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rgaffuri_at_cox.net (Ryan Gaffuri) wrote
> which compression program are you using? TAR? I was told its slow.
TAR does not do compression - except for the Linux version that has Lempel-Ziv filtering built in (you use that with the -z/-Z switches for compress/gzip).
The compression program (standard on all Unix flavours AFAIK) is called compress. And as I said, it uses an adaptive Lempel-Ziv coding scheme.
-- BillyReceived on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 00:03:19 CDT