2005.09.27 02:25 "Re: [Tiff] Additional Lossless Compression Schemes", by Leonard Rosenthol

RFC1951 - zip
RFC1952 - gzip

They use the same compression, but are mostly incompatible in other ways.

Actually gzip is a basically a single file Zip archive with a variant header.

A tar.gz is more like a .zip (but also not the same).

Not even close!

ince in zip each file is compressed individually, while in tar, everything is first "glomed" together and THEN compressed with gz/bzip.

Leonard

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