Krafting@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 26 days agothe fear of missing out a better compressionlemmy.worldimagemessage-square122fedilinkarrow-up1567arrow-down16file-text
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minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·25 days agoYou reinvented zip and didn’t even know it.
minus-squareIllecors@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·25 days agotar was nearly and adult when zip was born.
minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·25 days agoSee my reply here: https://midwest.social/comment/10257041 The two aren’t really equivalent. They make different tradeoffs. The scheme of “compress individual files, then archive” from GP is what zip does. Tar does “archive first, then compress the whole thing”.
You reinvented zip and didn’t even know it.
tar
was nearly and adult whenzip
was born.See my reply here: https://midwest.social/comment/10257041
The two aren’t really equivalent. They make different tradeoffs. The scheme of “compress individual files, then archive” from GP is what zip does. Tar does “archive first, then compress the whole thing”.