Python or Java or "X" from me and my little job
Gordon McMillan
gmcm at hypernet.com
Sat Sep 11 18:37:31 EDT 1999
Les Schaffer wrote:
> GMcM said:
>
> > Build in zlib (a matter of uncommenting some lines in Modules/Setup
> > on Linux) and it does.
>
> i'd prefer in these cases using calls to system functions 'tar' and
> 'gzip'. any advantage to using uiltin-in zip?
>From my vague understanding of what he's doing, I would too. I use
gzip heavily for on-the-fly compression / decompression, but for
batch-ish stuff, I think I'd use external tools.
- Gordon
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