Compression and Decompression of multiple files

[Alex Rice]

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?

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