[Python-Dev] Re: Planning to drop gzip compression for future releases. (original) (raw)
Charles Cazabon python at discworld.dyndns.org
Sat Sep 18 00:46:15 CEST 2004
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Scott David Daniels <Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org> wrote:
.zip is the only one of these 3 formats that allows you to decompress a few files without expanding the entire archive. This feature is useful to me at least (and makes up for the larger size).
tar supports that as well, and with better compression when paired with bzip2. Hint: tar xzf archive [file] [...]
Charles
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