Although you could BinHex the file and THEN gzip it. That would keep the 
data fork intact, but it would make the file a bit bigger.

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On Mon, 23 May 1994, Kenneth Knight wrote:

> One very important thing to remember about the current version of MacGZIP 
> that exists on the Mac is that is will NOT compress dual-fork files. This
> means that files with resource forks (applications, and certain types of
> data files) will not be compressed. In fact, the resource fork is destroyed.
> So, use MacGZIP only on files with data forks (e.g. text).
> 
>   ** Ken **
> >kevin@spef8.spef.syr.ge.com writes:
> >> Is there a MacOS side version of gzip?
> >> 
> >> If so where can I find it?
> >> 
> >> gzip is much more efficent than the unix compress which
> >> is my other alternative at this point.
> >> 
> >> Thanks for any help/info.
> >> 
> >> Kevin
> >> kevin@spef8.spef.syr.ge.com
> >
> >The program you want is MacGZip.  It is available from the various sumex
> >mirrors as .../cmp/mac-gzip-02.hqx.
> >
> >- monroe
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> >Monroe Williams                                        monroe@cs.pdx.edu
> 

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