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Three formats? Why?
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Mar 15, 2026296 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I needed to download the Ruby Source recently from here and it says, "available in three formats" which are , and . Is there any reason that we need all three formats? At least on Linux and OSX I can do any of the three easily. On Windows, only zip is built-in, I think. Is there anything behind the…
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files are (still, after some years in that position) the most common archive format for archives intended for unix-a-like systems. Users on any unix-a-like system will be able to open these without installing additional software, but users running W…
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