[Towertalk] The Meaning of GZ (OT)

[Bryan Fields]

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

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