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From: abl@thevenin.ece.cmu.edu (Antonio Leal)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: Archiver
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Date: 8 May 91 17:19:16 GMT
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In-Reply-To: darrinm@cabezon.uucp's message of 7 May 91 20:16:35 GMT

darrinm@cabezon.uucp (Darrin Mossor) writes:
>
>    I am looking for a tool to compress a directory and subdirectories
>  on a Unix system.  Specifically an HP/Apollo Workstation.  The tool
>  would have the ability to archive and restore a directory and would
>  also compress the result. [...]

I'd go with

	tar cf - topdir | compress > topdir.tar.Z

and
	zcat topdir.tar.Z  | tar xf -

to archive and restore, respectively.
(tar and compress/zcat do come standard with HP/UX or Domain, right ?)

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