Zip & Excel files on non-Windoze platforms

Can they be accessed by anti-MS folk?

[balam]

I have a bunch of data for which there is no common file format across software packages, never mind OS platforms, that I plan to make available on my site...

Since it's a large amount, it makes sense for me to compress it with WinZip into a .zip file. I know Apple folk have Stuffit (.hqx?) and *nix folk have Gzip, but can they open a .zip file?

Same idea with an Office 2000 Excel (.xls) spreadsheet... Can someone on a Mac or using Linux get at the data?

There's nothing fancy about the spreadsheet (no formulae, macros), just comma-delimited text pull in...

balam

[ncsuk]

Winrar, stuffit, and many other will read .zip .sit .hqz .tar .gz and many many more.

If I where you I would just put the file online with perhaps a link to winrar's homepage if they have any problems.

[john316]

zip files are no problem on mac, you may want to convert your xls files to csv, or even plain text for downloading.