From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jul 16 22:24:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 116F937B78C for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:24:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@q.closedsrc.org) Received: from localhost (lplist@localhost) by q.closedsrc.org (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e6H5N1X07393; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:23:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@q.closedsrc.org) Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:23:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: MrBoboo Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file extensions In-Reply-To: <004d01bfef9f$543bb1a0$71aa1518@mesqt1.tx.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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