Fred L. Drake fdrake at cnri.reston.va.us
Fri Jul 23 13:47:09 EDT 1999

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Gordon McMillan writes:
 > Nah, it's because a zip file is (conceptually) a tar of a bunch of 
 > gzips, while a tgz is a gzip of a tar. Compression ratios get better 
 > on longer inputs. But "random" access is a lot easier on the former.

Gordon,
  Good point; with the larger files (PDF & PostScript), the files
would be large enough that the difference is trivial, but with lots of 
small files, the compression tables have to be rebuilt for each file.
This makes a lot of sense.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.	     <fdrake at acm.org>
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