On Friday 13 December 2002 21:03, Guy Linger, K2AV wrote:
> File archive format (usually UNIX) made by gnuzip, unpacked by
> gnunzip.
When combined with tar it's called a tarball. Tar is a archiver, and gzip
compresses it. Gzip is slowly being replaced by bzip2. The format is
completely different than Phil Katz's zip.
http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/gzip.html for more info, and the RFC
73's
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