Hi all.
I am running 5.3. I noticed that by default the BSD tar is used. Are there any
advantages of gtar over tar? If so which ones? Also which compression switch is
more efficient -z or -Z ?
Thanks in advance.
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On 2005-07-12 07:48, Sherman, Michael (GE Energy) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all.
I am running 5.3. I noticed that by default the BSD tar is used. Are
there any advantages of gtar over tar? If so which ones?
The most important advantage is that it is BSD licensed.
Also which compression
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
Hmmm, I'm not sitting on FreeBSD, but looking at the manpage I can only
see -y (bzip2 compression) and -z (gzip compression); I couldn't find an
option called -Z.
-Z is compress -- possibly gtar only. It's much worse than the
alternatives and is only useful for
Sherman, Michael (GE Energy) wrote:
Hi all.
I am running 5.3. I noticed that by default the BSD tar is used. Are there any
advantages of gtar over tar? If so which ones? Also which compression switch is
more efficient -z or -Z ?
It depends what you need. If you need command-line argument
On 2005-07-12 14:26, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
Hmmm, I'm not sitting on FreeBSD, but looking at the manpage I can only
see -y (bzip2 compression) and -z (gzip compression); I couldn't find an
option called -Z.
-Z is compress -- possibly gtar only. It's