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2005.09.27 03:20 "Re: Additional Lossless Compression Schemes", by <ron@debian.org>
> > 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. Yes, they share a subset, but in practice that seems rarely helpful. > > 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. I meant in the sense that they add the facility to store multiple discrete 'files' -- which doesn't really seem like something libtiff would need. (pk)Zip is an archive maintenance utility, gzip is a "unix-like" tool that just takes care of compression. It leaves it up to you to determine its format and interpretation. ie. it provides the mechanism, not the policy for using it. When comparing .zip with .tar.gz it is quite clear which is always the winner, where speed and size are the judging criteria. One reason for that you give just above. Sorry if I over-simplified, or made an overly general and misleading comparison. More detail on that seemed to be veering off topic from the original query. Ron