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? --
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