GZip File Reading

[Russel Winder]

On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 10:57 +0000, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
[ . . . ]
> Nope, a gzip or bzip2 file only contains a single file.  To zip several 
> files, you first make a tar archive, and then you run gzip or bzip2 on 
> it.  That's why most compressed archives targeted at the Linux platform 
> have extensions like .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, and so on.

Obviously ;-)

I confused myself thinking of files with extension tgz.  Zip, Gzip so
similar, so different.

Sorry for the noise.  Everyone should go back to thinking of a
transforming stream architecture for this problem.
 
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Russel.
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