Using gzip with multiple file

[Fredrik Lundh]

vmarkwart at my-deja.com wrote:
> Could someone please point me to an example of using gzip to store
> multiple files in the one archive, or failing that any examples using
> gzip reliably.

gzip is a compression utility, not an archive format.
the usual way is to combine gzip and tar (.tgz, .tar.gz)

if you want a compressed archive, consider using
zip instead.

(and if we're talking python, searching the newsgroup
archive for zlib, gzip, and ziplib will bring up more info.
http://www.python.org/search )

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