Please tell me there is a windows app that can create .Z files

[BadRobot]

So, i know there are a variety of apps that can read .Z files but where can I find one that creates them....
Do i really have to have a Unix box to do it?

 

[2Xtreme21]

A windows port of the compress utility

Maybe that will work?

 

[BadRobot]

I ran it but the console started using characters that i could nto read (unix code maybe?)

 

[BadRobot]

Some of the utilities say they only run on particular versions of windows. Do we know if the compress.exe is version specific for windows?

 

[2Xtreme21]

I don't know, unfortunately. It was just on the wikipedia page for compress.

Is there some reason you can't zip or rar whatever you're trying to do?

 

[BadRobot]

.Z files are (normally) created when you use the ... compress 'filename' .... command line function of Unix. Just about all modern zip applications can uncompress these files but i have yet to find one that can actually create them.

I think the .Z file format is a proprietary format for unix that was covered under a patent that expired in 2003....

 

[2Xtreme21]

But why do you need to create a .Z file with windows anyway? What benefits does it have over zip?

 

[manko]

Give 7zip a try.

http://www.7-zip.org/

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
But why do you need to create a .Z file with windows anyway? What benefits does it have over zip?

I'm curious also.

 

[Nothinman]

If you need to decompress the files on a unix box gzip would probably be the better option, it should be on just about every unix system out there and it's much better supported by non-unix systems.