Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!dpz From: dpz@dimacs.rutgers.edu (David Paul Zimmerman) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: PC -> Unix backups??? Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 90 20:30:23 GMT References: <9011080959.aa16657@louie.udel.edu> Organization: Rutgers University DIMACS Lines: 18 Harold Pritchett writes: > It seems to me that the right solution here would be to use ZOO in place of > TAR.EXE. ZOO will provide the same function (package files together, > retaining the original directory structure, etc) with the added advantage of > compressing the data so that a 1:1 storage space is no longer required. Thanks for the suggestion... you are quite correct. I've got about a 66% overall compression rate now. I also looked at PKZIP, which got me about a 75% compression rate. I prefer PD to shareware, though, so I'll be sticking with ZOO. It also seems to win over both simple tar and tar-then-compress, since it compresses in-stream. David -- David Paul Zimmerman dpz@dimacs.rutgers.edu Systems Programmer rutgers!dpz Rutgers Univ Center for Discrete Math and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS)