Progress report. I pulled down various tarballs (actually, .tar.gz balls), and I pulled down PowerArchiver. I've installed MinGW, and I've done the basic C "Hello, World" exercise. "Jean-Pierre Rosen" wrote in message news:acdlv1$ovg$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net... > > "Stephen Leake" a �crit dans le message news: uptzplhe6.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov... > > > What is an appropriate Windows utility for opening them? Where can I get > > > it? > > > > WinZip, www.winzip.com, $29 lifetime license (free upgrades). > > > > Cygwin, http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ > > provides command line tar and gzip > > > Or PowerArchiver (http://www.powerarchiver.com), a free WinZip clone > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------- > J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) > Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr > >