Re: Problem with Archiving .tar



Chris Lemire wrote:

the gui is crap. if you don't want to use a command once in a while, then
what the hell are you doing with linux. if you want compression, simply
pipe the output to bzip2 or gzip and have then read from standard input.

There's only one possible answer to that garbage.

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