Compression and Decompression of multiple files

[Rob Cozens]

>I made a tool for this some time ago but never finished it because it seemed
>less useful than tar archives, which are very common but much harder to
>make.

The StuffIt tar archiver I use seems to do no compression...at least 
compared to .sits, .seas, and Windows .zips.  Is that normal?  Is 
there nothing better (at building a smaller archive from the same 
files) available to the Unix community?
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Rob Cozens
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