> > From: Ryan Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> gz files are gzip'd and called Tarballs. That is the standard >> compression. Strictly dot-tar files stand for Tape Archive. Offers no >> compression but combines all the data of a given set of files, >> folders, etc into one large file for compression. GZip doesn't work >> on folders. >> -- >> Ryan Coleman > >That would be an even better (more exact) explanation :-) >/h
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