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On Mon, 26 May 2008, Colin Percival wrote:
>
> What I really meant was "three different general-purpose
> archiving/dearchiving tools in the base system".  I wasn't counting ar
> since I've never seen it used for anything except libraries,

The .deb format is an ar file containing two .tar.gz files (for data and
metadata).

Tony.
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