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Re: Suggested file extension for tar lzip
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Vanessa McHale |
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Re: Suggested file extension for tar lzip |
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Sat, 18 Jan 2020 08:23:55 -0600 |
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I've only seen .tar.lz in the wild.
Cheers,
Vanessa McHale
On 1/18/20 6:26 AM, Joel May wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm working on adding lzip support to Duplicati in the form of .tar.lz files.
> I need to shorten the file extension down to a single segment. Is there an
> official recommendation for what that file extension should be? Following
> convention set by other formats (e.g. tgz, txz), it would be tlz. Some
> places on the internet (i.e. Wikipedia) list tlz as "plain" tar LZMA, so that
> could cause confusion.
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> --Joel May
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> Cite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7z#Limitations
> Cite:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_archive_formats#Archiving_and_compression
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