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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