Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:23:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham <lplist@q.closedsrc.org> To: MrBoboo <mrboboo@home.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file extensions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007162220150.7387-100000@q.closedsrc.org> In-Reply-To: <004d01bfef9f$543bb1a0$71aa1518@mesqt1.tx.home.com>
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A .tar file is a Tape ARchive file that contains multiple files and/or directory structures. gzip will only compress one file, so if you want to compress multiple files, you have to tar the files/directories and use gzip (or bzip2). .tgz and .tar.gz are pretty much the same thing... a file with those two extension means that it is a tar file compressed with gzip. A file ending with .z (more likely .Z) is a file compressed using the compress utility. It isn't the same as gzip, but it does the job. // Linh Pham // // Proud supporter of FreeBSD and OpenBSD // FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org // OpenBSD - http://www.openbsd.org /* "Oregon, n.: Eighty billion gallons of water with no place to go on Saturday night." */ On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, MrBoboo wrote: > what is the difference between files that end in: .tgz, .z, .tar, tar.gz ??????????????? (when uncompressing/unpacking them) > Rob mrboboo@home.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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