how can I make these files? winzip won't let me.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
You want to get the command-line program gzip from here.
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
for windows? do tars compress a file more than zip?
[ December 14, 2004, 09:50 AM: Message edited by: Altáriël of Dorthonion ]
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Originally, tar didn't compress at all -- it just globbed a bunch of files together into one, which you would then have to use gzip on.
But gnu's tar will gzip it for you if you use the -z flag.
Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :
As I understand it, tar technically isn't a compression program, but an archive program. It was historically used for tape backups. gzip is the actual compression program. Files wit .tar.gz or .tgz extensions have first been run through tar to archive them, and then run throug gzip to compress them.
gzip is indeed available for Windows, and I'm pretty sure most versions can tar and untar files as well as gzip and gzip -u them.
I'm not sure if you'd get better compression rates with .tgz or with plain old .zip. If the file is being distributed to Windows folks, I'd stick with .zip just for ease of use. .tgz is more common with flavors of unix.
[edit]: or, what mph said. I am verbose and slow.
[ December 14, 2004, 09:59 AM: Message edited by: xnera ]
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I distribute some unix binaries for work, but I manage them from my windows box. I use the gzip that comes with cygwin.
<-- really likes cygwin
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
I like that you get to call them tarballs.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Simple pleasures...
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
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I am verbose and slow.