Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:15:16 +0200 From: Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@skynet.be> To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: file extensions Message-ID: <5bk5nssgubqu69et4ek34mpa4esfg53ndj@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <004d01bfef9f$543bb1a0$71aa1518@mesqt1.tx.home.com> References: <004d01bfef9f$543bb1a0$71aa1518@mesqt1.tx.home.com>
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On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:30:18 -0500, MrBoboo wrote: >what is the difference between files that end in: .tgz, .z, .tar, tar.gz ??????????????? (when uncompressing/unpacking them) .z and .gz use a different compressing mechanism -- I'd think even a different compression program. .z -> compress, .gz -> gzip. Nowadays gzip is more common. .tar is a from a program, tar, which only combines a directory tree into one single file, without compression. That root of this program is to store files, raw, on a backup tape -> "tar" = "Tape ARchive". .tar.gz is a tar file compressed with gzip. And .tgz is actually the same as .tar.gz. n.b. You can compress/decompress archives while creating them, by using the -z option. This will avoid saving the (large) raw .tar file, and directly generate the .tar.gz file when creating an archive, and the directory tree when extracting. Idem ditto for -Z, which uses the .z compression, making or extraction a .tar.z file. -- Bart. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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