TGZ file?
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- Kevin Springer
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- Kevin Springer
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- OK sorted out. On windows you need to unzip it TWICE. Nothing more to see here, move along please.
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- Andy Miller
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Just fyi, TGZ is the same as tar.gz, which is a unix format which actually is two things, something.tar has no compression, tar stands for tape-archive (very old name), and it basically means bundle a bunch of files up into 1 file. something.tar.gz means its tar'ed first, then gzipped, which is a pretty darn good compression. On 'nix you use gunzip to uncompress this not unzip. Anyway winzip and many other 3rd party apps just hides all this from you and opens them anyway
Compression is actually better with tgz than zip, and also it can keep user and file permission information which zip does not.
Anyway, know you know more than you ever wanted to
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- Dan Gamber
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No time for lessons, Andy! Get back to work!!! April's almost HERE!
Andy Miller wrote:
Just fyi, TGZ is the same as tar.gz, which is a unix format which actually is two things, something.tar has no compression, tar stands for tape-archive (very old name), and it basically means bundle a bunch of files up into 1 file. something.tar.gz means its tar'ed first, then gzipped, which is a pretty darn good compression. On 'nix you use gunzip to uncompress this not unzip. Anyway winzip and many other 3rd party apps just hides all this from you and opens them anyway Compression is actually better with tgz than zip, and also it can keep user and file permission information which zip does not.
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- Dan Gamber
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Next time you take a break, do something more constructive... like
http://miniclip.com/paintball.htm
I would ban myself in a fit of logic for spamming; but Kevin already said move along to something else! - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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