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Hello mark.

Lørdag 05. Juni 2004 22:18, you wrote to me:

 JK>>> No, don't untar or un-gzip them.. you might mess up the
 JK>>> directory structure and some programs need that included in
 JK>>> the tgz file.

 GKA>> This not what i do with the tar and tgz files, i just pack
 GKA>> them into a zip file now.

 ml> good deal...

Yup.

 JK>>> The best thing to do is just store the files in a .zip file
 JK>>> (store, don't compress them).  If you compress an already
 JK>>> compressed file (tgz is already compressed) the file gets
 JK>>> bigger :) :)

 JK>>> So, if I find a program in .tgz format, I just zip it with
 JK>>> -m0 (move, don't compress) and I add a diz to the .zip file.
 JK>>> This creates a zip 'envelope' to hold the tgz file.

 GKA>> The I do with the tgz files I finding, pkzip filename.zip
 GKA>> filename.tgz + a written file_id.diz or a diz file from the
 GKA>> ?gz file.

 ml> please try to ensure that the file_id.diz follows the file-id.diz
 ml> specs... definitely try to ensure that it carries CRLF line endings ;)

When I write the file_id.diz files I allways use to first write a short
line first desc. and then using the return key tast for new lines and not
using to just write in one long line.

  Take care
         Gert

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