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Have you considered gzipping your tarball?

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Have you considered gzipping your tarball?

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nonnymoose

Joined: Sat May 27, 2017 2:21 pm
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Country: United States (us)

Have you considered gzipping your tarball?

Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this.

I noticed that your Linux download is a plain tar archive. If you gzipped it, it would be about 15-20 MB less in size, which could be great if the connection's finicky.
Do you think you should start gzipping it? It's as simple as using


	Code: tar czf $FILE.tar.gz $DIRECTORY

instead of


	Code: tar cf $FILE.tar $DIRECTORY

Sat May 27, 2017 2:29 pm

Nonya

Joined: Sun Aug 03, 2014 1:33 pm
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Re: Have you considered gzipping your tarball?

you can gzip me whenever you want nonnymoose

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Sat May 27, 2017 11:47 pm

Densetsu

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Joined: Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:03 pm
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Re: Have you considered gzipping your tarball?

A 15-20 MB decrease is always welcome to me, but I don't know how much it would actually matter compared to the massive size of the game.

Also, I'm responding to every question, complaint, or problem with "Have you considered gzipping your tarball?" now.

Sun May 28, 2017 5:40 pm

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