*.Deb packages : what compression format does it use ??

[Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski]

On czw, 2005-03-10 at 12:18 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

> But Ubuntu can open both files without problems. What is the point of
> using .gz format then ? 

 Try to unpack huge archive compressed with BZip2 on an old box. 

> Is it because Gnome is multi-platform, and some
> of them can't open .bz2 files ?

 BZip2 is just a commpresor. It's ported on all systems I know
(including AmigaOS & MorphOS).

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