[PLUG] .tgz

Paul Heinlein heinlein at attbi.com
Thu Sep 5 13:21:33 UTC 2002


On 4 Sep 2002, AthlonRob wrote:

> Otherwise, try tar -xvzf filename.tgz
> 
> tgz==tar.gz

My understanding is that the .tgz extension was developed as a
workaround for certain ancient filesystems that restricted filenames
to an 8.3 format (up to 8 characters, followed by a dot (.), followed
up up to three characters). Those filesystems couldn't handle, say,
foo.tar.gz, so it was trunctated to foo.tgz.

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>





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