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- From: cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne)
- Subject: Re: *.Z compression
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.153505.15706@csi.uottawa.ca>
- Keywords: compress zip
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
- References: <C03FEF.Ht5@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1993Jan3.233757.22682@tdb.uu.se> <2883@targon.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 15:35:05 GMT
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- In article <2883@targon.UUCP> gert@targon.UUCP (Gert Kanis) writes:
- >=>: *.Z --> use uncompress
- >=>: *.F --> use freeze -d
- >=>
- >=>And while we're discussing extensions:
- >=>
- >=> *.z (lower-case) --> use GNU ZIP
- >=>
- >=>It's supposed to become the new standard for the GNU-project. I can now
- >=>see LOTS and LOTS of people wondering where to get an Atari-version of
- >
- >And how are we gonna see the difference between .Z and .z under TOS
- >on the Ataries?
-
- 1) GZIP knows the difference in format between "compress" files, and
- "ziped" files. It will probably be subsuming the code of classic
- compress Real Soon Now, so that it won't matter which program was used
- to compress, GZIP can be used to uncompress it.
-
- In short, you don't need to see the difference.
-
- >What's wrong with the old .ZIP extension ?
-
- Nothing.
-
- GZIP doesn't support "multiple file archives." That is, it is not a
- direct competitor with ZIP, because it currently deals with only
- single files.
-
- The main thing that it has in common with ZIP is the fact that it uses
- the same compression algorithm.
-
- The two formats are likely to co-exist, at least for a while.
-
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