In article <3b1650cf@news.povray.org>, "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

>   Firstly, a .tar.gz has nothing to do with source archives. It's just
> a packing format completely equivalent to .zip, .arj or .rar. It
> couldn't care less about what's packed inside it. Unix program sources
> are usually distributed in this format, but that's just because it's the
> most common packing format in Unix; everything else is usually packed
> with this format as well. The format itself has nothing to do with
> sources or anything.
>   (If we are pedantic, a .tar.gz file is actually packed with _two_
>   programs:
> first tar and then gzip, although the gtar program supports both at the
> same time.)
> 
>   Secondly, .tar.gz has nothing to do with Linux. In the same well as
>   .zip
> and .rar are universal formats, so is .tar.gz. It's just a
> system-independent packing format.
>   The fact that it has become popular in the Unix world does not make it
> a Linux format.
>   (I smell a say-Linux-when-should-say-Unix phenomenon in the original
> article as well, which is rather irritating...)

I apologize for the rather incorrect respomse.  As you can see from the
time, it was late, and I probably should've waited until morning to post.
Oh well, thank you for correcting me.

David
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