Re: Compression programs

From: Rino Mardo (joroxx_at_gmail.com)
Date: 12/07/04

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    Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 18:58:57 +0300
To: ddelao@oucpm.org, General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@redhat.com>

    if you haven't already, you could use the "-j" option with tar to
    compress with the bzip2 program. for example, "tar jcf tarfilename
    <files>". this should do the trick. ;-)

    hth.

    On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 09:55:50 -0600, Darryl W. DeLao Jr. <ddelao@oucpm.org> wrote:
    > What is the best program for Linux use as far as compressing files goes?
    >
    > I have shares that I tar up every night, but Im not impressed with the final
    > size of the tar file. Winrar on my Windows machine can do much better
    > compression, but I would like to keep this on the server side so I can
    > schedule jobs to do it all.
    >
    > Thanks,
    > Darryl
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