Compression and Decompression of multiple files
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Sat Feb 7 22:55:43 EST 2004
Rob Cozens wrote:
>>> Is TAR supported on all Revolution platforms?
>>
>> TAR is everywhere.
>
> But assuming Alex is correct, and my experience seems to confirm it,
> TAR by itself provides no compression/decompression.
True, but it's rare to see such archives not afford themselves the gzip
compression widely supported by un-TAR utils.
> So is there one utility currently available for all Rev platforms to
> build and decompress compressed TAR archives?
Not that I'm aware of, but there are several separate ones for every major
OS.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
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