Branden Robinson wrote: > Even gzip does not compress deterministically. I learned this when fooling > with the massive X source archives. I can take the same damn .tar file, > gzip -9 it on different machines, and get different results. They're not > different by much, say 14 bytes or so, but it is a difference.
That's various timestamps. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>file foo.gz foo.gz: gzip compressed data, deflated, original filename, last modified: Thu Jun 10 18:58:35 1999, max compression, os: Unix File wouldn't know when it was compressed w/o them (it's _not_ looking at mtime). Trick gzip into thinking it's the same time when compressing it again and I think you'll get an identical file. -- see shy jo
