Once upon a time, Flávio Etrusco said: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 8:51 AM, José Mejuto <joshy...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. >> >> -- > "Members" refer to each available section according to the flags. > Re-read this whole paragraph you posted and a few following you'll > realize only one "file" is allowed in a gzip file/blob. Alright, now I am contradicting what I said earlier, but there can apparently be more than one file in a gzipped `thing`: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip#File_format . It is not really all files in one container, but more like concatenating serveral of these one-file gzipped files, if you see what I mean. Anyway, I've never seen it happen, so I'm going to leave it at that before I start sounding silly ;-)
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