At 09:17 +0100 4/29/09, Simon Forster wrote: >Use zip on the command line - man zip is your friend. man gzip on my machine. gzip is the open source version. The man page for gzip talks about using an MSDOS environment variable. But the implication is that the files it creates, usually with a .gz extension are compatible with Microsoft offerings. -- --> A fair tax is one that you pay but I don't <--