On 17 January 2011 at 12:24 "d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk" <d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk> wrote:
> > > On 17 January 2011 at 12:16 Tim Waugh <twa...@redhat.com> wrote: > > The secret to this is that the gzip format is clever enough to work > > correctly when two gzip files are simply concatenated. > > > > I don't know the details of why it works, but I believe it's something > > to do with the "streaming" nature of gzip, compared with e.g. > > block-based compression such as bzip2. Dunno what happened, but my response got tangled with Tim's. It should have read: I just spotted this> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_%28Unix%29#Binary_use. Is this working because the .gz file is treated as a binary? Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
