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2005.09.27 02:25 "Re: Additional Lossless Compression Schemes", by Leonard Rosenthol
At 09:05 PM 9/26/2005, Ron wrote: > RFC1951 - zip > RFC1952 - gzip > > They use the same compression, but are mostly incompatible in other > ways. Actually gzip is a basically a single file Zip archive with a variant header. > A tar.gz is more like a .zip (but also not the same). Not even close! ince in zip each file is compressed individually, while in tar, everything is first "glomed" together and THEN compressed with gz/bzip. Leonard --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leonard Rosenthol <mailto:leonardr@pdfsages.com> Chief Technical Officer <http://www.pdfsages.com> PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-938-0880 (fax)