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sph on June 7, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in U...

That's what the name might mean but it's simply wrong. gzip is not the same format as ZIP, and the tool itself is unable to read or write ZIP files.

account42 on June 12, 2023 [–]

It is however GNU's alternative to the zip format.

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