From 1276ebc08d793958f6ad9b49be198c7786c11ae2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Max Ogden Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 17:03:41 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] add note about gzip --- README.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b6a50a5..0bfd67a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ tar-stream is a streaming tar parser and generator and nothing else. It is streams2 and operates purely using streams which means you can easily extract/parse tarballs without ever hitting the file system. +Note that you still need to gunzip your data if you have a `.tar.gz`. We recommend using [gunzip-maybe](https://github.com/mafintosh/gunzip-maybe) in conjunction with this. + ``` npm install tar-stream ```