Actually, I think *.tar.gz is more popular that *.tgz. And makes more sense than .tgz. But it's really a trivial thing. Anyway you go will work.
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 18:58:51 -0600, Curtis L. Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oliver C. wrote: > > >Could you change the file format from *.tgz to *.tar.gz? > > > >I ask because *.tgz is used by Slackware as a package format (it's a tar.gz > >file with a install script in it) and this is leading to confusion > >when you have Slackware *.tgz files and *.tgz files that are no Slackware > >packages on your harddrive. > > > >So file endings called *.tar.gz would be much better than *.tgz. > > > > > > .tgz is a little bit better understood on the win/mac platforms than > .tar.gz, and if I remember my slackware, a slackware .tgz file is the > exact same format as a .tar.gz ... the reason slackware called their > packages .tgz is to facilitate downloading and managing them on windows > systems ... > > Regards, > > Curt. > > -- > Curtis Olson http://www.flightgear.org/~curt > HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ > FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org > Unique text: 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d > -- <Arthur/> _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
