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From: Matthew White <mwhite@freehold.pc.cs.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Tape drive suggestions???
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 14:25:45 -0400
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J Wunsch wrote:
> I don't see what this might buy you.  --block-compress is nothing else
> than GNU bloat for " | gzip | dd conv=osync".  Both are effectively
> equivalent, one is the Unix way, the other is the GNU way of
> expressing things.

Sorry, you're right...didn't look at the man page for tar closely
enough.  Never actually worried about compression since I have an old
Exabyte 8200 that does just fine without it.

If you have the spare disk space, what you probably want to do is to
'split' the archive.  Of course that doesn't output to stdout, so you
really can't use it to do things efficiently.  Mebbe I should go
implement a block option for gzip...


-Matt