On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Chris Watt wrote:
> At 05:33 PM 11/15/00 +0100, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
>
> >Right solution, wrong cause. ;)
> >.taz is an abbreviation for .tar.Z - these used to be much more common
> >before gzip and bzip2 became standards.
>
> I may be totally wrong about this, but I was under the impression that the
> "-z" option in tar referred specifically to gzip compression, which is not
> quite the same as what (un)compress does. Although I notice now that
> they're both Lempel-Ziv, anybody know why we need two of them then?
> I would have said that if it was short for .tar.Z then the answer would
> have been "uncompress -c something.taz | tar -xvf" or possibly "tar -xZvf
> something.taz". Am confused now. Help?
>
I just suggested the same thing. I think that it's a "best guess"
situation whether the file was gzipped or "Compressed". Looks like it
was compressed, not gzipped.
John
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