Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 09:32:11 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Chris Waters <design AT netcom DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Why not to use 'tar' before packing DJGPP?
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On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Chris Waters wrote:

[...]
> [infozip]  unzip zipfile
> [pkzip]    pkunzip -d zipfile
> [tar+gzip] gunzip -c tarfile.gz | tar -xf -
>  or        gunzip tarfile.gz <enter> tar -xf tarfile
> 
> For ease of use in unpacking djgpp, I'd say Info-zip wins (it's almost
> intuitive), followed by PKZip, followed by tar+gzip, the most confusing.
> This isn't even counting GUI-based packages like Winzip.  Most of the
> features of PKZip are irrelevant to the average user.  And zip, at
> least, doesn't default to using the tape drive!!  :-)
[...]

this isn't exactly right. you forgot GNU tar, which can do all of the
things PKZIP/InfoZIP does and more, so the argument that you have to tar
and gunzip separately doesn't apply (besides, your tar+gzip example above 
wouldn't work under MSDOG with its crappy "pipe" ..haha.. facility).

[GNU tar] tar -zxvf aaa_base.tgz

it's true that the only UNIX i've seen with a default GNU tar is Linux,
but it's so much better than AT&T tar that on the machines I use (Solaris,
IRIX) i've replaced the default tar with GNU tar.