Subj : uncompression
To   : MRO
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu May 08 2025 18:03:10

  Re: uncompression
  By: MRO to Digital Man on Thu May 08 2025 06:55 pm

 >   Re: uncompression
 >   By: Digital Man to MRO on Wed May 07 2025 05:44 pm
 >
 >
 >  > Per Wikipedia:
 >
 >  > Compressed archives are typically created by assembling collections of
 >  > files into a single tar archive (also called tarball),[7] and then
 >  > compressing that archive with gzip. The final compressed file usually has
 >  > the extension .tar.gz or .tgz.
 >
 > Are you seriously referencing wikipedia, a site that anybody can edit?
 > how about i just change it for ya?

Okay, I'll reference the same man page that you did:

"If  you  wish  to  create a single archive file with multiple members so that members can later be extracted independently, use an archiver such as tar or zip. GNU tar supports the -z option to invoke gzip transparently. gzip is designed as a complement to tar, not as a replacement."

They're both correct: gzip is not an archiver tool or an archive file format.
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