X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <045601c08a82$e98939c0$91a63bc6@dbcooper> From: "Patrick Moran" To: References: <01FD6EC775C6D4119CDF0090273F74A4021F12 AT emwatent02 DOT meters DOT com DOT au> Subject: Re: TGZ compression (was Greed, nee DPMS info) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:07:18 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Da Silva, Joe" To: 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 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com