Compression

[Derek Atkins]

"Dustin Henning" <The00Dustin at gmx.net> writes:

> For the record, I meant maybe GnuCash tarballs the file, and I doubt 7zip
> does.  However, for the purpose of my original question, you could forget
> about 7zip and tell me how I would do this if I had gzip built on Windows
> (or if I was using Linux, I mean, if gzip's default settings in Linux would
> make a file that GnuCash could open, I could work from that).  Also, to be
> clear, I already knew I could open the uncompressed XML file in GnuCash
> without changing anything (I thought I acknowledged this the first time you
> pointed it out).  I asked about the compression primarily out of curiosity,
> and if you don't respond to this post because you can't tell me, that's no
> big deal, as it's obviously not a critical thing.  Thanks,
> 	Dustin

Ah, no, GnuCash does not use any internal format surrounding the gzip,
but it might have specific requirements.  I'd have to examine the code
to figure that out.

-derek
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