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1. Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 12:25:17 EDT Ji Fu
   Why is it always .tar.gz? #compress. Why is this the #compression that is always used in #development? Don't we have anything better? On #Windows it always takes a two step process to un-gzip and then un-tar using #7-zip #GUI. I often forget that it had started running in the background and forget the second step. Is there another tool I should be using?
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   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 14:32:23 EDT lnxw48a1

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      @fu There is also #Peazip. I don't use it enough to know whether it bahaves differently.
   2. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 14:39:15 EDT lnxw48a1

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      @fu As for why, it is Unix history. They were archiving on tape (*T*ape *AR*chive) long before Zip and similar formats existed. Later, they added compression with gzip, bzip2, 7z/lzma, xz, zstd, and so on.