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Re:APT Browse: A web browser for the contents of Debian (and... by m463 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @06:18PM (#35461176)
It's interesting to note that tar files have no checksum/crc, the .gz compression takes care of that.
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Re:APT Browse: A web browser for the contents of Debian (and... by SoftTalker on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @07:23PM (#35461894)
The tar format was originally intended to be written to tape.
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