Tarfile .bz2

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> (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.
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