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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Backups using compress
Message-ID: <14582@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 26 Nov 90 22:26:59 GMT
References: <25106@adm.brl.mil>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <25106@adm.brl.mil> dpence@redstone-emh2.army.mil ( Dwayne Pence) writes:
>Does anyone know of a way to compress files before sending them through 
>cpio or tar to tape without actually creating a ".Z" file on disk.

No, because cpio and tar open the files individually and have no provisions
for per-file filtration.  What most people do is to compress the archive,
not the individual files; that also should generally be more compact.
In this method you can simply pipe the archive through "compress".