Compression and Decompression of multiple files

[Richard Gaskin]

Alex Rice wrote:

> 
> On Feb 7, 2004, at 12:27 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 
>> Tar's pretty good: it uses gzip at the core.
> 
> I know nothing about the tar file format internals, but when you see a
> .tar.gz file or .tgz file, that is a tar file with gzip run on it
> afterwards. So I assume the tar format itself doesn't do any
> compression?

Correct, I was thinking of tgz, which seems the most common usage.

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