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From: jbvb@FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen")
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Subject: Re: PC -> Unix backups???
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Date: 18 Nov 90 13:29:08 GMT
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    ....  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.

Our 2.05 TAR has a switch which compresses the data on the fly, reading or
writing a .Z file on the server.  

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