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Re: how to install Wordperfect



Pawan Dev forced the electrons to say:
> 
> What are the difference in gzip and tar. And why I didn't have to use
> gzip.

gzip is the GNU compression tool. It takes one file at a time, and uses a
sophisticated compression algorithm called Lempel-Ziv coding to compress them.

tar stands for tape archive. It is one of the oldest unix tools, and was used
to take backups on magnetic tapes. You can use tar to backup on hard disks and
floppies also.

tar doesn't compress; if you tar a directory that uses 1 MB, your tar file
will also be of 1 MB. Hence, people taking backups prefer to archive using
tar, and then compress the archive so generated using gzip.

GNU tar can understand a command line switch z, which tells it that the
archive to be created and then gzip should be run on it, or that the archive
should be first uncompressed and then extract files from it. Not all tars can
do that.

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