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- From: liuwu@acuson.com (Wu Liu)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Standard SCO UNIX Compressed tar ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.163805.1565@acuson.com>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 16:38:05 GMT
- References: <1992Sep3.154111.29924@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Acuson; Mountain View, California
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- dold@unislc.uucp (Clarence Dold) writes:
- >Is compression available on SCO UNIX tar?
- >The Norton Utilities for UNIX mumbles something during install about the
- >distribution diskettes being compressed, and requiring a certain revision
- >of SCO in order to work.
- >Sure enough, a "tar xv" from the command line yields 1880K from a 1.2MB
- >diskette. doing a "tar cvf /tmp/junk ." yields a 1660K archive.
-
- Sort of. Decompression upon extraction is automatic, if you've
- specified the correct key to tar during archival to media. Unless
- it's changed recently, you have to both compress the file(s)
- yourself and remove the ".Z" extension from the filename(s) before
- running tar to save to media.
-
- It's not the cleanest of approaches, but it works. Cuts down on
- the amount of distribution media dramatically. One of the first
- engineering test versions of Open Desktop 1.0 would have taken up
- over an estimated 70 5.25" 1.2mb floppies without it.
- --
- Wu Liu Software Engineer, User Interface Group
- liuwu@acuson.COM Acuson
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