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From: rene.cougnenc@lill.frmug.fr.mugnet.org (Rene Cougnenc) 
Subject: Re: [Q] *.tgz vice *.tpz
Date: 16 Feb 1993 21:59:00 GMT

Attention !!!

L'extension pour les fichiers tar + gzip n'est pas .tpz mais .tgz !!!!

Ca parait plus logique.:

From: jloup@chorus.fr (Jean-loup Gailly)

> I understand the historic reason SLS initial had *.tpz by mistake.
> Is it possible to change to *.tgz where t is for tar and gz is for gzip ?

I second this motion, of course. Please do this while Linux is still
in version < 1.0. Imagine what would happen if nobody dares correcting
typing mistakes. Will we have lixun.tpz ?

Jean-loup Gailly
author of gzip

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