Linux and data storage?

[Gregory Nowak]

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Tar is only an archiver. Using the compression switches just tells tar
to call bzip2 or gzip, and to use them in a pipe to compress the
archive. Tar does no compression on its own.

Greg


On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 06:12:10PM -0700, Sean M McMahon wrote:
> Tar using the compression option compresses well, without specifying that 
> option, it only creates an archive.
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