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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!decwrl!olivea!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!gatech!concert!uvaarpa!murdoch!elvis.med.Virginia.EDU!sdm7g
  2. From: sdm7g@elvis.med.Virginia.EDU (Steven D. Majewski)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
  4. Subject: Re: backup and the -p option
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan27.000407.22456@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
  6. Date: 27 Jan 93 00:04:07 GMT
  7. References: <1jp73lINN1un@meaddata.meaddata.com> <C1H3JB.2n7v@austin.ibm.com>
  8. Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
  9. Organization: University of Virginia
  10. Lines: 9
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  12. In article <C1H3JB.2n7v@austin.ibm.com> chukran@austin.vnet.ibm.com(Rudy Chukran) writes:
  13. >
  14. >backup -p is very convenient, but non-portable.  I use it a lot myself.
  15. >But tar |compress is usually more space efficient and portable.
  16. >-- 
  17.  
  18. gnu tar has a "+[un]compress" option built-in. 
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  20. - Steve Majewski <sdm7g@Virginia.EDU>         University of Virginia
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