Windows partition that way without problems.

Ciao
Pascal

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