The compression and decompression of files is one the most useful inventions in the history of computing, but the lack of portable and open tools poses a major obstacle to making the process as useful ...

On Linux, you can run WinRAR through Wine, but setting it up is challenging—especially for those switching from Windows who aren't used to the command-line interface. The good news? Linux has plenty ...

If you have any doubt about the many commands and options available on Linux systems for file compression, you might want to take a look at the output of the apropos compress command. Chances are ...

February 28, 2011 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google This is a good question, as it seems like every other file you download nowadays is in a different compression ...

There are quite a few interesting things that you can do with "zip" commands other than compress and uncompress files. Here are some other zip options and how they can help. Some of us have been ...

I want users to go on my website chooses pictures that they like, and compress and dowlnload. However, I want to create a .zip(or other compress) file that can be understandable on Linux and ...