On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 18:56, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 9:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > > Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > >You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the > > >directory you want to archive and choose "tar" from it - it will > > >tar/gzip it for you...just FYI. > > > > Not in mine it would seem ? > > > On my right-click menu it offers Bzip2, tar and zip. Can you define > the difference, please, Stephen? > > Anne
Well, bzip2 is a tight-compression system, zip is, well, zip, and the tar option actually does a tar/gzip of an archive. I don't have the bzip2, though...hmmm...now that's got me thinking (like I can think with a sore throat, 2% of my brain capacity, 70% of my visual capacity) -- Thu May 29 11:05:00 EST 2003 11:05:00 up 1 day, 13:38, 5 users, load average: 1.10, 1.23, 0.92 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 & RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * She can kill all your files; She can freeze with a frown. And a wave of her hand brings the whole system down. And she works on her code until ten after three. She lives like a bat but she's always a hacker to me. -- Apologies to Billy Joel
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