mcrypt

[Terry Chan]

No difference except that one file is a real tar.gz while the other is not.
That is the most important difference of all!  Which is what has been said
all along.

You do NOT label an uncompressed file with a .gz extension.

Terry Chan
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 08:11:05AM -0400, Dennis Veatch wrote:
> The author replied to my email about the size difference, as follows;
> 
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 08:30:52AM -0700, Dennis wrote:
> 
> > This site  http://mcyrpt.hellu.gr lead me to sourceforge. The file size 
> > of mcrypt-2.6.4.tar.gz on sourceforge is 1730560. I also found the 
> > same file here - 
> > http://public.planetmirror.com/search/results_basic.php 
> > and its file size is 374.9. 
> > Which one of these is correct and why such large difference? 
> > Basically I'm not sure which should be used.  
> The sourceforge site has the mcrypt tarball uncompressed, that's
> why it is large. Maybe the new maintainter will correct this.
> 
> -- 
> Nikos Mavroyanopoulos
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> So there is really no difference between them.
>