Compression and Decompression of multiple files

[Rob Cozens]

>That's correct TAR does not do compression, it just does archiving. 
>However GNU tar can pipe data through gzip, bzip, gunzip, bunzip, 
>etc. So in practice, the tar *command* does do compression:

This explains why Stuffit for Mac OS doesn't compress the archive.

Alex, Richard, anyone: Is TAR supported on all Revolution platforms?
-- 

Rob Cozens
CCW, Serendipity Software Company
http://www.oenolog.net/who.htm

"And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three;
Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee."

from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631)