Hi, According to the Linux man page on tar, tar has several options for compression. I have used -j. -Z and -z which seem to work well. But I have never used {-use-compress-program=PROG] or [--block-compress] so I can not speak to that. TAR OPTIONS [-j, --bzip2, --bunzip2] [-Z, --compress, --uncompress] [-z, --gzip, --ungzip] [--use-compress-program=PROG] [--block-compress] I hope this helps Abraham Christopher Mahmood wrote:
* Harry G (harrycg@attbi.com) [021231 12:55]:
I have a Documents directory that is 53.2 MB in size. Using ark, I backed it up to another hard drive as a tar file. The tar file is 53.5 MB.
Tar is for creating archives of files, not compression; there's no point in making a tar archive of one file. Use gzip or bzip2 to the compress the file.
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