Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 02:48:08 -0400 (EDT)
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: -= ArkanoiD =- <ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru>
cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Interactive shells Re: 32bit BIOS
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On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, -= ArkanoiD =- wrote:

> > 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.

Yes, I agree.  That isn't a good reason to use TGZ in DOS though.
If one were to use an archiver based on that, a better DOS choice
would be to use RAR or UC2 in DOS.  However, not everyone has
RAR or Ultracompressor, so ZIP wins again.  A workaround would be
to ZIP -e0 (or whatever store is) then ZIP -ex, but this would
complicate unzipping unnecessarily.

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