To: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
Cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
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From: "-= ArkanoiD =-" <ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru>
Date: Sat,  5 Apr 97 06:51:05 +0300
Subject: Re: Interactive shells Re: 32bit BIOS
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nuqneH,

> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 19:03:30 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
> Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
> To: "Jonathan E. Brickman" <brickman AT cjnetworks DOT com>
> cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: Re: Interactive shells Re: 32bit BIOS
[dd]
>
> Well, I'm glad that you agreed with me, the latter statement is
> not in tune with what I was trying to say.  TGZ *IS* a good
> archive format.  When I compare ZIP to TGZ in Linux, I find that
> TGZ comes out smaller all of the time.  I don't know about the
> speed, but the archives are usually smaller.

The reason is simple - .zip has uncompressed archive header and .tar.gz is
archived and *then* compressed.

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