Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 30 May 1996 10:50:16 -0600 (CST) | From | Aaron Ucko <> | Subject | Re: alias wanted for binfmt_java |
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>> Why .zip? The .zip format is better than .tar.gz when it comes to >> extracting individual members, since each member is compressed >> individually. > >Well, you could do a .gz in a .tar (isn't unix wonderful) which still >has better compression than a .zip
AFAIK, zip 2.x and gzip use the same compression algorithm.
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