Once upon a time, José Mejuto said: > El 28/03/2013 1:06, Ewald escribió: >> Sorry to just drop in on this quite late, but isn't gzip a >> compression algorithm and not a file format as such? gzip (the >> command line utility) only compresses one file and *doesn't* put this >> in a multi-file container. To get `multi-file gzips`, you will first >> want to bundle the files and compress this bundle (files -> tar -> >> gzip) or compress the files separately and then bundle them together >> (files -> multiple separate gzipped files -> tar). Or are we talking >> about a different gzip here? >> > > Hello, > > Just quoting the RFC1952 about .gz format: > > --- http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1952 -------- > > 2.2. File format > > A gzip file consists of a series of "members" (compressed data > sets). The format of each member is specified in the following > section. The members simply appear one after another in the file, > with no additional information before, between, or after them. > > ----------------------------------------------- > > So I think it is legal to concatenate several .gz files and get a > final .gz with several files inside. > > In the other hand, yes, the usual behavior in .gz is to store only one > file. >
Yeah, you're right indeed. Sorry for the noise. -- Ewald _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
