Re: alias wanted for binfmt_java

Andrew E. Mileski (aem@nic.ott.hookup.net)
Thu, 30 May 1996 09:31:03 -0400 (EDT)

> 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

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Andrew E. Mileski


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