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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 18:32:23 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
- Ji Fu
@fu There is also #Peazip. I don't use it enough to know whether it bahaves differently.

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- LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 18:39:15 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
  - Ji Fu
  @fu As for why, it is Unix history. They were archiving on tape (*T*ape *AR*chive) long before Zip and similar formats existed. Later, they added compression with gzip, bzip2, 7z/lzma, xz, zstd, and so on.
  
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