[PLUG] tar help

[Galen Seitz]

Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> Kenneth B. Hill wrote:
>> I don't use tar much to compress files; rather, I prfer gzip. Some MS  
>> Windows PCs don't recognize the .tar extension. I hope this helps.
> 
> tar doesn't compress files at all. never has.
> the -z and -Z options filter the tar contents through compress or gzip
> 

And gnu tar with the -j option will use bzip2.  This is used on the 
kernels at kernel.org(.tar.bz2) and other places.

galen