From: gert@greenie.gold.sub.org (Gert Doering) Subject: Re: how to read .lzh/.tpz for non-SLS user Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 14:27:42 GMT
nan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Nan Zou) writes:
>>.tpz-files are tar-files compressed by gzip (GNU zip), which
>>uses the same algorythm as pkzip.
>Does it really? They may both have "zip" in their names but my
>understanding is that their algorithms are not exactly the same, similar
>maybe, but not the same.
The algorithm is the same, the file format is not. PKzip adds some
directory information to the .zip file, and can store more than one file
in one archive. Gzip works similar to compress - a complete tar archive is
compressed at once.
gert
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