From:	mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Why not to use 'tar' before packing DJGPP?
Date:	9 Nov 1996 11:29:43 GMT
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Robert Babcock (babcock AT shell1 DOT cybercom DOT net) wrote:
: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot) writes:

: >If the proposition is to tar the source, then zip it up, why not tar it, 
: >then zip it along with untar.exe (or whatever) and instructions?

: If the goal is to shrink the distribution files without requiring the
: use of a utility which may not be easily available to DOS users, you
: could first make uncompressed ZIP files, then compress those.

Sorry, I don't really understand tar (yes, I'm a Dos user...), but I 
thought the point of the original article was that tar could achieve 
better compression ratios than zip? The quoted figures certainly looked 
impressive...

--
George Foot

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