On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, She stares at the screen at the little words in green wrote:

> I realise this, but as ".tgz" and ".tar.gz" are one and the same, I thought 
> I could gunzip a ".tgz" file and be left with a ".tar" file.

No.. hm.. perhaps it would actually be smart to first rename .tgz file to
tar.gz, since gzip will try to remove the .gz extension from the file.

> The other thing is, if this version of gzip uses the same compression 
> routine as the one I use under i386 Linux, then why do I get different 
> filesizes when I compress a file under each ?

They shouldnt.

> Thanks, I'll try that. Oh, how would I increase the stack size of a CLI 
> program, it's not something I've had to do before. 

easy.. just type "stack 20000" and your shell will have that stack.
To see what stacksize you currently have, just type "stack"

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