On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 10:57 +0000, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote: [ . . . ] > Nope, a gzip or bzip2 file only contains a single file. To zip several > files, you first make a tar archive, and then you run gzip or bzip2 on > it. That's why most compressed archives targeted at the Linux platform > have extensions like .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, and so on.
Obviously ;-) I confused myself thinking of files with extension tgz. Zip, Gzip so similar, so different. Sorry for the noise. Everyone should go back to thinking of a transforming stream architecture for this problem. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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