On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 19:10, _nasturtium wrote: > I think I'll usurp his job and add my 2 cents... > > "Tar" simply puts all the files/directories into a single archive. "Zip" > actually compresses it. Used together you get a .tar.gz, where you get the > benefit of archiving an entire directory tree (if you wish) with compression. > > Bzip2 was written by Julian Seward, it's a block sorting compressor, and on > some files you can make them literally 10 times smaller than zips. But not > all Windows computers can read them (WinZip can't). > > Regards, > _nasturtium
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