Subj : uncompression
To   : MRO
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue May 06 2025 05:58 pm

 Re: uncompression
 By: MRO to Digital Man on Tue May 06 2025 07:24 pm

>   Re: uncompression
>   By: Digital Man to nelgin on Tue May 06 2025 02:05 pm
>
>  >  > files.
>
>  > Right, .gz files aren't archives. No plan to support them directly in
>  > SBBS. .tgz / .tar.gz files *are* supported however.
>
> well a .gz file is a single compressed file, right?

No, it's a block of compressed data which may not have originally been a file.

> so why are you saying it's not an archive format?

Becaue it's not. An archive file/format contains one or more files, their data/contents and metadata about those files (e.g. file name, date/time, size, checksum) - a .gz file doesn't contain any of that.

A .tar file is an archive.
A .gz file is compressed data.
A .tar.gz (or .tgz) is a compressed archive.
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