Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!ames!haven!udel!mmdf From: mike@scomp.lancashire-poly.ac.uk (Mike Higgs) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: tar, vol and compress Message-ID: <21517@nigel.udel.EDU> Date: 8 Jun 90 19:08:49 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 12 Hi, I was wondering if when using tar piped to vol, you could insert compress into the command line i.e. tar | compress | vol. Can anybody see a reason why this wouldn't be OK? Mike Higgs mike@uk.ac.lancsp.sc School of Computing, or higgs_m@uk.ac.lancsp.p1 Lancashire Polytechnic, Preston, PR1 2TQ. U.K. Tel. +44 0772 201201 ext.2225