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to: Janis Kracht
from: Sean Rima
date: 2003-10-05 20:31:10
subject: Re: Archivers

-=> Janis Kracht wrote to Sean Rima <=-

 JK> Hi Sean,
 JK>
>>I am considering leaving/sending out files in their original format ie
 >> tgz etc
 JK>
 JK> umm.. one of the problems there is you can't put the archive header on
 JK> the files if they're gzip'd tar files... is there a problem with
 JK> info-zip and just storing the tgz, rather than archiving it?
 JK>
 JK> Take care,

I cannot recall, I will try and see what happens. All files ATM do have the
archive header anyway :)

Sean

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