From: marcus@bighorn.dr.lucent.com Subject: RE: .tar.gz 4 Aug 1997 10:09:19 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199708041525.JAA00273.cygnus.gnu-win32@chorus.dr.lucent.com> Original-From: marcus@drmail.dr.lucent.com Original-From: marcus@drmail.dr.lucent.com Original-To: bwomack@ptc.com Original-Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Brian David Womack wrote: > Very good point. I've felt that this debate about gzip being > non-portable was bogus as well. Every UNIX and PC I've been > using has had a cross-platform compile of gzip. Never had > a problem. I had thought that the issue wasn't the use of gzip/gunzip itself, but the -z flag to tar, which causes gzip/gunzip to be invoked if using gnu tar, but may do other things on other versions of tar. I don't think that anybody has questioned gzipping archives as being non-portable, just how to handle them. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".