-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > !DSPAM:4158ba97271377026713145! > > - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBWM6m7s9z/XlyUyARAo6yAKCev4MD2UNJPNtCuITuVUDs3ZvlHgCgo3Z+ K5hcuUy45ebVK2Uhy80K3dQ= =4cFf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----