Re: How do i access a file with *.tar on the end?

From: Alexander Skwar <ASkwar DigitalProjects com>
To: gnome-pilot-list gnome org
Subject: Re: How do i access a file with *.tar on the end?
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 08:14:23 +0200

So sprach »Patrick Lane« am 2001-08-29 um 15:53:08 -0700 :
> this will extract the file. Tarballs are compressed data (similar to a 

No, they are not.  Tarballs contain multiple files, but the files are
"simply" appended to each other.  Compression is normally done by
gnuzip, in which case the file is named foo.tar.gz or foo.tgz.
Increasingly often, you'll find .tar.bz2 files.  These are compressed
with bzip2 - yet another compression program which works A LOT better
than gzip.

Alexander Skwar
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References:
- How do i access a file with *.tar on the end?
  - From: Bentley Brook
- Re: How do i access a file with *.tar on the end?
  - From: Patrick Lane

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