Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 02:14:02 -0600 (CST)
From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Interactive shells Re: 32bit BIOS
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On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
> There is a standard GNU edition of both gzip and tar for DOS.
I've got several flavors of each.

> > using TGZ.  No sane person anyway.  Besides when is the last time
> > you saw a DOS filename with two dots ('.') in the filename?  :o)
> Agreed.  .tgz / .tar.gz is not really a very processor-efficient
> format.

The reason I suggest using a tar file is because _it's not compressed_.
Which means that it really like a compressed drive, only with no
compression, think of it as a sub-sectored drive, lots of little small
sectors for storing lots of little small files.