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		kasabali on July 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The tar archive format, and why GNU tar extracts i... I'll have a guess: because 7-zip gui doesn't decompress tar.gz files in a single step (ie. first you extract the tar, then you extract it again)

forrestthewoods on July 24, 2022 [–]

IIRC 7zip actually does it in one step. But many tools such as WinZip do not. I forget the exact behavior of built-in, WinZip, and WinRar.

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