On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 11:14:55 +0100 Mark Carroll wrote: > Ralf <unknown.crew...@rocketship.com> writes: > > The file is from mtools . I wonder what /usr/bin/tgz is good > > for. > > I don't have mtools installed but it looks like tgz may be something > like using tar with its -z option: to work with compressed file > archives.
That's my guess too, but a tar -czf does behave different and especially tar --help has got another behaviour. By meld I compared my $HOME with a backup and excepted of the created file --help.tgz and the directories ./--help* after running tgz --help nothing happened. On the used machine mtools is installed as optional dependency for gparted and mc. This isn't a Debian install, the mc and gparted packages for Debian don't list mtools as depends, recommends, suggests or enhances, so mtools seems to be quite useless :D. It seems only to be useful to access floppy disks and ZIP disks, something that isn't provided by the used machine. I'll purge it. _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list D-community-offtopic@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic