In <001401c25644$a0cf4be0$0200a8c0@LAPTOP>, on 09/07/2002 at 12:00 AM, "David Chao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Although I did not start this thread, I do have some unresolved queries >regarding the .tgz or .tar.gz file extensions. >What is the difference between them? I think they are the same, right? Yep. The reason tgz exists is that many achive sites were running non-unix operating systems which had limitations on names. DOS was limited to 8.3 names, VMS can have only one dot in the name, and so on. Even if the final system that would use the file supoorted more, it was convenient to use the lowest common denominator, which was a 3 character extension. >Who came out with them anyway? Neither tar nor gzip insist on naming them >with these extensions. You could name the compressed archive with any >extension you want. Almost right. Gzip can be quite cranky about extracting from a compressed file that doesn't have a .gz at the end. You can get around it with renaming, and it may be that some versions are more forgiving. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Steve Garcia using MR/2 ICE #10133 with Warp 4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For PGP key, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject "PGP key" ----------------------------------------------------------- The Operating System/2 Version is 4.50 Revision 14.062 There are 41 Processes with 148 Threads. GHARLANE: uptime is 1 day, 00:04 hours and 26 seconds * They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
