Re: tar.gz

On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Peter Schneider <Peter_Schneider@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:-

>Hi,
>
>C>I thought I would add that gzip a way to compress a single file. (A
>C>.zip file is a container of multiple files that is compressed - with
>C>.tar.gz files the TAR is the container, and the GZIP part is the
>C>compression).
>if someone is interested, I could provide a TAR.TTP running under TOS
>which is able to handle both tar and tgz files. This port is due to
>Hans-Peter, the author of OPTIMIZE.

While irrelevant as far as .tar.gz files are concerned, and purely out
of curiosity, does it also handle .tar.bz2 files as well? Not that I've
ever seen them used for TOS/mint archives, there are quite a few in the
*nix world.


Regards,
David Bolt

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