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to: Sean Rima
from: Janis Kracht
date: 2003-10-05 17:08:04
subject: Re: Archivers

Hi Sean,

>>> I am considering leaving/sending out files in their original format ie
>>> tgz etc
>>
>> umm.. one of the problems there is you can't put the archive header on
>> the files if they're gzip'd tar files... is there a problem with
>> info-zip and just storing the tgz, rather than archiving it?
>>
> I cannot recall, I will try and see what happens. All files ATM do have the
> archive header anyway :)

ok :)  Let me know how it goes :)

Take care,
Janis

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