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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: KTar+first draft
From:       Jost Schenck <uzsnty () uni-bonn ! de>
Date:       1999-09-09 6:54:59
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On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, David Faure wrote:
> 0) Why gzip files separately inside a tar.gz file ? 
> Torben's KTar handles tgz files, and I would prefer a tar.gz than separately
> gzipped files in a tar archive. Especially when manually looking into it.

I think the thought behind this was, that very large documents wouldn't have to
be unzipped all at once, but only when needed. This might save
resources and be faster. I don't know.
-Jost.  

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Jost Schenck
jost@schenck.de

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