.NET Tip: Compressing/Decompressing Your Files
One of the many new libraries included with .NET 2.0 allows for compression and decompression of files using the gzip file format. The major downside to this format is that it isn’t compatible with the built-in Compressed Folders format built into Windows XP. However, I was able to open a compressed file with WinZip after I renamed the file with a “.Z” extension. WinZip still needed the original filename that I compressed, but once I provided that, it was able to decompress the file.

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