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RE: .tar.gz
- To: bwomack at ptc dot com
- Subject: RE: .tar.gz
- From: marcus at bighorn dot dr dot lucent dot com
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 09:25:14 -0600
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Original-From: marcus@drmail.dr.lucent.com
- Original-From: marcus@drmail.dr.lucent.com
Brian David Womack <bwomack@ptc.com> wrote:
> Very good point. I've felt that this debate about gzip being
> non-portable was bogus as well. Every UNIX and PC I've been
> using has had a cross-platform compile of gzip. Never had
> a problem.
I had thought that the issue wasn't the use of gzip/gunzip itself, but the
-z flag to tar, which causes gzip/gunzip to be invoked if using gnu tar, but
may do other things on other versions of tar. I don't think that anybody
has questioned gzipping archives as being non-portable, just how to handle
them.
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