On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:04:34PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> What is tgz and how do you decompress it ?
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There has been a lot of responses which stated that it is only
a .tar.gz tarball, but no one explained why ... I am just on a
2c contribution game here :)
In the early days of Linux, the world was on mainly M$ systems
and BBSs (remember CIX ?) ... These did not support long file
names. To enable tx across M$ floppies and BBS networks, .tgz
was used for abbreviation. FYI, this existed before the birth
of both .rpm and .deb ... In todays context, it perhaps lacks
relevance but is still used by Slackware and other .tgz based
distros which still accounts for 30% of the Linux users around
the world !
Bish.
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wget -v -c http://geocities.com/usmbish/rotator.tar.gz
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