[Wolves] compression formats

[chris procter]

--- David Goodwin <dg at clocksoft.com> wrote:

> 
> > If anyone knows it would be great. i have a
> feeling that tar.bz2 is the best 
> > but i really ain't sure...
> 
> 
> bz2 has the greatest compression, but also takes the
> longest (more cpu 
> required) to extract/compress.

On the other hand tar.gz (also known as .tgz) is the
most commonly used in the linux/unix world so
everybody should have tar & gzip, bz2 is less common
so might cause problems.

For example Winzip will decompress .gz files and untar
.tar files, but I'm not sure about .bz2 files.

chris





		
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