[bf1942] Decompressing .tar.bz2.zip files

Scratch Monkey ScratchMonkey at SewingWitch.com
Tue Jun 17 18:00:34 EDT 2003


--On Tuesday, June 17, 2003 5:58 PM -0400 "Battlefield at digitalnines.com"
<battlefield at digitalnines.com> wrote:

> heh my bad
> didn't see the .zip at the end

Doh, looks like we all missed that!

Who's distributing zipped bz2 files? As a rule, compressed files get *larger*
when you compress them again. Even if they just store the original compressed
file unchanged, they have to add a header and that makes the new file slightly
larger.



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