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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 23:26:05 JST clacke

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   • Mara
   • Jeffrey Yasskin

   @Mara You mean the format is explicitly written to support `cat *.gz | gzip -cd`?

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     Mara (mara@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 23:26:06 JST Mara

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     • Jeffrey Yasskin

     @jyasskin It doesn't mention "multiple files", though, just "members" aka "compressed data sets". The RFC doesn't say whether those should represent one file each, or whether they represent chunks of the same file. Fwiw, gzip implementations I've seen all treat it as chunks of a single file, which I think was the original intention of the design: making concatenating transparent to g(un)zip.

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     Jeffrey Yasskin (jyasskin@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 23:26:13 JST Jeffrey Yasskin

     #TIL that a .gz file can contain multiple sub-files: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1952#page-5.