That's right. gzip is a command line utility. By double-clicking it from Explorer gzip starts, finds that it has no command line arguments - ergo, it has nothing to do - and immediately quits. It is not a virus.

By the way, you don't need gzip. Just start Winzip from the Start menu, choose File->Open, set File Type to All files, and select the .crz file you want to uncompress. It opens nicely and you'll see one file contained in the "archive": the .cr2 you were looking for. Drag it from the Winzip window into the character library folder.
Important: rename the .cr2 in the library folder to XXX_uncompressed.cr2. Then make a copy of the .png file that goes with the crz and rename it to XXX_uncompressed.png.

Now you have both a compressed and an uncompressed version of the figure in your library.

The routine you did also works very well, you can separate compressed and uncompressed libraries this way. And if you get short of disk space again, you can always delete the uncompressed libraries again.

By the way, I use Winzip 9.0 SR1. The evaluation version is free, it only has a nag screen at each startup. And if you have any registered version of Winzip, the upgrade to version 9 is free.

Message edited on: 06/03/2005 11:47

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