Compression and Decompression of multiple files

[Richard Gaskin]

Rob Cozens wrote:

>> 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?

Tar's pretty good: it uses gzip at the core.

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