Krafting@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 21 days agothe fear of missing out a better compressionlemmy.worldimagemessage-square178fedilinkarrow-up1883arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1874arrow-down1imagethe fear of missing out a better compressionlemmy.worldKrafting@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 21 days agomessage-square178fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareIllecorsAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·20 days agoThe link does not load for some reason, but tar itself does not compress anything. Compression can (and usually is) applied afterwards, but that’s an additional integration that is not part of Tape ARchive, as such.
minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·20 days agoYes, I’m aware of how this works. The important point is that zip and compressed tarballs have overlapping but not identical purposes.
The link does not load for some reason, but tar itself does not compress anything. Compression can (and usually is) applied afterwards, but that’s an additional integration that is not part of Tape ARchive, as such.
Yes, I’m aware of how this works.
The important point is that zip and compressed tarballs have overlapping but not identical purposes.