Decklin Foster wrote: > However, I soon discovered that gzip apparenly creates different > compressed files for the same input on i386 and ppc.
It has nothing to do with architecture; gzip records the timestamp of the file it compresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>touch foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>gzip < foo > a.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>touch foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>gzip < foo > b.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>md5sum [ab].gz ea064b002ea0850c8025588f2d5a8b6b a.gz 3352b896bb8b29e01e7522f1d835b443 b.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>file [ab].gz a.gz: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Wed Jan 3 16:30:11 2001, os: Unix b.gz: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Wed Jan 3 16:30:33 2001, os: Unix -- see shy jo
