Re: alias wanted for binfmt_java

Aaron Ucko (UCKO@vax1.rockhurst.edu)
Thu, 30 May 1996 10:50:16 -0600 (CST)


>> Why .zip? The .zip format is better than .tar.gz when it comes to
>> extracting individual members, since each member is compressed
>> individually.
>
>Well, you could do a .gz in a .tar (isn't unix wonderful) which still
>has better compression than a .zip

AFAIK, zip 2.x and gzip use the same compression algorithm.

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