Hi,
Why are the FPC 2.2 release files for Linux *.tar files and not *.tar.gz or *.tar.bz2?
Surely if the tar file was compressed using gzip, bzip2 or 7zip it would have been much smaller than 30Mb!
Regards,
- Graeme -
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FPC 2.2 release files in .tar format?
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- Graeme Geldenhuys 2
- Daniël Mantione 1
- Marco van de Voort 1
- Micha Nelissen 1
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Graeme Geldenhuys wroteWhy are the FPC 2.2 release files for Linux *.tar files and not *.tar.gz or *.tar.bz2?
It's a .tar with an install script + a set of .tar.gz ?
Micha
Why are the FPC 2.2 release files for Linux *.tar files and not *.tar.gz or *.tar.bz2?…
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Hi,
Why are the FPC 2.2 release files for Linux *.tar files and not
*.tar.gz or *.tar.bz2?
Surely if the tar file was compressed using gzip, bzip2 or 7zip it
would have been much smaller than 30Mb!
What is inside the .tar is already compressed.
Peter
It's a .tar with an install script + a set of .tar.gz ? Micha
Ah! Thanks for the info.... I'm still busy downloading it, so can't look what is inside the .tar file yet .
Thanks,
Graeme.
Micha Nelissen wrote 11 lines
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Why are the FPC 2.2 release files for Linux *.tar files and not
> *.tar.gz or *.tar.bz2?
It's a .tar with an install script + a set of .tar.gz ?
Micha
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Why are the FPC 2.2 release files for Linux *.tar files and not *.tar.gz or *.tar.bz2?…
Op Wed, 12 Sep 2007, schreef Graeme Geldenhuys:
Hi, Why are the FPC 2.2 release files for Linux *.tar files and not *.tar.gz or *.tar.bz2?
Because the files inside it are .tar.gz files, so no compressing again is pointless.
Daniël
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Op Wed, 12 Sep 2007, schreef Graeme Geldenhuys:
> Hi,
>
> Why are the FPC 2.2 release files for Linux *.tar files and not
> *.tar.gz or *.tar.bz2?
Because the files inside it are .tar.gz files, so no compressing again is
pointless.
Slowly we might start considering bz2 though. At least for linux and freebsd.
> Because the files inside it are .tar.gz files, so no compressing again is > pointless. >
That is of course correct,
But taring first and compressing afterwards should result in smaller files, as more identical patterns can be found and many basic patterns need not to be stored multiple times.
-Michael