On 17 January 2011 at 12:16 Tim Waugh <twa...@redhat.com> wrote: > The secret to this is that the gzip format is clever enough to work > correctly when two gzip files are simply concatenated. > > I don't know the details of why it works, but I believe it's something > to do with the "streaming" nature of gzip, compared with e.g. > block-based compression such as bzip2.I just spotted this > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_%28Unix%29#Binary_use. Is this working > because the .gz file is treated as a binary?
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