From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 24 22: 5:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp014.mail.yahoo.com (smtp014.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C5D0C37B402 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 22:05:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from wyldephyre2 (AUTH LOGIN) at unknown (HELO warhawk) (wyldephyre2@202.1.200.213) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Feb 2002 06:05:35 -0000 From: "Haikal Saadh" To: "'Chauncey Smith'" , "'Paul'" , "'freebsd.org'" Cc: "'freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: installations questions Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:04:58 +0500 Message-ID: <000201c1bdc2$697efe80$d5c801ca@warhawk> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <006201c1bdbe$a2abf9a0$2c14fea9@ultra2000> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > 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? Aesthetics aside, I don't think there's any difference between the contents of either one. Both are gzipped tars. Why not straight away zip? The zip command can only compress one file, hence the need to tar up the files you want into compress. If you open up a tgz or a tar.gz file under windows with winrar, you'll see that the file has a .tar file in it, which must be ultimately extracted to get at the files you want. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBPHnSGRY2HTS0XwU2EQI98ACgnDrVITMzZdnUneT2BGFUSWhEtN4AoJiz zupIt2FCGPSQDoPyCOrUhqRP =OsSG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message