Mail Archives: opendos/2001/01/30/01:10:26
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From: "Da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 9:55 PM
Subject: RE: TGZ compression (was Greed, nee DPMS info)
> Thanks.
>
> Note however, that the possible "large file" problem is with UNTGZ,
A long, long time ago, DoSLinux which was called DILINUX back then was
distributed using .tgz and came with UNTGZ. It was about 9MB is size
compressed. I had no problem unzipping the file and installing DOSLinux
with it.
> *not* GZIP. The problem I had with GZIP was that (from memory) :
> 1. It has a nasty habit of overwriting the source file.
That is not a nasty habit. GZIP is designed to do this. However, if you
wish to keep the source file you can give it instructions to do so. I
never bothered doing that.
> 2. It doesn't seem to handle LFN's within archives properly.
That could be. I neber tried to use it with LFNs in DOS. I do that in
Linux. But I have all kinds of problems with LHNs period.
> 3. It's documentation sux.
This could also be, because it was probably just proted over to DoS from
Linux with some of the stuff rewritten like using the \ that DOS uses
instead of the industry startdard / for subdirectories. I don't find
them to be bad because I used it in Linux and looked at the DOCs for DOS
too see what can and cannot be done with the DOS version. Usually I just
use the -h or --help screens for reference and seldom use the manual.
Much the same as I do with PKZIP. For example you use -9 for the best
compression with GZIP and use -x with PKZIP. Much of it is just like
PKZIP and PKZIP probably came from GZIP anyway as far as the commands
go. I don't use ARJ very much and sometimes I have to refer to it's
manual to figure out things that I normally do with my eyes closed with
PKZIP. Probably the recursing of directories is the hardest part to
understand because PKZIP is very different from all the others I have
used, except of course PKXARC and PKPAK. I have to always look that up
when using ARJ, LHARC, GZIP and many others because I am so used to
using PKZIP.
Pat
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