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From: lubkin@cs.rochester.edu (Saul Lubkin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: undocumented compress option to SCO tar
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.205259.18525@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 90 20:52:59 GMT
Reply-To: lubkin@cs.rochester.edu (Saul Lubkin)
Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
Lines: 10

There is an undocumented option to SCO Unix 3.2 v2 tar, that compresses
files (using compress) when creating an archive, and that uncompresses
them when restoring with tar.

Someone posted the undocumented line switch in a previous note that
I've lost.  Can anyone retrieve this?

Thanks,

					Saul Lubkin