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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Ark description: 'Zip' vs 'Compression' vs 'Archiver'
From:       Gérard Delafond <gerard () delafond ! org>
Date:       2003-08-21 18:50:58
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Le Jeudi 21 Août 2003 20:09, William Leese a écrit :
> David Hugh-Jones wrote:
> >not everybody knows what "Archiving"  is. I suspect they think more about
> > "zip files", or "compression", with "zip" having a lot of instant
> > recognition.
> >
> >"file (un)zipper"?
> >"file compressor"?
>
compressing is not archiving.
a tar file is an uncompressed archive.
a zipped text file is a compressed file, not an archive.

Gerard

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