Download and install utilities

Miscellaneous utilities

Some of the programs downloadable from this site come as .tar.gz archives. WinZip should be able to handle these archives. If your copy cannot, or you simply do not have WinZip, you can use the following utilities.

7-Zip

This is a free substitute for WinZip. It supports many archiving formats (including tar and gz) and has a good user interface. The exe file is a self-extracting archive that can be installed anywhere you like. A short-cut and a menu-item can be created and used to run it.

gzip

This is a zip-cum-unzip program that can be run from the command prompt. You may optionally install the explicit gunzip program.

tar

This program can be run from a command prompt to unpack tar archives. This requires the library file win32gnu.dll.

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