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Date:      Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:02:35 -0800
From:      Johnson David <djohnson@acuson.com>
To:        Chauncey Smith <csmith@icdc.com>, Paul <paulcb_mcse@yahoo.com>, "freebsd.org" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: installations questions
Message-ID:  <20020225180302.5175337B400@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <006201c1bdbe$a2abf9a0$2c14fea9@ultra2000>
References:  <200202240508.AAA27239@alpha.vaxxine.com> <006201c1bdbe$a2abf9a0$2c14fea9@ultra2000>

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On Sunday 24 February 2002 09:30 pm, Chauncey Smith wrote:
> there is something of and issue of the file extenstions which I have to
> question.
> I did a man on gzip and fouind that .tgz and tar.gz are both the same
> format. you cang ungzip them because gzip has shortend the name of the
> file. so how can you actually tell the diffence?

Traditionally, .tgz is used for a precompiled package ready to use, while 
.tar.gz is used for uncompiled source code or other stuff. They are the same 
format, but just think tgz=package, tar.gz=source.

David

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