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Some introductory tips on using 'tar' compression
Authored by: cyberRodent on Apr 15, '03 02:11:24PM

I have a question I hope someone can help -- my tgz files created from tar cfz
archive.tgz directory -- are more than twice as big as the original directory --
an 80MB directory turns into a 200MB tgz !!! -- decompressing the 200MB
tgz results in the 80MB directory -- what gives? any ideas? please reply to
tar @ cyberRodent dot com.

Thanks...
(os 10.2.5) command I'm using in a bash script...
/usr/bin/tar -czf `echo $OLDMIRROR` ./MIRROR



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