On Mon, 9 May 2005, Ira Abramov wrote:
however:
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gzip stores the date & time of the uncompressed file, which is made at a different time by tar, for each run. man gzip options -l && --verbose.
bzip2 does not store such a date anywhere, thus it is not affected.
Peter
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