.tar.gz

[marcus@bighorn.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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