>>>>> "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (MvL) wrote:
>MvL> Jordan schrieb: >>> Not really on topic anymore but what's the method for tar.gz? >MvL> It works like .tar.bz2, except that it uses gzip (www.gzip.org) >MvL> as the compression library. The underlying compression algorithm >MvL> is LZW. No, it uses a compression algorithm based on LZ77 (called DEFLATE). Therefore gzip was not encumbered by the the LZW patent. -- Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
